The MoFo Westerns List

While you are all practicing proper social distancing (see above) be sure to mix in some Westerns to your quarantine movie-watching marathons.

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Draw!...up your list of twenty-five Westerns by May 15th.

I'm still watching westerns Seen Chuck Heston in one last night, it won't make my list but a fun watch.

Curious. If Blazing Saddles is a western, is Spaceballs science fiction?

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When women have a poet, they want a cowboy.
When they have a cowboy, they want a poet.
They'll say "I don't care if he's a poet or cowboy, so long as he's a nice guy. But oh, I'm so attracted to that bad guy over there."

Understand this last part, and you'll get them all.

I'd say that's true of any comedy that is primarily focused on parodying a specific genre since it has to invoke all the same tropes and signifiers in order to make its jokes work. Spaceballs is a science fiction movie, Shaun of the Dead is a horror movie, Disaster Movie is...well, take a guess.

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Crap?

To me they're all comedies, but I'm not arguing any inclusions.

I didn't see a racism angle but I really enjoyed the movie. Nice rec

Yes, maybe more subtle. Glad you liked it.

ONLY ONE MONTH LEFT! Exactly four weeks from today your MoFo Westerns Ballots is a-due. So giddyup.

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The Good the Bad the Weird is in my watchlist, hoping to get to it sometime this month!

The others I hadn’t heard of, but thanks I will check them out.

I WILL NOT ACCEPT THIS LUNACY.

How about we sort this out another way?

Call it.

One of my coworkers wanted more hours this week, so I gave her my Saturday shift and now I have a three day weekend. Hopefully I can get some more Westerns watched. I already have enough for a full ballot but I'm hoping to find a few more that I really like.

I've watched two of the movies Mark just recommended and both were excellent. Hopefully I can get a hold of the rest of them and get them watched in time.

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Exactly three weeks left before the ballot due date, Compadres! 5-15-20. Vaya con Dios.

My ballot's gonna be last minute, but I'll get it to you in time.

This theme is right my alley, I'll absolutely send a list!

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If you got ten minutes to spare, check out The Backwater Gospel from 2011. It's an animated short film and it gets just as dark and gritty as any other revisionist western you might wanna check out.

Let's see how the MoFo collective feels about this one...

Eligibility Debate
Lone Star
1996, John Sayles



John Sayles' look at two generations of racial tensions and murder along the Texas/Mexico border focused on two sheriffs; the present day Sam Deeds (Chris Cooper) and four decades before his father Buddy Deeds (Matthew McConaughey), the local legend in whose shadow Sam lives.

Skeletal remains are found out in the desert and seem to point to a long vanished local sheriff, Charlie Wade (Kris Kristofferson), the corrupt, violent, racist who held the position before Sam's father. Layers of lies and secrets are revealed about the romances and terrors of that county.

The IMDb lists it as a Drama, Mystery.

It surely has the trappings of a modern day Western, but does it utilize enough of the tropes and structure of the genre to be considered for our list? I LOVE this movie. To me it is Sayles' masterwork and the in-camera transitions between the timelines are wonderful. But I would also classify it as a mystery much more than a Western, though like many of John Sayles' films it defies easy classification..

I would lean towards exclusion, myself, but I am not the final arbiter, nor is the IMDb. What say you, MoFos?