Go Go Go loved it from start to end Ben Foster's performance is top notch

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its on my todo list

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saw the extended preview for this a few weeks ago @ the movies, it looks pretty good. on my to see list too.

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gonna try and get to this sometime this week

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have to say i thought this film was a load of shit, imo, i mean the ending was pretty pointless. have to admit though ben fosters performance was superb-worth going to see the film just for this. really hated this film. had very good potential too with the likes of bale.

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looking forward to see this

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:Cowboy: I like it !!!

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[QUOTE=scag clown;528265]have to say i thought this film was a load of shit, imo, i mean the ending was pretty pointless. have to admit though ben fosters performance was superb-worth going to see the film just for this. really hated this film. had very good potential too with the likes of bale.[/QUOTE]

What was pointless about the ending?

It seemed to fit in pretty well with the rest of the movie. All macho bullshit. Spoilers under the cut ---->[color="#262626"] Bale was a deflated and incapable pussy and it ended with him still being incapable (but humoured by Crowe) and just being slightly less of a pussy - but a hero in the eyes of his boy. Nicely tied up neat blockbuster ending. Resolved with lots of violence and ego stroking.
and Crowe got to flex his brawn and do the whole anti-hero-toughguy-comes-good-in-the-end because he's so smart routine[/COLOR] ---> having integrity and being a hard-ass = instant vote winner normally, storywise at least. It was pretty standard and formatted, but the ending didn't stand out as being pointless to me.

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ace film, gonna see it again

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One of the best movies, I have seen this year.

I really enjoyed the ending.

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Best western I've seen in a while. There was a great writeup on it here... [url]http://stage6.divx.com/user/dimitris18/video/1848005/giouma[/url]

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Have to agree that is was great. I haven't seen a western like this in a long time...

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[quote=scag clown;528265]have to say i thought this film was a load of shit, imo, i mean the ending was pretty pointless. have to admit though ben fosters performance was superb-worth going to see the film just for this. really hated this film. had very good potential too with the likes of bale.[/quote]

I agree compleatly the ending was sooooo out of place it could have been done much better. Its just not realistic. Are we to belive that a guy spends his whole life as an outlaw and than some farmer ex soldier shows him how wrong his ways have been and he kills his friends and goes off to jail....this films ending reminded me in many ways of Guy Ritchies Revolver...had potential but ruined with the ending...

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loved this film until the last section of the last act. absolute shambles and no mistake. other than that is a brilliant film. love crowe. he can do no worng in my book. quality film after quality film.. should of smacked the screen writer for the ending though. madness! has to be seen to be beleived :D

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[QUOTE=Shpira;543610]I agree compleatly the ending was sooooo out of place it could have been done much better. Its just not realistic. Are we to belive that a guy spends his whole life as an outlaw and than some farmer ex soldier shows him how wrong his ways have been and he kills his friends and goes off to jail....this films ending reminded me in many ways of Guy Ritchies Revolver...had potential but ruined with the ending...[/QUOTE]

Caught this one today.... BRILLIANTLY made. I agree that the end was a little out of belief that the one legged dime ranch owner made the hard ass see the light, especially when his own "gang" risked everything they had to come back and rescue him, which in itself was something that should've taught him a thing or two, but no he doesn't go off to jail. The point was that he was to "get on" the 310 to Yuma, not to "get to" Yuma, that's why he whistles to his horse.

I really enjoyed the movie though.

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okay fair enough...maybe your right I was so pissed of with the fact that he killed his gang that I had to light up a cigarette at that point...i might have missed that...still it stands that the ending is quite stupid. He is one: a wanted man two: on his own

but thanks for pointing out the whistling

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saw it last night. thought it was good, but to be compared to Unforgiven is blasphemy. i'd recommend it to friends, but it's not a standout film in any way for me.

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this is a good movie ... stop complaining about the ending, its a f'n movie

not to be compared with unforgiven

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[QUOTE=Shpira;548267]okay fair enough...maybe your right I was so pissed of with the fact that he killed his gang that I had to light up a cigarette at that point...i might have missed that...still it stands that the ending is quite stupid. He is one: a wanted man two: on his own

but thanks for pointing out the whistling[/QUOTE]

here's the point that I got out of it... (using the spoiler tag to try to spread its use, even though this whole thread is one big spoiler): [spoiler]earlier in the movie he said "I've always liked you Byron, but you never know when to shut up. Even bad men love their mommas" and throws the dude off the cliff for the insult. It shows that he places his parents above everything else in life. So when Bale tells him that his son thinks he's a failure because he got shot by his own men for retreating from a battle, Crowe realizes and sympathizes to the fact that he'd rather die trying to earn respect from his son than not be respected by him at all. He plays along with it because he doesn't expect the guy to make it past the whole town, because he knows how to escape from the prison, because he expects to find a way off the train before he even gets there, and because he wants the boy to treat his parents how "even bad men" do it. If he would've jumped on that train even after his men saved him they probably would've killed him because they risked their lives for him, so he had to kill them. It also proved that the father made enough of an impact to get him to willingly set off for Yuma, plus it couldn't hurt to maybe let the rest of the town(?) think Bale succeeded with getting him on the train and had a last stand as it chugged off[/spoiler]

I loved it. maybe a bit far-fetched, but if the dude was confident about Yuma then why not?

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^^ good point

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I watched this movie earlier this evening and i have to say it's one of the best movies to come out of Hollywood in 2007.

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Was plastered when i watched it lastnight/ this morning not bad for a western hic!

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i picked this film up at blockbuster, when i brought it home to watch with the family they were expecting some black and white roy rogers shit.. they watched it from start to finish then again the next day... great movie....

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Fantastic film - used to love westerns when I was a kid.

Pretty much everything Christian Bales has done has been great. That scene with the laminated business cards in American Psycho cracks me up every time.