Any Jesse James reactions?
September 23, 2007 by Sherry
I can’t see Brad Pitt’s new movie The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford yet because it isn’t playing anywhere near me at this time. However, I’d love to hear some reactions. Have any of you awesome readers gone to see it yet if it was released in your area? Please feel free to share what you thought of it! As with most movies, it’s been getting a mix of reviews.
Monsters And Critics gave it a pretty good review:
Unlike previous treatments of legend Jesse James, this story keeps the focus on the relationship between James and his eventual killer, cousin Bob Ford. Refusing to be a western, the film is a psychological study of the mutual disintegration of the two men. James eventually self-destructs amidst a legion of imaginary devils born of his murderous quest for revenge in the wake of the Civil War. Ford degenerates into a parasite with no life other than the pieces of Jesse James his cousin doles out to him, complete with the psychotic self-hatred and random violence that made up the last days of his life.
Brad Pitt has large shoes to fill, playing a man who has become much bigger in death than he was in life. In the smartest move of the film Dominik devotes zero screen time to the Buffalo Bill antics of the popular version of the American gun-slinger and keeps the focus on his spiraling psychological breakdown. Pitt depicts James not as a fearless Robin Hood supported by the ill-treated Union masses in the wake of the war, but as a traumatized veteran cast adrift in peacetime without closure and with no alternative means to violence in making a living.
Okay, your turn!
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my goodness!
Is this still going on??? Some people will obviously ALWAYS have issues with Angie, and then Brad for being with her. They choose this way of seeing the world, to the point of lying to support it; there’s nothing any of us can do. So let them get on with it, B&A certainly don’t let them affect their lives.
Now WHAT about the film…any more reviews please!!!!!?
I am sure there will be more good reveiws after this weekend when more people get out to go see it.
I don’t think anyone has to lie to support their point of view, especially when past history facts are true.
I think Brad and Angie both would laugh the loudest at some of the posts written about them being Saints and they would be astonished at some of the posts focusing on them so much, I am sure they would say, why even on here instead of following their lead and doing something constructive and good ourselves that would help or benefit others.