Trailer is out for the upcoming Christian Bale and Russell Crowe film 3:10 To Yuma. This is a remake of the 1957 film with the same name. As much as I usually gripe about remakes, a western with Christian Bale and Russell Crowe should be badass. I re-watched The Magnificent Seven this weekend and am frsh off a western high. Westerns are macho tales that celebrate the strength of the human will. A good western is hard to beat, for those of you that have not seen the trailer – here it is.
International friends what are your thoughts on the trailer?
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Got me thinking. Making a list. The very good modern (post 1990) westerns:
Unforgiven (1991)
Dances With Wolves (1990)
Blueberry (2003)
The Proposition (2005)
Ravenous (1999)
Open Range (2003)
Dead Man (1996)
Lone Star (1996)
The Quick and the Dead (1994)
Wyatt Earp (1994)
Deadwood (2003-5)
Afro Samurai (2007)
I’m hoping that 3:10 to Yuma and The Assassination of Jesse James continue with this tradtion…And there are a couple of Asian ones in the work, Takashi Miike’s Django spaghetti/sushi western and Ji-woon Kim’s THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE WEIRD…
nice.
You know, I’d love to see someone make a CGI reasonably serious western. That’d stand out in the talking animal crowd of CGI movies…big-time.
Oh, and DEADWOOD may have been the best TV show ever made, shakespeare and cowboys and the poetry of cursing. Sublime.
Western’s have been trickling out for the past couple years.
It’s highly recommended to check out the Aussie one starring Guy Pearce and Ray Winstone – THE PROPOSITION.
Also for a trippy psychadelic western starring Ocean 12&13’s favorite French thief, try BLUEBERRY (aka Renegade).
Then there was that Tommy Lee Jones one with Barry Pepper – The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada.
a few years ago there was the Fabulous OPEN RANGE as well.
And there ain’t nothing wrong with a Sergio Leoni pic, or the modern equivalent (The Russell Crow/Gene Hackman/Leonardo Dicaprio/Sharon Stone – Sam “Spiderman” Raimi directed) THE QUICK & THE DEAD!
There are some damn fine westerns out there, it is the great American Genre, I’m glad someone is still out there making them.
This trailer gives us just enough clues, and looks intelligent, complex and intriguing.
I’m so going to be in the theater opening weekend! Let the fan boys have their comic book heros… real women are hungry for some gritty western action. Bale and Crowe? Directed by Mangold? oh my.
I m sorry if this is going to annoy anyone ( i m sure it will) but i really think westerns are the most pointless of films. Cowboys mostly were known to have no honour, no grace, no abilty apart from drunken brawls and quick fire rounds. The only ‘will’ they had was to savage a country that wasnt even their own and then have the temerity to develop this patriotic mentality. every other country has an iconic and noble past american was built on blood and more blood and a large part of it belonged to these animals. I think america needs to do more movies about native american they are far more interesting.
This has got to be well worth the entrance money. Crowe playing an out and out bad guy for the first time in a long time and teamed with Bale who seems to match him for ability as the principaled good guy.
This looks good and i think Christian Bale and Russell Crowe are 2 of my favorit sctores christan bale blow me away in batman begine and he was relly good in some of the toher films he did and russell crown is good is anthing.
I consider this to be the ultimate chick flick. Russell and Christian? As cowboys in an old-style western? I will be there on opening night.
Cool trailer. Back in the late 60’s/70’s, the studio executives used to say that Sergio Leone killed western. Since his films, westerns have evolved towards a more realistic approach. I don’t think we’d like to watch a modern western movie filmed in an old fashioned way but at the same time, the good modern westerns are those which are realistic and, at the same time, which respect the code and myth of these westerns we used to love. And it seems that this new version of 3:10 To Yuma is this right kind of film. Anyway, the trailer looks great.
Wow…This movie better kick some serious ass. I love both Crowe and Bale, and the trailer has me hooked.
Looks good, but is there a market for westerns anymore?
Wow that’s a great trailer!
neat, i just started watching deadwood and the desire for all things western has been ignited.
I thought tom cruise was supposed to be in this?
I remeber the original. It wasn’t bad. I like the idea of a western siege type film.