Robert Parker, the man who wrote Appaloosa & the Spenser novels is spinning in his grave because of the terrible spelling, punctuation and mispronunciations in this summary.
"Toxic" woman is a current pop psychology label, that does not apply to those times, nor does the judgement. What makes this western so fascinating is Renee Zellweger's strange talent for being able to so profoundly and accurately portray a real woman living in that era under those conditions. She is somehow able to channel the genuine essence of her character.
@@georgemckenna462 I'm 70 years old "Pop" culture doesn't necnessasarily ring with me but the fact is it's descriptive and woman like that actually were not the norm. It's like the phrase "the wild west". The wild west qas not that wild when compared to the big cities of the time.
I actually think this film is underrated and should be on top ten lists of all time great Westerns . I remember seeing it at a late showing on first run theater . When it ended I though “ Damn ! , It is over I have got to go back to my life now .” It wasn’t that my life was miserable ,it was just that Appaloosa was so well done that It drew me in to its world and made me forget mine .
Agreed. I imagine it might become a rediscovered masterpiece of a sort, in, say...2029-2030. It's been a while, I forget if Irons's character was written as an English person, or if Irons did an American accent. Either way, he's perfect as the villain here. Zellegger worked for me in this. Yeah she's still got a touch of that cutie-pie girl-next-door goin' on, but that girl's a woman now. I bought it, anyway...
Watched this movie a long time ago and this review just toggled my memory a bit again. Enjoyable and beautiful story, a must watch for western aficionados.
Hmm, Virgil beating a man senseless for cussing and Everett having to pull him off before he kills him. Shades of Woodrow Call in Lonesome Dove beating that scout senseless for trying to beat Newt over his horse. Neither man tolerates rude behavior in a man. It would also help if you pronounced Appaloosa the correct way. It's Appa-loosa. Of course, probably a computer voice anyway.
After retireing his duty as a sheriff... This guy was recruited during WW2 as a german sniper expert killing many Bolshevik snipers in Stalingrad... But sadly Vasilis got him... "You cant be top dog forever" - Buster Scruggs
Enjoyable set. Filmed south of Santa Fe NM at the old Ford ranch set. The 'principles were all easy to work with, as we were periodically in nighttime cold, the bar scene hanging the Bragg sign. Ed and Viggo were especially friendly to the lowly 'background', stopping to answer questions, show the weaponry, explaining the customization of each. Food was well prepared and in sufficient quantities.. 'Viggo' (including snapshots wearing spurs, playing soccer with kids) in an on site 'background' (the 'Carpenter'), blog, garnered so many hits the counter went stratospheric..
I remembered when Ed plays a gangster named Car visiting Viggo's Tom who owns a restaurant in a local town thinking Viggo's Tom is another man named Joey, gangster from Philly. Tom's boy kills Ed's Carl. Viggo returns to Philly to face his brother, Richie.....Movie: A History of Violence.
Dude Everette was the hero of this movie. Turned down the chic cuz bro code, helped his boy assume power, then eliminated the other power threat and left town for everyone to b happy
Appaloosa is a breed of horse that often have spots. The one we had when I was a kid had a smooth ride but was very mean spirited compared to the quarter horses.
We've had some, one called Medicine Man, with beautiful liver colored spots. I loved him from the ground, but would never have been foolish enough to ride him. As the little poem says: No tail, no mane, no brain.... they are prone to go blind, as ours did, and he became dangerous to be around. He was huge, he was a beauty, he would start bucking like a rodeo star for no reason we could fathom. If horses can stay feral, there he stood....
@@silverhairseeker5539 hmm, I had assumed it to be all Appaloosa horses because of my interaction with me in my youth. In my defense I neglected to connect the harness to keep him from throwing his head back and he nailed n the forehead once.
@@pattifriend6676I did not know f the blindness issues. Ours had the most amazing smooth gait when you first took her out. It was as close to a personal hover craft I’ve ever been on. She did throw me off and step on me once so it was a mixed bag.
