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I like The Searchers a lot, but a couple medium to minor sized issues prevent me from loving it. It looks incredible though.

The Quiet Man is quite good. Or should I say, quiet good. Sorry for the bad pun.

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Grapes of Wrath is absolutely amazing. I actually have The Man Who Shor Liberty Valance as my second favorite , with The Searchers next,

The only thing you have to apologize for is not loving the Searchers as much as I say you should. All puns are both perfect and terrible, which is what makes them the best form of wordplay.

I always forget he did Valance, which I love. Grapes of Wrath is good but I don't go ape over it. Never can remember if I've seen Clementine, but I think not, as I believe my copy of it has never worked properly. Definitely never seen the other two

Sure, I'll apologize for that.

*crosses fingers behind back*

Yeah, ditto; good movie on the whole, but it can only be so good when literally the entire movie is setting itself up for a confrontation that it ends up completely wussing out from.

I've only seen four films from Ford, but I will vouch for Sergeant Rutledge as well. Saw it on MKS recommendation and really enjoyed it.

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That's one I'm not even familiar with.

If we're showing some love to Ford, I'm pretty partial to 3 Godfathers myself, which I don't think has that much of reputation.


If we're looking to kill any interest in Ford, Tobacco Road is outrageously bad, and features one of the most abrasive performances I've seen in a movie.

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Gotta trackdown MDC (great transfer from Criterion. Gorgeous flick).

SR is part western part courtroom drama and one of the few starring roles for Woody Strode. Follows a Buffalo Soldier accused of rape. Came out durinf the Civil rights movement and seems to be Ford reconciling his mythogical west with the racial history of the country.

FA is my favorite of his cavalry flicks and features an incredible Henry Fonda performance as a supremely detestable military officer.

It's called an anticlimax and it's used expertly within the context of the genre and expectations of Ford's filmography, not unlike how the Coens/McCarthy used in No Country For Old Men.

It's ultimately a response to Ford's own western romps and subverts it with a highly critical character piece that thoroughly examines Wayne's Ethan and his place, or lack thereof, in a modernizing society.

3G is definitely a groovy flick, as is it's animated quasi-remake, Tokyo Godfathers. However, I limited myself to 5 favorites, otherwise I'd have dropped a whole mess load of ones I dig overall.

Haven't seen TR though. Now I feel like I need to seek it out.

I still need to see SR, but based on your post, two of his Will Rogers movies, Judge Priest and Steamboat Round the Bend, might be of interest to you. There's some pretty dicey stuff, but you also get the sense that Ford is trying to evolve his views on race through the movies, so that roughness becomes additionally fascinating in the context of his career.

It's aggressively unpleasant. An hour and a half of characters doing proto-hick-comedy shtick and shouting at the top of their lungs. A movie set during the Depression should not have you rooting for the characters to die violently or at least suffer further financial ruin, but this movie managed to do that.


I was trying to get Crumbsroom to watch it earlier, in case you were wondering.

Ford's penchant for Irish stereotype comedy has never been the strong point of anything I've seen from him so I'm not surprised his comedy chops leave someone feeling miserable.

But I'll have to keep an eye out for it nonetheless.

What if I told you that if The Grapes of Wrath was John McTiernan's Predator, Tobacco Road would be Shane Black's The Predator? That's the best comparison I can think of.

Reading that hurt my soul in a way that guarantees I will watch Tobacco Road.

Just finished watching The Black Phone.
Neat concept and story. I think the star of the show were the two kids, especially the girl.

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The Black Phone (2021, Scott Derrickson)

Mildly entertaining kid-friendly horror — not terrible but not very good either. Basically it's just a feel good teenage story that follows an archetypal "weak/bullied boy overcomes fear and becomes school hero in the end" arc - very nostalgia-driven in both vibe and look. Overall I found it rather tame, predictable, and not nearly as scary or suspenseful as I hoped it would be, with a couple of jump scares here and there, but not enough creepy atmosphere. The whole idea with the phone, while interesting, did not quite work in my opinion. On the positive side, the little sister's psychic dream scenes and the opening titles sequence were pretty good (cool visual/montage effects), and the ending, while predictable, was pleasantly upbeat and satisfying.