WillSushyMedia
This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.
Derrick Gibbons
An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
whatshisfacesoutpost
When I was in the US Navy and aboard ship, I sat through some (what I thought) were really bad flicks. However compared to this movie they would have won academy awards! This has got to be the worst movie that has ever spoiled a piece of film. How in the world it ever got past the cutting room floor is beyond me! It is the most boring piece of work I have ever seen. Ever heard of watching paint dry? That would be exciting compared to this film. I have no idea how anyone could rate this insanity above a one! The only person who could sit through this, and rate it a 2 or above, would have to be Hellen Keller. Thank God I bought this at a garage sale for a dollar, I would just scream if I would have paid over that! Hopefully I can use a piece of this tape to repair a good one, or just erase it and start over!
Memlets
The preceding user comments are all painfully accurate.This movie is slow and boring. However, it does depict, in a gritty, realistic way, the allegedly good old days that some people think were superior in every way to our modern era.Most folks back then lived the kind of dreary existence that this movie portrays. In this case, the dreariness is prostitution in the boondocks.On the plus side, the movie was beautifully filmed. The lighting in the brothel at night was appropriately dim, which certainly renewed my appreciation for electricity.However, the sound is awful. The actors mumble, and a few of them mumble with a thick accent, so I'm sure I missed dialog that was probably important to the story.Some scenes had me stumped. For instance, the theatrical piece with the horse. What the heck was THAT all about??
mike rice
I just watched this film. It was unrelenting, a story of the rough circumstances prostitutes endured in the West a little more than a century ago. Its a woman's story, almost totally without a male point of view. The men are represented as beings who mostly just mumble and play cards. Their voices are heard often muttering on the soundtrack. We can't make out what they're actually saying. Representing the guys as stick figures helps emphasize in what reduced and lonely circumstances the prostitutes inhabit their dance hall and saloon world. There are no women who are not prostitutes in this early western town. Just as the men have little regard for the women, the women think little of the men. I think this may be a fairly truthful accounting of the West before it was civilized. The film has got me thinking about how desperate male-female relationships may have been in America not all that long ago.--------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----
ForceYYZ-2
I think this movie was EXTREMELY slow and boring, It might be because there was no music in the backround.
