My opinion it underrated. One of the best Westerns I've seen in a long while. I like that it's it Period correct. And not some cheesy throw to together like most westerns of today. Much respect and appreciation to this Western.
Just one correction, the 8 gauge was not known as a punt gun. Punt guns were much bigger, normally being around 2 inch bore (8 gauge is about 0.8 inch bore) and weighing around 100 lbs. The shotgun used in the move was a colt 1878 (replica of course).
@@mantislake4141 yes. It was sort of shotgun canon. And they were supposed to be shot into the flock of the birds taking out several at a time. So no, they were not man-portable weapons even if in shape they somehow looked like enormous shotgun
I'd agree that this is one of the better modern westerns. I liked the friendship between the two main characters and the way they made it work as a team. I've seen quite a few lesser efforts in the western genre lately, but I think the elements are all evident in Appaloosa. Good story, good dialog, nicely shot, and the characters are worthy of our attention. I could easily rewatch it once a year!
One of the best modern westerns Ed Harris and Viggo really embody their characters and just watching the two on screen feels incredibly authentic to the time period. Ed Harris even sings the credits song! Thanks for putting me on to Viggo's latest western, are you excited?
An instant classic with great interplay between characters. Though I've found that not that many people have seen it, so I'm not sure it's gotten the kind of attention it deserves.
I had read and enjoyed the novels and loved the movie. I was hoping for squeals and now I know why they never came. I love history, ride really good, hand made saddles, bits and spurs so I appreciated the details of this movie where so many others fail. I also appreciate your review. Thank you.
Best western in the last 20-30 years. Great acting, great story, great direction and the script was, almost word for word, the exactly the same as the book!
No Doubt! Zelweger was woefully miscast as Cole's, Slutty Love Interest & Thank Goodness her "Nude Scenes, cavorting in the stream" were shot from a long distance away. Nobody wants to see that Up Close. Harris and Mortensen, both, Nailed Cole and Hitch. I've read the Parker's, Cole & Hitch novels, after seeing the movie and enjoyed them immensely, and I always picture Harris and Mortensen as Cole and Hitch, because they fit the roles so Convincingly
@@dwightcurrie8316 agreed on all counts. Vigo and Ed were absolutely perfect. Ed knew that too. He read the first book and personally gave it to Vigo. The novel series is really really good. Even on Audible. Great narration.
Excellent, traditional western. I loved it....except for Renee Zellweger. She was adequate at best and hard on the eyes. Viggo and Ed had first-class, stoic chemistry and energy....I would have welcomed a sequel.
The shotgun not a punt gun. punt guns are more like a small cannon with a stock made to be mounted on bpats The 8 ga was just a big shotgun. When the law about limiting the biggest bore to 10ga for fowl hunting. Is what stopped the 8ga from what little popularity it had.
I loved this movie. The attention to authenticity gave it a strong foundation and the characters were well developed with just the right amount of mystery left in the interplay between them. The 8 gauge was a character in and of itself in my opinion. Fantastic job by all involved and a standout in the genre.
I think that those who know westerns, understand them and enjoy them, true westerns - this is one of the most underrated and underappreciated westerns, if not movie in general, of it's generation.
I like the movie but Renee wasn’t the highlight. I didn’t realize that Diane lane was the original actor cast for that part. It’s hard to know for sure, but I can’t imagine that the movie wouldn’t have been better with Lane.
Completely underrated movie. One of the best modern westerns out there. One of my favorites right up there with Silverado, Open Range or Dances with Wolves.
Even that works, though, because there were men of all nationalities on the frontier, and all levels of education. Imagine a German who learned English from a share-cropper! It could conceivably sound that bad! I just think that Englishmen trying to act in American Westerns should just use their natural accents, because that's probably how they would've spoken. According to Western author and cowboy, Louis L'Amour, you got all kinds out West. You could have an educated son of an impoverished aristocrat right next to an illiterate dirt farmer who left home and went West as a teenager, because there were too many mouths to feed at home.