This is a great movie, I wish they would have made at least one more. The Virgil Cole series of novels by Parker are great, but after he died another author picked it up and failed, miserably.
Obviously, most Western's are going to have similarities with other Western's to some degree, but one can definitely see a lot of the legendary 1959 Western film WARLOCK in this plot.
I peed on a bar once. I actually hooked up with a crazy lady too. She thought it was funny. I must have been in a blackout, because I have no memory of it.
You never appreciate the subtleties involved when actual human beings use language more than when you hear a computer trying to replicate those subtleties. This voice-over program has it about 98% right, but, man, it sure misses a lot of the fine points.
The early part of this movie, where the "current sheriff and his two deputies come to his ranch" (0:55) is almost directly lifted from the 05 December 1959 episode of Bonanza, titled "Vendetta"...I think both this movie and the Bonanza episode are good, the parallels are interesting.
There are a lot of things in this movie that are very derivative, like the resemblance of Everett to Doc Holiday and character poses that are used which refer to drawings of Wild Bill in their appearance.
Cough, um, most bars had a spit trough by the bar that drained out to the street. It was also used as a urinal because it helped to flush tobacco juice out. It also helped sell a lot more beer. :)
A movie very similar to this one - two hard cases moving from town to town to bring some sort of justice to towns terrorized by thugs - is WARLOCK, 1959. With a stellar cast: Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn, Dorothy Malone..... This 1959 western stands up with the best of them. Really worth a watch. Fonda and Quinn play roles parallel to Virgil and Everett. Richard Widmark is the notable exception, bringing in a lot dramatic interest. And Dorothy Malone provides a richer female contribution than Renee Zellweger.
One of my all-time top western films! And the narrator does a really fine recap. Sorry for the nitpicking, but the narrator really does need to research the common pronunciation of "Appaloosa." It is not A'-pal-OO'-sa. It is ap-pa-LOO'-sa. That's how the characters pronounce it in the film, and it has been pronounced that way everywhere in my years around horses. Listening to him pronounce it is like listening to a piece of chalk screeching on a blackboard. Ugh!
Problems with narration and pronunciation of this video aside, Appaloosa is a phenomenally well told story that’s also a superbly acted and filmed classic western.
I greatly enjoyed the movie Appaloosa with Viggo Mortensen & Ed Harrison, however I was very disappointed with the character that Renee Zellweger portrayed, and hoped that Viggo/Hitch was going to be able to settle down with Katie, so when Hitch rode off after shooting Bragg, well that made it a terrible ending for me.
Agreed. I remember feeling betrayed when Zellweger's character walked up the stairs to Bragg's room. I also remember feeling "yucky" at the end of the movie. I suppose that means I was emotionally invested in the characters, which really surprised me. 🤯
There was an old bar on Pittsburgh's Federal Street in the North Side. It was call the "222". In the 80's it was a skid row bar, but the beer was cheap. I think I met a better class of people there. I was drinking there one day. I was talking to this guy at the bar. He was a nice guy, and we were having a good conversation. Then I smelled this urine smell. He was pissing into a gutter. The bar had a ceramic gutter, a drain at one, and a facet at the other end. You could pee into the gutter while you were drinking. I ask him why he was pissing at the bar. He said that he didn't want to lose his place next to me, because I was buying beer. I have quit drinking since then, but smile went it think of some of the characters that I met.
This guy tells a good story , but I bet the actors tell it much better. Whats the name of this movie? I think Ill watch it, instead of listening to Mark Twain tell it.
I have seen this movie years ago and to this day i consider Allie or what ever her name is to be for the streets and not a woman to be in a relationship with.
I'm not riding one of these across a Huge bridge, like the Golden Gate Bridge , the winds would send you sailing over the side down 450 feet into the ocean and leave you as fish bait 😭
I’ve never heard Appaloosa pronounced like that. I owned a real pretty Appaloosa mare for a while when I was younger and lived in the mountains of Idaho. A lot of the Nez Perce people raised and rode them.
