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Almost exactly average. If they’d just filmed it like a normal western instead of trying to make it music video-y it may have become more…
What’s more:
Sort of covered this with my review of the sequel. (Young Guns II) “Virtually all of the criticisms of it are valid; it definitely had that MTV-style over substance thing going on and the actors looked like little boys playing cowboys & indians. (Actually, in hindsight this may have been ahead of its time a little on the use of music video styling in filmmaking.)”
“But for all that, I liked it. While not probably expected to be a beacon of historical accuracy, it was probably more on the money than any other film on the Kid, and certainly takes the subject matter seriously. There are lots of fun little moments, particularly early on with Terrance Stamp. The brat pack of young actors actually handle themselves well and the biggest problem with the movie frankly is it’s so Hollywood. It feels like the big production that it is and subtlety is out the window.”
Other than that, I’d just like to say that Jack Palance is almost always a subtraction by addition kind of actor, and this is no exception. Also that I can’t watch or even think about this movie without remembering the Dennis Miller bit where he refers to the movie as the one where everyone in it is Martin Sheen’s son but none of them have his name. “Charlie Sheen, Emilio Estevez Sheen, Lou Diamond Philips Sheen…”
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