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March 17, 2008
Oscar Challenge: Cimarron
I'm turning this review over to Nathan:
"It was, um, epic. It was Western. It was brimming over with racism and ignorance and misogynism. There could hardly be a less appealing anti-hero than Yancey Cravat. What an awful role model. I guess the Academy just likes an epic picture."
Yeah, what he said. I can't even formulate a coherent sentence. This was an unspeakably bad story. All I can say is that if, after blazing trails and living in a frontier town where my self-aggrandizing husband deals with local gangs of outlaws by shooting them all dead during church, said husband decides to go off and blaze some more trails FOR FIVE YEARS WITH NOT EVEN A TELEGRAM and then as soon as he comes home he runs into town to play defense attorney to the town hussy, I would not welcome him with open arms.
This is a terrible movie review, but screw it, it was a terrible movie.
Comments
I'm sorry for you loss. You'll never get that time back and that is tragic. Greek drama tragic.
Posted by: grace at March 18, 2008 6:14 AM
This sounds just like a western version of The Odyssey -- do you think thats what they were shooting for?
Posted by: slacy at March 18, 2008 8:49 AM
So we should cue this up for Bad Movie Night?? AND invite Rob and Nicole?
Posted by: Bob at March 18, 2008 1:23 PM
I can highly recommend Rob and Nicole as guests, but "Cimarron" is not nearly funny enough for Bad Movie Night.
Posted by: Kate at March 18, 2008 1:45 PM
There definitely were Odyssey references in the movie. The most obvious was when Yancey called his wife Penelope when he returned home after five years with no contact. On that trip, he left to stake a claim on some Oklahoma Indian land that was being opened up to settlers and ended up fighting in the Spanish American war on the way back.
Posted by: Nathan at March 18, 2008 6:55 PM