Yeah, the movie's dialogue is certainly a tad more complicated than the show was, not in a good way IMO. The show's dialogue never felt pretentious in writing yet complex enough to have you think about it in a fun and intriguing way, the movie's dialogue -again at parts- felt like someone was trying to imitate the way the show was written but ended up taking it a little too far.
Also it made it feel like we went 20 years backwards instead of 10 years forwards, the way people talk should be getting closer to what we comprehend now, not the other way around. Granted 10 years is not enough passed time to have significant culture changes that alters the way the people talk.
Now that was a minor complaint from me about the movie, which I otherwise enjoyed. I thought it was good enough, not amazing nor great, just sufficient closure. My wife didn't like it at all, she thought it was an insult to the show, I defended it by telling her they did good for the time they had, the show easily could have used another season.
I like Timothy Olyphant a lot for his on-screen charisma but I've always thought he was a bad actor, which is cool, there's a lot of bad actors that I like due to their vibes, Keanu Reeves comes to mind. So Olyphant did it for me okay on the show but he was very inconsistent in the movie. I can tribute Bullok's behavior in the movie to the character growing up and maturing over the years but his accent changing sounded weird and throw me off for a bit.
I liked seeing all the characters again, no reference to what happened to the ones who were not there. Like Cy and Richardson, who's actors died. Or Adams, I don't know why they couldn't get the actor who played Adams though, I would have loved to see him, same for Mose.
Random thoughts:
It was so cheerful and uplifting to see Sophia grown up into a healthy, normal and beautiful young woman.
It was weird to see a pimp, who often slept with and was frequently violent to his prostitute, act like her father and give her away at her wedding..
It was difficult to sell me on Jane having spent the last 10 years on the same schedule of constant drunkness without dying of alcohol poisoning.
It was heart-warming to see Bullok's family grown and his wife happy.
I was good to see Dan and Johnny at the bar again. I was surprised Al decided to leave the Gem to Trixie instead of Dan, considering what Al and Dan have been to each other. BTW The actor playing Dan said there's about 20 minutes cut from the movie for time, I hope that comes out with the BluRay.
It was a titanic stretch to sell me on the idea that George Hearst remembered Trixie, a woman he only saw for literally 2 seconds, 10 years ago. And was easily deceived back then when Swearengin showed him a different prostitute's corpse to avoid giving up Trixie. He remembered her as she came out and yelled at him from a balcony as he was passing through the street below.
Huge stretch there.
I liked Harry Mannings on the show, kinda sad he turned out the way he did.
Fucking Wu, successfully avoiding to learn English 10 years on
I've always hated Trixie and I was never sold on Star's love for her, perhaps because I personally cannot find any redeeming qualities to ill-tempered people. But they could have toned down her anti-sematic bull shit simply because I found it unrealistic for a man of that time to keep getting this kind of verbal abuse from a woman and still wants to marry her. She was even pregnant with his child, who's gonna be Jewish too! Is she gonna call the kid "Jew bastard" too?
Al is a shadow of his former self in this movie, due to his deteriorating health. And that could explain my next question: How come Al isn't a wealthy man yet? I mean all this planning and plotting for various business related threads in the original 3 seasons and he's still living in that minimal room over the saloon.
Again; despite it all I enjoyed this movie a lot and was pretty teared up throughout, just to see the place and the people again.