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Westerns! Gotta love them westerns!* So, which one's your favorite?
And another thing, why do you love them westerns? The characters? The setting?
*You don't actually have to love them westerns.
Westerns The greatest genre of all time
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Posted 10 November 2007 - 07:08 PM
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The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. -Horace Walpole
Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most. -Bob Dylan
Everyone dies but not everyone lives. -A. Sachs
This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang, but with a whimper -T.S. Eliot
The people that are trying to make the world worse never take a day off, why should I? Light up the darkness. -Bob Marley
A ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
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Posted 10 November 2007 - 07:32 PM
Other. I really really really really really really really really really really dislike Westerns. 
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Posted 10 November 2007 - 08:25 PM
Wait... you want me to decide
Unpossible. Clint Eastwood is far and away my favorite... well, anything to do with Westerns. Fistful of Dollars, Unforgiven, and Once Upon a Time in the West are probably like tied for my favorite films. I love pretty much everything about Westerns. The cheesy acting, the drama, the clothing, the scenery (especially the scenery
), the general rugged masculinity of guys like Eastwood, Van Cleef, Bronson, Wallach, Brinner, etc. I could probably go on all day about this stuff, but I won't
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Posted 10 November 2007 - 09:05 PM
^ Agree.
I'd have to say my favorite westerns are Unforgiven and 3:10 to Yuma (the new one). I really like Pale Rider, but it would have been so much better if Eastwood had been at the top of his directing game. Definitely flawed, but I love it anyway.
The only cheesy acting I like is Clint Eastwood. I mean, he's not that bad, but there's always that one scene in one of his movies that makes you go. Simply a fantastic setting, geographically and chronologically.
I'd have to say my favorite westerns are Unforgiven and 3:10 to Yuma (the new one). I really like Pale Rider, but it would have been so much better if Eastwood had been at the top of his directing game. Definitely flawed, but I love it anyway.
The only cheesy acting I like is Clint Eastwood. I mean, he's not that bad, but there's always that one scene in one of his movies that makes you go
. Simply a fantastic setting, geographically and chronologically.
My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die. -Bob Marley
The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. -Horace Walpole
Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most. -Bob Dylan
Everyone dies but not everyone lives. -A. Sachs
This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang, but with a whimper -T.S. Eliot
The people that are trying to make the world worse never take a day off, why should I? Light up the darkness. -Bob Marley
A ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. -Horace Walpole
Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most. -Bob Dylan
Everyone dies but not everyone lives. -A. Sachs
This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang, but with a whimper -T.S. Eliot
The people that are trying to make the world worse never take a day off, why should I? Light up the darkness. -Bob Marley
A ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
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Posted 10 November 2007 - 10:47 PM
Never watched one. The closest I have seen is Back To The Future Pt.3
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Posted 10 November 2007 - 11:07 PM
dominion_ruler, on Nov 10 2007, 09:47 PM, said:
Never watched one. The closest I have seen is Back To The Future Pt.3
It's got a lot of nice classic western elements.
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Posted 10 November 2007 - 11:28 PM
Thanks to Melvin, I rewatched Unforgiven this evening 
I'd forgotten how powerful that movie was.
I'd forgotten how powerful that movie was.
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Posted 11 November 2007 - 12:43 AM
The correct answer is The Searchers.
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"Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, somewhere else the tea's getting cold."
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Posted 11 November 2007 - 12:46 AM
poko, on Nov 11 2007, 12:43 AM, said:
The correct answer is The Searchers.
I would probably concede that The Searchers is the best pre-1960 or so, but I'm a firm adherent to the Leone school of Westerns.
John Ford was the best of his time, however, no doubt.
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Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?
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Posted 11 November 2007 - 01:24 AM
dominion_ruler, on Nov 10 2007, 10:47 PM, said:
Never watched one. The closest I have seen is Back To The Future Pt.3
Go watch Unforgiven, 3:10 to Yuma, and Fistful of Dollars, in that order. Do it.
Russell Crowe, on Nov 10 2007, 11:28 PM, said:
Thanks to Melvin, I rewatched Unforgiven this evening I'd forgotten how powerful that movie was.
I'd forgotten how powerful that movie was.
Glad to be of service.poko, on Nov 11 2007, 12:43 AM, said:
The correct answer is The Searchers.
Ah, damn it! Me am fail for missing The Searchers.
Russell Crowe, on Nov 11 2007, 12:46 AM, said:
I would probably concede that The Searchers is the best pre-1960 or so, but I'm a firm adherent to the Leone school of Westerns. John Ford was the best of his time, however, no doubt.
John Ford was the best of his time, however, no doubt.I stick by Leone's spaghetti westerns, thank you.
