--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, ABQBrewer@... wrote:
>
> Hi all:
>
> Elmore Leonard's one of my heroes, but I've only met him once in
person
> (at Bcon in Denver). One of the things we talked about was the mixed
success
> of his books that have been made into movies. As I recall, he was
pleased with
> Get Shorty, Out of Sight and Jackie Brown. When I mentioned Mr.
Majestyk, he
> shook his head and said something like: "Charles Bronson couldn't
say a line
> right to save his life."
>
Bronson was a limited actor, but the lines in Majestyk are not funny
lines like many in those three relatively recent movies, which also
had much larger budgets. It has been a while, but Bronson doesn't ruin
Majestyk. The production is very seventies, but still adequate, by
which I mean that the movie does not come across as ridiculous. It is
watchable, perhaps because the story is a strong one and at the same
time a very basic one (straight out of a classic Western).
Best,
mrt
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