You might check into Wind River and Hell or High Water among his feature films.
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I have never heard of Taylor Sheridan either but I know by reading this Thread That I have seen other stuff he's done. I also have some on my watch list. His stories have a lot of meat on them. Strong characters, story lines, powerful dialogue and action. I'll be looking for more of his stuff.
Taylor Sheridan has another project in the works about Bass Reeves. Dennis Quaid and Barry Pepper are in the cast. David Oyelowo plays Bass Reeves in the series.
I quit watching Yellowstone after the second episode.
I really liked 1883, 1923, and I like Stallone in the Tulsa King series.
Tulsa King is leaving Oklahoma for season 2. Summer temperatures too hot for them people I guess, so they say.
I quit watching Yellowstone after the second episode.
I really liked 1883, 1923, and I like Stallone in the Tulsa King series.
Tulsa King is leaving Oklahoma for season 2. Summer temperatures too hot for them people I guess, so they say.
Well, I'm just starting on episode 3, but, dang it! I understand what you are saying...
My partner is 6th generation in the valley she grew up in in central Puget Sound, western WA. The numbers of those who died on that original wagon train over the Oregon Trail were staggering. And when they got to "Washington" the natives sent them on essentially a suicide trail route, expecting everyone to die, so they could salvage their belongings. Some got through anyway, including her ancestors. Directly descended from Texas Ranger Bigfoot Wallace. Tough stock. Her great aunt made it to 102, just 5 weeks shy of 103.
One of the things I'm noticing is that the outlaw/bad guys in Episode 5 are all overweight. Definitely pudgy. I was thinking quite a contrast to the westerns of our youth.
I'm enjoying the show.
I'm enjoying the show.
Elsa gave a credible performance, but that storyline was completely implausible. I know it was the MAIN storyline, but it was still implausible.
Isabel May is, as they say, easy on the eyes.
The rest of the storylines were at least plausible.
I did find it amazing that every friendly Indian they met spoke good English.
The acting and action scenes were well done and made the movie worth watching.
As to "Yellowstone" I have no interest. My wife watched some episodes and referred to it as "The Real Housewives of Montana."
Isabel May is, as they say, easy on the eyes.
The rest of the storylines were at least plausible.
I did find it amazing that every friendly Indian they met spoke good English.
The acting and action scenes were well done and made the movie worth watching.
As to "Yellowstone" I have no interest. My wife watched some episodes and referred to it as "The Real Housewives of Montana."
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That has GOT TO BE the longest death scene in television history.
I was enjoying 1923 until the whipping scenes of the two hookers. I mean, what did that add to the storyline that could not have been told in a myriad of other ways. Seems Sheridan thinks his shows requires T&A and an overabundance of the F-word to get people to watch. Yellowstone, 1883, and 1923 would be much better without both.
I enjoyed 1883 more than any of the Yellowstone shows. Sam Elliott definitely deserved the award that's for sure!
1923 just got weird with Timothy Dalton's character and I was less than satisfied with the ending episode. Yellowstone is too much of a soap opera and I didn't like any of the characters enough to keep watching, bailed in the first season. Plus Kevin Costner's affected gravel voice was annoying haha.
As far as Taylor Sheridan-my aboslute favorite is "Hell or High Water" with Ben Foster, Chris Pine, Jeff Bridges and Gil Birmingham as the main characters. The actress that plays the old waitress at the diner with Bridges and Birmingham was kick. Katie Mixon as the sassy one is also great in her short screen time.
My other favorites are "Sicario" and "Sicario 2: Day of the Soldado"-though I liked the first better.
He also played the "honest cop" in the awful "Sons of Anarchy" tv show before he really started focusing on his writing.
1923 just got weird with Timothy Dalton's character and I was less than satisfied with the ending episode. Yellowstone is too much of a soap opera and I didn't like any of the characters enough to keep watching, bailed in the first season. Plus Kevin Costner's affected gravel voice was annoying haha.
