The Assassination of Jesse James (by the coward Robert Ford)

[Frayed Knot]

Long title for a long movie.

It's one of those 'historical dramas' where it's not easy to determine how much is history and how much is drama. In this case it deals with ... well, you can probably figure it out.

Brad Pitt plays Jesse James with just the right hint of menace behind an otherwise calm, rational exterior. Casey Affleck is the other half of the title pair. Ford is first a worshipper of, and later a sort of cohort to, James and over time a resentment at not being taken seriously by James creeps in on his admiration that makes one think of what Mark Chapman would have been like had he gotten to know Lennon.

[Guest themetfairy]

It's a yawnfest whose only salvation is the eye candy.

[A Boy Named Seo]

I thought it was pretty good, Casey Affleck was awesome, and some of the camera shots that were blurry on the perimeter, but in focus in the center (landscape scenes and through old west, warped windows) were very cool looking.