I don't know. When Parker wrote the novel was "discovering one's self" still a thing then, as it doesn't ring true today. Looks like a good movie, but with a poorly thought out ending.
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Robert Parker, the man who wrote Appaloosa & the Spenser novels is spinning in his grave because of the terrible spelling, punctuation and mispronunciations in this summary.
and this is one of the *better* robot voices, tbh.
Amen to that
he's still spinning from that horrendous remake of Spencer with one of the Wahlberg brothers. wow, just wow.
It’s an A.I., be careful not to insult it! It never forgets….
I doubt he would have been a petty details guy. Happy they were talking about it.
How you can take a movie title and totally pronounce it wrong is truly remarkable!
It is a computer voice. I sometimes dislike computer voices that are not as bad.
@@josephkramer932 It is amazing how far computer voices have come.
@@JBplumbing12 Not far enough. Why can´t people narrate their own damn commentaries.
Read Scary Recap's reply immediately following yours.
City slicker.
one of the best westerns of the decade... under-rated in my opinion, so good to see it get a moment in the sun!
Couldn't agree more!
This seems like an anti-western.
A true friend, who gave the only priceless gift anyone can give to another...TIME...
What about a kidney that's pretty priceless.....
That would give you more “Time”
Hahaha EZ... That was an awesome joke about the kidney. Thank you for making me laugh I signed in just to thumbs up your comment.
I saw this film. Fun movie but that woman? Toxic, that's the kind of woman that ruins a man. And she is "loose".
that famous author who names escapes me said."give me an eperienced woman,any thing less than that is boring as hell"....
experienced
@@dethray1000 "Expireanced" and loose are not nessasarily the same thing.
"Toxic" woman is a current pop psychology label, that does not apply to those times, nor does the judgement.
What makes this western so fascinating is Renee Zellweger's strange talent for being able to so profoundly and accurately portray a real woman living in that era under those conditions. She is somehow able to channel the genuine essence of her character.
@@georgemckenna462 I'm 70 years old "Pop" culture doesn't necnessasarily ring with me but the fact is it's descriptive and woman like that actually were not the norm. It's like the phrase "the wild west". The wild west qas not that wild when compared to the big cities of the time.
I actually think this film is underrated and should be on top ten lists of all time great Westerns . I remember seeing it at a late showing on first run theater . When it ended I though “ Damn ! , It is over I have got to go back to my life now .” It wasn’t that my life was miserable ,it was just that Appaloosa was so well done that It drew me in to its world and made me forget mine .
It's like the old Saturday morning shows from the 1960's, such as, "My friend Flicka," only this this one's called, "A Pal Loos-Auh!" Lol
Agreed. I imagine it might become a rediscovered masterpiece of a sort, in, say...2029-2030.
It's been a while, I forget if Irons's character was written as an English person, or if Irons did an American accent. Either way, he's perfect as the villain here.
Zellegger worked for me in this. Yeah she's still got a touch of that cutie-pie girl-next-door goin' on, but that girl's a woman now. I bought it, anyway...
How you can take a long movie and describe it in full detail in only a few minutes is truly remarkable!
Read Larry W's reply immediately preceding yours.
Yeah, your synopsis of "Unforgiven" was spot-on. The Cliff Notes of movies, ye be
listen to it at 1.5 speed and it's even less minutes ! :D
and get the pronunciation of Appaloosa wrong too
@@unclemarkmark appa (similar to "apple") loo sa (similar to "loose").
Watched this movie a long time ago and this review just toggled my memory a bit again.
Enjoyable and beautiful story, a must watch for western aficionados.
