Dan Chak

Play a round of mafia with me.

I know he's being purposefully obtuse. I'm only playing his game back to him for something to do.

PoP, no?

I'm confused.

No, I did not! And I am really bad at actors/actresses. I can't keep them straight. If there's one that I think did an over-the-top good job in a movie, I'll try to remember their name, but it's a losing battle! I have such trouble separating the person from the role. Who was it?

I'll definitely be watching it again at some point. Any movie that has half as much in it as that movie did is worth watching again to catch what was missed.

But yeah -- what about that scene where John Wayne uses his traveling companion as bait? Doesn't that strike you as horribly rude? He could have at least warned the kid what he was about to do!

That would seem to be the case. Little surprising really.

/poke

haha true

Dan,

I watched The Searchers. I was underwhelmed by John Wayne the entire movie, and frustrated by the actions of basically every character. It bothered me that Vera was so hung up on Martin, then bothered me that Martin was such a jerk, then bothered me even more that Vera so quickly dropped her marriage for that jerk when he waltzed back into town, then he left her again. It's so frustrating because so many good people are hung up on such jerks, and I hate it when I see that. I struggled to find anything I liked / wasn't frustrated by.

Then they found Debbie, and her part was beautiful, and Martin actually did something good.

Then John Wayne didn't kill her at the end, and showed compassion, and it was strangely and inexplicably uplifting.

So that's my review. I'll give it 3 stars out of 5, which is a tomato, not a rotten tomato