Humor Movie: Blazing Saddles (though I am a big fan of "Support Your Local Sheriff" and "Support Your Local Gunfighter")
Serious Movie: Rooster Cogburn (I'm a big Hepburn fan)
I have a problem with a couple of John Wayne's movies, (just saying that has marked me for Homeland Securities investigation I am sure) and his treatment of women in them.
McClintock is a long movie that boils down to one moral message--beat your women or they'll run out on you. I liked the movie except for the ending where beating his wife is how he reawakens her love for him, as his daughter had gotten spanked by her new husband.
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Freudian slip?
Only if it had been you who said it, kat. I didn't even get that it had been changed from Brisco County, Jr. until you said something. I think maybe Dan put the Frisco part in on purpose.
What's really funny about all these Westerns is that only saxy mentioned the Really Super Big One: High Noon. Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly. A man who, when everyone else deserts him, faces up to his responsibility. It set the ground rules for the cowboy honor code, all the ones that Unforgiven became famous for breaking.
As a few people have already mentioned, Tombstone. Val Kilmer was freaking awesome in it!
Edit: because I'm a maroon, an ignoraminus, and saxy is the bestest, and darn it I should be more careful! Thanks, Mike!
quote:What's really funny about all these Westerns is that nobody mentions the Really Super Big One: High Noon. Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly. A man who, when everyone else deserts him, faces up to his responsibility. It set the ground rules for the cowboy honor code, all the ones that Unforgiven became famous for breaking.
I also feel compelled to point out that not everyone would agree that High Noon is a good Western. Howard Hawks made Rio Bravo specifically as a rebuttal to High Noon, with John Wayne's John T. Chance trying to protect people by not letting them get involved, whereas Gary Coleman's Will Kane runs all over town asking for help, only facing down the bad guys after all other avenues have been exhausted.
quote: Lonesome Dove (not a movie, but still a western)
Though I guess not technically a movie, there was a Lonesome Dove miniseries on tv in the 80s. It's definitely as good as any movie western released in theatres, with some real star power (Robert Duval, Tommy Lee Jones, Danny Glover and Diane Lane, just to name a few). There was also a television adaptation of both Streets Of Laredo (which sucked) and Dead Man's Walk (which also kind of sucked). In all cases, though, the books were better than the movies.
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The Lonesome Dove miniseries (I got it on dvd now!) is the best western ever, as good as the book. And I liked Streets of Laredo. James Garner made a good Woodrow Call. But Robert Duvall! Man, what an actor. He's the main reason I liked Open Range so much, along with the incredible shootout at the end.
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Has no one yet mentioned the two movies "Support Your Local Sherrif" and "Support Your Local Gunfighter"? The first is the better of the two, IMO.
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quote: I also feel compelled to point out that not everyone would agree that High Noon is a good Western. Howard Hawks made Rio Bravo specifically as a rebuttal to High Noon, with John Wayne's John T. Chance trying to protect people by not letting them get involved, whereas Gary Coleman's Will Kane runs all over town asking for help, only facing down the bad guys after all other avenues have been exhausted.
Big Jake El Dorado Tombstone Once Upon A Time In The West (for the opening...wow) El Diablo (I think that was the name of it with Louis Gossett, Jr. and Anthony Edwards). The Scalphunters Ravenous
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quote:Has no one yet mentioned the two movies "Support Your Local Sherrif" and "Support Your Local Gunfighter"? The first is the better of the two, IMO.
*clears throat* First page. I definitely mentioned "Support Your Local Sheriff", and I would have added "Support Your Local Gunfighter", but I'd gotten to number eight on the list already and I thought it was getting kind of long. While I don't like it as much as "Sheriff", "Gunfighter" (which is not a sequel, by the way, as many people think) is a good film.
By the way, have any of you seen another James Garner western, "Skin Game"? It wasn't bad, either.
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No, no, no, no. It doesn't have anything to do with golf. In this 1971 film, James Garner and Louis Gossett, Jr. play two con men before the abolition of slavery. Their game is that Garner sells Gossett as a slave, then springs him from his new owner and they move on to another town to do the same thing all over again. Then things get complicated in messy and funny ways.
quote: Slightly off topic, but on westerns: Has anyone else played Deadlands? I love that game.
*raises hand*
I can't think of any other movies that you guys haven't already listed. But some of my favorites are-
Ravenous Support Your Local Sheriff Blazing Saddles True Grit The Outlaw Josie Wales Tombstone The Missing Lonesome Dove (the miniseries) Johnson County Wars They Call Me Trinity A Man Called Horse
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I can't believe this has gone to two pages and no one has mentioned The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence. John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Lee Marvin, in a classic story, this is maybe the best ever.
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The Sons of Katie Elder Deadman (really tough to watch, really really tough) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid The Wild Bunch
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