Thursday
Feb202020
The Quick and the Dead, 25 Years Later
Thursday, February 20, 2020 at 11:03AM by Ben Miller
When you rewatch Sam Raimi’s The Quick and the Dead, it desperately needs to be contextualized. Look on the surface and you see four actors with both bonfide acting chops as well as moviestar magnetism. On top of all that, you have a cavalcade of character actors hamming it up in the background while Raimi pulls out every B-movie trick he knows for an entertaining-as-hell Western.
All of it all works, but it didn’t in 1995...