Animal1701
Joined Apr 2000
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Open Range is a film badly in need of some good editing.
The long empty sequences, when nothing of note occurred, seem to mirror the open range of the title. In terms of casting, Kevin Costner adds nothing to the film, apart from turning it into a pretentious work that tries too hard to be something that it isn't.
The only thing that saves the film from being a complete yawn fest is the gunfight near the end which is excellent. Even this is nearly ruined half way through by some unnecessary moralistic dialogue.
Summing up...
Gunfight 8/10, the rest of the movie 3/10.
The long empty sequences, when nothing of note occurred, seem to mirror the open range of the title. In terms of casting, Kevin Costner adds nothing to the film, apart from turning it into a pretentious work that tries too hard to be something that it isn't.
The only thing that saves the film from being a complete yawn fest is the gunfight near the end which is excellent. Even this is nearly ruined half way through by some unnecessary moralistic dialogue.
Summing up...
Gunfight 8/10, the rest of the movie 3/10.
This was a superb series and scared the hell out of me when I watched it 31 years ago. Based on the novel Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr it was far superior to the film Paperhouse which was also based on it.
Peter Jackson has done probably as good a job as anyone could of fully realising Tolkiens middle Earth.
Casting couldn't have been any better with Elijah Wood forever defining himself as Frodo much as Mar Hamill did as a certain Skywalker 24 years earlier. In fact the parallels between Star Wars and LotR are many, Obi-Wan & Gandalf, Han Solo &b Aragorn and the comic relief being provided by messrs Took and Brandybuck instead of a pair of droids.
CGI work on the film again raises the bar on what is achievable in motion pictures. Fully realised fight scenes involving 1000's of Orc's, elves and men spring vividly to life. You can almost smell the Orc blood as limbs are hacked and warriors slain (echoes back to the good old days of Jackson's wonderfull Braindead).
All in all a defining moment in the Fantasy film genre. LotR will do for fantasy movies what 2001 and Star Wars did for Science Fiction.
Roll on 2002 and the Two Towers !!!!
Casting couldn't have been any better with Elijah Wood forever defining himself as Frodo much as Mar Hamill did as a certain Skywalker 24 years earlier. In fact the parallels between Star Wars and LotR are many, Obi-Wan & Gandalf, Han Solo &b Aragorn and the comic relief being provided by messrs Took and Brandybuck instead of a pair of droids.
CGI work on the film again raises the bar on what is achievable in motion pictures. Fully realised fight scenes involving 1000's of Orc's, elves and men spring vividly to life. You can almost smell the Orc blood as limbs are hacked and warriors slain (echoes back to the good old days of Jackson's wonderfull Braindead).
All in all a defining moment in the Fantasy film genre. LotR will do for fantasy movies what 2001 and Star Wars did for Science Fiction.
Roll on 2002 and the Two Towers !!!!