im
Last night I watched "The Assassination of Jesse James", Brad Pitt's version. Since Westerns are my favorite genre and Pitt is one of my favorites in the new generation of actors, I was eagerly awaiting the release of this film on DVD. I bought it from Amazon, along with another DVD with four older Westerns on it.
Unfortunately, I was pretty disappointed in the Pitt film. First of all, it was mostly talk, with very little action. Secondly, anyone familiar with Jesse's life and death (BTW, he was in my ancestral line on my Mom's side of the family) knows how it's gonna end so there were no surprises but the film itself is sorta dark and moody. Downbeat, IOW.
Thirdly, (and this is the second movie I've seen with that Affleck kid), I have a hard time understanding him. He speaks with kind of a high-pitched tone and/or inflection and for some reason, my old ears just can't make out what he's saying very well. The first movie I saw him in was "Gone Baby Gone" and since it was supposed to be set in Boston, I had a really hard time understanding the dialogue.
Jim
You have disappointed me by stating you like Bradley Pitt, the fact that he was in the aforementioned movie was enough to prevent me from watching it. I knew that the movie was not going to be great and to an extent its been made too many times with arguably the best of the bunch being Tyrone Powers 1939 effort. However having said this I was not overly impressed with that movie either.