To be honest, I'm not much of a Kevin Costner fan. I don't necessarily hate him, but I'm indifferent to him. I will also not actively seek out his movies. Go in Peace and Walk with God. 😎 👍
Open Range is my favorite Costner Western both as actor and director. His directing. is particularly poignant and likely greatly influenced by John Ford in the use of doorways and windows as a framing technique conveying potential rites of passage a or metaphors for seeing both outward and inward which Charlie as a character does quite a bit of in this story. And I like how the camera is never in a hurry in these kinds of moments, but is allowed to linger with observing quiet acting particularly in regards to the romantic aspect between Sue and Charlie where their conversations are not melodramatic but simply thoughtful in their exchanges with pauses of facial expressions while theyvthink of how best to say what they're feeling.and this of course is what makes the cinematically frenetic shootout have something to balance against both cinematically and emotionally. This film is still for me the last great Western that's been made.
Costner isn't in my top tier of western actors. But I do like him in the Clint Eastwood modern day western "A Perfect World". He played a complex villain in that one.
This is probably Costner's best western. He plays this hard bitten character very well, and it gives his screen image a little more edge. Duvall has done so many great western roles over the years that I'd probably no better than third, behind Lonesome Dove (my favorite western) and Broken Trail, lesser known but it really is a terrific mini-series. Thanks for the reaction, and a premature Happy St. Patrick's Day. Slainte!
"Broken Trail", a 2006 mini-series is the third in what Robert Duvall called his western trilogy, after "Lonesome Dove" and " Open Range" Highly recommended!
A few years back I was stuck in a traffic jam trying to get through the notorious Blackwall Tunnel in East London. Michael Gambon was in the car next to me (I believe it was an Audi R8 spyder). As soon as we emerged on the other side of the river he put his foot down in the manner you might expect from a man who had a corner named after him on the _Top Gear_ race track. RIP.
The great Irish/English actor, Michael Gambon, plays Baxter. Baxter is an Ulsterman. Gambon was born in Cabra, Dublin, but early in life took English citizenship and residence. I believe he's on a n Irish Times top Irish actor list. He just passed a few years ago.
Didn’t know he passed last year. Aw. Many years ago when I worked in the industry I would get tonnes of free movies before they came out (called screeners) for Academy award consideration. One night Gosford Park was in the group and I watched it twice in a row. Next morning I had to pick up a friend from the airport and waiting for passengers to come out standing right next to me was Gambon. He was taller than expected. The internet says he was 6foot but I’m 6’2 and my intial reaction was of how tall he was. He seemed slightly taller than me so I don’t trust the google right now seeing as I’m sure I was probably an inch shorter than him.
The guy who runs the coffee shop is Herb Kohler, owner of the Kohler plumbing g fixtures company and who also owns some world-class golf courses. He helped bankroll this movie and had a premier in Sheboygan, Wis., where he lives. This movie has one of the best shootout scenes ever.
This is one of the better modern day westerns, good gunfight scene. It drags in parts, especially resolving the love affair at the end. Charlie was a bushwacker and guerilla fighter in the Civil War. He had a lot more killing experience than Boss.
@24:48 Texas Bluebonnet is a kind of flower, (you can pick them in red dead redemption 2) which is a reference to baby boy’s blue bonnets. Boss didn’t exactly have the manliest name. I love this detail seemingly irrelevant to the story but enriching the characters.
Kind of a bitter sweet story that happened to me some years back. Open Range has always been my favorite western movie, and I think its the best performance from Costner he's ever done. I became a fan of his because of this movie. And a couple years ago, I got the opportunity to be on the show Yellowstone. Needless to say I was excited for the chance. I ended up doing a rodeo scene in the 2nd season. We shot 1 night, but unfortunately Costner was not involved. A year after that, I got another chance to do it again. This time it was another rodeo scene and shot over 2 nights. During the 2nd night Costner had a roll. And I was planning on fan-boying hard and tell him how much I loved Open Range. But, before he came out, the director laid out the rules and boy he wasn't joking in his tone. We were not allowed to say, speak or anything to Costner. It was basically sit down, shutup, do as we say. Long story short, I never got a chance to actually meet him. However, I was close enough i could smell his cologne when he sat down. But, it was still an incredible experience nonetheless.
