Hey fuckmooks,
My friend Leila took me to an invitational screening of 3:10 To Yuma last night. Apparently the "3:10" is the run time. What a turd of a movie! With all due respect to Mr. Mangold - he really had no idea how a Western should be filmed. The aspect ratio was completely wrong and the score was simply anemic. I actually had high hopes for this film. Award winning actors, award winning director, cool script based on a short story by Elmore Leonard. Oh well.
The original movie (1957) with Van Heflin did a much better job with this story. That film was set almost entirely in the hotel room and focused on the tension between the two leads. Mangold chose to focus on the trip to Contention (where the railroad is located), but fails to make the trip EPIC. And that is the great failure of this film. Westerns should be epic. Honestly, you don't have to be a student of Clint Eastwood's work to understand this. "Unforgiven" was ultimately about a man's struggle with himself and Time, but the film still had an EPIC feel to it.
Crap, didn't really intend for this to be a movie review. Just wanted to tell y'all to save your money and use it to go see "Bourne Ultimatum" again.
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