10:40 to Entertainment

Yesterday morning me, Trix and Snacks (and someone without an online knickname) caught the early showing of 3:10 to Yuma. This movie had every western trick in the book--cattle, fancy shooting, Chinese railroad workers, towns with names like Contention, brutal codes of honor, city slickers, everything but a school marm. It was like a delicious pizza with the works.

The western blood washed away the sin of Mr. Crowe's previous movie. I'm glad someone outside of a celebrity rag remembered that he makes a hell of an interesting bad guy. Aside from the pleasure of seeing my favorite pleasingly plump actor in a movie that doesn't suck, I really enjoyed Ben Foster's outlaw ensemble--a silvery gray marching band jacket with rust red pants. It was the coolest western outfit ever. Christian Bale gave an excellent performance as the everyman/hero. Trix liked the soundtrack for its inventive use of noises.Snacks said that his favorite part was the shootin'. Also satisfying were the hats, the horses, and the pretty rocks.