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"Open Range" gets a 9 !

5db5db Member Posts: 1,621 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited June 2010 in General Discussion
That's it, the movie "Open Range" gets a 9 from me.

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  • cwinncwinn Member Posts: 1,223 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I didnt know it was out yet. I havent even seen the previews, only heard about it. I heard Kevin Costner plays the bad guy, is that the case?
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  • 5db5db Member Posts: 1,621 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Nope, he is a good guy made to do bad things, if'n killin' bad men is a bad thing.

    It's a little Hollywood at times, but sure spoke to the American way.

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  • gskyhawkgskyhawk Member Posts: 4,773
    edited November -1
    just got home from seeing it with the wife and son , I would give it a 9.5, darn good movie !!!!!!! how many oops did you pick up on? I saw at least 3 and thats only counting the guns shooting for ever as 1
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  • idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I saw it Friday night and LOVED the fact that it was a real throw-back to traditional American values in many ways. Remember the "old days" when you could come into the saloon out of the rain with a lever rifle in your hand and prop it up against the bar before warming yourself up with something strong? Remember when a lady was treated like a lady and also acted like one too? I could go on all night about it. That one is a must-purchase when it comes out on DVD.
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  • 5db5db Member Posts: 1,621 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    gskyhawk, The jet?

    idsman75, you must be a bit older than I cuz in these parts anytime someone carried a rifle into the bar, shots were fired! [:D] Those qualities you mentioned made the movie.

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  • 5db5db Member Posts: 1,621 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    SP, you musta had to go potty [:0] when Duval made the case for the violence. Free range was legal and he wasn't going to have someone telling him he couldn't do it.

    Man, I thought I graded hard. What movie gets a 10 in your book?

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  • interstatepawnllcinterstatepawnllc Member Posts: 9,390
    edited November -1
    Saxon, your a hard man.

    Ted Kennedy's breath has killed more people than my car.
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  • agloreaglore Member Posts: 6,012
    edited November -1
    quote:SaxonPig Posted - 08/18/2003 : 13:16:03

    Who would name their son Bluebell or Dairybell or whatever Duvall's character's name was, anyway?

    The same people who would write a song about "A Boy Named Sue"[:)]

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  • 4GodandCountry4GodandCountry Member Posts: 3,968
    edited November -1
    I don't care much for Costner because of his anti gun stance but Ill probably go see it anyway just because its a Western. Costner is a bit over rated as an actor in my book. Just look at his post appocalyptic mailman movie or Waterworld and tell me Im wrong.

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  • Mr.PissyPantsMr.PissyPants Member Posts: 3,575
    edited November -1
    quote:Costner is a bit over rated as an actor in my book. Just look at his post appocalyptic mailman movie or Waterworld and tell me Im wrong.

    Ditto, those sucked. I do like Costner as an actor, although not as much as the media tends to hype him. He did a great job in A Perfect World and DWW. I will see his new movie because its a western though, and not because its just him.

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  • whiteclouderwhiteclouder Member Posts: 10,574 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Saxon:

    You're like the "extra features" on the DVDs. I get the biggest kick out of the director as he explanis why the two bridges were shown over the characters head, framing it, with the setting sun about to diasappear. The bridges obviously his parents, and the sun setting their deaths. And the location scout spent weeks finding that place. Say WHAT!!!

    Or the cinematographers most sincere statement that shades of purple were featured in the film to give the viewer the sense that they were seeing this story from a womblike vantage. OH YEAH!!!!

    And the music. Oh lord help me, the music. To lead you to feel the orgasmic explosion that the two characters would be denied until the very end at which time the music ceased and you would hear nothing but nature sounds. Yup, happens to me every time.

    Cut us some slack, doc. It's a freakin' movie, not brain food. And if you think Costner's a flake, you're worse for coughing up the seven bucks or whatever to see it. Go buy a sixpack and comtemplate your navel.

    Clouder..
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  • ndbillyndbilly Member Posts: 1,573 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If Costner's an actor the woods are full of them.

    Don't agree that the movie, excuse me, "film", was socialistic claptrap but it was overly long and the the love scenario was a little silly given the the time span within which it occurred. Duvall is always a hoot and I do give Benning credit for the courage to show up w/o benefit of much makeup. Caught Costner's character fanning his Colt nine times w/o a reload but missed the other two goofs referenced above.

    Movie was stright out of a Louis L'Amour book; pure formula Western. Agree that the scenery was spectacular. It wasn't "Citizen Kane" but it was worth the price of a ticket.
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  • 5db5db Member Posts: 1,621 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    SP, You're wrong.

    "they don't own anything in the area"
    I believe they owned the cattle they were grazing through the area.

    "don't pay any taxes, have no local roots or stake in the community."

    Mose went into town to buy supplies thus their enterprise did support the community.

    The Free rangers were abiding by the law, the land owner wasn't. Did you miss the fact the towns people came and supported the free rangers?

    One other thing, I didn't see the part about using the flag to dress a wound in Open range, the subject of this thread. But if I was to see the American flag used as a dressing for a wound, I'd offer she was there to help and heal those oppressed. How's that for spinning?

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  • gskyhawkgskyhawk Member Posts: 4,773
    edited November -1
    5db: Jet?? missed it, shooting scene where he's fanning the six shooter that goes about 10 times
    talks to the livery man about putting guns and ammo out but never do ,
    where they are smoking the cigars , Boss has his about gone and then its back to a almost new one.
    sawmill blade thats being carried across the street is a modern one , so is the one hanging on the side of the shed later in the shoot out scene.
    not sure but I thought that when they pulled their rifles out of the boot that one of the rifles looked like a Win. 1892

    good movie I try to see it as just that not all of this other political crap that others are talking about [xx(]
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  • 5db5db Member Posts: 1,621 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Also, regarding your question: "how would you feel", this is not about feelings. It was the law. Feelings is something the liberals count on to hold sway over those so inclined. The Free rangers weren't so inclined!

