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Originally Posted by BayAreaGuy
3:10 to Yuma is my all time favorite.
The whole moral aspect along with Bale's character of being a relativily weak guy going against impossible odds is what takes even more touching.
The speech Bale gives to his son and the other guy at the end was touching. The last 20 minutes of that movie is hands down the best ending of any movie ever made.
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I agree. Every time a little more was revealed of Bale's motivation to do what it was he was doing, I found myself cheering for him that much harder.
First is when he's talking to his wife before heading out with Crowe, and the whole, "I'm tired of the way the kids look at me, I'm tired of the way you don't" speech was great. Up to that point I was kind of feeling like they were keeping him strapped into the passenger's seat and letting Russell Crowe drive the whole film, but that scene was where he finally got to come out of his shell a little.
Then there's the scene you reference where he's talking to his son and telling him how he's become a great man, and then there's my personal favorite scene of the film where Russell Crowe is choking him and he tells him the story of how he lost his foot and why he was so determined to get him on the train.
3:10 to Yuma was the first time in a long time where a film has exceeded my expectations and pleasantly surprised me as a very good film. Of the hundreds and hundreds of remakes/retellings of the last ten years or so, 3:10 to Yuma is definitely one of the best.
Unfortunately, The Ghost Train was quite a disappointment. Unbeknownst to me, the two stars were to Britain what Abbot and Costello were to the US at that same time, so while the film did have some good moments of suspense, it was, for the most part, a dorky British comedy.