Posted on 06/30/2019 8:03:37 AM PDT by Rummyfan
I don't like Westerns.
Not just those creaky serials spoofed by SCTV's "Six Gun Justice." I mean the genre's purported masterpieces:
High Noon is coma-inducing — despite its "exciting" real-time gimmick, those 85 minutes feel like 200. Howard Hawk's "answer film," Rio Bravo, is a door-slamming farce without the jokes — five men running in and out, a simulacrum of "action." Shane? I don't get it. Stagecoach hasn't aged well, leading me to wonder, heretically, whether it was ever any good.
Besides today's movie, the only old Westerns that impressed me were The Searchers, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and the operatic Douglas Sirk-meets-David-Lynch camp classic acid trip, Johnny Guitar.
But those don't really count as "old," because they're considered precursors to the revisionist anti-Western of the Little Big Man sub-species, which ham-fistedly allegorized the Vietnam War or some such. (Don't laugh: The Shooting is about the Kennedy assassination, which is perversely funny: the Zapruder film itself — history's most argued-about strip of celluloid — is somehow less ambiguous, plus a LOT shorter...)
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I own most of the classic westerns. I don’t really like anything that was made after John Wayne died. That means Clint Eastwood westerns or, horrors, spaghetti westerns. I just don’t bother with these.
Enjoy!
You do understand that. Don't you?
Thank you. Most definitely. I really love the movie. Now I will be able to see it again.
Sometimes you have to go way out of your comfort zone to find that someone to be your sweet darling.
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