I get it's a workplace and perhaps he wanted to stay immersed in the character but it's shame you didn't get an opportunity to say a couple of words to him.
Costner's first Western was 1985's "Silverado." He was pretty young in that one. Probably early 20s, I think. But that was the first film I think I ever saw him in. That film has a star-studded cast to. Just about everybody who's anybody in the Western film genre was in that film. But it was just your all around great Western films. It checked all the boxes for Westerns. I watched it all the time as a kid from a recorded copy from HBO back in the day on VHS. It was nearly the first modern Western after the heyday of the 50s - 70s Westerns that had that old fashioned way of making movies.
This is my favorite Costner western and one of my favorite westerns overall. I especially love the romance, so well written and acted. It’s particularly notable because it is a romance between older adults, something rarely done in films.
Saw this a few years back, somehow it had completely gone under the radar for me for about 20 years. I wasn't expecting much, but it quickly became one of my favorite westerns. I like Kevin Costner and I've always loved Robert Duvall. Gotta get me one of those 20-shooter guns Costner was using at the end :P
Dumbledore! Michael Gambon plays the heavy, Baxter, so his Irish accent is genuine. Diego Luna plays the kid, Button. These days he's better known for Star Wars: Andor. The shoot out in Open Range is one of the best ever put to film, a touch of gritty realism in what otherwise is a Western romance. Solid.
Hey Irish Guy, I'm glad to see you're still hanging in with Westerns. As always, I recommend "The Unforgiven" (1960) w/Audrey Hepburn. Also "Two Rode Together"; Jimmy Stewart
Thanks for covering this one. Open Range is a fine western and as it turns out a pretty good love story too. There's a ton of nuance to make it feel authentic. Duvall could read the contents of a Campbell's soup can and make it sound like a monologue.
Good stuff IrishGuy. You’re a true cowboy at heart. I noticed in your reaction, you worry about the dog and the horses. True cowboys also care about their livestock. There is a western movie out there called McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) directed by Robert Altman. It is rated 12th in the top 100 westerns of all time and nobody on TH-cam reacts to it. Maybe in your travels down the dusty trails you could set up camp and watch this old duster. Happy Trails.
@@IrishGuyReactsMaybe not in this channel (don’t remember!) but have been recommending the classic revisionist Western “McCabe” for ages now. Robert Altman has been a very special and influential director for decades. I recommend, in addition, MASH, Nashville, Gosford Park and The Player. Very diverse but all have his calling card of robust casts.
This is one of my favorite Westerns. I really like the dynamic between Costner and Duvall as well. Did you know that Costner directed this film? I think a lot of the small touches you liked (missed shots, the musical score suspended during the gunfight) were from Costner. There's another Western Costner directed, which I highly recommend for you: DANCES WITH WOLVES (1990) Kevin Costner, Graham Greene, Mary McDonnell. I'm certain you'll love it. I'd really like to catch your reaction. I'm happy to have just found you and am subscribing now - Peace.
I recommended this a long time ago as a decent modern western and I would add Slow West as a decent (not as good as Open Range) modern western. It is slow though but it is interesting. Better than the modern western I saw Clint Eastwoods son starring in. Can’t remember the name, because it sucked.
Pitch meeting for OPEN RANGE: Let's take the three most popular US TV westerns from the 1960s and mash them all together and make a movie out of them. It will turn Ben, Adam, Hoss and Little Joe from BONANZA into cattle drive herders with the character playing Adam also playing Rowdy Yates (the role Clint Eastwood played in RAWHIDE). And then they can get into trouble in one of the towns the come across, that has characters like Doc and Miss Kitty and Chester, as in GUNSMOKE. The Adam/Rowdy character can play the part of Marshall Dillon too in the gunfight scene. And just to make it clear what we are doing the comic relief / Chester character can hurt his ankle such that he has to walk with a limp
@@IrishGuyReacts More likely I'd think an attempt by a studio to create a movie people will like by cobbling together ideas from vehicles already known to be popular rather than coming up with an original idea. If it were an homage I'd think they'd have been a little more up front about it by calling it say BONANZA-HIDE-SMOKE.
