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Post by strange on Nov 18, 2011 2:07:31 GMT -5
Whats everybody's favorites around here?
My favorite western... is Westworld! I finally got to see it again today, it had been a long time since I had last seen it. It was my favorite film as a kid and sorta might still be except that my head has been cluttered with so many films.
As far as Custer movies go.... Little Big Man seems to be the weird one that comes up on top, maybe because I haven't seen too many others.
Of the period in general... Jeff Bridges is great as Wild Bill and that one is well up there in my favorites range.
The rest of my favorites are probably on tv, I got re-obsessed with Michael Landon and I've been watching lots of Bonanza, Little House On The Prairie, Highway to Heaven, and I finally got to see I Was A Teenage Werewolf for the first time! Landon doesn't let me down, except that he usually doesn't do much on Bonanza, its mostly Hoss and Lorne Greene's show. They probably used Landon more on later episodes but my tv only airs the ones from the years that Pernell Roberts was still there which was about the first 5 or 8 years.
Matt Dillon/ Gunsmoke can be really good at times but goes up and down. My absolute favorite and the one I loved and adored was where there was an old deranged father and his gang of sons that captured Dillon and let him live so they could hunt him down... that was spectacular!
By the way while I'm here.... Chester or Festus? I like Festus!
PS
Do they kill Hickok before or after Custer in the Little Big Man movie?
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Post by cinnamon on Nov 18, 2011 2:39:24 GMT -5
Dear Strange, I think Little Big Man is the worst movie I've ever seen, if you watch it keepin in mind history. All the movie is full of lies, and, worst, lies are made to paint the historical characters evil. This is somethiing I can't forgive. Custer dieshouting like a mad man with an arrow on the back (false!), just as an exemple - of course they didn't show their hero little big man helping to keep Crazy Horse while they kill him.... My favourite western is "they died with their boots on", but I also like a lot "gettysburg", Laura ingalls wilder's series and Henry Fonda "fort apache". I also love the old movies with John wayne, Gary Cooper.
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Post by tbw on Nov 18, 2011 8:26:23 GMT -5
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Post by crazycanuck on Nov 18, 2011 9:46:31 GMT -5
The Assassination of Jessie James by the Coward Robert Ford. It was interesting because I've been to the James house in St.Joseph Missouri. I like Casey Affleck(makes a great coward... he could play Custer er I mean Reno... relax just messing with you) acting better than his big brother Ben.Casey is in the Tower Heist that is now showing(little bit funny movie). Bonanza was fun wth Little Joe and his black and white pinto horse horse Cochise.
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Post by joewiggs on Nov 18, 2011 21:12:30 GMT -5
Dear Strange, I think Little Big Man is the worst movie I've ever seen, if you watch it keepin in mind history. All the movie is full of lies, and, worst, lies are made to paint the historical characters evil. This is somethiing I can't forgive. Custer dieshouting like a mad man with an arrow on the back (false!), just as an exemple - of course they didn't show their hero little big man helping to keep Crazy Horse while they kill him.... My favourite western is "they died with their boots on", but I also like a lot "gettysburg", Laura ingalls wilder's series and Henry Fonda "fort apache". I also love the old movies with John wayne, Gary Cooper. Cinnamon I agree 100% with you! "Little Big Man's" portrayal of Custer was cartoonist and completely devoid of factual information. The other portions of the film were reasonable, enjoyable, and worth viewing. My favorite western film is the Alamo, starring John Wayne! |
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Post by joewiggs on Nov 18, 2011 21:18:11 GMT -5
I officially acquiesce! "Rearward Advance" rather than "charge" summons up my philosophy regarding Reno's movement and nothing else need be said. Thank you Sir!  |
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Post by joewiggs on Nov 18, 2011 21:21:29 GMT -5
Sir Strange, thank you, thank you, thank you for reminding this old man of one of the greatest pictures ever made;West World!
