OT: Movies/TV Shows
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Montana
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funny how such a slight mis-quoting of the actual line, makes it infinitely less iconic...
oscarheyman
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Montana
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I think if you actually sat down and wen’t through the list of great ones, you’d have a hard time saying the genre bores you though…..yes it was milked to death in a manner that would make our current superhero movie era blush.
….but it also had some of the most legendary story telling of all time, done under the umbrella of “western”..
I’d almost argue it can stand toe to toe with any other genre, when it comes to totality of all time great flicks.
High Noon, Dollars Trilogy, Unforgiven, Outlaw Josey Wales, Wild Bunch, Magnificent Seven, Lonesome Dove, Stagecoach, Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid (best buddy movie of all time?), McCabe & Mrs Miller, Assassination of Jesse James, Vera Cruz (and a fuckton of other Elmore Leonard adaptations, like 3:10 to Yuma, etc), The Ox Bow Incident, Butchers Crossing, Blood Meridian, True Grit, Shane, The Shootist, The Gunfighter. (A number of those I list cause of their books admittedly, but still, all the same genre)…Rio Bravo & Red River films that Ford set standards with, that others then had to meet in other genres….Once Upon a Time in the West, The Searchers, and on and on and on….
Plus you have the entire Neo-Noire genre that you don’t get without westerns as the base….No Country, Hell of High Water,
Takes all that original quality for a Blazing Saddles to exist, but then you also get one of the greatest comedies of all time, within that genre.
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Oh I've seen some really good ones and enjoyed them.I think if you actually sat down and wen’t through the list of great ones, you’d have a hard time saying the genre bores you though…..yes it was milked to death in a manner that would make our current superhero movie era blush.
….but it also had some of the most legendary story telling of all time, done under the umbrella of “western”..
I’d almost argue it can stand toe to toe with any other genre, when it comes to totality of all time great flicks.
High Noon, Dollars Trilogy, Unforgiven, Outlaw Josey Wales, Wild Bunch, Magnificent Seven, Lonesome Dove, Stagecoach, Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid (best buddy movie of all time?), McCabe & Mrs Miller, Assassination of Jesse James, Vera Cruz (and a fuckton of other Elmore Leonard adaptations, like 3:10 to Yuma, etc), The Ox Bow Incident, Butchers Crossing, Blood Meridian, True Grit, Shane, The Shootist, The Gunfighter. (A number of those I list cause of their books admittedly, but still, all the same genre)…Rio Bravo & Red River films that Ford set standards with, that others then had to meet in other genres….Once Upon a Time in the West, The Searchers, and on and on and on….
Plus you have the entire Neo-Noire genre that you don’t get without westerns as the base….No Country, Hell of High Water,
Takes all that original quality for a Blazing Saddles to exist, but then you also get one of the greatest comedies of all time, within that genre.
High Noon
The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance
The Searchers
Hang Em High
Unforgiven
Shane
But as a genre it's not really a favorite. I prefer classic war movies to classic westerns.
oscarheyman
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Will Penny.
Solid performance by Heston though film gets hurt by over the top villian (Donald Pleasance). That works for a role like Blofeld.
Solid performance by Heston though film gets hurt by over the top villian (Donald Pleasance). That works for a role like Blofeld.
I was going to mention him too. The scenes between them were perfection. He could have easily been swallowed up by Kilmer but he absolutely held his own.
I've said several times in this thread that Outlaw Josie Wales is my all-time favorite Western.
oscarheyman
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Roger Corman does his take on that film (heh, even manages to get "Napoleon Solo" to sort of play the same role):
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD0tIQMwtmk
lol...Robert Vaughn gets more mileage in replaying the role yet *AGAIN*:
View: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8hm9qk
(Kung Fu The Legend Continues - not as good follow series to the original "Western" TV series)
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Cal Gal
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Abraham Lincoln’s Sex Life Reimagined in ‘Lavender Men,’ Set to Hit Theaters Next Month (Exclusive)
Abraham Lincoln’s Sex Life Reimagined in ‘Lavender Men,’ Set to Hit Theaters Next Month (Exclusive)
Based on a play, Lovell Holder's movie centers on a stage manager who daydreams about the politician's personal relationships.
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blkngldbabe
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I actually really enjoy Fahey
axlsalinger
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JackBurton
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Gotta say, I saw Tombstone in theatres and liked it. That said, over the years the love for it has grown as a Western classic and I think the film has a very weak last 20 minutes that hurt it a lot.
I prefer Costner's Wyatt Earp film to be honest.
I went to visit Tombstone a couple years back and they play the film (Russell one) on a loop everywhere you go. Apparently, Michael Biehn lives in Arizona and has done some of the OK corral reanactments they do.
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oscarheyman
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There's no doubt that Costner's movie is the better movie... But there's not a scene in that movie that draws you in the way any Val Kilmer scene does... Especially any Doc/Ringo scenes.