I saw it during it's Los Angeles premiere. Ed, Viggo, and Renee showed up at the red carpet but Renee and Viggo left the theatre after Ed's intro speech and before the film started rolling. Ed's a very down-to-earth and unassuming guy.
I've watched Appalooso several times and I still watch it. I remember the first time I watched it on UA-cam I was hooked on this movie the sequel would be nice I think Ed Harris did a good job
I really like this movie. I own a copy and if I see it listed on TV I always watch it. I liked it's attention to detail. Both Viggo Mortensen and Ed Harris didn't just play their characters, they inhabited them. I read the book, and two of the sequels. Hitch and Cole, look, act, and sound like Harris and Mortensen in my mind. Too bad the sequel never happened, yet. Hope spring eternal.
Great video, thank you for covering this. Appaloosa stands as my favorite western from recent years. The love, attention to detail, the story, it all produces a proper western in a day of inauthenticity and sub-genres that attempt to rewrite history and preach at you. Good film, great cast, wonderful story. A sequel would be great, however, unless it came together in similar fashion as this one, it might be best to leave it as a stand alone.
I loved Appaloosa and have seen it several times. I enjoy the quirkiness of the characters, which to me makes them people instead of just characters in a story. I enjoyed the way life had unexpected twists which is true to some extent for everyone on the planet. I also liked the way it wasn't non stop action, and the characters acted and spoke more like people from that time period, rather than like they were a time traveler mysteriously dumped into the 1880s. Perhaps a sequel would have been interesting, but given my experience of sequels, it would probably have been disappointing.
It is a magnificent! Well directed, acted, attention to detail and I could go on how much as working professional in film partiicularly in Westerns how much I enjoyed this film. Everything works. The answer to a sequel is yes, I would have love to have seen a sequel and any other sequel as a series. Masterpieces like these are rare in the business. I tip my hat to all that were in evolved in the making of this project. Bravo's to all!~
I loved this traditionalist approach and have seen the film many times. I love all the attention to detail, speaking of detail, the one sheet poster shows Ed Harris sporting a fake Single Action Army. You can tell by the rectangular cuts in the cylinder.
It's one of my favorite movies, it prompted me to read the books. I don't know why it wasn't a bigger thing when it came out, it's a good story with excelent cast.
Appaloosa is my favorite Western, and one of my favorite movies in general. I have read most of the books because of the movie.... And FYI there are 10 books in the Virgil Cole Everett Hitch series.
Great grampa was a town marshal in Montana back in the 1890's. The only time he used a firearm was when he had to bring wayward cowboys to court. Failure to appear would get him after them. He used a double barreled 12-gauge shotgun. In town, he used a heavy, club like walking stick to keep order. He was later a deputy sheriff in Idaho.
I think it's a good western. It's honestly one of my favorites. I'm surprised that it's so underrated. I think this video was done very well, but, mention should be made that both Viggo Mortensen and Ed Harris are very good riders and that greatly helps with and adds to the rest of the authenticity of the film.
I feel like westerns are one of the hardest genres to have success nowadays, but there is a specific western loving audience that really loves and appreciates them
I really enjoyed Appaloosa. The relaxed deliberate pacing was reflective of the two main protagonists. I think Diane Lane would have been better in the role of the love interest but that was the only major flaw I found in the film.
I can see rebooting this as a streaming series, with new cast members. I loved the original, have watched in many times and read both the excellent Parker sequels and some decent sequels commissioned by the Parker estate, all of which would make great fodder for a series. If they'd made a sequel with those actors in a decent amount of time, it would have been amazing.
I think this move was underrated and I definitely would like to have seen a sequel made! I put Appaloosa as the 4th best western of all time behind Unforgiven, Dances with Wolves and Tombstone. I left out Lonesome Dove because it was a miniseries. Thank You for this video I really enjoyed it.
One of my favorite bits is when the love interest tries to pit them against each other, saying that viggo's character was hitting on her. Ed immediately says, no he wasn't, without any of the typical movie drama that it would cause.
