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09-25-2021, 07:33 PM | #91 |
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Dr. Quinn-Medicine Woman Frontier Gynecologist (look it up) Dad loved cowboy shows and movies. It was a good day for him if it was too cold outside and he could watch the Western Channel. |
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09-25-2021, 08:02 PM | #92 |
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I’ve seen Maverick mentioned a couple of times in regards to the tv series but, not the movie. Maybe that is what you mean here? Regardless, the movie is just good old Hollywood entertainment.
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09-25-2021, 09:23 PM | #93 |
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Pretty much most of them.
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09-27-2021, 01:15 PM | #94 | |
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Richard Harris was a phenomenal actor. He face is just remarkably expressive and he could do so much with simply changing his tenor. Give him two identical lines and he could make them say whatever he wanted. I only recently learned that Jared Harris was his son - apple didn't fall far from the tree. |
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09-27-2021, 02:19 PM | #96 |
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09-27-2021, 03:44 PM | #97 |
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If you like Richard Harris then check out A Man Called Horse. Its dated now but was popular in the 70's Harris sounds like a knight or the round table in the old west.
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09-27-2021, 03:54 PM | #98 |
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He was also in a movie inspired by the story of Hugh Glass called Man in the Wilderness. It's an ord one, but if you are a fan of Harris it might be worth a watch.
I'm just not a fan of "revisionist" westerns. |
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09-27-2021, 04:22 PM | #99 |
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In no particular order:
Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid Tombstone True Grit TGBU OUTITW TOJW The Magificient 7 I couldn't really pick a favorite among those. Just fun Westerns: Quigley Down Under Rio Bravo Blazing Saddles City Slickers WestWorld (orig. movie) Three Amigos! Long Riders Here's a few less well-known cowboy flicks I like: The Wild Bunch Will Penny Monte Walsh Hondo Fort Apache Hombre How the West was Won |
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09-27-2021, 05:24 PM | #100 |
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Is News of the World worth a watch? I am pretty tired of everything Tom Hanks. But I can waste a few hours tonight. The Chiefs game left a bad taste in my mouth for MNF.
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09-27-2021, 05:47 PM | #101 |
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The Man from Snowy River was pretty good for an Australian type western.
Blazing Saddles for me by far the best comedy western. City Slickers honorable mention winner funniest western comedy Jack Palance just killed that part. |
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09-27-2021, 05:57 PM | #102 |
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I read News of the World years ago. I don't know if I finished it or I just can't remember much about it. I think my general impression was that it was the type of book that would probably be popular in a women's book club. Not that it was a romance or was poorly written exactly but it felt like something Opera would recommend. No clue about the movie but I'd guess it would be exactly what you would expect from a western starring Tom Hanks.
On a completely different note - I found this to be pretty funny: WARNING: RATED R for language. |
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09-27-2021, 06:03 PM | #103 |
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I thought they did a- great job with Maverick-the movie. Stayed true to the series. Great script. Did not try to change anything. I would guess that would have been the only way they got James Garner to be in it.
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09-27-2021, 06:18 PM | #104 |
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Maverick was a great show. At least the first two seasons. The writing took a major step back, imo, when the show's creator Roy Huggins left. He had been repeatedly screwed over by Warner Brothers.
The writing in those first two seasons was superb. Not only that but the casting was also top notch. When the creators figured out that one man couldn't carry a one hour show alone due to time constraints, they brought in Jack Kelly as a second Maverick. But they didn't stop there - they also created duplicates for two major recurring characters. And, somehow, it worked. About Jack Kelly: I had originally decided to check the series out because I had just finished The Rockford Files and was wanting more James Garner. At first I was disappointed when I tuned in and would see that it was going to be a Kelly episode instead of a Garner one. But by the second season, I liked them both equally. And, strangely enough, by the third season I actually preferred Kelly to Garner. Slightly. Garner was better at comedy. Kelly was better at drama and romance. Some of the best episodes feature both Maverick brothers; they had very good chemistry. After Huggins left after season 2, the comedy became broader and more farcical in season 3. This hurt Garner's character, imo. The current group of writers were better at drama than comedy which played to Kelly's strengths. Garner left the show after the third season after feuding bitterly with Warner Brothers. Kelly stuck around, and Roger Moore joined the cast for season 4. The writing continued to degenerate. The casting wasn't as sharp for the secondary characters. The show limped along for a while longer and was cancelled half way through season 5. My top 15: 01) The Devil's Necklace 02) Two Beggars on Horseback 03) Gun-Shy 04) Shady Deal at Sunny Acres 05) The Savage Hills 06) Prey of the Cat The first 6 picks were easy. The last 9 were a lot tougher because there were so many high quality episodes in the first two seasons. It was really hard to put the last few in order. 07) Rage For Vengeance 08) The Day They Hanged Bret Maverick 09) Escape to Tampico 10) Ghost Rider 11) The White Widow 12) The Belcastle Brand 13) Seed of Deception 14) Passage to Fort Doom 15) Alias Bart Maverick A few that I could have very easily put into the last spot: The Long Hunt Day of Reckoning The Jail at Junction Flats Game of Chance The Goose-Drownder |
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09-27-2021, 07:14 PM | #105 |
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Man, I was going to come in here with my Tombstone "Skin that smokewagon...." weak sauce, but I think I'll refrain because y'all are some western savants, lol.
Here's one I don't think I saw anyone mention - The Quick and the Dead. Campy as hell but a killer ensemble cast. I didn't like it the first time I saw it, but it grew on me over time. And Sharon Stone is just sexy AF to me in it, which helps. |
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