Movie: #1
Suggested by: @ahwell

Very impressive movie! The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is composed of six different western stories, all of them tied together by one theme: the violence of the old west....With it's ironicisms the film reminded me of the 1980s TV show Tales From the Darkside, a show I use to love. As one would expect from a Coen's film it's well written, clever & intelligently handled with great attention to details. A big plus there's some really beautiful shooting locations...All done up with a slight twist and the Coen's flair for uniqueness.

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Movie: #2
Suggested by: @Miss Vicky

I've watched a lot of 1950s westerns recently, that's by far my favorite decade for movies. And in all of those 1950s westerns, I've not seen a film quite like The Hanging Tree. Some might call this movie slow paced, but I found it to be very introspective, as we spend a lot of time seeing how the outcast doctor (Gary Cooper) treats people in his debt. The doctor is a conundrum, both gentle and a man of violence with a penchant for controlling those who owe him.

It's a strange (but cool) movie that seems to be saying a lot but never spoon feeds the message to the audience. It's so subtle that for most of the film I was hooked by just trying to figure out what the motives of these people were. It's based on a novel so I'm guessing there were things that just couldn't be discussed openly in 1959, so the film hints at the darkness of the doctors past.

Filmed in my state! Washington, though filmed in eastern Washington which is geographically very different than where I live on the wetter, west side.

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Movie #3
Suggested by Chypmunk

See that photo? That's the way the movie looked when I watched it, everyone was very tall and thin:D Though I quickly figured out that someone had had saved the movie file in the wrong format. Last Train From Gun Hill is a wide screen VistaVision picture and yet the movie file was a 4:3 'square' aspect ration. No big deal I just fixed it on my TV by stretching the picture, then it looked good.

Last Train From Gun Hill is pretty highly rated at IMDB but I didn't care for it. At no point did anything seem serious. It was as if the actors and director treated it like movie making by the numbers, so I never bought into the story. I guess the director is to blame, but the script was pretty lackluster being not much more than a pale copy of the successful 3:10 to Yuma from the year before. Though the movie itself is based on an early novel, one wouldn't know if from this movie. There's next to no character development or exploration of themes. OK so maybe this is an all wall to wall action flick? nope. There's not much action except for the last train scene. But what really drove me bonkers was the dialogue...there was like one one thing that anybody said in this movie, over and over....'you're not going to make it out of town alive' or some form of that.

One cool thing is the use of Paramount's back lot town set, which looks great and as a huge bonus they built a 600 foot long working railroad track right through the town just for this picture. The sight of a steam locomotive driving down main street is odd but kinda cool too.