Very enjoyable research on this film again But it Zelwigger for me that makes this western such a hard watch Other from that it was a fantastic western
So happy Diane Lane didn’t do this character. I dislike Zelwigger to this day. Because she about ruined this movie. Not sure if it is her or just the role. But uck.
Robert B. Parker is one of my favorite authors. I had read Appaloosa before the movie was made and I was honestly shocked when I saw how closely the script matched the novel. Kind of unheard of in this day and age. The relationship between Cole and Hitch is portrayed perfectly. My only qualm with the movie is Zellweger, I just don't think she matched the role. I didn't know the Diane Lane was originally cast, and it would have been interesting to see how she did in the role.
Throughly enjoyed the film. Two actors that are believable in the roles they played. A good friend willing to handle business that needed to be handled. Like Costner in Open Ranger.
Everett carried a 10 gauge because it was big and worked and he could afford it, and Cole commented to him (as an actual expert gunfighter) that his grandmother could hit something with a ten-gauge. I was a reader before the movie came out and thought it did a wonderful job.
If a lawman in the wild west carried a 10 Ga double barreled shotgun around with him often, he would likely have had the barrels cut down to somewhere around 18 inches. This would make it more maneuverable and more quick to aim, plus it would weigh much less. All reasons that would be very important in gunfights!
Read the book many years ago so when I heard about the adaptation I was quite excited. Its the kind of book that actually can be executed on screen really faithfully. The cast made it better too as it was very easy to see the 4 mains as their respective characters. And they crushed it. I'm sad we didn't get a full on trilogy with the next 2 books as well.
A little trivia. Harris’ character ‘Virgil Cole’ was Willam Dafoe’s character in ‘Flight of the Intruder’. Yes, the pacing was a bit slow, but, in it’s own right, makes the movie a bit more realistic. Not every situation moves at breakneck pace, like, for example ‘John Wick’.
I always felt "The Man who shot Liberty Valance" was different from the traditional Westerns of the time. And also, different from John Ford's other Westerns. I didn't know anything about Appaloosa when I first watched it, and was surprised how much I enjoyed it. A sequel would be great.
I loved this film! Ed Harris and Viggo were exceptional, and I would have loved to have seen another four films (or more!). Their chemistry together was unforgettable. Unfortunately, I couldn't get past Renee Zellweger's plastic-surgery-looking lack of expression and the way she just cooed and squinted her way through the film. Hearing that Diane Lane had been onboard for the role of Allison at one time just breaks my heart. I still love this film, however, and never miss an opportunity (or an excuse) to rewatch.
Appaloosa was a great movie. Well done, great story line. I think the marketing for the movie was bad. I didn't know about the movie until it was released on cable tv.
I'll go out on a limb here in saying that Appaloosa, like Unforgiven, is one of those tumeless western films. It never seems to age and is relevant at any time when it's viewed. In that sense, all it's actors succeeeded in their desire too keep it as such.
It's a shame this never got a sequel. I absolutely love this movie! For people who didn't like the character of Ally, she isn't even in the immediate book sequel so they wouldn't even have to worry about her being in it.
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My opinion it underrated. One of the best Westerns I've seen in a long while. I like that it's it Period correct. And not some cheesy throw to together like most westerns of today. Much respect and appreciation to this Western.
Is English your second language?😂😂😂
My favorite film.
Mortensen’s character is the main reason I keep returning to rewatch this excellent western. I’d definitely be down for a sequel.
There's more books
Plans for more were in the works
Appaloosa and Open Range are my two favourite westerns since the millennium. Both great meditations on friendship, love and loyalty.
Jeremiah Johnson is bad check it out
@@realAzoreschildinUSA I would add the remake of 3:10 to Yuma.
@@PumpernickelBread25 oh ya definitely awesome remake .I remember being psyched when I first seen the previews , the R.Crowe was biblical init
@@milescookman7180 Rio Bravo as well
Return to real Westerns. A great movie. A great story and Viggo and Ed just made these characters.
I saw it when it was released. Men with real friends will connect with the characters and the story.
Yeah, I found the narrator's comment that men having friends was so limited to cops, etc. He's obviously had no contact with the military...
