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Westerns

kserg

kserg

Feb 20, 2004
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#1
So i went to store... and saw "the good the bad the ugly" special edition... bought it... its worth it... kind of cool extras, its pretty bad... they have few stories about filming which were pretty cool... talking about Sergio Leone... so yeah.. Very cool...

So anyway, what i am getting at... if you guys like westerns or war movies list them up:) I want to see a good list:)

Eastwood and John Wayne are awesome:) (since I watched both of em today:) )

(i dont think this was done in past... i couldnt find it anyways...)

Cheers all..
 
#4
Tombstone
The Unforgiven
Open Range
The Magnificent Seven
The Wild Bunch
Silverado
Ride with the Devil (actually civil war but westernish)
Blazing Saddles :D
Rustler's Rhapsody ;)



War movies:
Saving Private Ryan
Black Hawk Down
Platoon
Glory
The Great Escape (really an escape movie but set in WWII)
Kelly's Heroes
The Guns of Navarone
Return to Navarone
U-571
The Dirty Dozen
The Longest Day
Hell is for Heroes
Where Eagles Dare
The Band of Brothers series
A Bridge Too Far (I'm reading that book now too and it's excellent)
Full Metal Jacket
Tribes
Stripes
The Patriot
Behind Enemy Lines

That's all I can think of off the top of my head.

brad cook
 
#5
DigMe said:
War movies:
Saving Private Ryan
Black Hawk Down
Platoon
Glory
The Great Escape (really an escape movie but set in WWII)
Kelly's Heroes
The Guns of Navarone
Return to Navarone
U-571
The Dirty Dozen
The Longest Day
Hell is for Heroes
Where Eagles Dare
The Band of Brothers series
A Bridge Too Far (I'm reading that book now too and it's excellent)
Full Metal Jacket
Tribes
Stripes
The Patriot
Behind Enemy Lines

That's all I can think of off the top of my head.

brad cook
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Bridge over the River Kwai
Apocolypse Now
All of the James Bond movies!!:D
M*A*S*H
Catch-22
Dr. Strangelove
Battle of Britain (Michael Cain and some GREAT air battle footage)
Duck Soup

Rock on
Eric
 
#7
True Grit - my faveorite John Wayne movie ever.

Outlaw Josie Wales/Hang 'Em High - both great Eastwood moveis.



What is the name of the Eastwood flick where the whole town thinks he was killed but he returns to defend the town from the three bandits. By the end he makes them paint the town red and then he deserts them, High Plains Drifter maybe?
 
#8
When I was a kid, I saw two movies that I liked A LOT, but that was so long ago and maybe my impressions would be different now. Anyway, they're (In that order):

-"A Fistful of Dynamite" (1971) with Rod Steiger and James Coburn, directed by Sergio Leone. BTW, I don't remember why the Spanish title of this movie, translated to English, was "Green Table Heroes".

-"Keoma" (1976) with Franco Nero, directed by Enzo G. Castellari.
 
#9
Hamburger hill
The Big red one
A Bridge too far is my alltime Favourite war movie pity they didn't go on
The Deer hunter
Rambo/Commando
Pearl harbour
Damn Brad beat me too most've them
WESTERNS
Dances with wolves
last of the mohicans
All Clint Eastwood movies esp.Outlaw josey wales
The Alamo
General custers last stand
 
#10
abark000 said:
What is the name of the Eastwood flick where the whole town thinks he was killed but he returns to defend the town from the three bandits. By the end he makes them paint the town red and then he deserts them, High Plains Drifter maybe?
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Yeah - that's High Plains Drifter - one of my favourites. It was on TV over here a couple of weeks ago, and I got in from seeing Million Dollar Baby just in time to see some classic Clint action :)
 
#11
Westerns, hell yeah! As it happens, I´m having a western DVD marathon tonight with a friend of mine. He visited NY few weeks ago and brought with him a huge western box: 50 (fifty) DVDs :eek: While I´m sure most of the stuff in that set is pretty much forgettable, we share a certain philosophy about westerns: there is no such thing as a bad western, the whole concept is just foolproof. Some westerns are better than others (and some are WAY better), but they are all at least mildly enjoyable.

But if we talk about true classics, I´m going to go with the obvious ones:

Rio Bravo
The Searchers
Once Upon A Time In The West

Yeah, I know, they are on every "Critic´s Choice" list, but they are just that good. "Rio Bravo" is my sentimental favorite, one of the most entertaining movies ever made. I must have seen it at least a dozen times.
 
#14
Wil Davis said:
U-571 was garbage… The best movie of that genre is Wolfgang Petersen's "Das Boot" - the film stays very close to the book. Get the DVD and watch it listening to the director's commentary - a very interesting and moving film.

- Wil
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One man's trash... I quite enjoyed it. Just because Das Boot was better doesn't diminish my enjoyment of U-571.

brad cook
 
#15
A couple of more westerns:
'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' - George Roy Hill
'Dead Man' - Jim Jarmusch

A couple of grim (anti-)war movies:
'Come and see!" - (USSR) Elem Klimov, set in nazi-occupied Belarus 1943.
'Unknown Soldier' - (Fin.) Rauni Mollberg, about the Finnish-Soviet winter war 1939-40.
 
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erik II said:
'Unknown Soldier' - (Fin.) Rauni Mollberg, about the Finnish-Soviet winter war 1939-40.
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Wow, I never thought anyone outside Finland would have seen that one! Actually it is a remake and while Mollberg´s movie isn´t bad, the original is - as usual - far superior. It was directed by Edvin Laine in the 50´s and is a Finnish institution: it is shown on TV every year on our independence day.

.
 
#18
CoolHat said:
Wow, I never thought anyone outside Finland would have seen that one! Actually it is a remake and while Mollberg´s movie isn´t bad, the original is - as usual - far superior. It was directed by Edvin Laine in the 50´s...
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I think it was shown in regular cinemas... or maybe I saw it in a film club... I don't remember.
Didn't know it was a remake. Maybe I'll try to find the original version, though it may be difficult. :)
 
#19
For recent WWII movies- The Thin Red Line is a good movie but it got overlooked because it came out on the heels of Shaving Ryan's Privates (it's also not as good). What also makes it interesting is that it's set in the Pacific Theater, a lot of issues to tackle there.

When talking about scary scenes in movies, the beach landing scene in Ryan is one of the most terrifying things I can imagine. Another really scary scene is in the Band of Brothers series, where they're crossing the river after capturing the German LP/OP. There's a machine gun firing towards the camera and it's firing tracers. What makes that so scary is that there's 5 rounds between every tracer.
 
#20
The Golden Boy said:
For recent WWII movies- The Thin Red Line is a good movie but it got overlooked because it came out on the heels of Shaving Ryan's Privates (it's also not as good). What also makes it interesting is that it's set in the Pacific Theater, a lot of issues to tackle there.
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I also liked The Thin Red Line. I think it wasn't as popular because it was a little more on the abstract/artistic side which doesn't appeal to the mass moveigoer as much.

brad cook
 

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