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Westerns
Jan 18, 2020 20:12:48 GMT -5
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Post by rickyguitar on Jan 18, 2020 20:12:48 GMT -5
Anybody else into westerns? I am sitting here thinking I need to watch Tombstone, we have it on the hard drive. The dialogue really is fabulous. Also like Wyatt Earp, Unforgiven, Lonesome Dove (boy is that long and grim), Deadwood, the ludt goes on and on. You?
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Post by LM on Jan 18, 2020 20:26:58 GMT -5
I love a good western. I'm watching The Shootist right now for the third or fourth time. My favorites are this one, Silverado, Open Range, Unforgiven, and several others.
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Post by Harleyboy on Jan 18, 2020 20:56:50 GMT -5
I wish they were making more of them. Seems like we are lucky to get 1 per year.
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Post by twigs 🦒 on Jan 18, 2020 21:43:40 GMT -5
Watched Big Jake last night here on the savannah.
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Post by LTB on Jan 18, 2020 21:52:01 GMT -5
The strangest but I liked was "Cowboys and Aliens"
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Post by LTB on Jan 18, 2020 22:02:13 GMT -5
Tombstone with Val Kilmer, Kirt Russell, Sam Elliott and Bill Paxton was a great one. Also liked Unforgiven , Quick and the Dead with Russell Crowe, Sharon Stone and Gene Hackman, John Wayne Westerns of the 60's and 70's especially the one with Dean Martin and Walter Brennon. Almost forgot, I got a kick out of Support Your Local Sheriff with James Garner, Jack Ellam, and Walter Brennon.
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Post by Riff Twang on Jan 18, 2020 22:06:41 GMT -5
Love westerns, have done all my life. Those and sci fi are my favourite types of movies.
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Post by LM on Jan 18, 2020 22:12:22 GMT -5
The strangest but I liked was "Cowboys and Aliens" I liked it too.
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Post by Cassie Play on Jan 18, 2020 22:19:46 GMT -5
All Clint Eastwood for sure. My favorite movie was Once Upon a Time in the West. Does West World count?
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Westerns
Jan 18, 2020 22:44:19 GMT -5
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Post by budg on Jan 18, 2020 22:44:19 GMT -5
Just watched The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance tonite. Love all those mentioned. Love old Westerns . My favorite is High Noon with Gary Cooper. Also Tombstone and The Outlaw Josey Wales.
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Westerns
Jan 18, 2020 23:06:52 GMT -5
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Jan 18, 2020 23:06:52 GMT -5
Unforgiven for me. The unceremonious brutality was a surprising offering from Eastwood. It seemed to me the most likely representation of the old west.
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Post by Ragtop on Jan 18, 2020 23:27:19 GMT -5
"The Searchers" is the one that sets the bar. I love most of the others, too. "The Cowboys," "Sons of Katie Elder," "El Dorado," and most anything with John Wayne in it is alright by me.
"Unforgiven" is the best of the modern-day westerns.
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Post by Taildragger on Jan 18, 2020 23:30:23 GMT -5
Of the "more recent" ones, I think "Hostiles" (Christian Bale) was quite good. Eastwood's "Unforgiven" is, of course, one of the best.
The series "Deadwood" was off the charts good IMO (though I'm aware that people tend to either love of despise it)
"The Missing" (Cate Blanchett, Tommy Lee Jones) is another favorite of mine.
"Quigley Down Under" (Tom Selleck, Alan Rickman, Laura San Giacomo)
"Broken Trail" (Robert Duvall) and "Open Range" (Robert Duvall, Kevin Costner) are two more, "more recent" very good ones. Great ones from the old days: •"Oxbow Incident"---Henry Fonda, Harry Morgan, Anthony Quinn, Dana Andrews •"Tom Horn"---Steve McQueen •"The Gunfighter"---Gregory Peck •"Valdez is Coming"---Burt Lancaster •"Ulzana's Raid"---Burt Lancaster
•"McCabe and Mrs. Miller"---Warren Beaty, Julie Christie
•"Red Sun"---Charles Bronson, Toshiro Mifune, Ursula Andress, Alain Delon
•"Death Hunt"---Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin
•"Will Penny"---Charlton Heston, Donald Pleasance, Bruce Dern •"Missouri Breaks"---Jack Nicholson, Marlon Brando, Harry Dean Stanton, Randy Quaid •"Last Train from Gun Hill"---Kirk Douglas, Carolyn Jones, Anthony Quinn, Earl Holliman
•"Hombre"---Paul Newman, Frederick March, Richard Boone, Cameron Mitchell, Martin Balsam, Frank Silvera
•"Treasure of the Sierra Madre"---Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt, Barton MacLane, Bruce Bennett, Alfonso Bedoya
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Post by leibniz on Jan 18, 2020 23:36:53 GMT -5
One of the things I liked most about The Mandelorian was the western feel it had.
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Post by Chris Greene on Jan 19, 2020 1:55:04 GMT -5
While "Tombstone" is at the top of the best westerns ever made IMO, I also really liked Costner's version, "Wyatt Earp".
