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I kept hoping that Walter "Jack" Palance, would shoot him.
That kid was THAT annoying, so wa Alan Ladd for that matter.
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I kept hoping that Walter "Jack" Palance, would shoot him.
That kid was THAT annoying, so wa Alan Ladd for that matter.HOUSTON RICK
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I am a fan of the western intentionally so bad that it was great ,,, The Legend of Evil Roy Slade.
Wild Wild West and Cowboys vs Aliens are truly terrible. But they are not Westerns. And you really can't judge them to be terrible, because it's not like they ever had a chance to be good.
Serenity was good. And it is a Western--the dress, the guns, the settings, the hero, everything fits.
If I was going to nominate the worst Western I've seen, I would have to say The Dead Pool--the absolute worst of the Dirty Harry movies.
Serenity was good. And it is a Western--the dress, the guns, the settings, the hero, everything fits.
If I was going to nominate the worst Western I've seen, I would have to say The Dead Pool--the absolute worst of the Dirty Harry movies.
DWalt
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"They used to crank out a movie every two months, and most of them were forgotten two months after release."
The Western factory studios of the 1930s-50s (such as Monogram and Republic) would turn them out much more quickly than that. Monogram made 30 westerns in 91 days in 1940. They were almost assembly-line products using the same sets/locations, many of the same cast (except for the star), same horses, even the scripts were much the same. Many were somewhat shorter than today's movies, often around an hour as the plots were so simple. Many of them are lost to history.
The Western factory studios of the 1930s-50s (such as Monogram and Republic) would turn them out much more quickly than that. Monogram made 30 westerns in 91 days in 1940. They were almost assembly-line products using the same sets/locations, many of the same cast (except for the star), same horses, even the scripts were much the same. Many were somewhat shorter than today's movies, often around an hour as the plots were so simple. Many of them are lost to history.
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I'm sure someone else has said it, but "The Quick and the Dead" with Sharon Stone.
I've never actually been able to see the whole movie.
I've never actually been able to see the whole movie.
LMWIS
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Then you missed the scenes where you could see the landscape in the background through the bullet hole of the recently deceased.
A different take on the 'shot seven times with no blood' of the 1950's...,
Cardboard_killer
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It does have a good scene where the preacher is getting handguns shown to him at the LGS. Otherwise, a very strange spoof of westerns.
I surprised that nobody has mentioned "Appaloosa".
A couple of fairly decent gun fights smothered in two hours of one of the worst "Love" stories ever written. Both the hero and the villain apparently thinking with the wrong gun.
I didn't mind this one, but I'm getting tired of seeing this SAME town in almost every oater. That corner building was used in this flick as a bar, restaurant, hotel, courtroom... have I omitted anything? Jeremy Irons is always worth watching, even if miscast. It was the last flick for James Gammon, who looked, and was, very ill. Lance Henriksen looked much too old for his gunfighter role.
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revolver59
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There are all kinds of good and bad Westerns,TV shows or movies, but in my opinion, it is very hard to beat (Gunsmoke), the TV show has been one of my all time favorites, where the cast kind of feels like family after watching so many episodes. I watch it on a daily basis, never get tired of it even if I have seen the episodes several times previously.
Lee's Landing Billy
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Saw the noon showing today of the Magnificient Seven. We went because the Armorer was listed as Thell Reed. The last survivor of the original combat masters. Guns, leather, and gear were real good, movie is OK.
Well, now really, all the "classic" westerns are just baloney. Any time you see 2 guys face off in the street to draw on each other, it's unicorn poop. Especially if one is good and the other is bad. It was more truthfully like a scene in "El Diablo", (I think) where Anthony Edwards is a dime novel writer, come west to meet the famous gunman El Diablo, played by Louis Gossett Jr. Gossett notices a wanted bad guy walk by, and promptly shoots him in the back. Edwards is horrified, "You shot him in the back!" Gossett replies, "His back was to me." I agree with many of these, and those early talkies with Duke and some other screen legends are hard to watch. Especially, when they sing. You know the ones, with real 10 gallon hats, dark eye makeup, and fuzzy chaps.
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The Master Gunfighter
But, it was filmed along the coast of Carmel, Big Sur and Santa Barbara, which is cool. Even more cool was mom was Barbara Carrera's stunt double for riding at Pfeiffer Beach at the end of the movie. Mom had to wear a black wig. There was big surf at the beach that day and the horse did not want to walk through it, like Laughlin wanted, and mom had a tough time getting the horse too as she had to ride in a side saddle.
Fern Canyon road was too narrow for a lot of horse trailers so the horses had to be ponied down the road from Hwy 1.
But, it was filmed along the coast of Carmel, Big Sur and Santa Barbara, which is cool. Even more cool was mom was Barbara Carrera's stunt double for riding at Pfeiffer Beach at the end of the movie. Mom had to wear a black wig. There was big surf at the beach that day and the horse did not want to walk through it, like Laughlin wanted, and mom had a tough time getting the horse too as she had to ride in a side saddle.
Fern Canyon road was too narrow for a lot of horse trailers so the horses had to be ponied down the road from Hwy 1.
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