What is your favourite Kevin Costner Western?
To be honest, I'm not much of a Kevin Costner fan. I don't necessarily hate him, but I'm indifferent to him. I will also not actively seek out his movies.
Go in Peace and Walk with God. 😎 👍
@BigGator5 Same but this is likely the only film that holds up.
Open Range is my favorite Costner Western both as actor and director. His directing. is particularly poignant and likely greatly influenced by John Ford in the use of doorways and windows as a framing technique conveying potential rites of passage a or metaphors for seeing both outward and inward which Charlie as a character does quite a bit of in this story. And I like how the camera is never in a hurry in these kinds of moments, but is allowed to linger with observing quiet acting particularly in regards to the romantic aspect between Sue and Charlie where their conversations are not melodramatic but simply thoughtful in their exchanges with pauses of facial expressions while theyvthink of how best to say what they're feeling.and this of course is what makes the cinematically frenetic shootout have something to balance against both cinematically and emotionally. This film is still for me the last great Western that's been made.
Costner isn't in my top tier of western actors. But I do like him in the Clint Eastwood modern day western "A Perfect World". He played a complex villain in that one.
Tis one
This is probably Costner's best western. He plays this hard bitten character very well, and it gives his screen image a little more edge. Duvall has done so many great western roles over the years that I'd probably no better than third, behind Lonesome Dove (my favorite western) and Broken Trail, lesser known but it really is a terrific mini-series. Thanks for the reaction, and a premature Happy St. Patrick's Day. Slainte!
Glad you enjoyed it. Happy St Patrick's Day to you too 👍
And agreed, Lonesome Dove was great
"Broken Trail", a 2006 mini-series is the third in what Robert Duvall called his western trilogy, after "Lonesome Dove" and " Open Range" Highly recommended!
Definitely intend to watch it
A few years back I was stuck in a traffic jam trying to get through the notorious Blackwall Tunnel in East London. Michael Gambon was in the car next to me (I believe it was an Audi R8 spyder).
As soon as we emerged on the other side of the river he put his foot down in the manner you might expect from a man who had a corner named after him on the _Top Gear_ race track. RIP.
Does he have the record on Top Gear?
The great Irish/English actor, Michael Gambon, plays Baxter. Baxter is an Ulsterman. Gambon was born in Cabra, Dublin, but early in life took English citizenship and residence. I believe he's on a n Irish Times top Irish actor list. He just passed a few years ago.
Didn’t know he passed last year. Aw. Many years ago when I worked in the industry I would get tonnes of free movies before they came out (called screeners) for Academy award consideration. One night Gosford Park was in the group and I watched it twice in a row. Next morning I had to pick up a friend from the airport and waiting for passengers to come out standing right next to me was Gambon. He was taller than expected. The internet says he was 6foot but I’m 6’2 and my intial reaction was of how tall he was. He seemed slightly taller than me so I don’t trust the google right now seeing as I’m sure I was probably an inch shorter than him.
Okay, so perhaps the Irish accent was real. Either way, a really great performance from him.
The guy who runs the coffee shop is Herb Kohler, owner of the Kohler plumbing g fixtures company and who also owns some world-class golf courses. He helped bankroll this movie and had a premier in Sheboygan, Wis., where he lives. This movie has one of the best shootout scenes ever.
The shootout scene was one of the best I've seen in the genre
This is my favorite Costner western.
I love this movie. You should check out Broken Trail with Robert Duvall and Thomas Haden Church.
Thanks for the suggestion. I think I've added it to my watchlist
This is one of the better modern day westerns, good gunfight scene. It drags in parts, especially resolving the love affair at the end.
Charlie was a bushwacker and guerilla fighter in the Civil War. He had a lot more killing experience than Boss.
