I'll start by saying I had no say in seeing this film. Over the fall break, my friends Cleo and Alex invited me to stay over at their place. Their parents decided to take us to see “Angel and the Badman,” a 2026 remake of the 1947 film of the same name. I didn't know what to expect from this film; I'd never seen the original and could only imagine what sparks the interest of two old white retirees, but it would be rude not to go. I needed something for this assignment, and a free movie is a free movie.
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| My ticket! |
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| Cinemark Colonel Glenn and XD |
We went to the Cinemark in Little Rock, a fairly large theater, matinee tickets in hand. The tickets were about 9 dollars each, which is a steal nowadays considering the average movie ticket costs you your firstborn plus tax. I didn't really bother getting snacks; those prices were pretty standard to me(so expensive). They did have some interesting merchandise like popcorn buckets and keychains that have been overpriced like crazy (seriously, you can get those same items at five and below). I did, however, enjoy the claw machines; I love a little trinket and couldn't resist trying my hand at it. I managed to get a little plush doll, and somebody forgot to finish playing one of the other claw games, I guess, so my friend and I enjoyed trying and failing to get a free plush.
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| Overpriced Merchandise |
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| My treasures! (I don't even like this anime) |
This movie was so bad, point blank. We watched the original to compare, and the remake is almost entirely new. It takes some basic plot points, but turns the whole film into a preachy Christian movie that makes no sense. In the original film. Quirt, Evens, and Penny's relationship is the focal point of the original film. Quirt changes his ways as a criminal so he can be with her; they actually get to know each other; it's romantic. In the remake, Penny could be replaced with a literal Bible, and it would be the same; she does nothing except pet a horse that's supposed to symbolize Quirt, I guess.
At no point does it make sense as to why the two leads like each other other than he's the first man to show up in her general vicinity. The acting in the film is horrible, but honestly I think it's the best they could do with this god-awful script. It just throws in random quotes from the original film haphazardly and hopes your grandma points at the screen and goes, “I remember that.”
The set design and costuming of this film were so inconsistent; the number of times I would see modern cookware, modern clothes, modern donuts that look like they took them straight from the craft table was absurd. One thing I thought was particularly insane was the number of times a character would go grab a bucket of water, and you could clearly see THERE WAS NO WATER! Can we not afford water? Do we not have enough time to account for water refilling between takes? The whole production just felt cheap.
The only good part of this movie experience was the last 15 minutes. This truly was one of the most insane things I've experienced in a cinema. At this point of the film, the evil cowboy Laredo and his men have taken over the Worth household in search of Quirt, who is stuck in a prison cell. In the span of 15 MINUTES, a man is shot and killed, the sheriff is hanged, Laredo forces Penny to put on a wedding dress for some reason, and she stabs him with a giant metal nail; Quirt is busted out of jail by a horse, then he rushes over to the Worths' home.
When he finally gets there, Laredo tries to kill him but is shot by the sheriff, who actually didn't turn out to be dead; Penny runs to Quirt, they kiss, and he carries her off into the sunset past the multiple dead bodies on the property. Then the movie ends. I've never laughed so hard in my life; I felt like I was having a stroke. Is this movie horrible? Yes. Will I force people to sit through it for just that last bit? Absolutely. Overall, I had a decent enough experience; it was a good laugh at least. But next time I go over, I hope I get to choose the movie.
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