“Every level he goes to, he is going to compete. They will know who he is at every level he goes to.” -- ED on EDLC
Agreed. I see their point, but I'm pretty square about keeping the genre lines clear for a list like this.
But there's a subtle swipe in the list against anti-"cultural appropriation" (culture is cultural appropriation).
I haven't seen #2 or -- sorry to say -- Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid nor McCabe and Mrs. Miller.
I thought the list-makers were bold to put The Searchers as low as #10. But I approve. It's not even my favorite Ford movie. In fact, I think The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance might be my number one. That or Once Upon a Time in the West.
Last edited by Rojo; 07-04-2019 at 03:10 PM.
“Every level he goes to, he is going to compete. They will know who he is at every level he goes to.” -- ED on EDLC
“Every level he goes to, he is going to compete. They will know who he is at every level he goes to.” -- ED on EDLC
marcshoe (07-04-2019)
What would you say.....ya do here?
RedEye (07-04-2019)
RedEye (07-04-2019)
I will watch, but I'm honestly not an Altman fan.
And, yeah, Ford is just really the greatest. And Wayne's a far better actor than he's given credit for (he says on the 4th of July). There's a scene in Liberty Valance where he drunkenly burns down the little house he was building for the woman he's never going to have. It's so well done that I have to assume Wayne actually got drunk to do it.
And that's not far-fetched. That's another remarkable thing: Wayne and Ford were half-crocked through all their pictures. There's a great story about the both of them taking a mutual sobriety pledge for the filming of the Quiet Man -- they both started cheating within two days.
If you can’t watch Westerns before the 80s then you really don’t like Westerns. I like Tombstone but not more than The Outlaw Josey Wales. The Wild Bunch. Even Blazing Saddles is more enjoyable. The Unforgiven and the Tarantino movie were very good. But Shane and The Searchers are basically what those movies are looking at as the inspiration. That Joan Crawford western was so avant-garde bizarre that it’s hard to believe it was made at all during that time period.
There were some bad ones of course. The George Custer movie was horrible.
I can understand if saying any gangster/mafia movie is not worth watching before The Godfather. Except maybe a James Cagney classic. But not westerns.
What would you say.....ya do here?
1. Empire
2. ANH
3. Rogue
4. Return
5. TFA
6. Sith
7. Solo
8. TLJ
9. Menace
10. Clones
Hope isn't a strategy
NebraskaRed (07-18-2019),Rojo (07-18-2019)
The local college ("Faber") is showing the original trilogy on its old style really big screen this summer. I was out of town last weekend for Star Wars but will certainly do my best to catch Empire Strikes back this weekend.
NebraskaRed (07-18-2019),redsfanmia (07-17-2019)
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