Agree with all the choices listed but some not listed are,
Lonesome Dove - again, one of the best westerns ever made The Sacketts The Shadow Riders Dances With Woves Anything with Sam Elliot, Tom Selleck, Ben Johnson, Glenn Ford, John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart (Broken Arrow and Winchester '73), Kevin Costner, and Robert Duvall, Oh, and let's not forget Jeff Bridges in a great remake of "True Grit" and the terrible "Wild Bill".
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Post by LTB on Jan 19, 2020 2:12:03 GMT -5
Just watched The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance tonite. Love all those mentioned. Love old Westerns . My favorite is High Noon with Gary Cooper. Also Tombstone and The Outlaw Josey Wales. Ah yes, forgot about Jimmy Stewart in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Great show, my favorite actor of that age.
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Post by LTB on Jan 19, 2020 2:15:24 GMT -5
Anything with Sam Elliot, Tom Selleck, Ben Johnson, Glenn Ford, John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart (Broken Arrow and Winchester '73), Kevin Costner, and Robert Duvall, Oh, and let's not forget Jeff Bridges in a great remake of "True Grit" and the terrible "Wild Bill". Agreed Chris! all great actors especially Glen Ford, Kevin Costner, Robert Duvall and Jimmy Stewart
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Post by budg on Jan 19, 2020 7:02:52 GMT -5
I loved the character actors that were in westerns back in the day too. From guys like Royal Dano, Jack Elam, John Anderson, Lee Van Cleef ,Lee Marvin, Eli Wallach etc. Those guys knew their roles and made those movies and shows like Gunsmoke , The Rifleman , etc so much fun to watch.
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Post by roly on Jan 19, 2020 7:08:53 GMT -5
What about 3:10 to Yuma?
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Post by Stratluvr on Jan 19, 2020 8:03:08 GMT -5
I like many of the Clint Eastwood Westerns and have seen a few others like Tombstone when it first came out. It's funny how the plots in the few I've seen are so similar. It's always some evil greedy person who "owns" the town and the rest of the citizens are in fear of him.
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Post by LM on Jan 19, 2020 8:06:40 GMT -5
Roly, I was just gonna list that one. Bale and Crowe were great in it.
I'll toss in Quigley Down Under with Selleck. It was a light-hearted Aussie 'western'.
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Post by Opie on Jan 19, 2020 8:24:17 GMT -5
Westerns ,next to film noir, is my absolute favorite. All great suggestions, but I didn't see The Outlaw Josey Wales, maybe Eastwood's best.
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Post by oldnjplayer on Jan 19, 2020 9:15:59 GMT -5
love Robert Duval, and don't forget Jose Wales
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Post by gato on Jan 19, 2020 9:31:21 GMT -5
I love a good western, but cringe at some of the standout cliche's in not-so-good examples of the genre.
Emilio Estevez in Young Guns. He's Billy the Kid, yo. He's drinking in the saloon when the need arises to kill someone. He drops the shot glass from face level, draws his revolver, fires (killing the bad guy) re-holsters, and catches the shot glass, which gravity has taken to waist level during this quick draw performance.
Or the good guy or bad guy who leaps from the second balcony onto a waiting horse ... plop! Right into the saddle without a grimace for those pancaked testicles.
Blazing away on a galloping horse with a handgun and actually picking off those pursuing Injuns, even while twisting in the saddle to deliver the devastating barrage of lead. (the poor redskins are stuck with mere rifles and apparently haven't been seen by an optometrist in who knows how long)
Good guy disarms the bad guy by shooting him in the hand with a heavy .45 caliber slug. "Owww!" goes the miscreant, who slinks away clutching a bleeding but serviceable appendage.
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Jan 19, 2020 10:02:30 GMT -5
^The first chapter of "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs" addresses the absurdity of Western Physics pretty good.
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Post by Tequila Rob on Jan 19, 2020 10:09:22 GMT -5
Watched Silverado last night......hadn't seen it in many years......great movie.
I think that the advent of hi res flat screen TV's have given westerns new life...especially the ones done in color in the late 50's and 60's..as I always remember watching them on crappy tv's
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Westerns
Jan 19, 2020 11:56:38 GMT -5
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Post by Sérgio on Jan 19, 2020 11:56:38 GMT -5
Like them a lot. One of the best modern onesI’ve seen is Forsaken with Kiefer Sutherland
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Post by LM on Jan 19, 2020 12:10:29 GMT -5
Laid up with a bad back, I'm going thru this thread to see which ones I haven't seen. I just started Support Your Local Sheriff.
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Post by Taildragger on Jan 19, 2020 12:15:22 GMT -5
...and let's not forget Jeff Bridges in a great remake of "True Grit" and the terrible "Wild Bill". I'm not a big fan of Bridges in general, Chris, but have to agree that he was utterly superb in "True Grit". That movie is a rare example of the re-make far outshining the original, IMHO.
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Post by Chris Greene on Jan 19, 2020 12:23:23 GMT -5
Jeff and I were classmates in high school. Were in a couple of plays together and he couldn't act worth a damn in those days. Well, how you like him now compared to my movie career?
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