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22-04-2018, 23:03 #1
MOVIE: HOSTILES
https://www.empireonline.com/movies/hostiles/review/
New Mexico, 1892. Army captain Joe Blocker (Christian Bale) is tasked with escorting a dying Native American chief (Wes Studi) and his family to their home in Montana. It is a journey fraught with danger — from outside threats, and also from within the party itself.
....The Quaid family are slaughtered by nightmarishly face-painted Native Americans (specifically Comanches). But only moments later, we witness Native Americans (specifically Apaches) being abused by American soldiers, captained by one Joe Blocker (Bale) — a man who compares his terrified quarry to “ants”. And he’s the supposed hero of this sombre tale....
...Bale’s Walker is no outlaw, either. Or at least, his crimes were all committed in service to his country. A country which now compels him to safely chaperone the leader of his worst enemies, Cheyenne chief Yellow Hawk (Studi), to his homeland in Wyoming. Walker wears his hatred like armour; it’s kept him alive this long. To him, Yellow Hawk is nothing more than “a cut-throat”, and his son, daughter, daughter-in-law and grandson are a “brood of bastards and bitches”. The mission is a slap in the face from the same superiors whose past orders dehumanised him — or at least, left him suffering what these days we’d quickly diagnose as PTSD. But, ever the ‘good’ soldier, Blocker accepts his mission. Then, as in Eastwood’s classic, the trials of the journey bring this ever-dwindling group of cavalrymen and Native Americans closer together. It’s a melting pot of a surrogate family, formed amid atrocity and driven by raw survival instinct....
I enjoy Frontier movies of that era. This is a slow moving deep movie and you need to be in the mindframe to watch this as it is intense. Very well made and acting is brillaint.
Christian Bale is excellent.live out your imagination , not your history.
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23-04-2018, 08:22 #2
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I am looking forward to watching this!!
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06-05-2018, 00:07 #3
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What way to start a movie, I enjoyed it, movies lately are difficult to watch, plotlines suck, aaagh whatever, great Movie, I will watch it again
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06-05-2018, 08:01 #4
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I found it an awesome western with realism and great cinematography
A must watch
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06-05-2018, 13:29 #5
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06-05-2018, 15:16 #6
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Will look out for this one, thanks KK.
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06-05-2018, 20:52 #7
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06-05-2018, 23:04 #9
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The most boring film I ever watched.
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07-05-2018, 04:02 #10
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It is very realistic. I have several Comanche arrowhead points that I found on our property. Many years ago they were very common it this area of Texas. Of the American indians they were the toughest and bravest tribe. About 10km south of us the Texas Rangers had a big battle with a war party of Comanches that had attack several farms in 1839.
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