Loved the gunfight battle. Felt so raw and visceral
@24:48 Texas Bluebonnet is a kind of flower, (you can pick them in red dead redemption 2) which is a reference to baby boy’s blue bonnets. Boss didn’t exactly have the manliest name. I love this detail seemingly irrelevant to the story but enriching the characters.
It was a nice moment between the two when they revealed the real names
Kind of a bitter sweet story that happened to me some years back. Open Range has always been my favorite western movie, and I think its the best performance from Costner he's ever done. I became a fan of his because of this movie. And a couple years ago, I got the opportunity to be on the show Yellowstone. Needless to say I was excited for the chance. I ended up doing a rodeo scene in the 2nd season. We shot 1 night, but unfortunately Costner was not involved. A year after that, I got another chance to do it again. This time it was another rodeo scene and shot over 2 nights. During the 2nd night Costner had a roll. And I was planning on fan-boying hard and tell him how much I loved Open Range. But, before he came out, the director laid out the rules and boy he wasn't joking in his tone. We were not allowed to say, speak or anything to Costner. It was basically sit down, shutup, do as we say. Long story short, I never got a chance to actually meet him. However, I was close enough i could smell his cologne when he sat down. But, it was still an incredible experience nonetheless.
I get it's a workplace and perhaps he wanted to stay immersed in the character but it's shame you didn't get an opportunity to say a couple of words to him.
Kevin came out in the TV mini-series Hatfields & McCoys from 2012 with Bill Paxton and a bunch of other stars.
Never seen that series before
My favorite Costner movie. Robert Duval played my favorite character ever in Lonesome Dove, but this was one of my favorite movies.
Duval is great in everything. Lonesome Dove was a top notch miniseries.
Costner's first Western was 1985's "Silverado." He was pretty young in that one. Probably early 20s, I think. But that was the first film I think I ever saw him in. That film has a star-studded cast to. Just about everybody who's anybody in the Western film genre was in that film. But it was just your all around great Western films. It checked all the boxes for Westerns. I watched it all the time as a kid from a recorded copy from HBO back in the day on VHS. It was nearly the first modern Western after the heyday of the 50s - 70s Westerns that had that old fashioned way of making movies.
Silverado is another ove watched for the channel. Fun movie
This is my favorite Costner western and one of my favorite westerns overall. I especially love the romance, so well written and acted. It’s particularly notable because it is a romance between older adults, something rarely done in films.
Saw this a few years back, somehow it had completely gone under the radar for me for about 20 years. I wasn't expecting much, but it quickly became one of my favorite westerns. I like Kevin Costner and I've always loved Robert Duvall.
Gotta get me one of those 20-shooter guns Costner was using at the end :P
Duvall is such a great actor indeed
Dumbledore! Michael Gambon plays the heavy, Baxter, so his Irish accent is genuine. Diego Luna plays the kid, Button. These days he's better known for Star Wars: Andor. The shoot out in Open Range is one of the best ever put to film, a touch of gritty realism in what otherwise is a Western romance. Solid.
Yeah, as I've said in some of the other replies, that shootout scene was brilliant and really well staged
And Michael Jeter! Perhaps better known as the Creole prisoner on The Green Mile (with Mr. Jingles). He’s the shopkeeper here.
Open Range and Field of Dreams were both great!
Field Of Dreams was a great watch.
Silverado is another one to watch.
@@timbong1871 I have it watched on the channel th-cam.com/video/zeVK7B4xHbI/w-d-xo.htmlsi=oRs37MB6e3YNt9D5
If you like this western, than you need to check out Conagher, with Sam Elliott.
Appreciate the suggestion. Thank you kindly
I also recommend Broken Trail with Robert Duvall. It is a 2-part mini series that originally aired on AMC in the United States.
