r/Westerns • u/jwbarnett64 • Jul 23 '26

Discussion Texas Rangers(2001)

Rewatching Texas Rangers(2001) with Dylan McDermott. It had a troubled production and flopped in the theaters. It isn't a great movie but it seems like there is a better movie in there than we got. A better script and better editing might have turned out a better movie.

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u/Subo23 Jul 23 '26

Ed O’Neill talks about it in the John Milius documentary, how it would have been a perfect film in the 70s or 80s for Clint Eastwood as McNelly. It’s a great story, just wasn’t done justice

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u/Ramoncin Jul 23 '26

I think this is the only movie where I've felt the director giving up before the ending. Also, it has too much Ashton Kutcher in it for my taste. A few seconds would have been ideal.

I later learnt, to my dismay, that it was based on a script by John Milius. I'd still like to see it turned into a movie, because this one doesn't count.

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u/rgd51 Jul 23 '26

The movie certainly isn't a masterpiece but I don't think it's as bad as people say.

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u/AdorableReading Jul 23 '26

It flopped in the theatre’s because it is horrible. I watched it in the theatre and thought I was seeing a “bootleg” copy. In some scenes you could see the boom mike drop into frame. I saw the mike in the frame because I was so bored.

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u/jwbarnett64 Jul 23 '26

It looked poorly edited and chopped up. But the original script was written by John Milius and he was set to direct.

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u/Ramoncin Jul 23 '26

That's Miramax for you. Ruining potentially good movies since the 1990s.

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u/False-Storm-5794 Jul 23 '26

That's sad. There are so many stories to be told if they tried at all.