My deep powers of movie criticism, I will show them to you

[lesbiassparrow]

I feel like many of the people in 3:10 to Yuma are not very bright. I am spending a lot of time shouting at the screen as they do stupid thing after stupid thing.

Comments

[lage-nom-ai.livejournal.com]

I kind of wanted to shoot everyone after about 10 minutes.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

Throughout the opening scene all I could think was WHY DON'T THEY SHOOT THE HORSES THEN THEY WON'T KEEP BEING SHOT AT. And it sort of went downhill from there.

[morwen_peredhil]

The good news is that almost everyone does end up shot by the end. The bad news is that the shooting becomes tediously monotonous.

[lage-nom-ai.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I found it hard to get worked up about ANYONE who was shot in this.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

I think they overplayed their 'everyone is a bandit in their own way and the government is the biggest bandit of all' hand a bit. It might have worked a bit better if the person constantly pointing this out wasn't the bandit who shot one of his own men.

ETA: Plus why on earth Ben Wade left the Christian Bale character alive after they were dumb enough to ride down to watch him killing people is absolutely beyond me.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

Though I did admire that 19th century medicine could apparently cure a guy with a bullet wound in his stomach so well that he could ride a horse with no pain at all the next day.