What the… 4:3!? Oh yeah, this only seems to be available now in that aspect ratio, but it was filmed in 1.85:1. So I guess I’m never going to see the edges to the left and right of this movie: It bombed and was a critical failure, if I remember correctly. I saw it at the time (probably on VHS) and I kinda liked it, so I’m rewatching it now.
Hey! It’s Grace Zabrieskie!
Ah yeah, I guess he died just before this…
Yay.
Hey! It’s William Burroughs!
Hey! It’s John Hurt!
Hey! It’s Keanu!
I love New York.
Hey! It’s Crispin Glover! With an amazing comb over!
Hey! It’s Carol Kane! I was thinking “is that a very young Amy Sedaris? Nooo” but then I got it.
I choose to believe that this looked better in the cinema than in this DVD version.
The darker scenes are just very… like this.
Noo!
Hey! It’s Udo Kier!
This movie still has really awful IMDB scores.
And it’s not just that a bunch of people have given it a 1, but the weight is really on 5-1. People actually really dislike this movie!
I can understand that… It feels very 60s. And improvised. Even though it’s based on a novel? And it doesn’t really make much sense? But I kinda like it.
Hey! It’s that guy!
I want to see this in 1.85:1. There would be like 40% more cowgirls in shots like this.
I didn’t like the ending. No, that’s putting it too weakly — I loathed the ending. It’s such a cliché — I know this was made 30 years ago, but even back then, it was a loathsome trope.
But I quite liked the movie otherwise.
The film was a critical and commercial failure. The picture opened in wide release on May 20, 1994, and grossed a mere $1.7M against an estimated $8.5M budget.
On Rotten Tomatoes, it has an 17% approval rating based on 30 reviews, with an average score of 3.5/10. On Metacritic the film has a score of 28% based on reviews from 16 critics, indicating “generally unfavorable” reviews.
Eep. 3.5/10. That’s harsh.
Film historian and critic Leonard Maltin said: “The novel was hopelessly dated, and there is not enough peyote in the entire American Southwest to render this movie comprehensible or endurable…K.D. Lang’s score is the picture’s sole worthy component.”
It’s true — the score is pretty fab. Was it released on an album? I should get that.
Oh wow. This movie is one of those OH IT”S SO BAD movies that they put on “worst of” lists.
But it’s not.
Even Cowgirls Get The Blues. Gus Van Sant. 1993. ⚃
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