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One of the top westerns of all time. A masterpiece. I love westerns, and this belongs in the top ten of all of them.
The best movie!!! The relationship between the two men was such a great part of the show! I would love a second movie!!!! Thx Ed Harris!
Just one correction, the 8 gauge was not known as a punt gun. Punt guns were much bigger, normally being around 2 inch bore (8 gauge is about 0.8 inch bore) and weighing around 100 lbs. The shotgun used in the move was a colt 1878 (replica of course).
Wasn't a punt gun fastened to a rowboat to absorb the insane recoil? Take out an entire flock of ducks with one shot!
For a film use of a proper punt gun, see the end of the western themed 'Tremors 4'.
@@mantislake4141 yes. It was sort of shotgun canon. And they were supposed to be shot into the flock of the birds taking out several at a time. So no, they were not man-portable weapons even if in shape they somehow looked like enormous shotgun
Puntgun/ Market Gun was generally a 4 Guage.
As I understand, the actual shotgun used in th movie was a ten gauge. It was represented as an 8 gauge.
It's up there with Unforgiven, Open Range, Lonesome Dove and Tombstone
you are correct
It reminds me quite a bit of Open Range.
Lonesome Dove tops them all.
@@raimundotorres44 Have to agree, it was very accurate (based on true events), and yet very entertaining. Great cast. I rewatch it once a year.
I'd agree that this is one of the better modern westerns. I liked the friendship between the two main characters and the way they made it work as a team. I've seen quite a few lesser efforts in the western genre lately, but I think the elements are all evident in Appaloosa. Good story, good dialog, nicely shot, and the characters are worthy of our attention. I could easily rewatch it once a year!
I absolutely love this moie and i love the Character Vigo Mortenson played
One of the best modern westerns Ed Harris and Viggo really embody their characters and just watching the two on screen feels incredibly authentic to the time period. Ed Harris even sings the credits song! Thanks for putting me on to Viggo's latest western, are you excited?
An instant classic with great interplay between characters. Though I've found that not that many people have seen it, so I'm not sure it's gotten the kind of attention it deserves.
This is one of the top three westerns ever made. Glad you mentioned the authenticity of the saddles, tack, and weapons. It was 99% perfection!
I wished they made more movies with this story and actor duo. A great story.
Great film. It introduced me to the amazing books it's based on. I can't read the books without seeing Ed and Viggo as the characters. Brilliant
I had read and enjoyed the novels and loved the movie. I was hoping for squeals and now I know why they never came. I love history, ride really good, hand made saddles, bits and spurs so I appreciated the details of this movie where so many others fail. I also appreciate your review. Thank you.
"Squeals?" You mean sequels?
I love this movie and Viggo and Harris' on scene chemistry.
Best western in the last 20-30 years. Great acting, great story, great direction and the script was, almost word for word, the exactly the same as the book!
Absolutely 1 of the best westerns I’ve ever seen in my life it’s in my top 10 favorite.
Damn… Diane Lane would have been much better
No Doubt! Zelweger was woefully miscast as Cole's, Slutty Love Interest & Thank Goodness her "Nude Scenes, cavorting in the stream" were shot from a long distance away. Nobody wants to see that Up Close. Harris and Mortensen, both, Nailed Cole and Hitch. I've read the Parker's, Cole & Hitch novels, after seeing the movie and enjoyed them immensely, and I always picture Harris and Mortensen as Cole and Hitch, because they fit the roles so Convincingly
@@dwightcurrie8316 agreed on all counts. Vigo and Ed were absolutely perfect. Ed knew that too. He read the first book and personally gave it to Vigo. The novel series is really really good. Even on Audible. Great narration.
Excellent, traditional western. I loved it....except for Renee Zellweger. She was adequate at best and hard on the eyes. Viggo and Ed had first-class, stoic chemistry and energy....I would have welcomed a sequel.
The shotgun not a punt gun. punt guns are more like a small cannon with a stock made to be mounted on bpats
The 8 ga was just a big shotgun. When the law about limiting the biggest bore to 10ga for fowl hunting. Is what stopped the 8ga from what little popularity it had.