Hmm, Virgil beating a man senseless for cussing and Everett having to pull him off before he kills him. Shades of Woodrow Call in Lonesome Dove beating that scout senseless for trying to beat Newt over his horse. Neither man tolerates rude behavior in a man. It would also help if you pronounced Appaloosa the correct way. It's Appa-loosa. Of course, probably a computer voice anyway.
robot voice : uh-pal-ooo-sa
After retireing his duty as a sheriff... This guy was recruited during WW2 as a german sniper expert killing many Bolshevik snipers in Stalingrad... But sadly Vasilis got him... "You cant be top dog forever" - Buster Scruggs
Enjoyable set. Filmed south of Santa Fe NM at the old Ford ranch set. The 'principles were all easy to work with, as we were periodically in nighttime cold, the bar scene hanging the Bragg sign.
Ed and Viggo were especially friendly to the lowly 'background', stopping to answer questions, show the weaponry, explaining the customization of each.
Food was well prepared and in sufficient quantities..
'Viggo' (including snapshots wearing spurs, playing soccer with kids) in an on site 'background' (the 'Carpenter'), blog, garnered so many hits the counter went stratospheric..
One of the best Westerns EVER.
What an excellent, concise summary.
Thank you.
I remembered when Ed plays a gangster named Car visiting Viggo's Tom who owns a restaurant in a local town thinking Viggo's Tom is another man named Joey, gangster from Philly. Tom's boy kills Ed's Carl. Viggo returns to Philly to face his brother, Richie.....Movie: A History of Violence.
A great film, totally underrated, a top 5 Western.
Great modern day westerns are hard to come by but this was one of them. Even with Renee's character being an anchor on the story telling.
Made it to 19 seconds. Looks like a good movie, so I won’t let you spoil it for me.
If you like westerns it's one of the better ones.
Same here going to find it tonight
I wish more videos would respect our time and come to the point without all production bs. Great video! Thanks so much!!
Dude Everette was the hero of this movie. Turned down the chic cuz bro code, helped his boy assume power, then eliminated the other power threat and left town for everyone to b happy
Someone actually made a movie where the girl trying to cause trouble really gets nowhere with it? I can't believe it
Earp and Holliday both wound up with prostitutes at the end.
God I remember how much you hate her character. She’s the worst type of woman that many a guy has had to deal with.
Appaloosa is a breed of horse that often have spots. The one we had when I was a kid had a smooth ride but was very mean spirited compared to the quarter horses.
My wife raised 3 Appy's, 2 were as gentle as lambs and oh so easy to get along with......the other (a gelding) had a bit of a learning curve. 🤠🤣
We've had some, one called Medicine Man, with beautiful liver colored spots. I loved him from the ground, but would never have been foolish enough to ride him. As the little poem says: No tail, no mane, no brain.... they are prone to go blind, as ours did, and he became dangerous to be around. He was huge, he was a beauty, he would start bucking like a rodeo star for no reason we could fathom. If horses can stay feral, there he stood....
@@silverhairseeker5539 hmm, I had assumed it to be all Appaloosa horses because of my interaction with me in my youth. In my defense I neglected to connect the harness to keep him from throwing his head back and he nailed n the forehead once.
@@pattifriend6676I did not know f the blindness issues. Ours had the most amazing smooth gait when you first took her out. It was as close to a personal hover craft I’ve ever been on. She did throw me off and step on me once so it was a mixed bag.
Thank you! Enjoyed the movie and the narration.
It's pronounced Ap·pa·loo·sa
apəˈlo͞osə.
Another wonderful movie with Viggo Mortensen.
This is a great movie, I wish they would have made at least one more. The Virgil Cole series of novels by Parker are great, but after he died another author picked it up and failed, miserably.
Wow I thought it was kind of a drag
@@jerrywoods4066 Yeah, you would.
@@Mr.56Goldtop yep definitely over rated thought it would be better.
Yep, the hack author can't write like Parker could. They're embarrassing.
Appaloosa: a-puh-LOOSE-uh
The town is named after a breed of horse! How tough is that?
