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Sharon Stone! Leonardo DiCaprio! Sam Raimi’s The Quick and the Dead deserves your time

Link [2022-05-25 09:06:44]

This 1995 western has been widely overlooked but it is good camp fun, starring Stone as a mysterious woman who enters a gunslinger contest in an outlaw town

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Once I was at a party and everyone was talking about the fads we went through at school. “Remember Tamagotchis?” someone said. Everyone began to throw in suggestions, the conversation growing speedier and more enthusiastic. Drawing the “Cool S”. The Spice Girls. Asking yes/no erasers to answer questions. “Oh, and what about when everyone got really into collecting millipedes!” The conversation paused as everyone looked at me. Turns out that experience wasn’t universal.

I get a similar reaction every time I bring up The Quick and the Dead, a 1995 film directed by Sam Raimi. I watched it as a kid and figured everyone else had too. But whenever I’ve brought it up over the years, I’m usually met with a blank stare.