The scene really tickled me, it was another one I had never watched until recently...:)
Posted on 03/25/2018 2:48:46 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
we can beat that....just watched the whole thing this afternoon, BEFORE I saw the list...
Add:
1.McCabe & Mrs. Miller
2.Unforgivien
3. How the West was Won. What a cast!
Carroll Baker
Lee J. Cobb
Henry Fonda
Carolyn Jones
Karl Malden
Gregory Peck
George Peppard
Robert Preston
Debbie Reynolds
James Stewart
Eli Wallach
John Wayne
Richard Widmark
Brigid Bazlen
Walter Brennan
“The Shootist” probably wears so well because we are getting close to J.B. Books age in the film.
What you said is a major issue. There are a lot of people who learn history from movies.
I remember being so shocked that I involuntarily burst out laughing after seeing “Apollo 13”. The lights came on, we were walking out, and there was a teenage couple in front of us and I heard the girl say: “I was really glad the movie ended the way it did!”
Now “Apollo 13” isn’t a bad movie from a factual perspective, it just blew me away that she somehow didn’t seem to know it was a real event!
Even worse was just a few days ago...I was wearing my ship’s hat from my Navy days, and a young kid (maybe 16) who was an employee at the hardware store came over and asked about the hat. He was a real nice, well behaved kid...he looked clean cut, short hair, no tats or piercings, and was very polite.
In the course of the discussion, he asked me when Pearl Harbor was. He was a very nice and earnest kid, but that really shook me!
Also add “The Oxbow Incident.” A great moral story about frontier justice and miscarriage of justice.
The Searchers was an excellent movie. I’ve watched it several times, would watch it again.
I really like the theme song in El Dorado performed by George Alexander & The Mellomen.
For the most ironic western duo has to be:
Wyatt Earp and Tombstone
They were both essentially written by the same person.
And in both movies the Doc Holliday character virtually steals the movie.
There should be little doubt in anyone’s mind that Dennis Quaid and Val Kilmer gave the performance’s of a lifetime. Quaid lost something like 60 pounds so as to make sure he looked like someone dying of consumption.
(And I have watched both movies several times. I find Tombstone more enjoyable, but the other movie shows more of Wyatt Earp’s earlier and later life.)
The scene really tickled me, it was another one I had never watched until recently...:)
If you want a spectacular song, listed to Big Country by Bela Fleck. No relation to the movie, but a stirring and moving song.
My wife doesn’t see how I can watch a movie more than once...but I do. I have some movies I have watched four or five times...my favorite is “The Best Years of Our Lives”.
LOL, “PAINT”, “PAINT”, not “pain”!
Funny movie. John Travolta as a mob collector becomes a movie producer.
I love the Tom Selleck westerns. Those led me to his Jesse Stone series and finally to Blue Bloods.
Sam Elliot...the voice alone....
Sam Elliot...the voice alone....
Old Biddies at wedding
Nope.
They’re watching the fight over the girl.
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