The Western genre is undoubtedly among the most popular genres in the history of cinema and television. Even today, viewers like to see the redeemed outlaws, rapid justice and the classic places and sounds that glorified the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. This can be more than 60 years since the end of the golden age of Western films, but Westerners are still reading, whether in their classic form or mashups with other genres, including science fiction.
Naturally, the emblematic and influential cinema critic Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Totes Did not review Western films. Ebert loved Western films like the original Real grit,, Bravo river,, Unforgiven,, The man who pulled on Liberty Valanceand even classic comedy Flamboyant stools. However, there is an even longer list of Westerners than Ebert hated. What Western films were not a fan?
10
The legend of Zorro ruins one of the best characters of his predecessors
1.5 star
Of all the possible ideas on how to manage the character of Elena, this film assembled the worst.
Certain Western suites simply do not strike as strong as their originals. Ebert really liked the years 1998 Zorro’s maskBased on the character of Johnston McCulley, giving this film three of his four stars Max. Yet its suite, 2005 Zorro legendfell terribly short from his predecessor nominated in the Oscars. Not even the return of Antonio Banderas because the Swashbuckler and Catherine Zeta-Jones masked could save it.
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Elena de Zeta-Jones is actually the subject of A large part of Ebert’s criticisms of Zorro legend. He was frustrated by the passage of Elena from “Magnificent” to the original film to “A Nag” which has become frustrated that her husband did not abandon the role of Zorro. Ebert agreed that Elena had definitely had a point in some cases, but going from the “sublime adventure” of the original film to an ex-wife who presents himself to a ball with the villain Armand was too much for Ebert.
Zorro legend
- Release date
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October 25, 2005
- Execution time
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129 minutes
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Antonio Banderas
Don Alejandro de la Vega / Zorro
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Catherine Zeta-Jones
Elena
9
Dead Man is a triplet film that has since received retroactive praise
1.5 star
Jim Jarmusch tries to get something here, and I have no idea what it is.
Johnny Depp is no stranger to the times or films of the period inspired by a certain era. Naturally, Depp must have played in a western at some point. Dead is a black and white film that tells the story of the sweet William Blake accountant, who is on the run after accidentally killing someone. The film received mixed criticism, but received positive retrospectives for its unique approach to “acid journey” of the genre.
Ebert was not impressedHowever. Ebert noted that Dead Try to invoke something, but nothing really landed. Ebert says: “”Dead“Is a strange, slow and incompatible film that gives us more time to think about its meaning than with the meaning.” Ebert was not a fan of the score of Neil Young either, saying: “Which, for the last 30 minutes of the film, looks like nothing of a man dropping his guitar several times.” In hell,, Bad girls,, Gate du Paradis,, Rancho Deluxe,, Blind,, Support your local Gunfighter,, Blue soldierAnd 100 rifles.
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American Outlaws turned up against other great gang films James-younger
1 star
For years, there have been reports on the death of the West. Come now “American outlaws», Proof that even the B Western is dead.
American outlaws Another relatively modern Westerner with Colin Farrell, Scott Caan, Ali Larter, Kathy Bates and Timothy Dalton. For many criticisms, he represented a dying genre. American outlaws Takes up after the civil war when five pro-confedéré guerrillas, including Jesse James and Cole Younger, go home. While agricultural land is seized to build a railway, the five friends are trying to stop it.
There are a lot of good James and younger films, As Ebert notedBut it was not one of them. Ebert could not take the characterization of the “adolescent pop idols” of the gang James-Younger, saying: “Imagine the cast of the cast American pie Given a camera, a lot of money, costumes and horses, and said to act seriously and pretend to be cowboys, and that’s what you could get. “Overall, he felt American outlaws was too formula and missing in the intelligence of great Western films.
7
Wild Wild West had a terrible chemistry between his tracks
1 star “”Wild Wild West“It’s a dead comedy area. You look with disbelief while the flop and die scenes.
Wild Wild West has become a classic cult in recent years, partly due to being a strongly marketed Will Smith film, which many millennials have appreciated as the late 1990s. The Steampunk Western is vaguely based on the 1960s television series The Far Wild Westwas ravaged by criticism with a negative criticism attack. This resulted in a box-office commercial failure and winning Fix Golden Raspberry Awards, including “Worse Picture”.
Ebert describes Wild Wild West As “any concept and no content; the special effects developed are like watching money burn on the screen”. Ebert had trouble joining the captain of Smith James T. “Jim” West and the alliance of Marshal Artemus Gordon of Kevin Kline, given their lack of chemistry on the screen, saying: “They seem to act in front of the rear projections.” Ebert continued: “They follow the movements, but there is no visual contact.”
6
Three Amigos! Could have been a much funnier film
1 star
This film is too confident, too relaxed, too smart to be really funny.
Another Western comedy that has built a cult status is Three amigos! In Three Amigos!Steve Martin, Chevy Chase and Martin Short Start as mute film players who played in a film entitled The three Amigos. When the daughter of a chief of the Mexican village sees the film, believing that it is real, she asks the three actors to help her village with a bandit gang. The actors, however, have misunderstood this plea to believe that they are invited to simply make an appearance in front of fans.
