Western Movies

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  1. Lanny

    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    Good movie but not really a Western. More like a modern story.
    Josh Brolin, Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem and Woody Harrelson made that movie good.
     
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    I used to love westerns as a kid. Later, when it became clear that the cowboys and the calvary weren’t the de facto good guys that I had been led to believe, I kind of lost interest. Guess I’ll go with Dances with Wolves.
     
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    Good one!
     
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    Changing subject matter a bit, have you ever watched “All is Lost”, MarAzul? It’s available on Prime Video and I streamed it while on a flight yesterday. It stars Robert Redford as a guy who’s sailing solo when a lost shipping crate crashes into his sailboat while he’s sleeping. I couldn’t help thinking about you and what you would think about his efforts to survive.
     
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    Watched Louis L'Amour's western, Conagher, starring Sam Elliott. This is one of dad's favorites.

    It is an interesting look at life on the frontier. Elliott stars as a cowboy drifter catching tumbleweed fever on the prairie. He finds poems attached to tumbleweeds and discovers he's connecting with another lonely soul.
     
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  6. Lanny

    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    Can't stand Kevin Costner, he's a terrible actor.
     
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    It's a contemporary western
     
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    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    I don't consider those Westerns. Westerns are only in the latter part of the 19th century and the very early part of the 20th century.
    Little side note here, my grandmother was born in 1882 and my grandfather was born in 1864. Those were not great grandparents.
     
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    For a genre that accepted John Wayne as an icon, Costner's okay.
     
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    Yes, I watched it. Terrible movie. I don't know what Redford was attempting to do, but made a piss poor show of it. I found it rather embarrassing and surprised I cared.
     
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    I expect you would take to Jack Diamond.
     
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    Rio Bravo
    The Searchers
    The Treasure of the Siera Madre
    The Ballad of Buster Scruggs


    So many. What a great genre
     
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    Another good newer one is The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
     
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    Interesting. I really thought of that movie as a Western :simply another Coen Brothers triumph.
     
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    That was a strange group of movies packed into one piece. I liked it because it was absolutely different than any other Hollywood offering.
     
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    It's not a Western. It's a Coen Brothers masterpiece.
     
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    The first 2 shorts are masterpieces
     
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    A Cohen's Brother Masterpiece that happens to be a western
     
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    Curious how you define it as a western. I always thought of a western as made back in the days of horses and cowboys.
     
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    Me too, cup. A modern Western is more like just a modern story set in the Western United States. A true Western is set in the old West.
     

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