Hi all, this tumblr mainly exists as a way of tracking all the movies I've been watching and some of the initial thoughts, and general feelings, I've had about them.
5/5 - Fantastic movies; movies which need to be seen and enjoyed by everyone.
4/5 - Movies which are very good but don’t have that spark which compels you to make others watch them as well.
3/5 - Average movies; watchable and enjoyable, but nothing which elevates them higher. The baseline all movies are given before watching.
2/5 - Can be watched but really bland and forgettable.
1/5 - Minimal to no reason to watch these films. It may have some redeeming factors e.g. it’s so bad it’s good or there’s one character that’s awesome enough to make it not a total waste of time.
0/5- Total waste of time. Nothing redeemable about these films.
As with every review blog/site, this is all my own personal opinion so feel free to take everything with a grain of salt.
Also I'm Scottish so all reviews will be in UK English. Get used to theatre, colour and words ending in -ised.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
#360/#77 Winchester ‘73
In every one thousand rifles made there is one perfect gun. One of these guns is the winning prize at a shooting contest both Lin McAdams (Jimmy Stewart) and his quarry ‘Dutch Henry’ Brown (Stephen McNally) are competing for. Thus beginning a journey following the gun through its various owners as Lin continues to track down Dutch.
I’m not usually a big fan of westerns but this one is really quite enjoyable. While there is the main story line of Lin and Dutch running through the whole narrative the interconnected stories of the gun and all of its owners are what makes the film stand apart from the regular ‘good guy fights bad guy’ westerns that are so synonymous with the genre.
Stewart makes for a good and engaging leading man, backed up by Millard Mitchell as his supporting friend, and McNally fills his role of villain with equal resolve. Only the fairly tacked on love interest of Shelley Winters brings the film down a touch.
I doubt I’ll watch it again but it made for an enjoyable lazy Sunday afternoon. 4/5
