I'm not much of a fan of John Wayne, though I did have two John Wayne movies contending for spots on my list, they unfortunately both got bumped off. I haven't seen The Sons of Katie Elder, and it doesn't look like it would appeal to me.
Geronimo sounds like it could be a classic, so I think I'll put it on my list of Westerns to-watch.
Although I'm not crazy about Eastwood either, I like him a lot more than Wayne. Two Mules for Sister Sarah looks entertaining in spite of the wooden acting. I love the sympathetic angle of Shirley Maclaine's character. I'll put this on my to-watch list, and higher than Geronimo.
Warlock was my number 10. I sincerely loved that movie. It was such a dynamic film that had just about everything you could possibly want in a movie. I only wish there had been a little more to the romance.
North to Alaska doesn't interest me. Too much cheese for my taste, although the trailer did give me a couple of chuckles. Especially when he was going down hill in his wagon and hollered, "Oh no," in such a wooden way that it seemed like a parody.
If I had heard of Slow West before the countdown deadline I definitely would have watched it. It looks like my kind of movie, and I'll be putting it very high up on my to-watch list.
Unforgiven looks interesting. I expect the Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman version will show up too, but I like the look if this 1960 movie with Burt Lancaster and Audrey Hepburn more. Although the acting doesn't look great, and that's kind of typical of Burt Lancaster movies, the story and drama do look pretty great, and that is also typical of Burt Lancaster movies. Audrey Hepburn has such a wonderful charm like an ideal actress. The trailer gave me very "classic" vibes. I'll put it on my to-watch list too.
I don't know how I feel about The Misfits. On the one hand it looks like a charming movie with a classic vibe, but on the other hand it doesn't really look like much more than that. I don't know much about Marilyn Monroe, but what I've seen and heard about her hasn't exactly been modest so far. In terms of an "ideal actress" she seems on the opposite spectrum from Hepburn. Even if Hepburn is willing to do some implied nudity, she sincerely comes across as a modest woman. With Monroe it's the other way around, an immodest actress trying to come across as modest character. But at this point that's more of an impression than anything else. I'm curious enough to watch this movie and see how it affects my opinion of her. Either way it looks like a good movie worth watching, and it looks like it could surprise me and be better than I expect.
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