This is basically Kasdan’s love letter to classic 50s westerns; movies by the likes of John Ford, Howard Hawks, etc. It’s one of my top five westerns, easily. And yes, Kevin Costner is goofy as hell, and it’s glorious.
This was the first major western that had been made in many years. The genre had been ignored since the early 70's . When I first saw it, what struck me was how long it took to get to Silverado. So many story lines. Costner's first movie as his first roll had ended up on the cutting room floor.
Silverado is a highly underrated Western. Kevin Kline is ... the best! What a fabulous window treatment! Arrrgh! He's almost as good here as he is as Mr. Fischoeder. 😅 Kevin Costner as a kid. A kid!
Before Silverado Lawrence Kasdan wrote and directed "The Big Chill"(1983). It was a huge hit and has a great cast. It too Starred Kevin Kline, Jeff Goldblum and Kevin Costner. But Kevin Costner was cut from the film, only parts of his dead body appeared. Kasdan felt bad so he wrote the part in Silverado just for Kevin. I saw The Big Chill in 1983 and just loved it! I've watched it 20x since then. I went to see Silverado in 85 because I loved Westerns and The Big Chill. My girlfriend and I left the theatre we love the movie, but all could talk about was how we thought Kevin Costner was going to be a Big Movie Star. From that moment on I thought I'm going to watch anything he's in.
The thing is Costner didn't want to play a happy go lucky goofy character. He wanted to play more Kevin Kilnes character, a darker more serious gunfighter. But he looked too young for that. But he hated playing it this way.
And Raiders of the Lost Ark. His first movie written and directed is "Body Heat"(1981). Great movie! Another good one is "Grand Canyon"(1991).@@terrygracy8345
It's nice to see you tackling this one, an enormously entertaining movie that has unfortunately slipped under the radar over time. Lawrence Kasdan was one of the few people with the juice to get a Western on this scale off the ground in the 1980s, and I'm still very glad he did.
A Fish Called Wanda is one you should definitely check out. It has Pythons (John Cleese & Michael Palin), Kevin Kline, and Jamie Lee Curtis. It is a comedy classic!
The showdown between Cobb and Paden is shot so well. Paden has the white church behind him, symbolizing hope, while Cobb has nothing but empty wasteland behind him. So awesome.
YAAS QUEEN!! I've neen trying to get someone to react to this for years! My first western film, and second favorite of all (right behind "Once Upon A Time In The West"). Thank you, Shan! 🎉
This one was a favorite with my family when it came out. I was in high school. My girlfriend in college LOVED it. She used to say “what we ya doin’?” The way Costner did. The score is heavily derived not so much from theb80’s as from the scores of the classic westerns of the late 50’a and early 60’s. “Today my jurisdiction ends here” is still one of my favorite John Cleese lines.
This is mine and my father's favorite western. The fact you are reacting to it. You are hands down my fav reactor now. Well to be fair you already were at the top so i guess you are even higher on top? Idk. I haven't even seen your reaction this is pre-watching you watch Silverado.....to be continued Conclusion: Just as I thought. You get it. You understood the fun, the cheese, the underrated score. This movie is so damn good. Love it and loved your reaction.
Kevin Kline is one of my favorite actors. He re-unites with Glover in Kasdan's Grand Canyon, along with other great cast members Alfre Woodard, Steve Martin and Mary McDonnell. Definitely worth the watch.
Kevin Costner opened a casino in Deadwood South Dakota. He named it the Midnight Star after the bar in this movie and also the restaurant in the casino was named Jakes after his character.
Kevin Kline said in an interview that John Cleese came to him during the filming of Silverado with the basics of the script of A Fish Called Wanda, which he was working on during down time. His pitch was “You’re the most evil person in the world, you eat Michael Palin’s prized goldfish, and you’re run over by a steamroller.” Apparently it took Kevin all of 2 seconds to sign on.
So glad someone is FINALLY reacting to this great movie!!! It's Lawrence Kasdan's homage to the classic Western. It's so fun - comedy, drama, great music, great acting - the chemistry between all the players is perfect!
Big wide screen salute to "they don't make 'em like that anymore" movies !! I saw it on at the time the biggest screen in the D.C. metro area the great Uptown Theater where every big Hollywood movie of the year got shown up until it sadly closed it doors in 2020 . This was such a great movie to see on it's IMAX size screen. When the heroes galloped side by size the audience burst into applause !!
This movie is one of my favorites. I was 14 when this movie came out and it was the first movie I ever saw with Kevin Costner. My favorite character is Paden and he is also my favorite of all of Kevin Kline's roles. I especially love his scenes with Linda Hunt as Stella. My favorite scene is when Paden and Cobb face off at the end and they both say goodbye to each other. I just thought that was an amazing scene. I also love the music; it is one of my favorite things about this movie. Bruce Broughton also composed the score for Tombstone, as well as one of my favorite movies from the 80's, Young Sherlock Holmes. I recommend that movie as well.
Hey Shanelle! My favorite western is called Rio Bravo with John Wayne, Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson. It is very classic and you would definitely enjoy it!
Shanelle, when this one came out the western genre had pretty much died out. Silverado restarted it! I saw this in a theater in Dallas when it came out. The theater was packed and the crowd was roaring and clapping. So much fun! Thanks for sharing it. 🙂
THE western that made me fall in love with the western genre. Wasn't really into westerns until I watched this back when it opened in theatres. I had the opportunity to thank Lawrence Kasdan in person to tell him it was his film that opened me up to the likes of Leone, Ford, Peckinpah, more Eastwood, and other classic westerns.
Shanelle, you watching this has me grinning from ear to ear! I suggested this several months ago during a live stream and I'm glad you're enjoying it! Now, you have to check out The Quick And The Dead! Baby Leo, Russell Crow, Sharon Stone abd a bad Gene Hackman!!
