Bad Westerns

[jimmyj]

I have to say this one more than qualifies! Best bet only Ringo will remember it!

Dirty Dingus Magee


Its a anti-western starring Frank Sinatra as the title outlaw and George Kennedy as a sheriff. Its based on the novel The Ballad of Dingus Magee and the screenplay was partly written by Joseph Heller.
FWIW, Mr Heller must have been desperate way back when!

This movie is worth watching because of the Indian Girl

 

[NYlakesider]

This movie as worth watching because of the Indian Girl

Shes a screen saver for sure, but she also had a movie temper, it showed when she shot John Wayne in another flick.

 

[DWalt]

No one has mentioned "Cowboys versus Aliens," for which I feel embarrassed for Harrison Ford.

One of the few movies I paid to see within recent years. I wish I could get my money back.

Bad Western movies are legion. Most of the "formula" Westerns cranked out by the hundreds back in the 1930s and 40s from studios like Republic and Monogram are essentially unwatchable today. But there were a few good ones from that time such as the original "Stagecoach" and "Red River." Most were made for pre-teen kids.

 

[FPrice]

"Silverado".

It seems like it was written by a committee.

Decent soundtrack though...

I respectfully have to disagree with you here. I thought Silverado was pretty good. It stretched the imagination a bit here and there, but overall it had a lot of good action sequences.

 

[FPrice]

:Shes a screen saver for sure, but she also had a movie temper, it showed when she shot John Wayne in another flick.

Oh yes, she wore her clothes well in that one. [wink]

 

[R.A. Rifleman]

At least Clint Eastwoods "Pasta" westerns are watchable--but I loathe all the others ive seen.

Once Upon a Time in The West?

 

[FPrice]

Drive Inns shown movies ??

So they say. I remember one drive in back in Hartford CT in 1965. We were watching the show when a fog rolled in, obscuring the screen. You could tell the married couples because they left. About half an hour later the fog lifted and we straightened up and continued watching whatever the movie was.

Found out a few days later a couple of our friends were also there and did the same thing.

 

[Rustyt1953]

These should come with "stink lines".

 

[Rustyt1953]

"Silverado".

"Well, wot's all this then?"

The only good line in the script.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Except for Billy the Juvenile, Tombstone- OK Corral has been abused the most.
Tombstone been done in every Doc- Earp variation they can think of.
And mostly all bad. And some of them, as already reported, have some well known actors.
3:10 to Yuma.
I prefer the original.

 

[DWalt]

In the Sabata poster, I really like the Gatling Gun firing all its barrels simultaneously, also the banjo gun. I don't remember that movie.

 

[Donn]

The Stranger Returns, aka A Man, A Horse, A Gun. A direct rip-off of the Clint Eastwood, Man With No Name franchise. Tony Anthony, (whoever he is), was the Stranger, decked out exactly like Eastwood but including a pink parasol. He went after the bad guys, after the obligatory capture and beating at their hands, with a rotating, four barreled sawed off shotgun. It raised the "stinker" bar to a whole new level.

 

[Cardboard_killer]

Once Upon a Time in The West?

That's a great movie, a classic of the genre. It is slow moving, but will be remembered long after many others are forgotten.

When people complain about today's movies they are forgetting the dreck put out in the 40s & 50s-- movies my dad would pay a nickel to see as a double feature as a 10 year old. Movies that have been lost as they never made it to archiving, and never made it to the small screen.

 

[R.A. Rifleman]

That's a great movie, a classic of the genre. It is slow moving, but will be remembered long after many others are forgotten.

I agree about Once Upon a Time in The West being great. My question was about ringo's thoughts on the matter. It seems like his statement would exclude it.

 

[Sayoc01]

Hannah Caulder BAD!! Are you nuts!! Rachel Welch...BAD!! YOU are no appreciator of her..Ahhh.fine ....words...I need the right words.....eyes...yep that's what I was looking at!
Hateful 8 was the worst western I ever saw & the 2nd worst movie the worst movie was Natural Born Killers!
Jim

 

[UncleEd]

You guys just don't appreciate variety and twists in the Western genre.

Now, let's talk about "Lust in the Dust." Divine, Tab Hunter and Geoffrey Lewis were delicioso!

 

[ACP230]

Tried to watch "Frank And Jesse" on cable the other day.

Badly done and did not stick to the facts of the James Gang's story
at all. I don't think I lasted 15 minutes, and it might have been 10.

The Pinkerton's did throw an incendiary device into the James house, but
they were in a group/posse at the time. In the movie it was one avenging angel from the railroad.

 

[wnwitzell]

Dirty DingooseMagee was a classic!.

 

[Tom S.]

A lot of people hated Johnny Depp's remake of the Lone Ranger, but I think they were looking for a serious plot. Knowing Depp's distorted sense of humor, I watched it as a comedy, which it was, and it cracked me up.

 

[Rustyt1953]

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