Movie  1995
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John Herod: I said, are you still fast?
Cort: Faster than you.
Kid: Is it possible? Is it possible to improve on _perfection_?
Cort: There's a click before the strike. Listen to the clock.
John Herod: You're not fast enough for me!
Ellen: Today I am.
Kid: [after being shot by John Herod] Damn, that's fast!
[Falls and dies]

Scars: I need a woman.
Ellen: You need a bath.
Ellen: [female gunslinger walks up behind a preoccupied bartender] How about a room?
Horace: Whores next door.
Ellen: [carefully sets her cigar down] Say that again.
Horace: I said whores next door.
Ellen: [kicks the stool out from under him, catches his liquor bottle as he falls, & pours herself a drink] Now, do you have a room available?
Horace: Uh, room and bath, yes, ma'am, coming up!
Ace Hanlon: You wanna play poker with me, little lady?
Ellen: Looks like you're having a pretty good time playing with yourself.
Kid: I'm so damned fast I can wake up at the crack of dawn, rob two banks, a train and a stage coach, shoot the tail feathers off a duck's ass at 300 feet, and still be back in bed before you wake up next to me.
Cort: Last night, The Kid. Tonight, Herod. You're a busy woman. Any man in this town you're not interested in?
Ellen: Yeah. You.
John Herod: [shouting] This is my town! If you live to see the dawn, it's because I allow it. I'm in charge of everything! I decide who lives or who dies!
Ellen: I'm gonna kill you if I have to ride all the way to hell to do it.
John Herod: Do you have some particular problem with me?
Kid: I'm worth $3,000 in four states. Seventy-five offenses and no convictions. My name's Fee but, uh... everyone calls me the Kid.
Ellen: Congratulations.
Townsman: We're gonna have to bury this old man deep. He stinks something awful.
Blind Boy: John Herod owns that house. He gets fifty cents of every dollar in this town.
Ellen: What's the town get?
Blind Boy: Huh... they gets to live.
John Herod: You must be the fastest gun in the west. That or the biggest liar!
Kid: Want some breakfast? Or, uh, how 'bout a little of what we had last night?
Scars: You're purty.
Ellen: You're not.
Cantrell: Sergeant Cantrell.
Shemp: How do you spell that?
Cantrell: Correctly.
Kid: The Smith and Wesson Schofield .45. Just meat and potatoes. Me and Jesse James think it's the best handgun in the world. Had the trigger guard removed, it saves drawin' time. Don't ever wear it when you're drunk, or you'll kill your feet.
Kid: Am I fast, or is Sweden just a very small place?
[Holding a card deck]
Ace Hanlon: This is a very special pack. See, I put an ace in every time I kill a man.
[Shows it and its all aces]
Ellen: In case you forgot, Preacher, I saved your life last night.
Cort: No, I think you just stretched it out a bit. I might've even gone to heaven if you'd let me die.
Ellen: Sorry.
[after killing all of Herod's henchmen]
Cort: Sorry, John. Changed the rules. From now on, all the fights are fair.
John Herod: Like I always say - put a fox in the henhouse and you'll have chicken for dinner every time.
Kid: No no no no, you see it's a gun fight. We both have guns. We aim, we fire, you die.
Description
Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, and director Sam Raimi reinvent the American Western in this wild, sexy shoot-out studded with action, suspense and offbeat humor.

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Starring: Sharon Stone, Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe, and Ge

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Director Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead) tries gamely to recapture the exotic mysteries of spaghetti Westerns in this stylish but empty film, which stars Sharon Stone as a stranger who comes to the town of Redemption in time for an annual shooting contest. Her real motivations for being there are the stuff that might have found their way into a film by Sergio Leone--in fact, much of this film is a pastiche of Leone's greatest hits, including A Fistful of Dollars and Once upon a Time in America--but one can't quite believe Stone in the role. Gene Hackman gives a predictably solid performance as the town tyrant, and Leonardo DiCaprio is good as a lucky young gunslinger who gets to kiss the heroine. But not even the cast can help this failed project. Raimi brings a lot of razzle-dazzle to his camera work, but it doesn't make the film any more substantial. --Tom Keogh