Word: clint
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just ask John Wayne, Clint Eastwood and Sly Stallone what the public wants...
This movie is perhaps worth the two dollar matinee at the Somerville theater. But don't pay $4.75 to see it. Go to the original Shane instead. If you've already seen the original but are hell-bent on seeing Clint's latest, don't be surprised if Pale Rider disappoints...
...like the Old West, those days are gone. Instead, in Pale Rider, Eastwood presents us with a character who is a walking mixed metaphor of death, kindness, and virility. The new fusion of Clint as sensitive actor with Eastwood as macho killer might actually be tolerable however, if the entire movie was not such an obvious rip off of Shane, the classic 50s Western with Alan Ladd...
...difference in plot is for the worst. Clint actually does the deed with his neighbor's concubine, something that Shane never would have done. The portrayal of an ex-gunfighter trying to get away from it all--which was barely believable when Ladd did it--is lost in Eastwood's performance, as he begins the movie by beating his opponents to a pulp...
...that never changes in any of his films, it is that the female leads are lousy. The young girl who prays for Eastwood's appearance and subsequently desires to sleep with him plays her role with snivelling mediocrity. The mother who beats out her daughter in the battle for Clint is developed only slightly better. The only thing to be thankful for is the absence of Sondra Locke...