I was shocked to find it rated so low. Yeah, Fist Full of Dollars is better, but I love Walter Hill. I got a kick out of this movie. I would have been thrilled to find out I got a copy free with my bucket of chicken at KFC.
Killer movie! I reccommend it!
Yeah, I dig that. I love this movie... I think it may be a lot of Fistful of Dollars and Yojimbo fans who found it a let down. Yojimbo and Fistful are five star movies, but I still reckon Last Man Standing is worth four stars for it's own merits... Walter Hill is a great director (he's my no-brainer movies favourite,) Ry Cooder's score is ace, I thought Bruce Willis was at his best - and Christopher Walken is always brilliant. :-)
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Funny... I seem to be the only person in any of these boards that thought the movie was total crap... but to each his own, I guess. I will admit that pure action is not my kinda thing, but I just felt like altogether this film was a sorry excuse for a bunch of bad-aim Western gun-shooting. That wouldn't have bothered me so much if I had felt like I cared about the slow scenes in between - the plot felt... irrelevant? I just wasn't convinced to care about it. But maybe that's me, not to be so harsh on you guys, that's just what I honestly felt. Any responses?
shareI've got to agree with case4christ on this one, I saw this movie in the theater when I was like 15 or so, and thought it was pretty lame. I liked action movies, but somehow just found this overly violent and boring (not that I mind violence in movies as long as there's a plot, perhaps some dialogue, to go along with it). I haven't seen Yojimbo or Fistful of Dollars yet, but I like a lot of other movies by Leone and Kurosawa, so hopefully I'll like them more.
I'm sure there are plenty of movies that I like that ya'll would think were terrible, so as the previous poster said, to each his/her own.
If action films aren't your thing, then I don't see what relevance it holds for you to be posting on it. That's like someone who doesn't like wine going to a wine tasting. It's silly. (not that I'm calling this film cultured or anything like that) I didn't necessarily enjoy Last Man Standing just for the action, although it was pretty entertaining. I thought the dialouge was great, the acting above par, and the protaganist was hard not to like. Well later, I'm off to crash a wine tasting.
shareThis movie sucks and I come to look at the boards because I want to see the inevitable posts from the morons who laud horrible movies like this like it's the next Citizen Kane or something. This move was so putrid I had to induce vomiting after watching it. If I could I would have the memory of watching it burned from my brain. Complete and utter garbage.
"True wisdom comes from knowing that you know nothing. That's US, Dude!"
Calm down pnd. it's an action movie. nothing more. relax.
shareIs it a great film? No. At times, it isn't even a comfortable film: the pervasive atmosphere of decay and moral blankness is everywhere and yet...it's a definite favorite for late-night TV viewing. Perhaps it works better on a TV screen & for (comparatively) free.
shareIt's strange pndferpnd but personally I like to read the posts from people who don't like some films because they AREN'T the next Citizen Kane.
I like the wine analogy and I'll expand on it. Films are like alcohol there are many types with various qualities. You may be a wine connoisseur but enjoy the occasional fine whiskey, that doesn't mean people don't like the cheaper whiskey.
There are some movies that are considered fine wines, being a whiskey man I like some and not others, I don't go to those boards and say how much I disliked the film, that makes no sense.
Like a half decent whiskey I enjoyed this movie, not top shelf but drinkable.
You pndferpnd seem the cheap booze type.
I actually like your modification of the wine analogy. I don't mind how you stated it, you respect my position and I yours. My problem with the original wine analogy is this: I say I am "not an action person myself." What that means is, admittedly, I don't tend to enjoy action films when I see them as much as I would, say, drama or comedy. What it does NOT mean is that I am inexperienced with action and don't have an ability or right to post about it. So the wine tasting thing is just a little off. I have seen plenty of action and studied it just as much as most other genres, and besides, regardless of that, this is an opinion board and I'm just sharing mine. I did not do it in a way so as to offend anyone who liked the movie, and actually went out of my way to be sure no one thought that was what I was doing. So if some people can't deal with others disliking movies they like, that's too bad. You shouldn't need that kind of affirmation. Watch whatever you want and, like "paranoid dysfunction" so wisely said, if you are a cheap whiskey person, then enjoy your cheap whiskey.
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