so, eric loves westerns and liz and i watched the magnificent seven, so we're a little into westerns. 3:10 to yuma is a new western with russel crowe and christian bale. it's pretty amazing. the plot is that russel crowe is a badass outlaw who gets caught and a group of men are going to take him to a different town and put him on the 3:10 train to yuma prison. christian bale is a struggling rancher (it's arizona and a drought) and he agrees to help guard crowe for $200. crowe's posse is out to free him and plenty of shit hits plenty of fans.
western's are so manly, it's crazy. there are two women in the movie and they both have very small parts. one sleeps with crowe and his seduction is amazing. real class. but crowe is an interesting bad guy. he draws and reads and is pretty fair, but also kills a lot of people. at first i wondered why he was the leader because he doesn't seem to do anything, but leaders are tricky like that. they work hard to get the point where they don't have to do anything.
i stopped watching it half way through to pick up avishay and finished it alone the next day. i don't really understand the morality of westerns. liz said it about survival and honor and eric said it's about being manly. survival is the only one i understand of those. honor and manlyness often just piss me off. so, maybe westerns aren't for me.
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i like westerns a little. i'm not sure why. but i also like war movies and i'm not sure about that either. maybe it's the drama and that so many westerns have muddy morality, i guess i like the ones where there are guys who used to be sheriffs but are now outlaws. the wild bunch is a good one in that vein. two friends end up at odds and there's also a great mexican standoff at the end. it's very long but you can really get into it up to yr neck and not care about anything else. i am often bothered by the lack of female characters. i remember once upon a time in the west having a good female lead. anyway, i like the parts about honor, like when people do things that are illogical just because that thing is for the greater good. that happens a lot in war movies, right? taste is a toughy to figure out. maybe it's lame but i love the phrase "unpack" for figure out. taste is a toughy to unpack. hahahaah.
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