My Grading System

A+ = Masterpiece (I hold back on this one.) / A = Great. / A- = Really Good. / B+ = Good. / B = Decent (Serviceable). / B- = Flawed but okay (For those times there's something redeeming about the work). / C+ = Not very good (Skip it). C = Bad. / C- = Awful. / F = Complete Disaster (I hold back on this one too).

Note on Spoilers: I will try to avoid ruining a story by going into too much detail. But if I wish to include some revealing points to my analysis I will try to remember to add a separate spoiler paragraph.

Monday, June 6, 2011

Junior Bonnar (1972)

Peckinpaw directs a modern day western about a bull rider starring the tender-eyed, soft-spoken, tough guy Steve McQueen.  Junior is a rodeo man, content to follow the rodeo circuit striving to ride a bull in eight seconds.  Distant from his family, he arrives to his home town rodeo and reunites with them, especially with his father played with friskiness by Robert Preston.   There are some really great moments in this movie along with some fun characters.  In many ways there's nothing like it, so it feels fresh even with its dated appearance.   If you like films where the town it's filmed becomes a character, where the citizens of said town are as interesting as the main characters, you'll probably love this movie.  I did.  Grade: B+
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