Kevin Costner's $38M Horizon Gamble

I wish him luck.

Projects like this seem to go one of two ways:

1. "Wow, what a visionary, who had a brilliant idea and we all admire what that idea looks like."

2. "Clearly, nobody was there to tell him no, so every dumb idea got onto the screen."

I genuinely hope it's the former. I'm always glad to have more great art in the world. Even if it's not for me, I'll be really happy if it finds an audience.

If I were a bettor, I'd guess it's the latter. But I hope not.

The movie trailer for the first one is interesting to me. It seems like he's been making the rounds with reporters over the past few weeks regarding the films. Surely, this will generate more interest and, in turn, more money for him. Unfortunately, theaters are somewhat unaffordable and uninteresting to me, at least.

Overpriced everything, plus the hassle of dealing with fellow citizens, sounds awful.

$10.00 (+ $1.75 Booking fee) for a ticket to see a movie at my local theater for a Sunday ticket.

Seeing Costner...old...hurts in a weird way. He was in many ways my generation's James Dean, the cool man's man every kid wanted to be.

I never got cool, and now I'm "old" too, it just doesn't always set in until you see your hero looks old, too.

I think I've loved every movie he's been in, save maybe Waterworld. I have little doubt this one won't also be a success. Westerns have fallen out of fashion generally, so interested to see what spins he brings to modernize it, if any.

The reviews aren’t great so far. But that doesn’t mean he won’t strike gold. Dances With Wolves was famously troubled in production and not expected to be a hit. Costner seems to have a surprisingly good nose for content that is overlooked or doubted by mainstream Hollywood (I’ve manually removed Waterworld and The Postman from my analysis).