Red Dead Redemption Hype Week: The Quick and the Dead

In pre-celebration of Red Dead Redemption's release, what better way to roll out the blood red carpet than with a week of good old fashioned Western movies? Tonight's movie was The Quick and the Dead, starring Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe, and Leonardo DeCaprio.

Ellen arrives in the Old West town of Redemption (what an appropriate name for this week!) seeking revenge for the murder of her sheriff father years ago by the town's tyrant, John Herod. The majority of the movie revolves around Herod's gun fight competition between the best gun fighters in the town. The brutal fighters include a super-skilled-gun-fighter-turned-preacher, an Indian who can't die by being shot, a suave card player who adds an ace to his deck when he kills someone, and a hired gun who finds killing purely business. The cinematography of the movie guarantees you'll get to see plenty of close ups of guns, faces, zooming in of guns, and zooming in of faces!

Let's see. A town called Redemption. A quest for revenge. A gun fighter competition. A tyrant mayor. This could turn out to be an exciting Red Dead Redemption Hype week!