Calamity Jane

I was in the mood for a good western. Something new and different. My mistake turning this on. It's downright horrible.

First the good -- the scenery is beautiful. That's it.

The script is really dumb. Just doesn't make a shred of sense. But the worst part of all is that the acting is really really really bad. Like almost laughable.

I have no idea who the woman that plays Calamity is, but she cannot act herself out of a paper bag.

She spends her time on screen mugging for the camera and putting on an obviously phony accent that she can't keep straight.

I was bored out of my mind 8 minutes into this fiasco.

...and settle in for a re-watch of Deadwood, the brilliant TV series that features far better acttors & depictions of Jane & Bill. This thing is a train wreck that dares to take these names in vain. Muddled and incoherent from the start, with ill-placed soundtrack music that just adds to the irritation.

Now, for the rest of the required word count - my favorite westerns, among which I count the above-mentioned TV series - The Unforgiven, The Good, The Bad & the Ugly, Hell Or High Water, The Long Riders, a whole bunch more Eastwood films, Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, Lone Star, McCabe & Mrs. Miller. Lonesome Dove TV series...

When I stumbled upon the 2024 Western movie "Calamity Jane", from writers Leon Langford and Collin Watts, I had never heard about it. But I opted to watch it on account of it being a movie that I had never seen or heard about. And I figured that since the movie had Tim Rozon on the cast list, then chances would be that the movie would actually be worthwhile watching.

Right, well within the first minutes of the movie, the F-word was used two times, and that pretty much put a dampener on the movie for me. While I am not a prude, then I just don't think that language is suitable in a Western movie. And it continued on throughout the course of the movie, and I have to say that it definitely took away something from the overall enjoyment of the movie for me. Writers Leon Langford and Collin Watts really dropped the ball with the excessive swearing dialogue here.

The storyline in the movie was fairly good, as it proved to be entertaining and straightforward. However, the movie is hardly one that warrants more than a single viewing, as there just simply isn't sufficient contents to the storyline to support multiple viewings.

I was only familiar with actors Tim Rozon and Mike Dopud of the entire cast ensemble in the movie, and they were indeed nice additions to the movie. I will say that they had a good cast ensemble, and the acting performances in the movie were good.

Director Terry Miles's 2024 movie "Calamity Jane" looks and felt like a proper Western movie, which was nice. They had definitely stepped all the way in here and made it rather presentable. I liked that about the movie.

Watchable, for sure, but the excessive foul language sort of ruined the movie for me.

My rating of director Terry Miles's 2024 movie "Calamity Jane" lands on a five out of ten stars.

Ready to settle down for an enjoyable new western movie than you have found it with Calamity Jane. Good nicely paced story - fast real looking action scenes and realistic gun fights and physical fights. Striking cinematography of the western landscape. An enjoyable western to watch. Realistic and natural sounding dialog that makes you feel that you are right back in the 1800's in the fabled Dakota territory. Deadwood was a rip roaring place full of rough and tough characters such as Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane and the characters in this movie seem very true to life and believable and are well played by the selected actors.

It started out good and went south from there.

These Writers don't no anything about Calamity Jane or the wild west. The producers are sadly off base and the casting, was Lame as hell. Well not much more to say about this except I have to post 600 words to be able to post it. Yeah it is that bad a film. Too bad because Calamity Jane was a colorful character to say the least in real life. Perhaps the producers should go visit Deadwood or read a book or two and get some better actors. And what was up with Abagail? Braces were hard to come by in the 1800 out west, unless you were a rich eastern era.