Tuesday, August 19, 2003

Open Range

I saw "Open Range" last night. I'm not a big fan of Westerns but this was quite good, especially in constrast to most of the movies I've seen recently. Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall were both very good, even as relatively "stock" western characters. Michael Jeter was terrific in a small part as the town blacksmith. He'd done good work in other films; The Fisher King comes to mind. He also appeared on my younger son's favorite show: he played Mr. Noodle's brother, Mr. Noodle on the Elmo's World segment of Sesame Street. Sadly, he died earlier this year.