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Joewisc
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Yeah, something scary about those eyes. In Josey Wales she was a helluva shot for a dumb blonde (no offense, gals), killing several redlegs with a long rifle.
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Josey Wales - Good shoot-em-up but...
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Joewisc
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That's true, Bob. But nothing compares with John McClane in Diehard artfully dodging thousands of rounds fired by several AK-47'sThere are technical errors in a Clint Eastwood western????
Has anyone ever seen John Wayne reload his Colt SAA in a movie? Thirty-seven Indians are killed, never a reload, and his gun belt is still full. This just an oversight, not a technical error.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lNUyMle_iI
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Dmaxboy08
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I believe its called kick back, relax, and enjoy the film. I feel sometimes people get so caught up in the details of things that they take the fun and enjoyment out of it. Lifes to short to pick the details out of a movie that was filmed in 1976.
Put more thought into how your going to pay off your house or any other debts you have. Or figure out how you will put your kids thru school(not pointing at the OP, this is for everyone).
Put more thought into how your going to pay off your house or any other debts you have. Or figure out how you will put your kids thru school(not pointing at the OP, this is for everyone).
Faulkner
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There are technical errors in a Clint Eastwood western????
Has anyone ever seen John Wayne reload his Colt SAA in a movie? Thirty-seven Indians are killed, never a reload, and his gun belt is still full. This just an oversight, not a technical error.
Not only did they tend to not show them reloading the weapons in the westerns, but I've long wondered how exactly did they handle the women on those long, cross county, wagon train trips. I mean, I can't drive my family in an air conditioned car to DisneyWorld without stopping at every other rest area on the interstate. I don't mean to be offensive, but women just don't travel as well as they seem to portray them in the westerns.
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Joewisc
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Of course, there were exceptions in the Old West of tough gals such as Calamity Jane who went after Wild Bill Hickok's killer with a meat cleaver.
Wyatt Burp
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I can live with that'
Here's another one I get a kick out of,
& one of my favorites* ....
.. Colt Walker 1847'
Mattie Ross (Kim Darby) inherits her father's civil war handgun when he dies, which is a Colt Walker 1847. Mattie uses it when she encounters Tom Chaney (Jeff Corey) and is knocked down by the recoil of the gun (which is a bit unrealistic) and manages to shoot him in the gut with it. He then manages to charge her and take the gun due to several misfires (which were Rooster's fault, as he had loaded it incorrectly while drunk, and also overloaded the chambers with powder which caused the tremendous recoil). The gun manages to fire once more in the hands of Mattie and grazes Chaney's head though the recoil knocks her into a snake pit. When Mattie first shows the gun to Rooster, he calls it a Colt's Dragoon but it is clearly too large and lacks a loading lever latch that the Dragoon models had. Also the Walker has no percussion nipples showing that it is firing cartridges.
"Why, by God, girl, that's a Colt's Dragoon! You're no bigger than a corn nubbin, what're you doing with all this pistol?" note no percussion nipples showing that its made to fire cartridges.
"It belonged to my father, he carried it bravely in the war, and I intend to kill Tom Chaney with it if the law fails to do so." "Well, this'll sure get the job done if you can find a fence post to rest it on while you take aim."
~ Joe
"By God, Dude, that'sa Colt's Dragoon!"
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QuickDrawMcGraw
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Sorry Joe' .. didn't mean to hijack your thread. 
... But I just had to Shoot' Back.
~ Joe
... But I just had to Shoot' Back.
~ Joe
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Joewisc
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Hey, I wouldn't have liked it if I didn't like it. Thanks for the laffs.Sorry Joe' .. didn't mean to hijack your thread.
... But I just had to Shoot' Back.
~ Joe
semperfi71
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"Outlaw Josey Wales" is one of my favorite westerns. One of about 100 or so............
One of the most historically inaccurate westerns I have ever seen is "The Commancheros". Set in the mid to late 1840s with Colt Single Actions and Winchester M92s.
But I love the movie for its story line. And the memory of my Father taking my two older brothers fishing for the weekend so my Mom said: "Let's go see a movie."
We went to "Downtown" San Antonio to the Texas Theater and saw "The Commancheros".
I'm getting to the point that I watch westerns for the scenery, telling myself I would like to be aboard my horse riding the countryside.
One of the most historically inaccurate westerns I have ever seen is "The Commancheros". Set in the mid to late 1840s with Colt Single Actions and Winchester M92s.
But I love the movie for its story line. And the memory of my Father taking my two older brothers fishing for the weekend so my Mom said: "Let's go see a movie."
We went to "Downtown" San Antonio to the Texas Theater and saw "The Commancheros".
I'm getting to the point that I watch westerns for the scenery, telling myself I would like to be aboard my horse riding the countryside.
geoff40
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This:
"I suppose one must overlook such technicalities and just sit back and enjoy one of the better Westerns on the screen. Johnny Carson called it the "best Western of all time."
"I suppose one must overlook such technicalities and just sit back and enjoy one of the better Westerns on the screen. Johnny Carson called it the "best Western of all time."
It's called financial responsibility. It took me three tries to get my engineering degree. After high school graduation, during the air force, and after the air force. My observation was that students paying the bill, worked much harder on their education with far less partying than those attending on Daddy's dime.
Local university was a good school, live at home for free, and use Georgia scholarship for tuitition. Dad will help with books. Daughter got married and moved away. She eventually earned a bachelor and masters degrees while being a wife and mother, but has not worked day one outside the house. She does a great job as full time Mom to 3 kids. Son chose another path. Dad saved money.
College education is like car insurance, pay your own bill just like I did.
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NFrameFred
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For those who have pointed out that the protagonists in the movies seem to have a penchant for moving unscathed through a hail of bullets (multiple times at times) and those who counter with "it's just a movie, sit back, relax, suspend belief for a while and enjoy it", I will only point out that there are numerous documented cases of just such things happening on the battlefield though they usually result in the awarding of some higher tier medals.
Granted, it's not normal, but unarmed medics have dashed through hellish fire to retrieve wounded, single man assaults on machine gun nests and the like are the stuff of historical legend and the examples are numerous . . . so . . . it's not impossible - just unlikely. And that's why we watch the movies - to see out-of-the-ordinary-maybe-could-have-happened and we like to root for the hero to beat those seemingly insurmountable odds. That's why it's entertaining.
I'm just always amazed at the corollary to this, that the milk toast victim who never picked up a gun before today in some of these flicks never seems to miss while professional killers, trained soldiers, and various henchmen who ostensibly carry a gun daily cannot seem to connect with their targets.
Kinda the way I feel about it . . . I'd rather be lucky than good but both couldn't hurt
Granted, it's not normal, but unarmed medics have dashed through hellish fire to retrieve wounded, single man assaults on machine gun nests and the like are the stuff of historical legend and the examples are numerous . . . so . . . it's not impossible - just unlikely. And that's why we watch the movies - to see out-of-the-ordinary-maybe-could-have-happened and we like to root for the hero to beat those seemingly insurmountable odds. That's why it's entertaining.
I'm just always amazed at the corollary to this, that the milk toast victim who never picked up a gun before today in some of these flicks never seems to miss while professional killers, trained soldiers, and various henchmen who ostensibly carry a gun daily cannot seem to connect with their targets.
Kinda the way I feel about it . . . I'd rather be lucky than good but both couldn't hurt
Worrying is my full-time job. That's the whole point of my visiting this place and one or two other forums. When I leave here, I'm refreshed and ready to worry about my life with renewed vigor and intensity.
williamlayton
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Having been involved in a bar fight---I will take movies over reality any day.
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