UNCUT - Legends of the Fall (1994)

Also, Director Edward Zwick also went on to direct a movie I enjoy more, The Last Samurai. Worth checking out, if you haven't. Not a masterpiece, but good.

This is the second time I've seen this, and I think the first time was, goodness, probably 20+ years ago when I was maybe in high school or college, somewhere in there. It landed more with me now than it did then, and I did enjoy it, but movies like this one are a little 'capped' for me in that I can only like them so much, even if I'm enjoying it and I admire it. Love how it looks and was filmed, loved the scenery, enjoyed the music, the actors, the epic scope of it for the family, but these are the kind of stories, or maybe it's the characters mostly, where I struggle to feel too invested in them, and I think that limits how much I can be emotional or attached to everything that's happening, even though it did still get me a few times a little bit. It's like a B+ that I admire, but I can't help but feel something important was missing.

Everybody Fucking Dies: The Movie Pretty good watch. Not sure it's something I'd go back to, but glad I watched it. CRAZY amount of story covered in just over 2 hours. Just an entire multi generational tragedy crammed into 1 movie. Great performances all around, especially from Pitt and Hopkins. The only other movie I know Julia Ormond from is First Knight, and she was the center of a love triangle there as well, so I detect a theme. As for the whole "who would be stupid enough to go off to war" discussion, that really depends. It's one thing to say that about someone going off to fight in the Syrian civil war or getting involved in some blow up between India and Pakistan or something. In other cases there's an argument that you can try to keep your head down(as an individual or a nation) and stay out of trouble, but at some point trouble will come for you. Like in WW2, if Japan never attacked Pearl Harbor and the US never entered the war, and maybe if Canada stayed out of it too instead of running supplies and soldiers over to the UK to keep them in the fight, then you may well end up in a world where North America has a nazi controlled Europe(along with much of Russia and north Africa) on one side, and a massive Japanese empire controlling most of the pacific on the other. Now both those adversaries are stronger than ever, and maybe after a decade or 2 to recover, they decide to come for you. Now you're impossibly outnumbered and the nations that would have been your allies are long since defeated, and you end up being conquered and losing the peaceful life you hoped to preserve by not getting involved. So I don't think it's stupid to serve in a war of that scale. It's just seeing the big picture.

The teen version of Tristan was played by Canadian actor Eric Johnson, whom Josh might recognize as Whitney on Smallville.

Interesting thought about making this a miniseries instead of a movie.

The boys went to Canada to enlist bc America didn’t join the war until 1917

Great cast, Great soundtrack, Great locations and cinematography, Great movie. But the ups and downs, the highs and lows are sooo extreme that it's exhausting lol

Legends of the Fall - a.k.a. "Bros Before Hos Except For That One Ho, the Movie." I kid. I really like this movie, but damn, Tristan really WAS pretty much a jinx. But I really love all the performances, the exploration of Tristan's PTSD and guilt, and how just packed this movie is witih plot. As a side note, having lost a younger brother many years ago, this one hits hard in places. As a second side note, I was born in 1970 but my dad was born in 1928, and his dad was a WWI vet who actually DID suffer from the aftereffects of mustard gas. He died about 5 years before I was born, but I still have his steel canteen and WWI dogtags. Anyway, great reaction guys!

Also. I’m hoping one day you will watch the movie I put in your pool two years ago. I think you will both hate it, despite its brilliance!!

Ok. I’m going to say it out loud. Alex, you drive me crazy with your opinions. But I keep coming back anyway.

RIP - James Horner… one of my favorite scores