    Obviously free ranging became a problem and was regulated but that makes for a rather boring mini-series wouldn't you agree?

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  • 5db5db Member Posts: 1,621 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sp you're killin' me here. Free Ranging was legal (might still be in some western states). And until the law was changed the Free Rangers were abiding by the law. You' eright about the grazed out comment, but weren't these guys trying to get their cattle to an area to range in when the weather stopped them? Like it or not SP, free ranging cattle was a way of life for some, they bought what they needed as they went, kind of like what we do today on extended road trips. Being Americans in America we expect to be treated with respect regardless of the community.

    And why would a local landowner need to graze on open range? Greed? All through the movie there is talk about getting a home, a place to stay. Sounds to me such a life was pretty tough.

    Now a fence is a fence. Crossing that fence without permission is trespassing. But there were no fences in this movie other than the white picket around the good Dr.'s house. Maybe the fence cutting took place later on, but not during this movie which is what this post is about. This movie as depicted.

    Now were parking cars, okay, to put it in perspective, relative to the movie "Open Range" and what was depicted, if you park in a "free" parking lot, first come first serve and you got there late one day, and a out of state tagged car was taking the last spot? Were you somehow cheated? Careful now, because you to travel about.

    Last, I know what movie you were referring to, but DWS was not the subject matter, thus the spin.[8D]

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  • trooperchintrooperchin Member Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Roflmao
    quote:actress playing Igraine looked really hot in the nude scene

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  • 5db5db Member Posts: 1,621 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    SP, I wasn't confused, I was just trying to keep your movies facts straightened out. As far as everybody having the right to be wrong, your right! And it builds character to admit when one is wrong.

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  • 5db5db Member Posts: 1,621 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    gskyhawk, Hey, I gotta tell ya, I didn't see a jet. I was just funnin' ya. I guess that's how rumors get started. Sorry. I wondered about the fanning bit, couldn't remember if he had pulled another gun. He went from one to several, of course it's always good to have a hide out gun.[:D]

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  • DancesWithSheepDancesWithSheep Member Posts: 12,938 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I saw the movie rather as a metaphor for the careless treatment of kitchen appliances by individuals insensitive to the increasing and wasteful use of our limited natural resources. The framing of the two bridges with the sunset behind it is the exact image of an Amana Even-Air Convection Plus oven with it's door left ajar (hence the obvious title, "Open Range"). I wept at least three times.
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  • gunpaqgunpaq Member Posts: 4,607 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I saw the movie in Canada on the opening night, there were just over 20 people in the whole big theatre. Two nights later some of my friends went to another theatre where about 30 people +/- attended the show.

    I went to see it hoping for an authentic weatsern and to see Robert Duvall act. I counted an average of 9 shots between reloads but the shooting scenes were more realistic than most.

    I agree with Saxon on the political messages, they were there, but I went to be entertained despite Costner.

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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Haven't seen it and most likely will not until it's available as a freebie on some cable / satellite channel. Costner is the same character in a different setting in all his films - somewhat apart from the crowd and always superior (at least in the mind of himself & his character) to those around him. Between his one dimensional acting and his political agenda, I've never felt I needed to invest money to support his career. Hollyweird is so bloated with leftist BS, I don't feel any loss by staying home.
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  • CaptplaidCaptplaid Member Posts: 20,298 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Wife just popped it in again.
    One of the best Westerns made.
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  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,085 ******
    edited November -1
    I like that scene at the end, where Costner is talking to his sweetie, and in the background you see some of the local folk chasing down a bad guy and killing him.
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  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by nunn
    I like that scene at the end, where Costner is talking to his sweetie, and in the background you see some of the local folk chasing down a bad guy and killing him.
    Really like those "back shootin" scenes, do ya?[;)]
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  • FatstratFatstrat Member Posts: 9,147
    edited November -1
    I never saw a guy try so hard to talk a woman he liked into not liking him. It was stupid.
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  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    "Bluebonnet" and don't U go repeatin that!![:D]
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  • sandwarriorsandwarrior Member Posts: 5,453 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The HBO series "Deadwood" is a lot better.
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  • Colt SuperColt Super Member Posts: 31,007 ✭
    edited November -1
    I have them both, and "Deadwood" is far, FAR superior.

    I'm am not much of a Costner fan.

    Doug
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  • cce1302cce1302 Member Posts: 9,555 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I wonder why all saxon pig's responses disappeared?
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  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    open range & monte walsh were worth watching for the scenery alone.
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  • matwormatwor Member Posts: 20,594
    edited November -1
    Not likely 5db will chime back in on this one, he hasn't been seen around here since 3/28/07. Miss ya Kasey.
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  • Joe DreesJoe Drees Member Posts: 2,953 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Which actor in the movie is a billionaire?


    The chairman of the board and Big Kahuna at Kohler company, Herb Kohler, is a buddy of Costner and has a bit part in the movie.
    BTW I work at Kohler company.......[^]
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  • bpostbpost Member Posts: 32,669 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Joe Drees
    Which actor in the movie is a billionaire?


    The chairman of the board and Big Kahuna at Kohler company, Herb Kohler, is a buddy of Costner and has a bit part in the movie.
    BTW I work at Kohler company.......[^]




    THAT IS A OLD POST!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I love Kohler, my sink faucet broke, rather than sending parts to fix it, they sent me an entire new faucet fed Ex at no charge.


    Costner's last name blew my mind, it is not common and it is my same last name, Postlethwait.
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