The Quick and the Dead (Superbit Collection)
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Features
• Anamorphic
• Closed-captioned
• Color
• Dolby
• DTS Surround Sound
• DVD-Video
• Subtitled
• Widescreen
• NTSC
In Theaters : 10 February, 1995
DVD Release : 05 August, 2003 |
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The Quick and the Dead (Superbit Collection) description
Director Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead) tries gamely to recapture the exotic mysteries of spaghetti Westerns in this stylish but empty film, which stars Sharon Stone as a stranger who comes to the town of Redemption in time for an annual shooting contest. Her real motivations for being there are the stuff that might have found their way into a film by Sergio Leone--in fact, much of this film is a pastiche of Leone's greatest hits, including A Fistful of Dollars and Once upon a Time in America--but one can't quite believe Stone in the role. Gene Hackman gives a predictably solid performance as the town tyrant, and Leonardo DiCaprio is good as a lucky young gunslinger who gets to kiss the heroine. But not even the cast can help this failed project. Raimi brings a lot of razzle-dazzle to his camera work, but it doesn't make the film any more substantial. --Tom Keogh |
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The Quick and the Dead (Superbit Collection) Customer Reviews
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Not great, but great fun
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This is one of my favorite Westerns, if a guilty pleasure.
I love the fact that the movie itself has very little plot. Big evil guy hosts a tournament, so a bunch of people come to town to shoot each other. That's basically the overall plot.
But each of those characters has a back-story, and the intertwining of them creates a series of sub-plots like steel net holding the movie together.
If you haven't seen this in a while, check it out. You may be surprised by the people in it, and all of them give excellent performances. Of course Gene Hackman's great - he'd be brilliant sitting on a blank stage reading breakfast cereal side-panels. Sharon Stone is wonderful, tortured between her lust for revenge and her fear of not being able to follow through (quite Hamlet-esque of her, really). Lance Henrickson, Keith David, Tobin Bell...
The real star of the movie, though, is Sam Raimi's direction. Remember that bizarre camera work he used in "Evil Dead"? Apply that kind of cinematography to the old west. Wonderful! I think my favorite shot is where the guy looks down after a gunfight, and his smug smile drains away when he sees the pinhole of sunlight in the middle of his shadow.
And how can you go wrong with a movie that features the sound of a whip as part of the theme music! Only "Blazing Saddles" handled that with the same artistry!
I can never say that this is a great film, but it is a lot of fun to watch, particularly watching for the little nuances in the background. |
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