Watch list

  • Mirror (1975)

Recently Watched (my rating /10)

  • Gladiator 2 (6)
  • Braveheart (7)
  • Saltburn (3)
  • Wind River (8.5)
  • Hell or High Water (8)
  • Blue Ruin (8)
  • The Place Beyond the Pines (8.5)
  • 3:10 to Yuma (9.5)
  • The Magnificent Seven (7)
  • Bone Tomahawk (8)
  • Unforgiven (6)
  • True Grit (7)

Personal Favorites (unranked)

  • Stalker (1979)
  • Parasite
  • Mother (dir. Bong Joon ho)
  • Memories of murder
  • Dune 1 and 2
  • Snowpiercer
  • Gravity
  • Arrival
  • Incendis
  • Prisoners
  • 3:10 to Yuma

Series (ranked)

I don’t follow series a lot but these are some that I’ve enjoyed watching.

  • Breaking Bad
  • Game of Thrones
  • True Detective
  • House of the Dragon

Reviews

3:10 to Yuma

I felt like I should write something about why I love this movie, and what aspects of the movie made me love it. First, the character build up was on the point. Every character makes sense and nothing out of place.

The story revolves around these main characters. Every character has their own principles and they operate by it, throughout the movie. Most importantly, I feel like the movie is about respect, and morality which becomes evident from the main characters Dan Evans and Ben Wade.

Dan Evans is highly moral character and tries to do the right thing, throughout the movie it’s about whether Dan Evans can hold up to his morality given the circumstances (he had family to feed, son to take care of).

Ben Wade isn’t without his principles too. He kills people who he has no respect for. We can see how he spares the life of McElroy in the beginning, because he values and respects him. In the end when McElroy provokes Ben, he loses his respect and then Ben kills him. He kills his own gang member because the gang member put greed over everything. Ben seems to test every character by engaging in talk with everyone as we can see he doesn’t like to keep his mouth shut. He is confronted with Evans who he seems is very exciting to talk to and challenges him and his morality on every conversation. The contrast that I find between both of the characters is that Ben acts according to the circumstances, but Evans strictly holds up to his principles whatever be the circumstances (eg. Ben offers $1000 to Evans which he rejects). Ben tests Evans and wants to see how far Evans can go. Evans wins the trust of Wade. Wade wants him to succeed, he wants Evan’s son to look up to him. In conclusion, Evans changes Ben completely.

The movie was more about the character study and the screenplay than anything else in my opinion. A solid 9.5 for this movie.