OT: Movies/TV Shows

[Montana]

wait I thought Lonesome Dove was just some cheesy tv show.

Yeah, I did too (in the vein of Medicine Woman, is the mental image I’d always had of it)…..was a fairly faithful adaptation tho, and a big prime-time mini-series event, apparently.

few years ago I learned the novel had won the Pulitzer, so picked it up….and it blew my tits off how brilliant it is….and it’s imo, the quintessential western novel. And one I’ll revisit every few years for as long as I live.

also an instance where the mini-series casting Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones as the two main characters, made reading the novel that much better visualizing them while reading. Especially Duvall, he just is Gus McCrae, whether the TV series existed or not.

I think he’s said it’s his favourite performance of favourite role or something too.

 

[LeafOfFaith]

I'm not really a Western movie kinda guy, but I am a Newman and (sort of) a Redford guy, and Butch Cassidy was an awesome flick.

 

[Montana]

McCabe & Mrs Miller by Robert Altman, is another one that’s apparently a top top tier western….the original subversive western before Unforgiven.

 

[oscarheyman]

I have very mixed feelings about him. Absolute legend who almost created the genre himself, including the classic epic western cinematography, but also responsible for a lot of naive black/white good/evil hero-mythmaking stuff that kind of killed my like for the genre at one point.

But Stagecoach is absolutely essential no doubt. I also love Grapes of Wrath which isn't a western but it's great.

Apparently Tarantino isn't a fan of his work. He is a fan of William Whitney:

 

[JackBurton]

McCabe & Mrs Miller by Robert Altman, is another one that’s apparently a top top tier western….the original subversive western before Unforgiven.

Warren Beatty should have spent more time doing movies and not chasing tail.

 

[Montana]

Easier said than done.

 

[Slinger 48]

I have very mixed feelings about him. Absolute legend who almost created the genre himself, including the classic epic western cinematography, but also responsible for a lot of naive black/white good/evil hero-mythmaking stuff that kind of killed my like for the genre at one point.

But Stagecoach is absolutely essential no doubt. I also love Grapes of Wrath which isn't a western but it's great.

I've been hoping for a top notch remake of The Grapes Of Wrath for years. I read the book several times before I saw the movie and was disappointed by it which is usually the case for me.

Actually, a well made series would be better than a movie remake I think.

Here's a real treasure in my mind. Country Joe McDonald doing Woody Guthrie's Tom Joad.

 

[Slinger 48]

My top 5 Westerns would be:

1. The Assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford. (One of my top 10 favourite movies, period)

2. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.

3. Lonesome Dove (ultimately for the novel, but the mini-series is just one long movie, and for a TV adaptation was elite af.)

4. Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid (this & The Sting are about as fun as movies can get. Prob the #1 buddy movie of all time too.

5. Silverado/Unforgiven/Rio Bravo

Absolutely. The Sting is a favourite of mine.

The sequel was terrible. Unwatchable even, I've tried a few times and never got through it.

 

[CH1]

I have very mixed feelings about him. Absolute legend who almost created the genre himself, including the classic epic western cinematography, but also responsible for a lot of naive black/white good/evil hero-mythmaking stuff that kind of killed my like for the genre at one point.

But Stagecoach is absolutely essential no doubt. I also love Grapes of Wrath which isn't a western but it's great.

all true

he's also one of the directors that those French Cinema Nerds (Godard, Truffault, etc) cited to advance the argument that Hollywood actually had auteurs working almost namelessly within a movie studio paradigm

 

[WellPlayed]

Have you Western folks checked out Godless on Netflix? I thoroughly enjoyed it. But I'm neither a cinephile or a Western hipster so maybe it sucks.

 

[CH1]

"I throughly enjoyed it but maybe it sucks" is the kind of blurb I've been waiting to see on a movie trailer

 

[zeke]

McCabe & Mrs Miller by Robert Altman, is another one that’s apparently a top top tier western….the original subversive western before Unforgiven.

High Noon is the real original subversive western.

John Wayne hated the fuck out of it.

 

[zeke]

"The most un-american movie i've ever seen" - John Wayne

(High Noon >>> John Wayne)

 

[Montana]

My top 5 Westerns would be:

1. The Assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford. (One of my top 10 favourite movies, period)

2. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.

3. Lonesome Dove (ultimately for the novel, but the mini-series is just one long movie, and for a TV adaptation was elite af.)

4. Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid (this & The Sting are about as fun as movies can get. Prob the #1 buddy movie of all time too.

5. There Will Be Blood

edited #5.

 

[Montana]

"The most un-american movie i've ever seen" - John Wayne

(High Noon >>> John Wayne)

Marshal Matt Dillon was my John Wayne.

 

[MyNameIsJonas]

Montana, have you seen Bone Tomahawk? Really neat UTR Western with Kurt Russell, Nattgew Fox, Richard Jenkins, and Patrick Wilson

 

[CH1]

edited #5.

 

[oscarheyman]

Marshal Matt Dillon was my John Wayne.

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Great in the original "The Thing".

Not as "well known" Charleton Heston flick to continue "the Western" film genre talk:

 

[Montana]

Montana, have you seen Bone Tomahawk? Really neat UTR Western with Kurt Russell, Nattgew Fox, Richard Jenkins, and Patrick Wilson

I haven’t, was under the impression it was a horror/gore flick? Which isn’t my bag.

 

[MyNameIsJonas]

I haven’t, was under the impression it was a horror/gore flick? Which isn’t my bag.

It’s a hybrid and if horror/gore ain’t your bag the ignore my recommendation