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

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Originally Posted by rocknblues81

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.

I've already spelled out the reasons I think this film was not very successful, and that it being a western (or not being a western) had nothing to do with that.

I'm not necessarily arguing with you that westerns these days aren't the goldmine they used to be, but if you're talking about something like The Assassination of Jesse James, again, that's another film whose lack of success can be attributed to things like length and it being more of a slow-paced character study.

Django Unchained, The Revenant and True Grit are all westerns that did very well at the box office in recent years and also garnered critical acclaim.