You guys had a talkative Thomas Haden Church and you didn’t ask about Sideways? WTF?

Came down to say the same thing

Ha! Shows what I get for not reading carefully.  Or, you know, reading at all

There’s already a pretty good movie called After the Wedding with Mads Mikkelsen. When I take over the world, movie titles are going to be like racehorses at the Kentucky Derby - every one must be unique.

Possible exception for remakes (seems unfair that if you do Hamlet again you need a new title) 

No of course not.  I hear they’re all terrible :D 

Jesse should just never be given anything Christian themed to review. I don’t like any seafood, so no one would send me to review a sushi restaurant, right?

For sure, but so did Beyond Thunderdome (as was my point) and it looks cartoonish.  CGI matters, but so does tone

Nice write-up.  I would also use the Mad Max series as an example.  The final chase sequence in Beyond Thunderdome is the worst of the four films’ chase scenes because it becomes too cartoonish (thankfully CGI wasn’t a thing but still) while Fury Road manages to feel believable even when in reality it’s not at all

“Jack the Ripper is hardly representative of Western society”

Really?  A perverse connection between sex and violence isn’t representative of Western society?  Jeez, man, do you watch movies? 

Yeah from what I read, there wasn’t a single funny moment in that one :D 

Can’t tell if you’re being serious, but there’s truth to this.  Make an exploitation movie with the trappings of a Serious Statement About Something

Oh I have seen many westerns. If we’re establishing our bona fides, I have watched the entire Randolph Scott/Budd Boetticher cycle, despite the fact that they’re mainly the same movie done 7 different times :D 

Well actually I wouldn’t start counting since World War II - I’d start counting since the end of the Cold War. The entire 18 year war in Afghanistan hasn’t even killed 200,000 on all sides. And of course that’s in a world whose population is orders of magnitude bigger than it used to be.

Well the Jack the Ripper killings also shocked the world, no?  Same century. My point is not that violent acts didn’t occur, my point is that the West wasn’t notably more violent than the rest of the world - particularly the urban world.  But there are plenty of movies about non-Western society in the 1800s where…

That’s a good take. I guess perhaps my annoyance is with critics who act like it’s so BOLD and REVISIONIST when it’s, as I said, an exceptionally common way to make a Western.  I mean, hell, what was the last fun western? Fievel Goes West? 

Well, it’s brain-buckling from our current lens because we live in a time of unprecedented world peace (though few seem to have noticed). But was 19th century Australia much more violent than 19th century Europe? No, not really

Meek’s Cutoff comes close.  

I think I made a similar comment on your festival review, but I’m getting a bit tired of the constant stream of westerns that will PULL BACK THE VEIL on the VIOLENCE AND MISERY OF THE OLD WEST, as if
A. This is somehow bold when basically every other Western since The Wild Bunch has done so
B. There is a fundamental…

I thought everyone was making too much of 2016 being this monstrous year that killed everyone, but Yelchin’s death sure was weird 

Great review, IV, though I think this movie sounds much more interesting to read about than to actually watch