Thanks for the recommendation. Duvall is always great to watch
Hey Irish Guy, I'm glad to see you're still hanging in with Westerns. As always, I recommend "The Unforgiven" (1960) w/Audrey Hepburn. Also "Two Rode Together"; Jimmy Stewart
Loving the genre. Thanks again for the suggestions. Anything with Jimmy Stewart is worth checking out 👍
Thanks for covering this one. Open Range is a fine western and as it turns out a pretty good love story too. There's a ton of nuance to make it feel authentic. Duvall could read the contents of a Campbell's soup can and make it sound like a monologue.
Yeah, he's a terrific actor. Great in this and Lonesone Dove
This is a solid western, and, for me, a surprise when I saw it. Good one.
Yeah, I'm more drawn to the older Westerns but this was a very good watch
Good stuff IrishGuy. You’re a true cowboy at heart. I noticed in your reaction, you worry about the dog and the horses. True cowboys also care about their livestock. There is a western movie out there called McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) directed by Robert Altman. It is rated 12th in the top 100 westerns of all time and nobody on TH-cam reacts to it. Maybe in your travels down the dusty trails you could set up camp and watch this old duster. Happy Trails.
Have fallen in love with the genre. So many great films I've seen so far. McCabe & Mrs. Miller is on my watchlist too👍
@@IrishGuyReactsMaybe not in this channel (don’t remember!) but have been recommending the classic revisionist Western “McCabe” for ages now. Robert Altman has been a very special and influential director for decades. I recommend, in addition, MASH, Nashville, Gosford Park and The Player. Very diverse but all have his calling card of robust casts.
@9:37 You’te not the only reactor who thought ‘sugar’ was something else.
Haha yeah my mind just immediately went there
This is one of my favorite Westerns. I really like the dynamic between Costner and Duvall as well. Did you know that Costner directed this film? I think a lot of the small touches you liked (missed shots, the musical score suspended during the gunfight) were from Costner.
There's another Western Costner directed, which I highly recommend for you:
DANCES WITH WOLVES (1990)
Kevin Costner, Graham Greene, Mary McDonnell.
I'm certain you'll love it. I'd really like to catch your reaction.
I'm happy to have just found you and am subscribing now -
Peace.
Dances With Wolves is on my watchlist. Definitely intend to watch that one too 👍
@@IrishGuyReacts
You will not be disappointed !!!
This is one of my favorite Westerns, check out Last of the Dogmen also!!!
Good review! My favorite cowboy movie.
Very good movie with one of the most intense and realistic gun battles.
Robert Duvall best Western is the mini series Lonesome Dove with Tommy Lee Jones
Also watched that mini-series on the channel. Really good watch 👍
Not a Western but "Revenge" is a great movie by Kevin Costner.
Thanks for the recommendation.
You Need To Watch TOMBSTONE , With Kurt Russell :)
I have already watched it on the channel if you'd like to check it out. Val Kilmer and Michael Biehn are great in it.
I recommended this a long time ago as a decent modern western and I would add Slow West as a decent (not as good as Open Range) modern western. It is slow though but it is interesting. Better than the modern western I saw Clint Eastwoods son starring in. Can’t remember the name, because it sucked.
The Mule? Was it?
Pitch meeting for OPEN RANGE: Let's take the three most popular US TV westerns from the 1960s and mash them all together and make a movie out of them. It will turn Ben, Adam, Hoss and Little Joe from BONANZA into cattle drive herders with the character playing Adam also playing Rowdy Yates (the role Clint Eastwood played in RAWHIDE).
And then they can get into trouble in one of the towns the come across, that has characters like Doc and Miss Kitty and Chester, as in GUNSMOKE. The Adam/Rowdy character can play the part of Marshall Dillon too in the gunfight scene. And just to make it clear what we are doing the comic relief / Chester character can hurt his ankle such that he has to walk with a limp
So kind of a homage/tribute
@@IrishGuyReacts More likely I'd think an attempt by a studio to create a movie people will like by cobbling together ideas from vehicles already known to be popular rather than coming up with an original idea.
If it were an homage I'd think they'd have been a little more up front about it by calling it say BONANZA-HIDE-SMOKE.
This movie bored me to the last 30 min.
Appreciate the honest verdict