Spoiler Warning. The fullscreen version of Silverado is a truly wonderful movie, but it suffers terribly from losing so much of the image. There are many shots (no pun intended) that require widescreen to see and understand the action. The single most important example is the climax of the film - Paden and the Sheriff's old-style fast-draw - wherein the audience cannot see the action until too late. It simply doesn't appear on screen. Many of Kevin Costner's best sequences also occur off-screen or mostly off-screen. Thankfully, there has been enough interest to result in a limited widescreen release on DVD in 1999, but it has been discontinued, and is now only available used from collectors. This comment is to encourage the many fans of this wonderful film to also seek out the widescreen version. Enough interest generated will achieve results, and there are certainly many of us who want to see the version we only remember from the theatrical release.
Review of Silverado