My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die. -Bob Marley
The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. -Horace Walpole
Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most. -Bob Dylan
Everyone dies but not everyone lives. -A. Sachs
This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang, but with a whimper -T.S. Eliot
The people that are trying to make the world worse never take a day off, why should I? Light up the darkness. -Bob Marley
A ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. -Horace Walpole
Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most. -Bob Dylan
Everyone dies but not everyone lives. -A. Sachs
This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang, but with a whimper -T.S. Eliot
The people that are trying to make the world worse never take a day off, why should I? Light up the darkness. -Bob Marley
A ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
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Posted 11 November 2007 - 01:28 AM
Also, you forgot to mention the scores in the 'why do you love westerns' section. Morricone's music alone was enough to make a movie worth seeing
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Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?
Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of
all poems...
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Posted 11 November 2007 - 01:30 AM
^ Ah, the music, and much more, Ennio Morricone's music! Definitely a contributing factor; western music is simply fantastic across the genre. No other genre has such universally appealing music to me.
My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die. -Bob Marley
The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. -Horace Walpole
Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most. -Bob Dylan
Everyone dies but not everyone lives. -A. Sachs
This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang, but with a whimper -T.S. Eliot
The people that are trying to make the world worse never take a day off, why should I? Light up the darkness. -Bob Marley
A ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. -Horace Walpole
Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most. -Bob Dylan
Everyone dies but not everyone lives. -A. Sachs
This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang, but with a whimper -T.S. Eliot
The people that are trying to make the world worse never take a day off, why should I? Light up the darkness. -Bob Marley
A ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
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Posted 12 November 2007 - 03:45 PM
poko, on Nov 11 2007, 12:07 AM, said:
It's got a lot of nice classic western elements.
Yes it does. I love it when the guy says "If you don't get out there eveyone will think Clint Eastwood is the biggest yella-belly in all the west."
Does Shanghai Noon count at all?
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Posted 12 November 2007 - 04:03 PM
^ Ha ha ha! No.
My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die. -Bob Marley
The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. -Horace Walpole
Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most. -Bob Dylan
Everyone dies but not everyone lives. -A. Sachs
This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang, but with a whimper -T.S. Eliot
The people that are trying to make the world worse never take a day off, why should I? Light up the darkness. -Bob Marley
A ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. -Horace Walpole
Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most. -Bob Dylan
Everyone dies but not everyone lives. -A. Sachs
This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang, but with a whimper -T.S. Eliot
The people that are trying to make the world worse never take a day off, why should I? Light up the darkness. -Bob Marley
A ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
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Posted 12 November 2007 - 05:24 PM
dominion_ruler, on Nov 12 2007, 03:45 PM, said:
Does Shanghai Noon count at all?
Not even remotely
Blazing Saddles, however, really ought to be on the list.
Have you reckon'd a thousand acres much? have you reckon'd the
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Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?
Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of
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earth much? Have you practis'd so long to learn to read?
Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?
Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of
all poems...
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Posted 12 November 2007 - 05:26 PM
Russell Crowe, on Nov 12 2007, 05:24 PM, said:
Not even remotely Blazing Saddles, however, really ought to be on the list.
Blazing Saddles, however, really ought to be on the list.
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Posted 12 November 2007 - 06:17 PM
Russell Crowe, on Nov 12 2007, 05:24 PM, said:
Not even remotely Blazing Saddles, however, really ought to be on the list.
Blazing Saddles, however, really ought to be on the list.See above answer
Captain_Hair, on Nov 12 2007, 05:26 PM, said:
The most offensive movie ever... a western. Who woulda thunk?
Hey, westerns have a reputation for portraying all ethnicities equally!
My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die. -Bob Marley
The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. -Horace Walpole
Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most. -Bob Dylan
Everyone dies but not everyone lives. -A. Sachs
This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang, but with a whimper -T.S. Eliot
The people that are trying to make the world worse never take a day off, why should I? Light up the darkness. -Bob Marley
A ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. -Horace Walpole
Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most. -Bob Dylan
Everyone dies but not everyone lives. -A. Sachs
This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang, but with a whimper -T.S. Eliot
The people that are trying to make the world worse never take a day off, why should I? Light up the darkness. -Bob Marley
A ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
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Posted 13 November 2007 - 07:43 AM
Russell Crowe, on Nov 12 2007, 06:24 PM, said:
Not even remotely Blazing Saddles, however, really ought to be on the list.
Blazing Saddles, however, really ought to be on the list.Yea, I've seen that one
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Posted 13 November 2007 - 03:39 PM
^ Pshaw. Next time I want to see Willy Wonka whip out a gun I'll return to my fantasy land.
My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die. -Bob Marley
The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. -Horace Walpole
Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most. -Bob Dylan
Everyone dies but not everyone lives. -A. Sachs
This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang, but with a whimper -T.S. Eliot
The people that are trying to make the world worse never take a day off, why should I? Light up the darkness. -Bob Marley
A ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. -Horace Walpole
Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most. -Bob Dylan
Everyone dies but not everyone lives. -A. Sachs
This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang, but with a whimper -T.S. Eliot
The people that are trying to make the world worse never take a day off, why should I? Light up the darkness. -Bob Marley
A ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
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Posted 13 November 2007 - 04:39 PM
I'm not really into westerns. The closest I think I've ever seen and really liked were Back to the Future 3 and Maverick (the movie, not the series).
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