It is the AI that does the voice over... it ( the AI) has a difficult time with pronouncing words properly
The best part of this whole vid was at the end: "hit the dislike button twice." So... undo the dislike from the first click? Lol. Brilliant.
Apoloosa starring Ed Harris, Viggo Mortensen, Jeremy Irons. Great film have it.
I will watch this movie, thanks!!
Thank you for the video.
A really great western. Great acting, too! Sad it got so little attention..
I like this movie. I'll be looking for Apple Luisa. Thanks.
Sounds like it was a bad remake of Tombstone. That computer voice is hilarious tho
That's pretty funny!
Thanks
Excellent summary.
Ed Harris wanted to make a sequel based upon the second novel but Viggo refused. The second books was also great. All of them are.
Great movie from a great book. Thanks for the synopsis.
Thank you.we enjoyed it.
Obviously, most Western's are going to have similarities with other Western's to some degree, but one can definitely see a lot of the legendary 1959 Western film WARLOCK in this plot.
The narrator probably should've asked someone how to pronounce Appaloosa.
Evidently, they did not want you to pee or bleed on the bar room floor.
I hit the like button twice and I had to hit it again because it kept turning off .😁nice recap thanks.
You rock!
Good movie. Loved it.
whats the name of this movie pls somebody tell me ??
Yes. He pronounces “Appaloosa” really weirdly…
The narrator has no horse sense. The Palouse is God's country.
thanks, it actually let me through so i could download it.
The gun shots and perspective are as real as it gets
The narrator sure as Hell doesn't know how to pronounce "Appaloosa," does he?
I peed on a bar once. I actually hooked up with a crazy lady too. She thought it was funny. I must have been in a blackout, because I have no memory of it.
You never appreciate the subtleties involved when actual human beings use language more than when you hear a computer trying to replicate those subtleties. This voice-over program has it about 98% right, but, man, it sure misses a lot of the fine points.
Awesome recap
The early part of this movie, where the "current sheriff and his two deputies come to his ranch" (0:55) is almost directly lifted from the 05 December 1959 episode of Bonanza, titled "Vendetta"...I think both this movie and the Bonanza episode are good, the parallels are interesting.
There are a lot of things in this movie that are very derivative, like the resemblance of Everett to Doc Holiday and character poses that are used which refer to drawings of Wild Bill in their appearance.
Great movie. Glad to see are cap.
Decent movie. I should watch it again.
No need to watch --- your narration gave me ALL that was needed!!! Thanks!!!
Wow, cool movie and great ending
Robert Parker wrote several other westerns featuring Virg. & Cole adventures. About time a new movie based on them should be made
As the Godfather said to Sonny, "don't ever say what you are thinking"
Man there must have been a real shortage of women in the west.
Cough, um, most bars had a spit trough by the bar that drained out to the street. It was also used as a urinal because it helped to flush tobacco juice out. It also helped sell a lot more beer. :)
A PAL A LOOSE AH.. It's a horse, AP A loose A Mine is said in a continuous word.
hahahaha
Must be a computer voice, but you are right that it’s irritating as hell.
He studied language under Dr. Jill Biden.
This narrator is clueless: "Aaa-pal-loosa"-------hysterical. I hope they got him cheap.
name of movie
Appaloosa
It takes true talent to slaughter the pronunciation of Appaloosa.
i might watch this film first, looks good
A movie very similar to this one - two hard cases moving from town to town to bring some sort of justice to towns terrorized by thugs - is WARLOCK, 1959. With a stellar cast: Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn, Dorothy Malone..... This 1959 western stands up with the best of them. Really worth a watch. Fonda and Quinn play roles parallel to Virgil and Everett. Richard Widmark is the notable exception, bringing in a lot dramatic interest. And Dorothy Malone provides a richer female contribution than Renee Zellweger.
