Do people still like Westerns these days? Good old, solid, straight up Westerns?

I do. And I hope I'm not alone. (In general, obviously, but here I'm referring to "alone in my love of westerns.")

The trailer reviews I've done here usually consist of me geeking out about some over-the-top action explosion extravaganza:

A trailer about an anthropomorphic chainsaw that is destined to kill a dragon made of lion heads...

Or a wise-cracking robot that punches ghosts to death. (Yes, I know they're already dead, but it's his job...)

Or, like, vampires vs. knives. vs. minotaurs vs. Canada...

Stuff like that. (By the way, someone feel free to make any of the aforementioned trailers and then send them to me. Please?)

But this isn't that. And yet it still managed to knock the shit out of the part of me that likes movies. Yup, nothing but a classic, slow burn Western packed with tough talk, guns and more tough talk... and more guns. And it is awesome.



Ed Harris, god damn Viggo Mortensen, and the great-grandfather of the guy John McClane vanquishes in Die Hard: With A Vengeance, aka Jeremy Irons. The only way this movie could be better is if Viggo played all the roles himself, including the guns.

I defy anyone to not love or "eh" their way through that trailer. The only complaint I can even imagine would be that it's not twice as long. Or that it's not yet something you can pick up in your hands, cradle, and take to bed with you. I guess my problem would be that it is only one "thing" and I wish it were somehow "two things." I gots two eyeballs, after all.

Someday, when I die, I'd like to be buried in this movie. That day is whenever this movie tells me it is.


Go see this. Go support the Western. Who knows how it will do at the box office, I'm guessing so-so. We shouldn't let that happen. Time to saddle up and ride out... um, to your local cineplex, in support of the Western. The genre that needs no flash and no gimmicks to pummel the hell out of yer brain parts.





TheCoolerKing thinks "dying ain't much of a living, boy"