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Jan 19, 2020 12:35:54 GMT -5
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Post by insanecooker on Jan 19, 2020 12:35:54 GMT -5
Hell or high water was a pretty good non-Western Western in recent years. Plus, it has Jeff Bridges and that will please the previous poster. :-P
For another (very!) non-Western Western, Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai should be on this list.
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Post by LM on Jan 19, 2020 12:38:00 GMT -5
Wild Bill was beyond awful. I couldn't finish it.
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Post by Taildragger on Jan 19, 2020 12:53:50 GMT -5
For another (very!) non-Western Western, Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai should be on this list. Great movie. It was, of course, the inspiration for the American western, "Magnificent Seven". If you liked Mifune in that movie, 'cooker, check him with Charles Bronson in the western "Red Sun".
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Post by 1600 on Jan 19, 2020 14:22:34 GMT -5
Comedy Westerns? Nobody liked "They Call Me Trinity"? And of course Blazing Saddles and Cat Ballou
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Post by Chris Greene on Jan 19, 2020 14:26:20 GMT -5
Comedy Westerns? Nobody liked "They Call Me Trinity"? And of course Blazing Saddles and Cat Ballou Blazing Saddles - genius comedy that probably couldn't be made today.
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Jan 19, 2020 14:37:29 GMT -5
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Post by rickyguitar on Jan 19, 2020 14:37:29 GMT -5
Yeah, Blazing Saddles is not PC enough to be made today. It one of those I czn watch pretty much any time. Cat Ballou, jeez forgot about that one. What a hoot. Loved Lee Marvin's horse.
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Jan 19, 2020 14:51:16 GMT -5
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Post by jonnyblooz on Jan 19, 2020 14:51:16 GMT -5
The Cowboys. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, not mentioned yet.
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Post by FlyonNylon on Jan 19, 2020 15:05:04 GMT -5
You guys have mentioned most of the good ones.
Unforgiven is by far my favorite western and one of my top movies of all time.
Tombstone, True Grit (remake), The Revenant, Godless are some others that come to mind.
Will have to check out some of the movies listed here that I haven't seen.
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Post by Lefty Rev on Jan 19, 2020 15:16:08 GMT -5
Speaking of Aussie "westerns"
The Man from Snowy River (and the second one was actually very good, too).
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Post by LM on Jan 19, 2020 15:41:49 GMT -5
The Quick and the Dead was okay but very cliche as Gato alluded. It really lost me when Hackman was shot and sunlight could be seen through the bullet hole. I'm mean...really?
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Post by Taildragger on Jan 19, 2020 15:51:33 GMT -5
Here's another decent, more recent one that I forgot to put on my list above. "The Salvation", a classic tale of vengeance sought by a man from whom everything has been taken, starring Mads Mikkelson: www.imdb.com/title/tt2720680/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_13
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Jan 19, 2020 17:21:54 GMT -5
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Post by insanecooker on Jan 19, 2020 17:21:54 GMT -5
Great movie. It was, of course, the inspiration for the American western, "Magnificent Seven". If you liked Mifune in that movie, 'cooker, check him with Charles Bronson in the western "Red Sun". Thanks for the tip, have added it to my queue.
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Post by garyweimer on Jan 19, 2020 17:59:18 GMT -5
Well, most of mine have been mentioned (Silverado, Tombstone, Blazing Saddles, Cat Ballou, Unforgiven)
A few more that I would add: How The West Was Won Hombre The Three Godfathers
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Post by Taildragger on Jan 19, 2020 18:04:11 GMT -5
Great movie. It was, of course, the inspiration for the American western, "Magnificent Seven". If you liked Mifune in that movie, 'cooker, check him with Charles Bronson in the western "Red Sun". Thanks for the tip, have added it to my queue. Another noteworthy, non-period-samurai Mifune film, though not a western, is "Hell in the Pacific" (1968) in which he co-stars with Lee Marvin:
That movie is thematically similar to the Dennis Quaid/Lou Gosett Jr. Sci-Fi film "Enemy Mine" (1985).
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Post by hilltop87 on Jan 19, 2020 18:32:21 GMT -5
I love Westerns as well. The INSP channel has quite a few good ones. Good quality cinema.
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Post by Bronx on Jan 19, 2020 18:37:09 GMT -5
While I love a good John Wayne Western (Liberty Valance, The Shootist and Rio Bravo are great films), my favorite Weaterns are the TV series Have Gun Will Travel and Deadwood. And of course Paladin played the bad guy in The Shootist, making that film doubly great for me.
