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3:10 to Yuma (Widescreen Edition) by James Mangold
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DVD detailsActor: Ben Foster, Christian Bale, Dallas Roberts, Logan Lerman, Russell Crowe Director: James Mangold Brand: LION'S GATE ENTERTAINMENT DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled) Format: Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: 2.35:1 Running Time: 122 minutes DVD Release Date: 2008-01-08 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Studio: Lions Gate
DVD Reviews of 3:10 to Yuma (Widescreen Edition)DVD Review: changed ending! Summary: 1 Starsanyone who saw the original will be disappointed in the ending. the original had a clever and happy ending; this remake has a depressing ending! beware!
DVD Review: Will they reach the trian in time? Summary: 5 StarsMaybe it was the HBO series Deadwood that led to the return of the Western. Whatever the reason, it's good to see cowboys again. Here, in 3:10 to Yuma, we get to see a more realistic take of the Western that Deadwood has brought out (though the profanity and sex are greatly toned down). The grittier and edgier settings really do the trick, and the gunplay are a more believable than what we see in the old John Wayne flicks. While I still prefer Deadwood, 3:10 to Yuma is still a marvelous Western film.
Grade: A
DVD Review: Something to say...but what? Summary: 4 StarsRussel Crow and Christian Bale in the same film tells us there will be action...hidden meaning...and tragedy. This film delivers on all 3. Westerns are getting more realistic, which is good. The Old West was dirty, brutish, and often cruel.
Ben Wade, the career criminal who, with a different set of circumstances, could have been a captain of industry/King of the World. He's a hero we don't want to see as a hero because he's on the wrong side of the law.
His antagonist is a civil war vet turned family man rancher trying to raise 2 boys. Honor does not mean being the toughest man on the block.
Great to see Peter Fonda coaxed out of self exile to deliver a spirted supporting role
DVD Review: The Dark Knight in cowboy boots Summary: 2 StarsI've always considered the original 1957 film 3:10 to Yuma (Special Edition) to be a 5-star classic. Glenn Ford, playing against type as super-cool, super bad guy Ben Wade, delivered a powerful performance. Van Heflin, as reluctant hero Dan Evans, may have appeared timid, but there was really no doubt that he would earn his stripes by the end of the movie.
There are a few passages in the 2007 remake that clone the original screenplay (such as when Wade "settles up" with Evans in the bar). But there are moments where you know that Crowe and Bale are going for a new dynamic between the characters, and if you want to watch this as a "new" movie (which it's not), you might be able to get past that.
Specifically, I'm referring to the campfire scene, where Crowe is on his back, laughing, spitting out blood and singing "They're going to hang me in the morning..."
...I'm looking at Crowe, and I'm looking at Bale, and I'm thinking "This is Heath Ledger in "The Dark Knight" (and not because he's two feet away from "Batman," either).
Ford's Ben Wade was crazy like a fox, but by no means crazy. Crowe doesn't pull off Ford's level of nuance and irony, but then again, he doesn't make the attempt.
If you haven't seen the original, maybe this is a 3 or 4 star movie for you. If you have, maybe you can blot out the memory of the original and enjoy this on its own merits. It's just that the Mona Lisa isn't a blank canvas. You don't paint over it because you think you can do a better job than Da Vinci.
DVD Review: 3:10 to Yuma Summary: 4 StarsJust hearing that this was based on an Elmore Leonard story,he also wrote Hombre, was enough to get me interested. I never saw the original with Glenn Ford which I think was a plus. It gave me the opportunity to watch without prejudice. Bale and Crowe are excellent and bring their characters to vivid life. The story has a High Noon, "a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do" vibe which makes it compelling and thought provoking, much like Unforgiven. A must see for Western fans and anyone who enjoys a good story well told.
Description of 3:10 to Yuma (Widescreen Edition)In Arizona in the late 1800s infamous outlaw Ben Wade (Crowe) and his vicious gang of thieves and murderers have plagued the Southern Railroad. When Wade is captured Civil War veteran Dan Evans (Bale) struggling to survive on his drought-plagued ranch volunteers to deliver him alive to the "3:10 to Yuma" a train that will take the killer to trial. On the trail Evans and Wade each from very different worlds begin to earn each other's respect. But with Wade's outfit on their trail - and dangers at every turn - the mission soon becomes a violent impossible journey toward each man's destiny.Cast: Russell Crowe Christian Bale Peter Fonda Gretchen Mol Ben FosterDirector: James MangoldSpecial Features: Audio Commentary with Director James Mangold "Destination Yuma" - Making-of Documentary "An Epic Explored" Featurette "Outlaws Gangs and Posses" Featurette Deleted ScenesSystem Requirements:Run Time: 122 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?WESTERN/HEROES Rating:?R UPC:?031398221852 Manufacturer No:?22185 Here's hoping James Mangold's big, raucous, and ultrabloody remake of 3:10 to Yuma leads some moviegoers to check out Delmer Daves's beautifully lean, half-century-old original. That classic Western spun a tale of captured outlaw Ben Wade (Glenn Ford)--deadly but disarmingly affable--and the small-time rancher and family man, Dan Evans (Van Heflin), desperate enough to accept the job of helping escort the badman to Yuma prison. Wade, knowing that his gang will be along at any moment to spring him, works at persuading the ultimately lone deputy to accept a bribe, turn his back on "duty," and go home safe and rich to his family. That the outlaw has come to admire his captor intriguingly complicates the suspense. All of the above applies in the new 3:10, but it takes a lot more huffing and puffing to get Wade (Russell Crowe this time) and Evans (Christian Bale) into position for the showdown. Mostly, more is less. To Mangold's credit, his movie doesn't traffic in facile irony or postmodern detachment; it aims to be a straight-up Western and deliver the excitement and charisma the genre's fans are starved for. But recognizing that contemporary viewers might be out of touch with the bedrock simplicity and strength of the genre--not to mention its code of honor--Mangold has supplied both Evans and Wade with a plethora of backstory and "motivations." At the overblown action climax, the crossfire of personal agendas is almost as frenetic as the copious gunplay. (By that point the movie has killed more people than the Lincoln County War.) Best thing about the remake is Russell Crowe's Ben Wade, a Scripture-quoting career villain with an artist's eye and a curiously principled sense of whom and when to murder. As his second-in-command, Ben Foster fairly pirouettes at every opportunity to commit mayhem, and Peter Fonda contributes a fierce portrait of an old Wade adversary turned bounty hunter for the Pinkerton detective agency. --Richard T. Jameson
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