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Ebert was disappointed In the lack of comedy in this comedy film, which, in his mind, was a big waste of potential. Ebert said: “Ideas to do ‘Three amigos“In a good comedy is there, but madness is missing.” Ebert felt that the film was playing him too safe, “confident” that laughter would be intruding with his cast and his writing, but if more efforts or “despair” proposed there, it could have been a hilarious film.
5
Rooster Cogburn wasted two legendary actors
1 star
We remember Hepburn in “The African Queen“And Wayne in”Real grit(1969), then we have to look at the actors themselves conspired in a scam of some of their best moments.
Rooster Cogburn is one of the most emblematic fictitious characters of the Western genre. This, despite only in three films and a remake, Real grit was a special film led by the legendary John Wayne. As large as Real grit And his remake is, the two more Real grit The films did not behave as well. The first of them, 1975 COQ COGBURNBring back John Wayne and even adds Katherine Hepburn, but to very disappointing results.
EBERT LAMENTE Rooster cogburn’s waste To associate Wayne and Hepburn. The film is trying to imitate Wayne’s successes Real grit And hepburn’s The African QueenBut walking away, feeling like a “scam”. Ebert says of Rooster cogburn’s Script which, “the dialogue (Wayne and Hepburn are) given is so consciously arc, so filled with small subtle recognitions from who are the two actors, that we never care about history and that it never tells it.”
4
Dirty Dingus Magee has very little Frank Sinatra despite his best invoicing
1 star
“”Magee’s disappearance of dirt“Is as shabby a commodity as that masked like a Westerner since then, Oh,”A foreigner returns. “”
Magee’s disappearance of dirt is a film as terrible as its title. However, a Western comedy with Frank Sinatra in his titular role cannot be so bad, right? Ebert does not agree with vehementnce.
Ebert said about the role of Sinatra: “I lean to blame Frank Sinatra, who in recent years has become notorious not to really worry about his films.” Ebert notes that Dingus Magee de Sinatra appears only on the screen at about a quarter of the film, leading the support distribution bearing a large part of the weight of the film. Ebert rented the support cast, saying: “They are fun to watch, but where is Sinatra? In Vegas?”
Magee’s disappearance of dirt
- Release date
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November 18, 1970
- Execution time
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91 minutes
Casting
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Frank Sinatra
Dingus Billy Magee
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George Kennedy
Herkimer “ hoke ” Birdsill
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Nettleton laws
Prudence
3
Death rides a horse invoked bad on Saturday western afternoon
1 star
And yet … there is something to abandon you to the dark and welaise security of a great loop theater on a Saturday afternoon, and to be silent in your seat, and to simply abandon you to a film like this.
Death rides a horse is a spaghetti western, which fortunately, Benefits of the emblematic and the Italian and Western composer Ennio Morricone for his score. And that’s about it. No Clint Eastwood or any other true characteristic of the best in this sub-genre. It is a rather generic western film with the young bill (John Phillip Law) seeking to take revenge on the vicious death and the torture of his family 15 years earlier. Bill finally meets Ryan (Lee Van Cleef), who had been in prison for the same duration after being supervised by the same killers.
Ebert makes comparisons To many bad westerns on Saturday afternoon, saying: “You restore contact with yourself at the age of 10, when you attended dozens of so bad westerns.” Ebert also says: “From time to time, you laugh, or be delighted, or you will distract by noting that certain outdoor scenes are shot in a studio with sets.”
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A minute to pray, a second to die pulled its configuration from a better western film
1 star
It deserves, perhaps, the type of microscopic examination that one could give a bug or a worm: it is boring as a film but interesting as an example of what some people will pay their property to see.
Yet another spaghetti western badly received is A minute to pray, a second to die. Only this time, no Morricone. Although it is not minimizing Carlo Rustichelli, who has nearly 300 films to his composition credits. Beyond that, it is a typical spaghetti western with a lot of violence and blood, and focuses on simple concepts, in this case, Outlaw Clay McCord (Alex Cord) having a deterioration of the epileptic type state.
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Ebert notes that this configuration is strangely similar to the years 1966 Gold And uses it as an example of Italian westerns “generally plagiarized, without credit, better westerns”. A large part of the exam by Ebert de A minute to pray, a second to die It is just he who evacuated his reflections on the Italian westerns in general, which shows how little he thought of this film. Ebert concludes his exam by saying: “There, there is a market for this kind of waste. Why, I cannot say it.”
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East wagons! Was, unfortunately, John Candy’s final film
0.5 star
Although he features the allegedly plugged in Richard Lewis, his “humor” is largely composed of hideout jokes, kicks in the crotch, hay seeds of their cows, jokes on gays and prostitutes, and a lot of shots where people come across things and things fall on them.
East wagons! is the only Western film Ebert marked less than a star Over the most than a hundred, he examined. A comedy featuring John Candy as an alcoholic wagon master is one of the small film handles with a 0%rotten note of tomatoes. So nothing controversial about Ebert’s score here.
Ebert found his right part of worried comedies, as evidenced by some of the other Westerners of comedy that he also did not love, but to call a film “One of the least fun comedies I have ever seen” says a lot. Since Candy died during the shooting of this filmEbert notes that Candy is “barely visible in certain scenes. He also does not have a lot of great moments, funny speeches, punch lines or things to do”. Many Candy scenes were made with the power of CGI and the double body to pass the film through the finish line after his death. But despite great candy films, Ebert said: “It’s a shame, for more reasons, that it was his last.”
