re: Discussion: Top 200 Movies We Agree Don't Suck - 2.0

Try it again. I didn't really like it when I saw it in theaters either, mainly because it was so much different than I was expecting. Watched it again a couple years later, and I thought it was excellent. I've seen it several times since then too. It's slow-going for about 100 minutes, but the final hour is terrific. Beautiful cinematography, great score. And for me personally, I could really relate to Affleck's character (Ford). That made it that much better in my book.

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Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford What do people see in this movie? I saw it in the theater and came away thinking it was terrible.

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Probably the best western of the past 15 years for me. Almost a perfect western. Crazy good acting, eerie, beautifully shot, and non exaggerated. Showed what a truly bothered and crazy person James was. He's one of the more interesting guys of all time for me though. The obsessed/stalker Ford was just as an interesting character himself. I don't mind slow movies though, and this had a nice pace to it, and it was almost like it had two endings.