Hollywood, wake up!

Is anyone else here a big western fan like me?

I'm not obsessed and haven't got any dvd's, but if a western comes on (usually late at night on the wonderful BBC), I love to watch it.

So, Hollywood, WAKE UP! It's about time another few great westerns appear on the big screens I say, nothing fancy, just some good ol' good guy/bad guy shooting up texas in the olden days kind of stuff. The big Eastwood is still alive, so he could still play in it...

Here ends my rant and begins my prayer for more westerns instead of them feminine movies with vampires falling in love :wall:

Seen the Proposition? Aussie western it is absolutely fantastic

what about the 3:10 to Yuma?

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what about the 3:10 to Yuma?

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More of a popcorn action-flick set in the wild-west, lacks the brooding atmosphere of a good western. Again, Mithrandir, go watch the Proposition it is one of the best movies this decade.

scene to give you an idea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUVs...eature=related

better than classics like Once upon a time in the West, best western ever made.

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Here ends my rant and begins my prayer for more westerns instead of them feminine movies with vampires falling in love :wall:

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As the trends looks like the zombie movies are to replace the vampire movies, you'll have to endure feminine movies with misunderstood zombies who simply wants that everyone's together first. :laugh4:

That scene didn't do much for me Frag... bit too slow. Not slow as in the intro of Inglorious Bastards slow, but unintrestingly slow.

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That scene didn't do much for me Frag... bit too slow. Not slow as in the intro of Inglorious Bastards slow, but unintrestingly slow.

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Yeah could have posted something more representative, it's a slow movie mind you. Be a good boy and listen to uncle Fragony, if you like westerns this is one of the best, if not the best ever made. Very raw and realistic (maybe a bit too much for some, it has a truly chilling rape-scene) with a truly haunting soundtrack, fantastic performances, and the real star of the show, the oh so hostile outback of Australia.

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(maybe a bit too much for some, it has a truly chilling rape-scene)

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I'll pass :bow:

Try Appaloosa. I've enjoyed that one. Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen.

Watch Firefly then Serenity.

One of my all time favorites. High Plains Drifter. :2thumbsup:

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As the trends looks like the zombie movies are to replace the vampire movies, you'll have to endure feminine movies with misunderstood zombies who simply wants that everyone's together first. :laugh4:

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Actually what I have heard coming from the industry it seems that next year is going to be all about werewolves....

I actually like a good werewolf movie....it remains to see if any good ones will come out. :help:

I've never been a big fan of westerns except the the "spaghetti westerns". "The Good the Bad and the Ugly" being my favourite.

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Yeah, Clint's spaghetti westerns are great. I really like Silverado - a good, fun black hat/white hat western with John Cleese playing a sheriff as a great twist. :7cowboy: It has an awesome soundtrack too. :2thumbsup:

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Is anyone else here a big western fan like me?

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:yes::yes::yes::yes::yes:

Me too! :beam:

Love the old movies! They don't make anything like those any more.....3:10 to Yuma was.....well.....Didn't like it much.
Appaloosa was good. Viggo Mortensen saved the show truth be told.
The best western movie IMO though, is McKenna's Gold, that was the first western I ever saw, and that was what made me fall in love with the genre......After watching that I bought every Max Brand and Louise L'Amour book I could find.

Appaloosa is the only decent western movie that's been released in the recent past I think.....

I liked 3:10 to yuma and appaloosa. I remember seeing a graph of "movies by genre over time" and back in the day something like 20% of movies were westerns :laugh4:

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Actually what I have heard coming from the industry it seems that next year is going to be all about werewolves....

I actually like a good werewolf movie....it remains to see if any good ones will come out. :help:

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Been seeing previews for "wolfman", could be good.

I've always had a "thing" for untraditional Westerns. Unforgiven, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, the first season of Deadwood, that sort of thing.

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Originally Posted by Alexander the Pretty Good

Watch Firefly then Serenity.

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I cannot second this one strongly enough. I never thought I'd care for a "western IN SPACE!"-themed show/movie, but Firefly & Serenity proved me wrong. :yes:

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Watch Firefly then Serenity.

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Here here! :2thumbsup:

Ajax

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRLP6PdYt2M

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRLP6PdYt2M

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I don't understand the language so I don't know how cheesy that movie must be, but that is a well put-together trailer if a bit too long. Made me interested.

I like Westerns - the old school (High Noon, Shane, the original 3:10 to Yuma etc) and some of the revisionist ones. The spaghetti versions are as repellant as James Bond or Superhero movies (all three sharing the basic boring "the protaganist is unkillable" premise). Westerns are most interesting when they stick to the history, which I find utterly fascinating with truth often stranger than fiction. An example of this is the lamentable film, Heaven's Gate, where the Christopher Walken character (Nat Champion) is casually shot down when in reality, he fended off his attackers for a day, keeping a journal of his ordeal.

One Western I really like is "Ride with the Devil", which I caught again yesterday and would rate as one of my all time favorite films. It is a wonderfully humane look at a very inhumane conflict (the Missouri guerilla war), full of spectacle, wit and pathos. Here's a taste, set in the middle of the climactic Lawrence massacre (some profanity):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6Pp...eature=related

Gentlemen, westerns stopped being westerns when the Greats were gone. who are the Greats? They include Clint eastwood, Robert Duvall, and the Duke of the west, The king of the silver Screen, John Wayne. They made the greatest westerns i have ever seen.

(Yes i realize duvall and eastwood are not dead yet)


Movies i Recommend
Lonesome Dove (its a series with Duvall)
Who killed Liberty valence
The good the bad and the ugly
Rooster Cogburn
Magnificent 7
Sierra Madre


And many more........ with a few notable exceptions all the best westerns were from 1950's and before. When men were men and there actually movie stars who undersatood the concept of fighting. Men like robert Duvall and Clint Eastwood are hold-outs from that era.

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That looks fun!

I've never seen the whole movie of Open Range, but I have seen the final gunfight, and it is very good. Like, in my list of top five movie gunfight scenes from any movie.

And, of course, Once Upon a Time in the West.

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So, Hollywood, WAKE UP! It's about time another few great westerns appear on the big screens I say, nothing fancy, just some good ol' good guy/bad guy shooting up texas in the olden days kind of stuff.

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Good luck with that. :juggle2:

CR

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It looks like the westerns have all but disappeared, replaced by horror, porn, and documentaries.

So lets write a documentary about horror porn in the old west.

let's see what the master of the puniverse can come up with

Liek Crazed Rabbit said, watch open range.

Mithandir,

Unforgiven is a must. Not fast action, though. It's like a western and an anti-western all rolled into one, and there are really, truly no good guys in the film, just protags and antags. Richard Harris and Gene Hackman are great.

As for spaghettis, I always liked Once Upon A Time in The West better than The Good, Bad, Ugly, but they are both great films. Once Upon was Henry Fondas only bad guy role, .....and he wipes out an entire family of settlers in the first scenes of the film. and I think the first movie where each character had their own theme music

Very, very slow moving, though.

Lonesome Dove the original was good for a vanilla TV series.

High Plains Drifter, Silverado, The Shootist were good, too. The Shootist is very old, dying John Wayne where he plays an old, dying cowboy.

How is it that we have gotten this deep into the thread without anyone mentioning a Sam Peckinpah film!?

I expect Tito to say a few words at least...

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Am I really the only 'The Proposition' fanboy? It's a classical western in every sense only much, much better it's a truly fantastic movie. Sam Peckinpah fans will know who's their daddy.

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Sam Peckinpah fans will know who's their daddy.

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Say what you like, but you can ask any working girl south of the border. Sam Peckinpah era un hombre for sure!

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