I loved this movie. The attention to authenticity gave it a strong foundation and the characters were well developed with just the right amount of mystery left in the interplay between them. The 8 gauge was a character in and of itself in my opinion. Fantastic job by all involved and a standout in the genre.
I think that those who know westerns, understand them and enjoy them, true westerns - this is one of the most underrated and underappreciated westerns, if not movie in general, of it's generation.
One of my very favorite western movies that is watched over every year
I just rewatched it a few weeks ago. I really love this movie and it has such a stacked cast of character actors.
Rene Zellewiger could have died of Cholera in the first scene and the movie would have been amazing
Absolutely. I actually grew weary of both her and her character.
I like the movie but Renee wasn’t the highlight. I didn’t realize that Diane lane was the original actor cast for that part. It’s hard to know for sure, but I can’t imagine that the movie wouldn’t have been better with Lane.
The best part about Rene's performance in this is her wardrobe. Otherwise, she is the fly in the ointment of a really great movie.
Sort of like Jack Black in King Kong.
I didn't see Appaloosa at the theater but I have watched since then and I really like it.
Completely underrated movie. One of the best modern westerns out there. One of my favorites right up there with Silverado, Open Range or Dances with Wolves.
One of my absolute favorite westerns... top 5 for sure!
Ed Harris's Riders of the Purple Sage is very good also
One of the best westerns I know of. Pedro Matias
One of my favorite Westerns.
Saw this movie in the theater in Vancouver... absolutely loved it and still is one of my Top 5 Westerns of All-Time. Wish they would make a sequel!!!
I absolutely LOVE this film. I read Parker's other 3 books after seeing it. Only thing off about it is Jeremy Iron's Foghorn Leghorn accent..
Even that works, though, because there were men of all nationalities on the frontier, and all levels of education. Imagine a German who learned English from a share-cropper! It could conceivably sound that bad!
I just think that Englishmen trying to act in American Westerns should just use their natural accents, because that's probably how they would've spoken. According to Western author and cowboy, Louis L'Amour, you got all kinds out West. You could have an educated son of an impoverished aristocrat right next to an illiterate dirt farmer who left home and went West as a teenager, because there were too many mouths to feed at home.
I watched it for the first time last night. The performances of VM and EH were amazing. Such a good movie.
I saw it during it's Los Angeles premiere. Ed, Viggo, and Renee showed up at the red carpet but Renee and Viggo left the theatre after Ed's intro speech and before the film started rolling. Ed's a very down-to-earth and unassuming guy.
Great movie! Loved the recoil pad on the Hitch jacket.
I've watched Appalooso several times and I still watch it. I remember the first time I watched it on UA-cam I was hooked on this movie the sequel would be nice I think Ed Harris did a good job
Phenomenal film. Not a shallow film. A sequel would have been much appreciated. Memorable work .
I really like this movie. I own a copy and if I see it listed on TV I always watch it. I liked it's attention to detail. Both Viggo Mortensen and Ed Harris didn't just play their characters, they inhabited them. I read the book, and two of the sequels. Hitch and Cole, look, act, and sound like Harris and Mortensen in my mind. Too bad the sequel never happened, yet. Hope spring eternal.
Brilliant movie
Great video, thank you for covering this. Appaloosa stands as my favorite western from recent years. The love, attention to detail, the story, it all produces a proper western in a day of inauthenticity and sub-genres that attempt to rewrite history and preach at you. Good film, great cast, wonderful story. A sequel would be great, however, unless it came together in similar fashion as this one, it might be best to leave it as a stand alone.
Top 5 favorite western of all time.
I loved Appaloosa and have seen it several times. I enjoy the quirkiness of the characters, which to me makes them people instead of just characters in a story. I enjoyed the way life had unexpected twists which is true to some extent for everyone on the planet. I also liked the way it wasn't non stop action, and the characters acted and spoke more like people from that time period, rather than like they were a time traveler mysteriously dumped into the 1880s. Perhaps a sequel would have been interesting, but given my experience of sequels, it would probably have been disappointing.