As far as Taylor Sheridan-my aboslute favorite is "Hell or High Water" with Ben Foster, Chris Pine, Jeff Bridges and Gil Birmingham as the main characters. The actress that plays the old waitress at the diner with Bridges and Birmingham was kick. Katie Mixon as the sassy one is also great in her short screen time.
My other favorites are "Sicario" and "Sicario 2: Day of the Soldado"-though I liked the first better.
He also played the "honest cop" in the awful "Sons of Anarchy" tv show before he really started focusing on his writing.
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I love movies, and go every week to the theater and watch more at home.
Taylor Sheridan has wandered on to my Pass On This list. I watched Hell or High Water - sorry, no bank robber heros for me. I worked bank robberies for many years and the real victims are 20 year old moms working their first real job who may never come back to work after some scumbag shows them a gun (or even a note) and empties their cash drawer.
I never even bothered with Wind River - the trailer was enough. As an FBI guy who has actually successfully investigated the murders of many young native women, I know they are killed by:
- young native men
- old native men
- young native women
- bears
NOT mysterious cabals of white dudes.
Also, there are FBI guys assigned to EVERY rez. We don’t need to send hot ill-equipped girls from DC to work with hunky game wardens to solve murders.
So, sorry Taylor. I will also not be tuning in to the Adventures Of Crackhead Jimmy on 6666. I understand he is also working on “1040” - the story of a tough but fair frontier tax preparer played by Ryan Phillipe trying to ensure code compliance in turn of the century Cody, Wyoming. I might watch that one.
Taylor Sheridan has wandered on to my Pass On This list. I watched Hell or High Water - sorry, no bank robber heros for me. I worked bank robberies for many years and the real victims are 20 year old moms working their first real job who may never come back to work after some scumbag shows them a gun (or even a note) and empties their cash drawer.
I never even bothered with Wind River - the trailer was enough. As an FBI guy who has actually successfully investigated the murders of many young native women, I know they are killed by:
- young native men
- old native men
- young native women
- bears
NOT mysterious cabals of white dudes.
Also, there are FBI guys assigned to EVERY rez. We don’t need to send hot ill-equipped girls from DC to work with hunky game wardens to solve murders.
So, sorry Taylor. I will also not be tuning in to the Adventures Of Crackhead Jimmy on 6666. I understand he is also working on “1040” - the story of a tough but fair frontier tax preparer played by Ryan Phillipe trying to ensure code compliance in turn of the century Cody, Wyoming. I might watch that one.
I can see how H or H W might be a hard watch however for me I watch films for the characters, whether good or evil, what motivates their actions and the work by the actors. I thought the casting in that film was outstanding and what happens to Gil's character was truly heartbreaking.
I too was quite familiar with activities on a couple of different reservations in Southern Arizona in the 70s and early 80s. Things never moved quickly regardless of the le parties involved and yes the majority of the perpertrators were from the rez and not unheard of to be family members.
For many of the same reasons I don't watch too many documentaries-I've had enough of reality in my 66+ years on this rock and watch a film to be distracted from the world and/or entertained.
I too was disappointed in Wind River though I did appreciate the acting by Jeremy Remmer. Elizabeth Olsen, not so much.
We all bring our own prejudices to everything we do-whether it's our hobbies (I shoot 1911s more than my favorite S&W wheelies lol), entertainment, recreation etc. What I do enjoy is the various perspectives and discussions that follow.
I too was quite familiar with activities on a couple of different reservations in Southern Arizona in the 70s and early 80s. Things never moved quickly regardless of the le parties involved and yes the majority of the perpertrators were from the rez and not unheard of to be family members.
For many of the same reasons I don't watch too many documentaries-I've had enough of reality in my 66+ years on this rock and watch a film to be distracted from the world and/or entertained.
I too was disappointed in Wind River though I did appreciate the acting by Jeremy Remmer. Elizabeth Olsen, not so much.
We all bring our own prejudices to everything we do-whether it's our hobbies (I shoot 1911s more than my favorite S&W wheelies lol), entertainment, recreation etc. What I do enjoy is the various perspectives and discussions that follow.
