The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005) - May 28, 2019 (Sony)

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Originally Posted by RCRochester

Okay, not necessarily pace, but for me it's not truly a Western unless it takes in that time period and I suspect it's the same for a great many people.

What it boils down to is I don't think that the overall lack of interest in this film can be attributed to a lack of interest in westerns, because I don't think many people view this is as being one.

How many successful westerns have they been in the last decade in terms of money? The Assassination of Jesse James didn't make any money either. Neither did The Proposition?

You have the 3:10 to Yuma remake but even that was 15 years ago now. Not to mention that Bale and Crowe were in their prime, James Mangold was fresh off Walk the Line. It was kind of an exception.


It's going to be hard to sell a western in today's pop culture. The genre has mostly been dead (with only a couple of exceptions) for a couple of decades in terms of being able to make money.