Loved the books and the movie. I was hoping they'd make the remaining books into movies.
As others have already mentioned i find it to be a great Western. Just a pity part 2 never came to life
Soy admiradora de este gran actor Viggo
Yes i could never get enough of Ed and Viggo. It's a great western that doesn't get enough credit.
This is an amazing Western, overall a great movie! I enjoyed it very very much!
Definitely among the best westerns. A second movie would be a treat for Harris and Mortensen fans. Men who walk a treacherous path know this bond.
Outstanding film
I really loved the movie and wish they would have made the sequel.
Personally, I enjoyed it and would very much have liked to have seen the sequel, especially having read the first 2 books. 👍😎
I would pay good money to see a sequel! It was a great movie, highly under rated.
It is a magnificent! Well directed, acted, attention to detail and I could go on how much as working professional in film partiicularly in Westerns how much I enjoyed this film. Everything works. The answer to a sequel is yes, I would have love to have seen a sequel and any other sequel as a series. Masterpieces like these are rare in the business. I tip my hat to all that were in evolved in the making of this project. Bravo's to all!~
It deffinately had potential and I love Viggo in it.
I loved this traditionalist approach and have seen the film many times. I love all the attention to detail, speaking of detail, the one sheet poster shows Ed Harris sporting a fake Single Action Army. You can tell by the rectangular cuts in the cylinder.
Very cool! I've never heard of this film until now! And it seem to be on HBO max this month so my destiny is clear😊
It's one of my favorite movies, it prompted me to read the books. I don't know why it wasn't a bigger thing when it came out, it's a good story with excelent cast.
This was a great film. Everyone was excellent. It left me wanting more. A sequel would be interesting, but we need Viggo back for sure at least.
Appaloosa is my favorite Western, and one of my favorite movies in general. I have read most of the books because of the movie.... And FYI there are 10 books in the Virgil Cole Everett Hitch series.
I read all the books, which I loved, and I loved the movie. I have probably seen it ten times. I would be first in line to see a sequel.
YES, I would have liked a sequel film!!!
Extremely well thought out and played, locations an coustmes to period time I really enjoyed it great job done by everyone evolved with the movie
I love Appaloosa. Great Western.
Great grampa was a town marshal in Montana back in the 1890's. The only time he used a firearm was when he had to bring wayward cowboys to court. Failure to appear would get him after them. He used a double barreled 12-gauge shotgun. In town, he used a heavy, club like walking stick to keep order. He was later a deputy sheriff in Idaho.
Definitely would go for the sequel. These guys were an excellent pair.
I think it's a good western. It's honestly one of my favorites. I'm surprised that it's so underrated. I think this video was done very well, but, mention should be made that both Viggo Mortensen and Ed Harris are very good riders and that greatly helps with and adds to the rest of the authenticity of the film.
I feel like westerns are one of the hardest genres to have success nowadays, but there is a specific western loving audience that really loves and appreciates them
Enjoyed the movie and the books. Would love to have seen a sequel made.
Appaloosa is a rare jewel.
I really enjoyed Appaloosa. The relaxed deliberate pacing was reflective of the two main protagonists. I think Diane Lane would have been better in the role of the love interest but that was the only major flaw I found in the film.
I can see rebooting this as a streaming series, with new cast members. I loved the original, have watched in many times and read both the excellent Parker sequels and some decent sequels commissioned by the Parker estate, all of which would make great fodder for a series. If they'd made a sequel with those actors in a decent amount of time, it would have been amazing.
One of my favorite movie
I think this move was underrated and I definitely would like to have seen a sequel made! I put Appaloosa as the 4th best western of all time behind Unforgiven, Dances with Wolves and Tombstone. I left out Lonesome Dove because it was a miniseries. Thank You for this video I really enjoyed it.
I loved it and I would have liked to see a sequel.😊
One of my favorite bits is when the love interest tries to pit them against each other, saying that viggo's character was hitting on her. Ed immediately says, no he wasn't, without any of the typical movie drama that it would cause.
