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Title: 2 enjoyable flicks
Post by: Toad on August 16, 2003, 10:46:52 PM

Too hot to go outside, so I did some indoor painting and went to the movies this weekend.

We saw Seabiscuit and Open Range and we both felt they were worth the price of admission. It's not often I say that; most movies any more are barely worth the rental charge on them.

Seabiscuit is enjoyable as the old "underdog" tale but this one is well told and well shot.

Open Range is reliant on a lot of the old Western themes that have been done before. However, if you like Westerns that's OK. It unabashedly deals with simplistic differences between good and evil coupled with simplistic solutions. That plays well around here but it may not do so well in other locales.

Anyway, not a car chase or big pyrotechnic shot in either one... I may have enjoyed that aspect as much as any other. These movies actually tried to rely on a plot; imagine that.

Title: 2 enjoyable flicks
Post by: SOB on August 16, 2003, 10:51:04 PM

How could you pass up Freddy vs. Jason?!  :)


SOB

Title: 2 enjoyable flicks
Post by: Bodhi on August 17, 2003, 10:27:04 AM

Toad, ever since the movie "Deep Throat" came out, movies have all gone down hill....

Title: 2 enjoyable flicks
Post by: Dago on August 17, 2003, 10:32:22 AM

I saw "Open Range" last night, probably shouldn't have gone to the late showing when I was tired, but it sure seemed slow alot of the time, and maybe a tad long.  Good gunbattle, I didn't buy the "chemistry" between Costner and Benning, but Duvall is always great.

It was okay, I guess worth the admission.  I have seen worse.


dago