Upon watching Eminence Hill I determined that I need a new metric for a
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movie- did the movie put me to sleep?
Let’s take the same Eminence Hill as an example. It started off with a tense, dramatic moment
setting up what promises to be a bloody tale of vengeance. Then it kind of wandered off until some spicy
campfire scenes grabbed my attention, followed by an absurd scene of a pair of
Apaches stealing horses from our main characters by (I kid you not) walking up
to them while they slept five feet from their mounts, shushing a captive, then
riding away. The great horse thieves of
the plains are surely rolling over in their graves. At some point conservatively dressed but thoroughly
dangerous looking lawman walked into a saloon and ordered some tea after an
awkward encounter with…
…and then I woke up.
Mrs. Slap had just come home, we put on some chili, and I don’t think I’ll
ever get back to this one.
The cast, sets, and wardrobe were by turns great or
ridiculous. If I were a more attentive
viewer I would have followed the plot better, but consider this- no one has to
make you follow the plot to Empire Strike Back.
You are in from the first shot, and I certainly wasn’t on this one.
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