Very enjoyable research on this film again
But it Zelwigger for me that makes this western such a hard watch
Other from that it was a fantastic western
So happy Diane Lane didn’t do this character. I dislike Zelwigger to this day. Because she about ruined this movie. Not sure if it is her or just the role. But uck.
Robert B. Parker is one of my favorite authors. I had read Appaloosa before the movie was made and I was honestly shocked when I saw how closely the script matched the novel. Kind of unheard of in this day and age. The relationship between Cole and Hitch is portrayed perfectly. My only qualm with the movie is Zellweger, I just don't think she matched the role. I didn't know the Diane Lane was originally cast, and it would have been interesting to see how she did in the role.
So with a 55% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, it's clear Appaloosa still divides opinion, but what is your honest review of the movie?
Loved it
As a western flick buff, it passed muster . Plenty well done.
Appaloosa and Django Unchained are my favorite Westerns of this century. As much as I love DU, Appaloosa is a better movie.
Great movie, better book. I wish they would would’ve made a sequel.
Highly underrated
Throughly enjoyed the film. Two actors that are believable in the roles they played.
A good friend willing to handle business that needed to be handled.
Like Costner in Open Ranger.
would have loved to see a sequel
the book is great very violent, I didn't know how they made the movie !
Easily one of the best films of all time
Parker wrote a couple of books in this series, but this is the best of them (the first).
Everett carried a 10 gauge because it was big and worked and he could afford it, and Cole commented to him (as an actual expert gunfighter) that his grandmother could hit something with a ten-gauge. I was a reader before the movie came out and thought it did a wonderful job.
If a lawman in the wild west carried a 10 Ga double barreled shotgun around with him often, he would likely have had the barrels cut down to somewhere around 18 inches. This would make it more maneuverable and more quick to aim, plus it would weigh much less. All reasons that would be very important in gunfights!
I love Lance Henriksen and the brother being friendly but not friends as opposed to mustache twirling
Read the book many years ago so when I heard about the adaptation I was quite excited. Its the kind of book that actually can be executed on screen really faithfully. The cast made it better too as it was very easy to see the 4 mains as their respective characters.
And they crushed it. I'm sad we didn't get a full on trilogy with the next 2 books as well.
Great western and film independently of its genre
This is a fantastic film ❤
A little trivia. Harris’ character ‘Virgil Cole’ was Willam Dafoe’s character in ‘Flight of the Intruder’.
Yes, the pacing was a bit slow, but, in it’s own right, makes the movie a bit more realistic. Not every situation moves at breakneck pace, like, for example ‘John Wick’.
I always felt "The Man who shot Liberty Valance" was different from the traditional Westerns of the time.
And also, different from John Ford's other Westerns.
I didn't know anything about Appaloosa when I first watched it, and was surprised how much I enjoyed it.
A sequel would be great.
I loved this film! Ed Harris and Viggo were exceptional, and I would have loved to have seen another four films (or more!). Their chemistry together was unforgettable. Unfortunately, I couldn't get past Renee Zellweger's plastic-surgery-looking lack of expression and the way she just cooed and squinted her way through the film. Hearing that Diane Lane had been onboard for the role of Allison at one time just breaks my heart. I still love this film, however, and never miss an opportunity (or an excuse) to rewatch.
Don't sleep on A History of Violence either. Helluva film. Dark in its own way too.
Appaloosa was a great movie. Well done, great story line. I think the marketing for the movie was bad. I didn't know about the movie until it was released on cable tv.
I'll go out on a limb here in saying that Appaloosa, like Unforgiven, is one of those tumeless western films. It never seems to age and is relevant at any time when it's viewed. In that sense, all it's actors succeeeded in their desire too keep it as such.
It's a shame this never got a sequel. I absolutely love this movie! For people who didn't like the character of Ally, she isn't even in the immediate book sequel so they wouldn't even have to worry about her being in it.
I might use it and that's enough. For sure. A great western in all respects.