All caught up on Hell On Wheels.
Now I don't get teary eyed watching TV, or at least not at the stuff that seems to get to CarMomma. She'll be sniffling over stuff that just makes me think..... "boy that's a bunch of sap". Buuuuuutttttt....... the episode when Elam comes back from his episode with the bear. He's really not the old Elam, as he's standing there in the stock yard trying to sell the woman that the Comanche's kidnapped, along with two squaw's screaming at the top of his lungs. Bohannon tries to go in and keep him from being gunned down by the now provincial governor's crew of carpetbaggers, and that all goes sideways. But it wasn't that that got me.
Bohannon ends up with Elam's pine box on the back of the buckboard, tried to get Eva to go to the hillside (cemetery) with him, and ends up there by himself all afternoon digging his best friends grave. Even that didn't get me.
What got me was after he managed to get the box halfway into the ground and just collapsed on it, and it all finally came out.... he screamed so that you know everyone down in Cheyenne could hear him, and screamed, and screamed. That was it, oh BOY that was it!
If Anson Mount doesn't win a Peoples Choice or a Emmy (or maybe even a Golden Glove) over that episode I'll know it's all rigged!
So who's seen "Django Unchained"?
I've had it DVR'd for a couple weeks now, got to watch it today. Of course it started and you knew instantly that it was a Quentin Tarantino movie just by the opening credits. Started a bit grainy, but it got better fairly quickly. In the first hour it's clear that there were some excellent locations and cinematography and it actually wasn't near as bad as most Tarantino movies in one aspect. Like it's a big secret that Quentin Tarantino has some crack driven penchant for gratuitous blood and violence or something.
But this one wasn't that bad, at first that is.
Sure the gunshots were a bit explosive, but hey.... it wasn't like Dusk Till Dawn (
where Selma Hayek not only had her breakout performance, but dances with a snake, on a bar, has feet that are dirty as coal, pours wine down her leg and who wouldn't want to be there as it flowed off her toes). :laughing:
Now I have to admit, the language, or at least the use of the one single word that seems to set of riots everywhere you look was EXCESSIVE to say the least. But overall the blood and guts wasn't that bad. Heck.... there was even a bit of humor. But then we have the last 10~12 minutes. OMG!!!!!!!! Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, if you have a subwoofer OR TWO, (and multi-thousands of watts of surround sound) make sure you have it cranked up to theater levels. (Which means you run a test tone of pink noise and calibrate your volume control to 75dB, then REMEMBER where that is (
on better receivers/processors that should be right around 0dB attenuation) and make sure you have it set to that level). If you do, the last 15~20 minutes are a treat of ceiling dusting proportions! Ohhhh.... and if you didn't get enough blood until now..... THERE WILL BE BLOOD! Im the MAN
Then you think that Jamie Foxx's character is over and done with. Of course you know he's not, after all... he's the hero in all this, right?
Next thing you know Tarantino makes his prerequisite cameo in a minor roll (of a movie he wrote and directed just as he always does) and WHAM.... more big booms, more blood, more REALLY BIG BOOMS and the hero rides off in the sunset.
If you've not seen the movie, DVR it. Rent it, heck buy it for that matter. It's a 4½ star movie (at least if you believe the ratings). I don't know that I'd give it that, but it's not bad. :dblthumb2:
