What's your favorite Western?

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Willie Dixon

#140
April 05, 2009, 02:13:19 PM
Quote from: Leo Tanner on April 04, 2009, 05:55:12 PM
The Searchers was a special movie. 

how I got to know the Duke... first Duke movie I ever saw.  I think I was four, changed me forever.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on January 06, 2009, 02:29:15 PM
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Texas Lawdog

#141
April 05, 2009, 05:50:05 PM
Ethan's character was an anti-hero. He was a troubled man with scars from the War. He had probably gone outside the law after the War. He was a loner. He had family, but he had been away too long. It was not the same when he returned.  He probably should have gotten an Oscar for his role as Sgt. Striker in "Sands of Iwo Jima".
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Leo Tanner

#142
April 05, 2009, 05:52:24 PM
Yer right, he shoulda.  There was a great actor.
"When you have to shoot, shoot.  Don't talk."
     Tuco--The Good the Bad and the Ugly

"First comes smiles, then lies.  Last is gunfire."
     Roland Deschain

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Russ McCrae

#143
May 08, 2009, 11:19:55 PM
For me all time is..... Well look at my avatar Lonesome Dove Duh! :D ;D ;D ;D

For comedy though... The rounders with Glen Ford and Henry Fonda, that Red Roan hoss stole the show, plus sometimes me and one of my pards see a little to much of our life in that movie going to college and working the hunting leases ;D

The searchers is a good one, Tombstone... Heck I bet it's easier to name bad westerns and the only one I saw on here was "Quick and the dead" with Sharon Stone
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Skeeter Lewis

#144
May 10, 2009, 05:00:22 AM
Sir Charles - thanks for those clips from Rustler's Rhapsody. They made me chuckle.

Willie Dixon

#145
May 27, 2009, 08:15:42 PM
Quote from: Tricky Ol Russ on May 08, 2009, 11:19:55 PM
For comedy though... The rounders with Glen Ford and Henry Fonda, that Red Roan hoss stole the show, plus sometimes me and one of my pards see a little to much of our life in that movie going to college and working the hunting leases ;D

hehe, my favorite western comedy has got to be...

hehe, Paint your Wagon!!

"No Name City!!!"  hehehe
Quote from: Leo Tanner on January 06, 2009, 02:29:15 PM
At 25, you need to follow dreams or you'll regret it later. 

"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes

Stillwater

#146
June 09, 2009, 12:03:02 AM
What Horse Flatulence and Gun Smoke movie do I like the best? Good question...!

I have liked almost every western movie I have ever seen, even the bad ones are better than anything else.

The "Wild Bunch," "The Shootist," "Open Range," "Broken Trail," and "Rio Bravo," are standouts with me...

Bill

Leo Tanner

#147
June 09, 2009, 11:49:02 AM
Quote from: Willie Dixon on May 27, 2009, 08:15:42 PM
hehe, my favorite western comedy has got to be...

hehe, Paint your Wagon!!

"No Name City!!!"  hehehe

I hate musicals, but Lil finally talked me inta watchin that one.  Lee Marvin was great but the plot was horrible.  I aint sharin ma wife with no one, partner er not.

As far as No Name City goes, I did get chuckle when the first sign read, "population--men".
"When you have to shoot, shoot.  Don't talk."
     Tuco--The Good the Bad and the Ugly

"First comes smiles, then lies.  Last is gunfire."
     Roland Deschain

"Every man steps in the manure now an again, trick is not ta stick yer foot in yer mouth afterward"

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Harley Starr

#148
June 09, 2009, 02:30:50 PM
My favorite westerns? Well............that one's kind of a long list right there, but let's arrow it down.
The Dollars Trilogy, Once Upon A Time In The West, 3:10 to Yuma(remake), Pale Rider, Unforgiven, The Outlaw Josey Wales, High Plains Drifter, Young Guns, and Silverado.
Just recently I've rediscovered another favorite called The Tracker starring Kris Kristofferson.
A work in progress.

Trinity

#149
June 09, 2009, 07:17:40 PM
I just finished watching the absolute best shootout in film history. 

...In my opinion anyway.  There aren't many folks that like the movie, but that doesn't deter me.


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Tensleep

#150
June 09, 2009, 07:28:44 PM
Quote from: Trinity on June 09, 2009, 07:17:40 PM
I just finished watching the absolute best shootout in film history. 

...In my opinion anyway.  There aren't many folks that like the movie, but that doesn't deter me.




Name that movie!
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Trinity

#151
June 09, 2009, 08:31:48 PM
Well, I'm invitin' nay-sayers, but...

Once Upon A Time in the West.  Charles Bronson and Henry Fonda. 

I watched the movie again over the weekend, but had to watch the gunfight (if you can call it that) again tonight before packing away the disc.
"Finest partner I ever had.  Cleans his paws and buries his leavin's.  Lot more than some folks I know."

                   


"I fumbled through my closet for my clothes, And found my cleanest dirty shirt" - K.Kristofferson

Leo Tanner

#152
June 09, 2009, 10:45:35 PM
I don't think I've seen that one.   Watched The Good The Bad And The Ugly with ma daughter again taday.  It's great cause she loves it as much as I do.  She's the last person you would expect ta be watchin a western.
"When you have to shoot, shoot.  Don't talk."
     Tuco--The Good the Bad and the Ugly

"First comes smiles, then lies.  Last is gunfire."
     Roland Deschain

"Every man steps in the manure now an again, trick is not ta stick yer foot in yer mouth afterward"

religio SENIOR est exordium of scientia : tamen fossor contemno sapientia quod instruction.

Harley Starr

#153
June 10, 2009, 12:17:35 AM
Quote from: Trinity on June 09, 2009, 08:31:48 PM
Well, I'm invitin' nay-sayers, but...

Once Upon A Time in the West.  Charles Bronson and Henry Fonda. 

I watched the movie again over the weekend, but had to watch the gunfight (if you can call it that) again tonight before packing away the disc.

With Sergio Leone's western, it's not the moment of violence that he finds interesting, but the moment building up to it.
A work in progress.

Leo Tanner

#154
June 10, 2009, 01:20:04 PM
Quote from: Ridgway on June 10, 2009, 12:17:35 AM
With Sergio Leone's western, it's not the moment of violence that he finds interesting, but the moment building up to it.

I gotta agree 100% with that.  That's what makes em good.
"When you have to shoot, shoot.  Don't talk."
     Tuco--The Good the Bad and the Ugly

"First comes smiles, then lies.  Last is gunfire."
     Roland Deschain

"Every man steps in the manure now an again, trick is not ta stick yer foot in yer mouth afterward"

religio SENIOR est exordium of scientia : tamen fossor contemno sapientia quod instruction.

Harley Starr

#155
June 10, 2009, 10:30:31 PM
Quote from: Leo Tanner on June 10, 2009, 01:20:04 PM
I gotta agree 100% with that.  That's what makes em good.
Good- because they're worth every dollar! ;D
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Trinity

#156
June 11, 2009, 06:13:23 PM
Quote from: Ridgway on June 10, 2009, 12:17:35 AM
With Sergio Leone's western, it's not the moment of violence that he finds interesting, but the moment building up to it.

So true.  In those minutes leading up to the gun shot, the viewer finally gets to learn just what business "Harmonica" had with Frank.  And boy was it something.
"Finest partner I ever had.  Cleans his paws and buries his leavin's.  Lot more than some folks I know."

                   


"I fumbled through my closet for my clothes, And found my cleanest dirty shirt" - K.Kristofferson

Willie Dixon

#157
June 12, 2009, 08:55:08 PM
Once Upon a Time in the West is a great film!  A lot of people don't get it or other westerns that seem to draw on, I try to explain to them that they are epics, set in a grand scale, over a longer period of time.  Sometimes that helps... Wyatt Earp, Dances With Wolves, Once Upon a Time in the West, Legends of the Fall, Assassination of Jesse James... they are all within the "Western" genre, but they are epics first. ;)  Love Once Upon a Time, just finished watching it actually.
Quote from: Leo Tanner on January 06, 2009, 02:29:15 PM
At 25, you need to follow dreams or you'll regret it later. 

"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes

Capt'n Jack

#158
July 12, 2009, 07:28:23 AM
Without a doubt  "The Ballad of Cable Houge" is my favorite.  Difficult to find.  I finally after years found a single DVD of the movie and watch it about twice a year.  Got to find a way to make copies to send around so others can finally see my madness.
Capt'n Jack was my great great grandfather, a Captain of the Ky Cavalry in the Civil War.  He lived to a ripe old age.

Old Doc

#159
July 12, 2009, 05:30:18 PM
Quote from: Capt'n Jack on July 12, 2009, 07:28:23 AM
Without a doubt  "The Ballad of Cable Houge" is my favorite.  Difficult to find.  I finally after years found a single DVD of the movie and watch it about twice a year.  Got to find a way to make copies to send around so others can finally see my madness.

It plays frequently on TV, most recently the Encore Westerns Channel. It's the one, of which Peckinpaugh supposedly remarked, when criticized for the violence in his movies , "I made a movie once without any violence and nobody came to see the damned thing".
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