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He was hacking on me!

Advantages: Great film
Disadvantages: None really

Young Guns is the 1988 film with an all star brat pack cast that tells the story of the emergence of Billy the Kid and the regulators he reputedly rode with. The film is one of the more entertaining modern Westerns, and remains set as one of the better known of the modern era. The Plot New Mexico, 1878. Landowner John Tunstall takes in tearaway youths and educates them in return for them working for him in keeping his land and cattle safe and looked ...
...some good performances from some young brat pack actors here, and they are cemented by a strong showing by a couple of veterans. Jack Palance and Terence Stamp play feuding landowners Murphy and Tunstall respectively, and do so with the class we have come to expect of them. Emilio Estevez takes the lead role fo the film in Billy the Kid, and is followed by a string of good performances, most notably from Kiefer Sutherland as Josiah 'Doc' Scurlock. ...

pmcds 08.03.2009 · Read full review
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Is that a gun in your pocket?

Advantages: Entertaining, Action and Estevez
Disadvantages: Not a typical western

...Released back in 1988, Young Guns is more of a vehicle to capitalize on the then appeal of the Hollywood brat pack, than a true western. Yes it may be set in the west and feature cowboys, but unlike classic westerns, this is more about action and escapism than being factually correct or really gritty in the John Wayne and Clint Eastwood sense. Just take a look at the lead players of Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez, they can be in a really dusty ...
...wrong, as I really like Young Guns and it appeals to my child like fantasies of being the gun totting cowboy who beats the baddies against all odds, but compared to a true western, it is right down on my list. The story itself takes the old tale of Billy the Kid, the legendary outlaw who was supposedly one of the best guns men of his time, as its basis. But that is really is far as the factuality of the film goes and then it departs into its own ...

christianfilmcritic 02.05.2006 · Read full review
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Some say he's dead...some say he never will be

Advantages: Great acting, scenery
Disadvantages: None I can think of

...shift boat. The man is Jeremiah Johnson (played b Robert Redford) He is an ex-soldier, he has arrived in Utah to fulfil his ambition of becoming a mountain man. Jeremiah asks the local shop owner where he can go to hunt. The man gives him directions and Jeremiah sets off into the snowy mountains. Jeremiah comes across an old man who hunts bears. He teaches Jeremiah new skills. He tells Jeremiah that the territory he is heading for is indian territory. ...
...The Crows, are killers. Jeremiah again sets off. Along his route he survives treacherous weather and the fear of the indians. He comes across a house where he finds a hysterical woman. Her husband and son have been killed and scalped by the Crows. Jeremiah helps the woman bury her family. He goes into her house to find a small boy cowering in the corner. The woman insists that Jeremiah take the boy with him on his travels. The boy does not speak ...

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Dunbar, not Dumb Bear!

Advantages: Fantastic visuals, Costner
Disadvantages: Can draw it out too long in places

...most powerful films to date, Dances With Wolves is a thoughtful and emotional tale that requires a bit of concentration. Set in the aftermath of the Civil War, it features KC as a war hero who is relocated to a post near a tribe of Sioux Indians. The initial grasp of the film makes you think it's going to be one with emphasis on the conflict involving the Sioux, and for the first part of the film, this is indeed how it is shown, particularly as ...
...Mary McDonnell as a love interest for Dunbar. Dances With Wolves is available from amazon.co.uk for £6.98. It's a film I recommend watching, but you need to focus and concentrate. It's not the sort of film you can have on in the background and completely understand. Recommended. ...

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Lt Dunbar Dances With Wolves

Advantages: amazing acting and storyline, gorgeous scenery and music
Disadvantages: May be too long for some

...battle and the scary looking dances they did around their fires but this was their way of life so I had to accept it. The main Indians which we saw were Holy man and the white woman who was raised by the Indians. They gave excellent performance sand really moved me at times. The one draw back to the Indians was that they spoke in their native language and we had the subtitles turned off at first so was unable to fully understand what they were saying ...
...I thought they all played their roles genuinely and looked the part and the costumes and clothes which they wore made them look like true Sioux Indians. The storyline was great and I loved how they portrayed a soldier from the normal and did not have him attacking and hating the Indians and how they made him want to live comfortably with them and learn about their ways. I think this did show certain parts of the US army in a good light but then ...

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