No offense but the 1972 Robert Redford (35 or 36) was much better looking than the 2025 Joel Edgerton (51 as of late June), so there’s that also. It’s always more involving, not to mention more pleasant, to watch a good-looking actor cope with grueling physical hardship and the relentlessly brutal terms of outdoor, hand-to-mouth survival than to watch a not-as-good-looking guy do the same.
I’m sorry but life is unfair. Always has been, always will be.
Plus there’s no scene in Train Dreams that delivers the eerie, take-it-or-leave-it finality of Redford reading Hatchet Jack‘s farewell letter.
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