tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296479421292377391.post1701763547447297786..comments2024-03-15T04:08:16.172-04:00Comments on Only the Cinema: Night PassageEd Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18014222247676090467noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296479421292377391.post-12924558292840482642009-07-20T09:06:47.862-04:002009-07-20T09:06:47.862-04:00Thanks for the comments, guys. I'm looking for...Thanks for the comments, guys. I'm looking forward to continuing my collaboration with Decisions At Sundown, too, it gives me a good excuse to watch more Westerns -- hopefully some that are better than this one, heh. I don't mind a good light-hearted Western, like some of Budd Boetticher's lighter efforts or Howard Hawks' laidback approaches to the genre, but this one was just Ed Howardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18014222247676090467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296479421292377391.post-81333492434575539112009-07-20T08:54:47.301-04:002009-07-20T08:54:47.301-04:00Well, I read this as a pan, which is what it deser...Well, I read this as a pan, which is what it deserves.Sam Julianonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296479421292377391.post-11495100557188684182009-07-20T03:28:57.140-04:002009-07-20T03:28:57.140-04:00My favorite genre, I'm excited to see some mor...My favorite genre, I'm excited to see some more Western reviews around these parts as well as adding Decisions at Sundown to my RSS feeds.<br /><br />That said, I don't quite dislike Night Passage as much as you, although it certainly isn't Mann quality. I see it as a lesser Western but also as a light-hearted one, as if the director never really had the gall to make Stewart into the Joshuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02455492676909216509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296479421292377391.post-91417337862965878832009-07-19T16:31:47.690-04:002009-07-19T16:31:47.690-04:00"The film itself is melodramatic and convolut..."The film itself is melodramatic and convoluted, surrounding a relatively straightforward story with all sorts of distractions and ornamentation, populating it with an oddball cast of bit players who keep wandering into the story for no apparent reason. It gives the film a weird, faux-folksy vibe, a very stagey, artificial idea of frontier life."<br /><br />Well there you go. I can'Sam julianonoreply@blogger.com