thedavidovitch

A real B movie Western that's showing its age. Of course it wasn't unusual during the genre's heyday to find white actors playing Native Americans or to find story lines that portrayed them as duplicitous savages, but the breathtaking racism of this script, coupled with some hilarious casting, with a quite obviously blue-eyed white guy as the Sioux chief, makes it a pretty challenging watch for a modern audience.

Some nice cinematography and decent enough fight scenes are mildly diverting, but it's certainly not a classic of the genre. More, it's a reminder of how, at worst, the Western was a pretty ruthless exercise in historical revisionism.

I almost feel sorry for Diablo Cody. Imagine being a fully grown adult and having a mind that infantile, that pathetically obsessed with idiotic pop culture references and faux-indie pretensions that you could write a script as bad as this. Worst still, the poor gal will now be saddled with that creative immaturity for as long as she lives, because now she's been mystifyingly lauded as a great writer, she's gonna have to keep churning out this pap forever.

Think of the most over-rated film you've ever seen. Multiply it by a thousand. You're not even close. It's jaw-droppingly bad and really almost impossible to watch unless you have the emotional maturity of a 12 year old.

Put it this: Juno makes Garden State look almost bearable. Yes, THAT bad.

Words fail me. How can Hollywood have duped by such a simpleton? Truly one of the most wretched films of the decade, this sentimental dreck insults its audience as much as it does its basic grasp of history. How dare Benigni think he's capable of pulling a trick like this? Except - gasp - he did and he won an Oscar in doing so.

This film is cast iron proof that the Oscars are largely meaningless and occasionally just plain insulting. The final insult is that this film continues to occupy a place in the all-time top 250 movies on this site. Come on, guys, you're doing humanity a grave disservice. Let's drag it down to the gutter where it belongs.