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General Movie Discussion
02-17-16
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Top 5 Westerns
Posted By
Holden Pike
Re: Top 5 Westerns
Setting is only one ingredient. The Revenant really belongs in a subgenre of Western, the Mountain Man picture like Jeremiah Johnson. Though the revenge and quest plotting of The Revenant are very...
Forum:
General Movie Discussion
02-17-16
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271
Top 5 Westerns
Posted By
Holden Pike
Re: Top 5 Westerns
That list blows, Camx.
First of all, I don't quite understand what the cut off is for "modern Western"? They are all post-2000 releases up until the top two, then it bounces all the way back to...
Forum:
General Movie Discussion
02-17-16
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271
Top 5 Westerns
Posted By
Holden Pike
The Western genre will never completely die, and...
The Western genre will never completely die, and though it will certainly never see a saturation of the market like it had in the 1950s and 1960s, it does go in cycles and there is always something...
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General Movie Discussion
02-17-16
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271
Top 5 Westerns
Posted By
Holden Pike
I hope wherever Slaytan is these days that he has...
I hope wherever Slaytan is these days that he has thoroughly enjoyed Django Unchained and The Hateful Eight.
...
Forum:
General Movie Discussion
10-17-09
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271
Top 5 Westerns
Posted By
Holden Pike
http://blogs.amctv.com/future-of-classic/danny-glo...
http://blogs.amctv.com/future-of-classic/danny-glover-silverado-560.jpg
They aren't shotguns, they're Henry Rifles, as is detailed often in the flick. And that double-barreled Silverado scene in...
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General Movie Discussion
10-15-09
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271
Top 5 Westerns
Posted By
Holden Pike
http://www.michaelspornanimation.com/splog/wp-cont...
http://www.michaelspornanimation.com/splog/wp-content/g/Smashing%252Ba%252BBoat.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f0/The_outlaw_josey_wales.jpg/200px-The_outlaw_josey_wales.jpg
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Forum:
General Movie Discussion
10-15-09
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271
Top 5 Westerns
Posted By
Holden Pike
Written like somebody who has seen a very small...
Written like somebody who has seen a very small number Westerns in their lifetime, all made it the past few decades. I think if you replace the words "ever made" with "of the few I have ever seen"...
Forum:
General Movie Discussion
09-26-09
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271
Top 5 Westerns
Posted By
Holden Pike
We actually have a thread devoted to that topic,...
We actually have a thread devoted to that topic, HERE (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?t=19528). And I'll still go with Richard Farnsworth in The Straight Story.
Forum:
General Movie Discussion
06-27-05
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271
Top 5 Westerns
Posted By
Holden Pike
Once Upon A Time in the West is about two-hours...
Once Upon A Time in the West is about two-hours and forty-five-minutes long.
http://www.movieforums.com/community/attachment.php?attachmentid=24256&stc=1&d=1455729098
But seriously, it's...
Forum:
General Movie Discussion
06-16-05
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271
Top 5 Westerns
Posted By
Holden Pike
Oh, and another one of my all-time favorites that...
Oh, and another one of my all-time favorites that doesn't involve Leone is final stand off the steps of the old mine between Newman and Richard Boone and company in the excellent Hombre (1967 -...
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General Movie Discussion
06-16-05
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271
Top 5 Westerns
Posted By
Holden Pike
The final confrontations in all four of the Leone...
The final confrontations in all four of the Leone Westerns (A Fistful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, The Good the Bad & the Ugly and Once Upon A Time in the West) are all brilliant. OUATITWest...
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General Movie Discussion
09-30-04
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271
Top 5 Westerns
Posted By
Holden Pike
Not only isn't it a Western, but John Woo's movie...
Not only isn't it a Western, but John Woo's movie also has about twelve total minutes of "truth" in it. Other than the basic story of the Navajo codetalkers (which is a fascinating chapter of...
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General Movie Discussion
08-19-04
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271
Top 5 Westerns
Posted By
Holden Pike
Because it is absolutely perfect. In every way. ...
Because it is absolutely perfect. In every way.
THE END
Forum:
General Movie Discussion
06-18-04
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271
Top 5 Westerns
Posted By
Holden Pike
Well....it isn't. Just because the frippin' IMDb...
Well....it isn't. Just because the frippin' IMDb throws something up as a general label, don't make it so.
Forum:
General Movie Discussion
06-17-04
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271
Top 5 Westerns
Posted By
Holden Pike
My Name Is Nobody, The Ox-Bow Incident, Jeremiah...
My Name Is Nobody, The Ox-Bow Incident, Jeremiah Johnson, Destry Rides Again, 3:10 to Yuma and the modern 'Western' Bad Day at Black Rock are the best from that list, all very good to great flicks.
...
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General Movie Discussion
06-17-04
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271
Top 5 Westerns
Posted By
Holden Pike
Nope
http://www.movieforums.com/community/attachment.php?attachmentid=24252&stc=1&d=1455727505
Actually, I've seen lots and lots of Westerns, and Tombstone is just plain and simple a steaming piece of...
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General Movie Discussion
06-16-04
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271
Top 5 Westerns
Posted By
Holden Pike
http://www.movieforums.com/community/attachment.ph...
http://www.movieforums.com/community/attachment.php?attachmentid=24251&stc=1&d=1455727335
1. Once Upon A Time in the West
1968 - Sergio Leone
2. Unforgiven
1992 - Clint Eastwood
3. The Wild...
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