For someone who watched old westerns black and white, tv series from the 60s and before. When it came out I saw homages to the cowboy "serials" and hard bitten westerns ala Jimmy Stewarts Winchester '76 and others with some whimsy. One of my favorites of all time, can watch it many times and still have joy in it. Thanks for this and awesome reaction :)
I was barely out of my teens and saw it in the theater, not knowing much more than you did. That opening shot where he walks out of the shed to reveal the vista was AMAZING on the big screen. You talked about the star power in the movie as perhaps influencing the budget, but Kasdan had a phenomenal eye for talent and frequently picked theater-trained actors just on the cusp of fame (and helped launch them into fame).
My dad put off buying a big flat screen TV for years. When he finally bought one, I set it up for him. This was the movie I put on to show him how good it looked. Specifically for the first transition from the dark room to the canyon. It blew his mind.
I got to see this in the theatre back in the day. In the trailers that advertised the film, they said something like, "And Jake .. He's just crazy." Costner must have had fun playing the role. My dad was a big fan of Westerns, and I'm a bit sad he never got to see this on the big screen with me. Got to watch it with him on TV one day, though. This movie is full of so many great character actors. Such a love letter to the Westerns of old.
The Score for Silverado was nominated for an Oscar, but lost to Out of Africa - which heavily features Mozart. Although the 30 minutes of original John Barry composition(out of 3.5 hours) is phenomenal, most people believe that film won everything that year strictly because of Streep.
One of my favorites! For a time, I would come home from work and plug this one in to watch a random 20 minutes or so just to unwind. In my book, it has almost everything required of a Hollywood Western - wide-vista beautiful scenery, horses in snow, a wagon train, saloons, a stampede, a corrupt lawman and Kevin Kline even kisses his horse and Kevin Costner rolls around in the hay with a pretty girl. And that double shot of the bad guys outside of the saloon, I love that. The good guys win and ride off into the future at the end of the movie. Great reaction, thanks. Peace …
I've heard good things about Maverick. Still gotta check it out myself. One western I have seen and can recommend: Bad Girls, with Madelaine Stowe, Mary Stuart Masterson, and Andy McDowell.
This is one of the best movies to catch 'stars before they were stars' with Kevin Klein, Danny Glover, Kevin Costner, Jeff Goldblum, et. al. I love this move, it's my favorite western.
I'm going to go against my general rule here and post a second time. Back in the days of the VHS player, it was slightly cost-prohibitive to buy a lot of movies, so most families in my economic strata had only a pile or two and that was what you watched. Repeatedly. Extensively. When my mother brought home Silverado, I had never before seen a Western and I only knew a handful of the actors. The tape sat in the pile for quite some time as a result. One rainy Saturday afternoon, I picked it up and actually read the rear cover text. It sounded to me like Adventure, like Lost Ark, Goonies, Princess Bride, etc. I got a store-brand soda and put that sucker into the toploader. I was stunned. Suddenly, I wanted to be a cowboy. The adventure kind, not the kind that actually drive cattle. For about two weeks, everything was about cowboys, and I had a total boy-crush on Scott Glenn. I even got a hat. It was a battered old leather thing, more vagabond than gunslinger, but it kinda suited my idiom, so I was proud as hell of it (that hat would later go on to serve me very well when I started going to Grateful Dead concerts). If this wall of text is any indication, I really liked this movie.
You would totally love a western called “The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox” from 1976 starring George Segal & Goldie Hawn. It’s one of my favorites because it’s great action, story & it’s hilarious!!
God, I love this movie 😂 The way the heroes come together, the villains, the side characters, the humor and, of course, the score. The only thing keeping it from being perfect was no sequel. And sooo many great lines!!!
This was the first western I fell in love with, followed by the Sabata trilogy and the TV series wild wild west. Something you said reminded me of a line from Cowboys And Aliens: "I've seen good men do bad things, and bad men do good."
Silverado (1985) is now one of my all-time favorite Westerns. I own the 1999 Collector's Edition DVD in both 1.85:1 & 2.39:1 widescreen formats. This is one movie that I would definitely suggest to Addie Counts. #SilveradoForAddieCounts
@@StephenLuke There were two different versions of the 1999 DVD. The serial number on the 1.85:1 version is 03670 and the serial on the 2.39:1 version is 04281. I own both copies of the movie.
Saw this 1st Run, 1985 in Crested Butte, CO. Iconic Western that basically re-energized the Western Genre. The Main Character? Emmett. The Golden Globe Nominee (the kid) who says "Sheriff Langston, come quick" was Lawrence Kasdan's son.
I loved this movie when it first came out, this movie along with Unforgiven helped save the Western in Hollywood. All of the main cast members went on to become stars..
This is good fun, a light-hearted tribute to classic westerns. I suppose if you want to see the quintessential classic western, you can't go wrong with _Rio Bravo_ from 1959. It's got everything.
At the time this came out Hollywood hadn’t done a good old classic style western in decades. Kasden proved he could handle a big ensemble cast with the Big Chill. So everyone was excited for this movie which was a summer blockbuster. It was also unique that the practical effects were so well timed in the gun battles you could see the missed shots hit.
One of the most underrated westerns. Some others I recommend are: Cat Ballou, The Cheyenne Social Club, Barbarossa, The Grey Fox, and The Villain to name a few.
My father wrote western novels and loved the western genre, and this was one of his all time favorites. I watch it a few times a year just to remind me of him. Thank you.
Great reacation video Here are 3 movie suggestions for your movie list.. All very good! 1. Jaws (1975) 2. The Deep (1977) 3. Close encounters of the third kind (1977)
