Westerns HOF

How the hell did you notice that? haha. Have you seen it quite a lot to have noticed the voice?

I'm going for Calamity Jane tomorrow, then probably The Wind a few days later.

Probably too many times. I just thought it was funny to make that connection.

The snowman also looks like the actor.

Just looked that up haha. Forgot how creepy that film is. He reminds me of the Colonel for some reason.

I was very happy to see this nominated since it was already on my watchlist. That's not because I especially wanted to see it, but with the 50's countdown looming, I will try to watch all the movies from the other lists from that decade.

Right off the bat when I realized this was going to be a musical, I thought I was going to hate it. However, it wasn't long until I had a few laughs and I found I was enjoying myself. I would say this movie is a western/musical/comedy/romance hybrid, and I thought all four of those areas worked well. Doris Day puts on a show in what is essentially two roles, and the supporting cast is very good. There's an aspect of the movie that reminds me of Grease, and I'm interested to see if anyone else feels the same. I wouldn't say I loved the movie, but I thought it was endearing and thoroughly entertaining. I'm sure it's the most lighthearted movie in this Hall of Fame, so I think this was an excellent nomination just for variety's sake. I would suggest to others to watch this movie around the middle of their Hall of Fame viewings, just to take a break from the other darker films.

The Great Silence

This one is a mixed bag for me. Technically speaking, it's score is amazing and the cinematography is gorgeous. The story as a whole is executed pretty well but I thought the dialogue was bland throughout a chunk of the film and the characters other than Kinskis just weren't that interesting to me. Kinski really made a heck of a villain though, his screen presence throughout was rather terrifying. I just wish I would have like the performances of the others just as well as his. This one will be in the middling range for me.

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Red River: The two leads are great and are playing well drawn, fun characters. The scenes with them together are by far my favorite thing about the film. A couple of the other characters have their moments but mostly feel disposable. That is my biggest problem with the film, especially in the final scene that should be carrying a great deal of weight but comes up shallow.

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I hope to watch one of the western noms, tonight.

What I liked about it:

• It had a cool setting in the snowy mountains of Utah.

• It has a good story of revenge by a man of mystery.

• It had great cinematography and music score.
  

• It had a great cast of actors playing colorful characters.

Nods to:

• Klaus Kinski as Loco

• Jean-Louis Trintignant as Silence

• Vonetta McGee as Pauline

What I didn't care for:

• Ultra close ups of actor's faces. I never like that in a movie.

• The English dub makes the dialogue sound odd and off kilter. But I bet in Italian the dialogue was much better.

My thoughts:

• I'm glad to have watched it as I haven't seen any Spaghetti Westerns other than Eastwood's films.
  

Sad you weren't big on Brennan he was probably my favourite character actually wish he had more screentime.

I liked the final scene simply because it was so odd and unexpected. I wasn't really feeling Montgomery Clifts emotional scenes too much during the film so i like that they went for this weird ending instead of an attempted powerful scene. Could see most not liking that though.

Citizen, glad to see Kinski is in that. Wasn't aware, looking forward to it even more now.

This has just became part of the charm of Spaghetti Westerns for me, understand why some don't like it though. I remember Cole was raging because he thought his The Good, The Bad and The Ugly DVD was broke for those reasons

Kinski was a great, bad guy...really creepy and yet still real.

Brennan? would that be Walter Brennan? If so he rocks every movie I've seen him in.

Yeah, Walter. Think it was the first time i saw him he was great. He was probably in the third most scenes after Wayne and Clift but i'd still be happy with more from him.

I'm pretty sure I seen Red River before.

No. Unless i'm forgetting it.

Here is what I didn't like about final scene of Red River

I do get where you are coming from.

Edit: put quote tags around it instead of spoiler tags .

You could be right. The whole vibe just seemed weird. I did mostly like it though.

That's probably Rio Bravo. Correct me if im wrong as I only remember the basic plot.

You might be right FM. I do get old western titles confused, or maybe I'm just confused

Rio Bravo is from Hawks too so might have felt a bit similar. Not sure though as i haven't watched it yet.