Anyone see "Wind River"? Very good film. N/t

[FSogol]

[shenmue]

1. Yes it was

[MLAA]

2. +1

[Laffy Kat]

3. I want to, but answer me this:

When it comes to animals I'm really sensitive even if it's not real. Do they show wolf hunting? I won't be able to tolerate that and it will ruin the movie for me. If they don't show it, I'll want to see the movie.

[FSogol]

4. Jeremey Renner's character is a hunter tracker for the USDA.

He hunts down wild animals that attack livestock. At the beginning he shoots a wolf threatening a sheep herd. He lets the wolves that leave alone. IIRC, that's the only violence against animals in the film.

[cwydro]

6. Im the same way.

Glad to know I’m not the only one.

[Laffy Kat]

7. That one scene will keep me from wanting to see entire movie.

You are absolutely not the only one.

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

5. Saw it last night my brother gave me a tip

He said watch it as an old Clint Eastwood western good guy avenging others. Think of trucks and snowmobiles as horse's. At the shootout scene think of the ok corral, in short watch it as a true western.

It worked!

Found the story little slow but intense kinda tame and predictable but well worth seeing.

[question everything]

8. Yes, was excellent

The story itself was good. And it says that is based on a true story. Not exactly, only that there are many native Americans women who disappear, who are abused and nothing is done about that.

I don't like violence for violence sake which is why did not watch a country for old men. But here, the shootout at the end was almost cathartic.

And, yes, Jeremy Renner is superb, as usual. (OK, have seen him in only three movies and he was excellent at all of them).

[Upthevibe]

9. I thought this movie was amazing...

The acting was soooo good...

[TexasBushwhacker]

10. Yes. I think will see more great stuff from writer/director

Taylor Sheridan. He wrote Hell or High Water too. He's created a new series for the Paramount network called "Yellowstone". It starts this summer.

[SuprstitionAintthWay]

11. H or HW and Wind River are (1) great & (2) good modern westerns

Definitely see Hell Or High Water. If you're a guy... or a Southwestern woman, maybe. It's Taylor Sheridan's best... and this guy's good.

Wind River is very good, too, if you can stomach gunfights. This one is, as mentioned, cathartic. But they're not for everybody.

(Decades ago I was a Clint Eastwood fan. Knowing the man's politics now, I can do without his stuff.)

[TexasBushwhacker]

12. I made a point of seeing both on the big screen and I'm glad I did

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They really took advantage of wide open spaces, making man look small in comparison. If you like drug war stories, Sheridan also wrote Sicario and its sequel Sicario: Day of the Soldado. The director of HOHW has a new film coming out in November, "Outlaw King" starring Chris Pine.

[SuprstitionAintthWay]

13. The 1st movie scene that really blew me away doing that, illustrating our physical insignificance

...against the vast scale and indifference that is the natural world of the American west, was I think in the 1980s, a western called Comes A Horseman.

It's dusk, in a valley in I think Colorado. The sky is rapidly darkening. People (Jane Fonda plays one of them) have gathered for a dance. They set up a dance square lighted by lanterns strung up on poles. You hear the fiddle music.

And then the camera pulls back. And back and back....and back.
The little square of light gets smaller and smaller, until you see that it's the only human civilization in the visible part of the valley, as the night continues to come on.

You powerfully feel their isolation, tinyness, and extreme vulnerability. So much that you're afraid for them, that this wild land might swallow them up, that they'll just disappear into it as easily as a firefly might be snuffed out.

"Show, don't tell." That visual packed a wallop, it jarringlly informed the viewer of humanity's small place in the overall scheme of things.

I've seen a similar thing done in movies a number of times since, but never again as effectively. They snuck it up on you, it was an unexpected momemt.