I recently saw HOW THE WEST WAS WON. it was so bad... acting, tone, pacing, script...feeble. but not in a good-bad way. some of the sets were quite nice maybe?
THE EXCORCIST... like a boring tv movie. not scary, not tense, not thought provoking. a slog to get through.
AVATAR...go away. just go away.
I must say I liked HTWW, if only for the shootout between the law and the outlaws aboard the train.
And here are six more reasons someone who has not seen the film may want to see it.
HARRY DEAN STANTON. As one of the outlaws aboard the train.
Little known as actors, but well known for playing the villain. JACK LAMBERT and RUDY ACOSTA. Again as outlaws aboard the train.
Blink and you'll miss him, but still instantly recognizable. LEE VAN CLEEF as one of the river pirates.
And you'll know him by his voice. KEN CURTIS in the Civil War scene.
RAYMOND MASSEY. Probably the only Canadian actor to play two American heroes. Depending upon how you define heroes. Not once, but twice. Here as Abe Lincoln and then again in Abe Lincoln in Illinois and John Brown in Santa Fe Trail and Seven Angry Men.
And the late western writer LOUIS L'AMOUR wrote the novelization of the screenplay, and as in most novelizations filling in some of the plot holes. Here what happened to some of the characters seen once in the film and then not seen again.