Best ever Western
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brokenyolk said:
I think that's a little TOO prescriptive, eggboy. Although I can't be arsed with Tombstone, Unforgiven etc..
good to see at least one plug for The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
brokenyolk
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Dubversion said:I think that's a little TOO prescriptive, eggboy. Although I can't be arsed with Tombstone, Unforgiven etc..
good to see at least one plug for The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
oh alright then, i was just dismayed to see recommendations for the likes of young gums and not much sign of any classics.....
I watched The Outlaw last week - really amazing film and lots of saucy lines with double meanings, slipped in....... (vicar).
brokenyolk said:
oh god, yes. I wasn't even sure if that was a serious post. I mean, in the name of Borgnine - Lou Diamond fucking Phillips
brokenyolk
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Dubversion said:oh god, yes. I wasn't even sure if that was a serious post. I mean, in the name of Borgnine - Lou Diamond fucking Phillips
i await a recommendation for 'wild wild west' with will smith.......
Grandma Death
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Unforgiven without a shadow of a doubt.
Hawkeye Pearce
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I'd say Once Upon A Time In The West or The Wild Bunch for me. Both fucking ace though Fistfull of Dynamite is worth a mention as well.
I have a strange relationship with westerns in that I just don't like them - apart from one: Pale Rider, with Clint Eastwood playing a preacher who likes to shoot baddies.
I've heard people who know about westerns saying it is nothing exceptional, but I think it's the perfect movie for some reason.
I've heard people who know about westerns saying it is nothing exceptional, but I think it's the perfect movie for some reason.
bushphobia
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linerider said:third plug for The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
Yay. I have friends that are massive film buffs that have never seen this film. And they have a go at me for not remembering the marx Bros. well enough. bastards!
I'm not allowed to say that it was....elmer thudd, right?
This film hasn't been mentioned yet, and I watched it a few weeks ago, after years of it gathering dust among me oldey video pile....high plains drifter.
Eastwood. Broads. Bad people. In fact, most everyone in this film is some kind of a royal cocksucker, and absolutely deserves what they get (Hmmmm, the rape at the beggining....well, in context, yeah!)
And, also it be a ghost story.
Perfect combo.
Ooh, and also Eastwood's mate, who wasw in the any which way but lose films, and Tobe Hooper's Salem's lot was in it too.
Class!!
fear-n-loathing
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the spaghetti westerns were all pretty mint as was butch cassidy and the sundance kid
My favourite has to be The Good, The Bad & The Ugly for me. Some great scenes, extremely quotable, and excellent performances by Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and especially Eli Wallach. I've had the Dollars trilogy on video for years, but haven't got past TGTB&TU yet.
Unforgiven is also great. I like High Plains Drifter and Pale Rider too, although I'm always getting them mixed up. Which is the one where his wife and kid get murdered at the start and the theme tune is the same as the Channel 4 News?
Unforgiven is also great. I like High Plains Drifter and Pale Rider too, although I'm always getting them mixed up. Which is the one where his wife and kid get murdered at the start and the theme tune is the same as the Channel 4 News?
bushphobia
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STFC said:
Ah, that's pale rider pardner!
Not seen that in a while.
blinky_bill
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An excellent film from what I recall, wish they would show it more often.django said:Django for me.
Also remember a film called Django kill. Must be one of the darkest westerns if not one of the best.
blinky_bill said:
Yeah! Django Kill! is completely unique. It's got to be the only western that includes a gang of homosexual blackshirts, a talking parrot, after life mumbo jumbo, and graphic violence (though kind of tame nowadays) with our anti-hero wandering through the film aimlessly.
Someone upped the trailer on youtube:
No clips from the film but it has some classic rotoscope action and the cool theme running over it.
Though the darkest for me is the The Great Silence starring the great Klaus Kinski but saying anymore would spoil it. I upped the trailer on to youtube (along with a load of others), if anyone's interested:
belboid said:
Star Wars is an interesting inclusion. Clearly there is much taken from the Western genre. But as much is taken from the swashbuckling genre. Not to mention war films - fighter pilots etc. C3PO and R2D2 are a little Laurel & Hardy. Star Wars is really a sc-fi/fantasy film with bits borrowed from various other genres. Some Sci Fi nerds would argue that Star Wars is fantasy and not Sci Fi because there is no real exploration of scientific issues, just a use of imagined developments such as space travel to faciliate the fantasy.
Of course all categorisations are made up, but for a Western to be a Western it is generally considered that it should be set in the 'Wild West' - location and era.
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