I’ve seen it. Watched it after reading something that nominated it as one of the best two recent westerns (I’m pretty sure the other was The Homesman, with Hilary Swank and Tommy Lee Jones). Open Range was good, not great, in my opinion. But I like Robert Duvall and I’d recommend Tender Mercies (a bit saccharine in places), a nice pic about a washed-up country singer.
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Highway 61. Small Canadian black comedy from the early 90s. It’s about a man and a woman driving a body down to New Orleans, while being pursued by a man who thinks he’s Satan.
Which version?
One of Elmore Leonard’s western novels. He’s had a heap of novels filmed…Get Shorty, Out of Sight, Fuzz, 52 Pick-Up inter al.
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I haven’t seen Eureka, but l have seen the aforementioned Bad timing & Performance as well as Walkabout, Don’t Look Now and Te Man Who Fell to Earth.
I never had video tapes, which is a bit surprising in a strange way, considering l was a media teacher during that era. l made up for that when l got to China, where l discovered DVD movies going for $1. l decided that l would buy 500/year. Not sure if l ever hit that lofty target, but l ended up buying more movies than l could watch, and had to create a movie library to keep track of them all.
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Another Vinterberg classic, just saw “Another Round” with Mads Mikkelson finally, excellent as ever.
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He is a truly great actor.
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BSD mentioned the 2007 version with Russell Crowe and Christian Bale.
And I’m not old enough to have seen the original 1957 version 
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I just watched it.
Now I’m off to post about it in the overrated Movie thread … 
Slightly ludicrous & unbelievable story line, with clichés out the wazoo for mine.
This sort of story/plot in a film is what’s steered me to the true story stuff lately, I seem to just be shaking my head pretty early into a lot of Movies and TV these days. 
This is on the list of one to revisit - remember watching it back in the day, I really enjoyed it. [The 3.10 to Yuma remake]
On 3.10 Yuma, l reviewed the remake years ago in the movie thread, l thought it was a bit less than ordinary. I have not been tempted to revisit it since. For me, it is over rated.
Idiot Box was awesome. Was just asking the Mrs if she’d seen it last week, as Foxtel was showing heaps of Aussie movies and I was hoping it would have featured. Did you see Kiss or Kill ? Another great Aussie flick from the same era…
The Big Steal.
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Was fantastic. Ben Mendlesohn not being an ■■■■■■■■ and a young hornorific Claudia Karvan. She’s now playing a grandmother, makes me feel old.
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Jackie Brown was another Elmore Leonard.
Last Stand at Saber River was one of his westerns, as was Valdez is Coming.
Justified went five or six seasons and was based on a short story in which one of the main series protagonists was killed at the end of the story. Maximum Bob and Karen Sisco another two series. Karen Sisco was the character played by JLo in Out of Sight.
One that’s never mentioned is Mr Majestyk, made as a movie with Charles Bronson, which was pretty good, as was the book. There’s also one called Killshot, which was a really good book but a pretty awful movie.
And there are quite a few more…
The Arrangement
Freaky Deaky
The Tonto Woman
Be Cool
The Big Bounce
Gold Coast
Touch
Pronto
Split Images
Border Shootout
Cat Chaser
Glitz
The Rosary Murders
The Moonshine War
Hombre
There wouldn’t be many authors with so many books made into movies. I really liked Get Shorty the book (not the movie; I thought it missed the mark) because of the way he played with the relationship between books and movies.
- Gallipoli
- Reach for the sky
- Fury
- The Judge
Not underrated at all, it is rubbish.
I wouldn’t say it’s rubbish…but the final battle is somewhat unlikely 
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