One of my all-time top western films! And the narrator does a really fine recap. Sorry for the nitpicking, but the narrator really does need to research the common pronunciation of "Appaloosa." It is not A'-pal-OO'-sa. It is ap-pa-LOO'-sa. That's how the characters pronounce it in the film, and it has been pronounced that way everywhere in my years around horses. Listening to him pronounce it is like listening to a piece of chalk screeching on a blackboard. Ugh!
it's not a human reading the script man. it's a bot.
Any film with Ed Harris is a great movie
'A pal loose a'.....LOL
Problems with narration and pronunciation of this video aside, Appaloosa is a phenomenally well told story that’s also a superbly acted and filmed classic western.
Robert B. Parker wrote in a minimal style that was really good...
There should be a whole channel dedicated to recapping Westerns
It's a really great western, up there with Tombstone and Open Range.
This guy who's narrating this video can't even pronounce the name of the city correctly. RIP America.
I love these videos as they save me two hours of my life I’d never get back otherwise.🤣👍🏻
I greatly enjoyed the movie Appaloosa with Viggo Mortensen & Ed Harrison, however I was very disappointed with the character that Renee Zellweger portrayed, and hoped that Viggo/Hitch was going to be able to settle down with Katie, so when Hitch rode off after shooting Bragg, well that made it a terrible ending for me.
Agreed. I remember feeling betrayed when Zellweger's character walked up the stairs to Bragg's room. I also remember feeling "yucky" at the end of the movie. I suppose that means I was emotionally invested in the characters, which really surprised me. 🤯
Harris
This sounds like it would have been a very long dry movie.
The short narration was appreciated.
She was made for the streets 😊
Virgil Cole was the name of one of the aviators in the movie Flight of the Intruder.
There was an old bar on Pittsburgh's Federal Street in the North Side.
It was call the "222". In the 80's it was a skid row bar, but the beer was cheap. I think I met a better class of people there.
I was drinking there one day. I was talking to this guy at the bar. He was a nice guy, and we were having a good conversation. Then I smelled this urine smell.
He was pissing into a gutter.
The bar had a ceramic gutter, a drain at one, and a facet at the other end. You could pee into the gutter while you were drinking.
I ask him why he was pissing at the bar. He said that he didn't want to lose his place next to me, because I was buying beer.
I have quit drinking since then, but smile went it think of some of the characters that I met.
Your pal? No, my pal, Loosa.
This guy tells a good story , but I bet the actors tell it much better. Whats the name of this movie? I think Ill watch it, instead of listening to Mark Twain tell it.
I hate it when the robot voice sound so good until one really badly pronounced word." A pal looser"
Good Movie.
Keep making banger videos
It's Appa loosa. You must be from the big city, and have never seen a horse except in pictures.
The narrator has a good voice but his pronunciation of certain words is hilarious.
Hard not to love Ed Harris, plays such a good hard ass lol.
So, Aragorn insults Scar's pride? Good to know.
That is a good friend
"hit the dislike twice just to be sure" lmao
I have seen this movie years ago and to this day i consider Allie or what ever her name is to be for the streets and not a woman to be in a relationship with.
Why would you start out with gun fights while talking over the clip?
"but Everett gives way to Virgil"
just a rehash of every prior "western" movie.
I'm not riding one of these across a
Huge bridge, like the Golden Gate Bridge ,
the winds would send you sailing over the side down 450 feet into the ocean and leave you as fish bait 😭
I’ve never heard Appaloosa pronounced like that. I owned a real pretty Appaloosa mare for a while when I was younger and lived in the mountains of Idaho. A lot of the Nez Perce people raised and rode them.
Well that saved me a few quid not having to buy the DVD. 👍💋
I don't know. When Parker wrote the novel was "discovering one's self" still a thing then, as it doesn't ring true today. Looks like a good movie, but with a poorly thought out ending.
and here I thought that 'the man in black' was an Ed Harris Original character. Seems he had perfected it long before Westworld.
I noticed that too