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Post by jdawg on Jan 19, 2020 18:43:26 GMT -5
Has anyone mentioned Appaloosa yet? Great movie with Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen. Great dialogue between those two.
There is a series of books with the characters from this story that are very good reads.
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Post by garyweimer on Jan 19, 2020 19:45:02 GMT -5
While I love a good John Wayne Western (Liberty Valance, The Shootist and Rio Bravo are great films), my favorite Weaterns are the TV series Have Gun Will Travel and Deadwood. And of course Paladin played the bad guy in The Shootist, making that film doubly great for me. Richard Boone was also the bad guy in Hombre.
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Post by Taildragger on Jan 19, 2020 19:52:18 GMT -5
While I love a good John Wayne Western (Liberty Valance, The Shootist and Rio Bravo are great films), my favorite Weaterns are the TV series Have Gun Will Travel and Deadwood. And of course Paladin played the bad guy in The Shootist, making that film doubly great for me. Richard Boone was also the bad guy in Hombre.
Loved Frank Silvera's character in "Hombre": "Ehhhhh......HOMbre...."
And yes: Boone's character in that same movie was the embodiment of evil.
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Post by twigs 🦒 on Jan 19, 2020 20:06:34 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? Yeah, well his guitar forum sucked big time. That make you feel better?
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Post by Bbendfender on Jan 19, 2020 20:31:03 GMT -5
I've been with my dad at the hospital since last Tue. As far as TV, the really old Westerns are much better than the new Westerns. We watched the old Westerns one whole day and never got bored.
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Post by Taildragger on Jan 19, 2020 22:05:42 GMT -5
Danged if I didn't just stumble across a "Lonesome Dove" marathon running on the MPLEX channel!
Saw it so long ago that I'd forgotten a couple of the bit players that are in it:
•Margo Martindale, who played Mags Bennet, the murderous matriarch of the Bennet Clan in "Justified", appears briefly as a "lady of the night" named "Buffalo Heiffer" in "Lonesome Dove"
•William Sanderson, who played the ever-unctuous "E.B. Farnum" in "Deadwood" appears as piano player "Lippy Jones" in "Lonesome Dove"
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Post by LTB on Jan 19, 2020 22:55:17 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. Yes, he was good at playing a cranky ole drunk who slept a lot LOL ha teasing
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Post by LM on Jan 20, 2020 8:49:05 GMT -5
I watched Support Your Local Sheriff last night. It was goofy and amusing. I've always like James Garner. I tried watching the follow-up, Support Your Local Gunfighter, but it tried too hard and was just silly.
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Jan 20, 2020 11:30:21 GMT -5
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Post by Seldom Seen on Jan 20, 2020 11:30:21 GMT -5
The wife and I watched The Comancheros last night.
We have to watch a couple of westerns, old or new, every week just to feel normal.
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Post by Larry Madsen on Jan 20, 2020 11:51:05 GMT -5
I've become a James Arness fan.
Obviously, Gunsmoke is up front in his career, but there were several (mostly made for TV) movie performances I also enjoy.
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Post by NoSoapRadio on Jan 20, 2020 12:04:38 GMT -5
Most all of my favorites have been mentioned already -- but I don't see "Jeremiah Johnson". Not out of the classic Western mold, but still a Western.
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Jan 20, 2020 13:40:15 GMT -5
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Post by rickyguitar on Jan 20, 2020 13:40:15 GMT -5
Jeremiah Johnson! Yeah, what's that line? Something like 'Well, Was it worth the trouble?' And he replies 'what trouble?'
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Post by Taildragger on Jan 20, 2020 14:06:52 GMT -5
I've become a James Arness fan. Obviously, Gunsmoke is up front in his career, but there were several (mostly made for TV) movie performances I also enjoy. Another reason to like James Arness is that he was a decent guy as a real person. He shopped at a supermarket that my mother frequented when I was growing up so we youngsters were thrilled to jump at the chance to talk to "Marshall Dillon" in the produce section. I'm sure it was tiresome for him at times, but he was always patient with and kind to us kids.
He was also a surfer (his son Rolf once won a world championship during the 1970s). He was also a combat veteran who won a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart after being wounded at 21 in an assault on a German machinegun position at Anzio. At 6'7", he must've made a large target.
He also played the alien in the original, 1951 version of the sci-fi movie "The Thing".
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Post by LM on Jan 20, 2020 15:28:17 GMT -5
A modern western of sorts that's excellent is Longmire on Netflix. It's a series about a Wyoming sheriff dealing with local corruption, an Indian casino, and his own demons.
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