Possibly the worst western I have ever seen...

[Watchdog]

I just finished wasting one hour and twenty-seven minutes of my ever-decreasing life span by watching 3:10 To Yuma.

The original 1957 version of it wasn't all that great, but this one must have Glenn Ford and Van Heflin spinning in their graves at about 7,000 rpm.

Who could have possibly had enough money to convince Russell Crowe and Christian Bale to sign on to this doomed project? The studio must have given them shares in Arizona or something, I don't know.

By the time the movie was a third of the way over, I was talking to myself. When it ended, I yelled something really profane to describe the movie that woke my dogs up and made them give me funny looks. They had slept through the entire sorry mess, giving new meaning to the term "Lucky Dogs".

And one of the publicity blurbs for the movie said, "The best western since Unforgiven". Lord help me.

 

[mj2008]

I'm watching Fort Apache(1948) right now. Great movie.

 

[Alpo]

I was - attempting - to watch this movie.

Started off like The War Wagon. Armored stagecoach with a Gatling Gun. So the bad guys are chasing the coach and the Gatling Gun was shooting the bad guys.

And up in the rocks is a guy with a sniper rifle, and he's shooting the gunners on the Gatling.

A much more intelligent thing to do would be to shoot the horses pulling the coach. Buuuut - as John Ford said, about the Indians in Stagecoach, "You shoot the horses and you have a ten-minute movie."

So I figger they don't want to shoot the horses, and stop the coach.

But then the coach comes around a curve, and the bad guys have driven a herd of cattle across the trail, and the coach tries to avoid them and crashes - didn't catch fire though, or blow up. That was kinda shocking I've obviously seen too any car crashes in movies .

Well, hell. Why didn't they just SHOOT THE HORSES?

And I gave up in disgust. I figger I lasted - maybe - fifteen minutes.

You watched the whole thing?

You are a GLUTTON for punishment, aren't you?

 

[e3mrk]

The worst one I ever saw was also the most politically incorrect one ever, It's called (The Terror of Tiny Town) it stars a all Midget Cast(Little People)it's not bad as a story line goes it's just the fact They make fun of the People.

 

[Rustyt1953]

It beats "Billy the Kid vs Dracula" and "Cowboys & Aliens".

 

[BC38]

It beats "Billy the Kid vs Dracula" and "Cowboys & Aliens".

Cowboys & aliens was the biggest stinker of a "western" I've ever seen. They must've had to pay Harrison Ford & Daniel Craig a FORTUNE to persuade them to star in that mixed up hybrid abomination...
Kind of like Abe Lincoln, Vampire Hunter. What a stinking pile of garbage..,

 

[DWalt]

I think 3:10 was a box office flop at the time of release. I believe I rented the DVD from Redbox back when it came out. I watched it, but sort of wished I hadn't bothered. I saw the original many years ago, but don't remember anything about it beyond the basic plotline.

Glen Ford made one pretty good 1950s Western called "The Fastest Gun Alive" with Broderick Crawford as the bad guy. There was a really strange dance sequence in it by Russ Tamblyn, and I could never figure out why it was there, except maybe someone in the production studio owed Tamblyn a favor. The premise was that Ford's character was the fastest gun alive, but he had never actually shot anyone. He stupidly put on an impromptu exhibition of his pistolero prowess for the townspeople, and the word, of course, got out, with the Crawford character showing up (with his gang) to challenge the Ford character for the FGA title. From that point on, the plot is very similar to High Noon, with Ford's character hung out to dry, the townspeople turning their backs on him in his time of need. It does have a good musical score.

 

[Chuck24]

As with a lot of things, one has to look long and hard for a movie remake that was better than the original.

 

[Eltioloco]

Well, hell. Why didn't they just SHOOT THE HORSES?

I thought the same thing when I watched the movie, but then figured any horse that can pull a wagon made of AR plate steel through a sand wash would just shrug off bullets.
Ken

 

[finesse_r]

Clearly you have not seen these classically awful Westerns:

Billy the Kid in Fugitive of the Plains
Billy the Kid in Texas
Billy the Kid Trapped
Billy the Kid Wanted
Billy the Kid’s Gun Justice
Billy the Kid’s Range War
Blind Man
Buddy Goes West
Cattle Stampede
Hanging for Django
The Kid Rides Again
Oath of Vengeance
Pandhandler Trail
Pistol for Django
The Return of Django
Rustler’s Hideout
Take a Hard Ride
Western Cyclone
Wild Horse Phantom

3:10 To Yuma May well be a 7 on a scale of 1 to 10, but in the above list there is not one that is over a 5 on a scale of 1 to 10, and most are well below 5.

Granted 3:10 To Yuma did not live up to the hype, but it is hardly the stinker you portray it to be. LOL

 

[DWalt]

I thought the same thing when I watched the movie, but then figured any horse that can pull a wagon made of AR plate steel through a sand wash would just shrug off bullets.
Ken

The original purpose of the Colt Walker revolver was for killing horses, not their riders.

 

[finesse_r]

It beats "Billy the Kid vs Dracula" and "Cowboys & Aliens".

I saw that "Billy the Kid vs Dracula" but that was a LONG time ago. You are right it was amazingly and off the scale bad. LOL

 

[DWalt]

Most Westerns of the 30s and 40s (i.e., sound movies) were cheaply made on a minuscule budget and had very limited and simple plot formulas to appeal mainly to kids. It wasn't unusual for the Hollywood movie factories like Monogram and Republic to turn out a movie per week, or even less. Most would rate maybe one or two stars on a scale of 1 to 10 .

It wasn't until the 1950s that Westerns were targeted toward adult audiences, with Gary Cooper's "High Noon" generally considered to be the first adult Western.

 

[meaneyedcatz]

Don't forget "ROOSTER COGBURN AND THE LADY" on the stinker list.

 

[Hellraiser]

Possibly the worst western I have ever seen...

Then you best not watch Dead Man... with Johnny Depp.

 

[Wyatt Burp]

The movie is stylized like an homage to Italian westerns. Besides the looks and pace, the gunfighters are almost superhuman. I didn't like it much the first time, found the DVD for a few bucks and now like it. It's like "The quick and the Dead". You just watch it for all the great images and hardware.

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

I got to see Rooster Cogburn today, not the very best; but it will hold me over.

 

[vonn]

Most movies are made for entertainment only,analyze them and you will probably be disappointed. Reality is generally not very entertaining .

 

[Muss Muggins]

I watched it. Not good . . . .

 

[Bat Guano]

I thought quite a few westerns in the late 60s started featuring a streak of sadism to gin things up; the spaghetti "westerns" in particular.

The real west was a lot like today in that the reality was most of the violence was committed by young, dumb, drunk male losers--like it always has been. I just don't care to wallow in it much.

"Ride The High Country" went off that cliff. Good story line, great male actors, but I wanted a bath after watching it for the first and last time. I used to like the sound track for "MacKennas's Gold", but when I streamed it recently I quit after half an hour or so.

I have always liked "The Professionals", "The Wild Bunch", and Clint's "Unforgiven". When I first saw "Unforgiven" on the big screen, I thought Bill Shakespeare must have written the screenplay...