I had forgotten all about that magnificent opus starring Mr. Yul Brenner. Thanks for the sweet memories! ;D
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Post by strange on Nov 19, 2011 13:09:20 GMT -5
Sir Strange, thank you, thank you, thank you for reminding this old man of one of the greatest pictures ever made;West World! I had forgotten all about that magnificent opus starring Mr. Yul Brenner. Thanks for the sweet memories! ;D Need I remind you of a film from your own generation even! ;D By the way, does anybody know what happens to the little guy in the glasses who gets to be the Sheriff? I think his story just goes unresolved. Now that i got to see the movie again, it appears that Richard Benjamin might not be the only one to survive the killer robots if we don't see anything happening to the little guy in the glasses. When things like that happen, I like to use imagination to fill in the gaps... the little guy was last seen in the bar fight... I suppose one of two things are possible, that he was either clunked out and didn't wake up until after James Brolin and Richard Benjamin were out (meaning he'd just be taing a nap while the robots wreak destruction) or that maybe the robots turned evil during the barfight and he was killed there and we just don't know it? The movie is a lot shorter than I remembered. Its only an hour and a half and I use to think it was two hours. |
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Post by cinnamon on Nov 19, 2011 14:08:37 GMT -5
Well Joe, I think that movie was just a political act, using historical lies. So I can't see it. Twice was enough. I prefere much more "son of the morning star", or a very nice old movie with John Wayne and William holden:"the horse soldiers". If I think a bit, a lot of movies comes to my mind  |
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Post by whitebull on Nov 19, 2011 19:17:14 GMT -5
Dear Strange, I think Little Big Man is the worst movie I've ever seen, if you watch it keepin in mind history. All the movie is full of lies, and, worst, lies are made to paint the historical characters evil. This is somethiing I can't forgive. Custer dieshouting like a mad man with an arrow on the back (false!), just as an exemple - of course they didn't show their hero little big man helping to keep Crazy Horse while they kill him.... My favourite western is "they died with their boots on", but I also like a lot "gettysburg", Laura ingalls wilder's series and Henry Fonda "fort apache". I also love the old movies with John wayne, Gary Cooper. I don't know Cinnamon, I admit that the Custer character was played out as a buffoon which was hardly necessary but the rest of the picture was pretty darn good or so I thought! Now I think any western with John Wayne in ti is the bomb! |
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Post by whitebull on Nov 19, 2011 19:21:55 GMT -5
The Assassination of Jessie James by the Coward Robert Ford. It was interesting because I've been to the James house in St.Joseph Missouri. I like Casey Affleck(makes a great coward... he could play Custer er I mean Reno... relax just messing with you) acting better than his big brother Ben.Casey is in the Tower Heist that is now showing(little bit funny movie). Bonanza was fun wth Little Joe and his black and white pinto horse horse Cochise. Bonanza is, was and always will be my favorite western show. The acting was great, the story lines interesting, and Hoss was the man! |
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Post by cinnamon on Nov 20, 2011 3:45:11 GMT -5
Well Whitebull, if you watch it as a movie and simply as a movie, it can be enjoyable, but the fact is it pretends to tell a true story. Then, From an historical perspective it is a movie simply absurd (putting people on places they had never been, having parts in history they never had). It miss the grey line also, as other movies had:even "Custer of the west", e.g. had a more balanced view, where we see a collision of cultures in which the fault and guilty are laying on both sides; even Custer there, is both hero and cynical.
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Post by crazycanuck on Nov 20, 2011 7:34:36 GMT -5
My FIRST MEMORY of television was 1954 watching William Boyd as Hopalong Cassisy and his white horse Topper.
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Post by joewiggs on Nov 20, 2011 17:33:56 GMT -5
CC, you must be as old as me. I remember Hop-A-Long very well and enjoyed that show tremendously. Even though Mr. Boyd wore black, his white horse and kind demeanor made him a very special "good guy" for me.
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