Posted on 03/11/2010 8:50:27 AM PST by PJ-Comix
I have a HUGE pet peeve. It is western movies in which the characters are wearing embarrassingly modern clothing. Most often it is the hats. If you look at photos or illustrations of the Old West at the time, the hats look very different from what we usually see in the movies. For example, yesterday I watched "September Dawn" about the Mountain Meadows Massacre but I couldn't get over the fact of the silly looking hats that folks back then did NOT wear. One IMDB commenter stated that those hats looked like something people wear on their way to a Garth Brooks concert.
One of the few movies that seemed to get authentic Western look was "Tombstone" which helped in appreciating that excellent movie. Unfortunately most of the Western movies are completely off-base in their costuming. Another thing that really bugs me about Western movies is when they have women dressed in jeans. Back then women ALWAYS wore dresses. NEVER pants. Any exposure of female legs or even outlines of their legs was considered as nudity back then. Oh, and when women rode horses...they only rode side-saddle.
Okay, sorry for the rant but way too many Western movies are RUINED by costume designers too lazy to research for authentic clothing.
My mother was a sharecroppers daughter, my stepmother had a life that was very close to the old west, she has even appeared in a Larry McMurtry movie.
Both of them were cute, my grandmother was cute until she got old and her Indian blood and age took it’s toll, she was probably from the end of the 1800s.
If you notice, even women from the WWII era don’t look very good to us unless we slow down and put our mind to looking at them very closely, even then we rarely see a hot chick unless it is a professional such as an actress.
BoB was an exceptional series.
There are rules for the movie universe: Every bag of groceries has to have a loaf of french bread sticking out of it. Guys have to choose between a hot evil blonde and an equally hot but nice brunette, but the brunette wears glasses. Cars that roll down a 30 degree incline always burst into flames. The car won’t start on the first attempt if a bad guy is after you. Prostitutes look like a young Jane Fonda or Julia Roberts instead of Dennis Rodman in drag, guys with one rolled up blanket on the back of their horse have a grocery store, tent, and fifteen pots, pans, a coffee pot, four changes of clothes and three sleeping bags rolled up in there, guys in spandex can walk through burning buildings that are 1800 degrees (spandex starts melting at 600 and bursts into flames at around 1000 degrees,) and female nuclear physicists are always super hot 23 year old blondes.
True Grit ...
One of my all-time favorites!
I’ve always thought it was funny that in all the movies that portray the 1950s, everybody had a brand new car.
One episode I decided to take a drink everytime someone said c*** s*****, boy was I wrecked!
I enjoyed True Grit, but Lord, Glen Campbell was the worst actor I had ever seen until Star Trek Next Generation came out and I saw Jonathan Frakes. Campbell couldn’t even act dead.
Happy Days became Crappy Days when the actors started wearing their hair long, Chachi donned sweatbands, and Ralph Malph was listening to “Safety Dance” in the last season. Was the show set in a time warp/alternate universe?
Or watching “Little House on the Prairie” with your sister and thinking that Minnesota looks an awful lot like the hills of north LA County California.
Well, Caeser Romero played the Cisco Kid in the film version, and he was gayer than a show tune.
I remember a tv show about Harriet Tubman that was supposed to take place on the Eastern Shore of MD and it looked a lot like the hills of north LA County.
My uncle lives at the highest elevation in Talbot Co. MD, which is 50’ above sea level.
I had family myself that were spread out between the Ozarks of Arkansas to Central Texas in the 1870’s and 80’s. My Great Great Grandmother and the baby she was holding were killed falling off and being run over by the wagon they were in. very Rough life indeed.
I hated the remake of 3:10 to Yuma, I was rooting for the bad guys the entire way. That psycho dude in the not even remotely period coat was the only thing that kept me going.
I sooo wanted to hurt Christian Bael’s character and I usually like his stuff.
I was watching a movie that took place back in the middle ages and the woman got nekkid but she had a thong tan line and a tattoo on her butt.
I didn't even think of that, my point was that women were pretty 150 years ago and 1500 years ago and even in WWII, although it is hard to see that in the old photos.
This is a reproduction of a discovered woman's outfit from 4000 years ago in Britain, I also think that a woman from then would look like the model for this picture.
Caeser Romero was gay? I love FR, I learn something new every day.
FWIW: My grandfather served with him in WWII, and never saw any funny business, and simply said that he was a nice, hardworking guy.
Campbell was definitely "cringeworthy" in TG. I watched it a few years ago for the first time in ages, and the performance was even more painful than I had remembered. I much preferred the ending in the original novel that described LaBoeuf's surviving the rock on his noggin and going back down in the hole for Chaney/Chambers/Chelmsford despite having a dented skull, but following the book would have simply added more layers to that veritable onion of a performance.
The film trotted out a number of old studio staples that sort of walked through their bits, but I liked Robert Duvall's performance well enough to become as much of a fan as I am capable of being.
And moving over to the new car subject, that put me in mind of the old days of sitcoms when an auto company supplied new vehicles for the main characters, and it seemed as if every other car in the exterior shots was the same make. I can still picture Ward Cleaver in a Mopar and Darren Stevens in a Chevy.
Mr. niteowl 77
With women in those days, what you saw is what you got...neat hair, no make-up and no boob jobs..what is considered beautiful, changes with the times...the old masters painted fleshy women, that was the beauty of that day..seems to be coming back into style...fleshy women are on the rise...:O)
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