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I binged watched it after getting Paramount Plus and thoroughly enjoyed it! I watched it as entertainment, not a history lesson though. Loved Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, Sam Elliott, Billy Bob Thornton, LaMonica Garrett, and especially Isabel May. Who am I kidding, I think all the actors did a great job.
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I finished it a coupla days back. While I thought it nowhere near Lonesome Dove in the pantheon of great westerns, I did think it was entertaining, and would say that I enjoyed watching it.
Parts seemed a bit farfetched, like the lead's romance/marriage to the young Indian guy. I think the customs of the day would have kept them well apart, despite him being by far the coolest young man in the series. And her Indian costume seemed pretty risqué for either Indians or cowgirls/pioneer women in that time frame, but hey! It's Hollywood and she was easy on the eyes so no complaints here.
I also thought the acting by the two country music stars, Hill and McGraw, quite credible.
I realized watching Godless some time ago that while I find modern westerns with their modern sensibilities and diversity in opening up traditional western film roles to all a bit... strange..., it is probably a good thing in that everyone in today's America gets to participate in an/the archetypical American foundation myth. (By myth I don't mean it's all false, but it is also, as typically presented, a heroic embellishment of history. Sharing it broadly, allowing everyone to join in it, is surely a good thing for our people as a whole.)
Parts seemed a bit farfetched, like the lead's romance/marriage to the young Indian guy. I think the customs of the day would have kept them well apart, despite him being by far the coolest young man in the series. And her Indian costume seemed pretty risqué for either Indians or cowgirls/pioneer women in that time frame, but hey! It's Hollywood and she was easy on the eyes so no complaints here.
I also thought the acting by the two country music stars, Hill and McGraw, quite credible.
I realized watching Godless some time ago that while I find modern westerns with their modern sensibilities and diversity in opening up traditional western film roles to all a bit... strange..., it is probably a good thing in that everyone in today's America gets to participate in an/the archetypical American foundation myth. (By myth I don't mean it's all false, but it is also, as typically presented, a heroic embellishment of history. Sharing it broadly, allowing everyone to join in it, is surely a good thing for our people as a whole.)
Yeah, I wondered about that, too, but looked up the Oregon Trail and learned that the last wagon train was in the early 1900s. The explanation was that some folks didn't have the money for train tickets, which would fit with being poor immigrants if not the family who were the main focus of the show.
Or, how about the Indians with bows and arrows? Even the young Indian love interest seemed to have a bow slung behind him despite having a lever rifle, which seeemed odd.
Just styln', I guess.
Or, how about the Indians with bows and arrows? Even the young Indian love interest seemed to have a bow slung behind him despite having a lever rifle, which seeemed odd.
Just styln', I guess.
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And every once in awhile they leave the rez and are kidnapped, raped and murdered by old white serial killers, but that's a local LE problem. Wind River is the only one of these I've seen. I turned it off part way through, was talked into finishing it and found the final scene worth the torment.
I've gotten really hard to please with movies and TV and rarely see anything that I like very much but I did see the Jesus Revolution movie last weekend and liked it quite a bit. As far as the Taylor Sheridan shows, I liked them all and I can't tell you one single other TV show that I currently like. Tulsa King seemed a little weak in the beginning but I kept watching and started liking it. One of my buddies that I have coffee with every morning at Panera Bread was in one of the bar scenes filmed in OKC and said Stallone was pretty funny. He said one time he was standing around waiting for his scene and someone "goosed" him from behind and made him jump and he turned around and it was Stallone.
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1883 was one of the worst series I have ever suffered through. Totally and completely unrealistic based upon the REAL history of the times.
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I wouldn't suffer through any TV show. If it's a loser, you can usually tell in one episode, but often it doesn't take that long, like a book that's a dud.
I kept hoping it would turn around and get better, but it just didn't. I don't usually last that long and there have been numerous series that trudged on without me.
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