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Old 10-April-2008, 04:35 PM
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It is a very good movie, for the reasons you mention and for some good acting, IMO.
Oh, yes. There are some films where it becomes pretty obvious that the acting is irrelevant to the director, that Telling a Great Story is the goal, and how it's told is not the point. (See pretty much any version of Beowulf.) However, Ron Howard recognized that it's also important to Interest Your Audience!

I'm currently watching the original 3:10 to Yuma; my review today will be a comparison of the two. Yesterday's was The Desperate Hours, Humphrey Bogart's penultimate film and the last one in which he played a gangster.
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