The Electric Horseman
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Movie Reviews of The Electric Horseman
Movie Review: Favorite Movie on DVD
Summary: 4 Stars
This is my all-time favorite movie, but my VHS copy was looking fuzzy, so I found a DVD version. Very quick & easy, good price, quick delivery.Movie Review: Interesting cowboy in a formula plot
Summary: 3 Stars
Sonny Steele (Robert Redford), a former rodeo champion turned breakfast cereal shill, seizes an opportunity to salvage his self-respect by stealing a former champion racehorse that is being abused by a big conglomerate with the goal of releasing him into the wild. Jane Fonda plays the wily newswoman who tracks him down and--no surprise--falls in love with him. The best parts of the film come early on as we get to know Sonny and his world. Once he steals the horse, it's all Big Issues Hollywood Love Story, albeit very well-made. This star vehicle is built around Redford and Fonda, so your opinion of the film is bound to be colored by your appreciation of those stars. "Hanoi Jane" Fonda-hater holdouts beware!Movie Review: Universal Blew It !
Summary: 2 Stars
I agree with a previous reviewer that stated, "The latest version has omitted Willie Nelson's "My Heroe's Have Always Been Cowboys" in favor of some generic faux-Western instrumental. The song was played during the opening credits and when Sonny releases Rising Star into the wild. When I watched the new version (not knowing there was a new version), I was left emotionally flat by the experience."
Also, the DVD had some audio to video syncronization problems. The image and the sound didn't match up perfectly. This is noticable when a character's lips doesn't quite match the words spoken.
Plese, re-release this movie with these errors corrected!
For these two resons I would have rated the DVD with one star. However, because I enjoy the movie's story so much, I rated it with two stars.
Movie Review: What happened to the music?
Summary: 2 Stars
It is is the same wonderful movie I remember from years past but at least two songs from the excellent soundtrack,in particular "My Heroes have always Been Cowboys," sung by Willie Nelson during the opening credits, have been edited from the movie and replaced with cheesey instrumentals that seriously damage the quality of the experience. The music was an essential in the telling of the story and I was quite disappointed when I watched my copy.Movie Review: BEWARE!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
Don't buy the 2003 Universal Edition of this DVD. Instead, sift through the web and find the DVD released by Image Entertainment in 1998. Why? You'd be better off asking "what's in a song?"The latest version has omitted Willie Nelson's "My Heroe's Have Always Been Cowboys" in favor of some generic faux-Western instrumental. The song was played during the opening credits and when Sonny releases Rising Star into the wild. When I watched the new version (not knowing there was a new version), I was left emotionally flat by the experience, but I couldn't figure out why. Finally, I dug up an old VHS version I'd taped off of cable several years ago and realized the change.
Call it song as metaphor, song as objective correlative...call it any theoretical term you need to. MAYBE it would not matter to a person who'd never seen the original. But I think it would (somehow). The song captures those two moments of the film -- the song makes an emotional connection. The image and the sound, the joyful melancholy, all gel perfectly.
Why'd they change it? Who knows. The rest of Willie Nelson's songs remain on the soundtrack. I tend to think that the dimwits in charge of "product" treat these films like, uh, product. The battle of art versus commerce rages on...
It matters. And I'm sick of the culture industry manipulating music and movies that have affected me.