Modern Western flicks...Silverado.

[DarkPhenyx]

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000JZI9/103-8462185-7346217?v=glance

The first of the modern westerns and a great movie. It did for the Western what "Lost Boys" did for the vampire flick.

[GOPisEvil]

1. Yes!!!! Great movie!

One of my favorite westerns!

[DarkPhenyx]

2. I just wish they had followed up on it.

Before that I think the last great Western was "Outlaw Jossie Wales".

[Career Prole]

8. "Evil Roy Slade"

They just don't make movie cowboys like John Astin anymore... :eyes:

[DarkPhenyx]

10. Well...Yeah!

Some thing go w/o saying!

Hell, you are hard pressed to beeat "Blazing Saddles"! Excuse me while I whip this out! *segue into Pat Daily* Oh wait a minute! here isn't enough room in here! :)

[wyldwolf]

3. Tombstone is my fav

The movie, not the pizza.

[DarkPhenyx]

4. Tombstone is good.

I'll grant you that much...but it didn't resurect the genre the way that Silverado did.

[wyldwolf]

5. Of course not. It followed Silverado

[DarkPhenyx]

6. Right!

:)

and um...yeah! Like I said. Um...yeah!

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. The Quick and the Dead; Unforgiven; Pale Rider

Silverado didn't quite do it for me - seemed a bit too much about "Let's get the four hot young movie studs on the screen" as opposed to a "I have a great story to tell" movie. It was still a good movie, don't get me wrong. Just not as good as it could have been.

[DarkPhenyx]

11. Good vs. evil?

White hat vs. Black? that isn't a good story line?

Oh Please! Like half the stuff in the old school wasn't about getting apretyt face on the screen. NAd while I'll admit Danny is handsome, he is by no means a young movie stud.

[Rabrrrrrr]

13. Oh, you know, I've realized I was thinking Young Guns

I don't remember Silverado at all.

And I did ever say all the old school ones were sheer excellence and filled with integrity? No, I didn't. Young Guns (not Silverado) seemed much less about story then it did about putting a bunch of pretty faces up.

Though, since it was one of the first new westerns, if I were gonna try to revive a genre I'd want to maximize the people who went - and putting those four guys in brought, I bet, a hell of a lot of people who wouldn't normally have gone to a western.

So in the end, perhaps it was for the best. :-)

[DarkPhenyx]

15. You really need to see "Silverado".

Seriously...you do.

Muy fav quote from the movie? "When the world dosen't fit your measure? You make adjustments."

[Rabrrrrrr]

33. But you see, "Silverado" reminds me of the song "Desperado"

and the utter sellout of the Eagles... so this is tough to contemplate. :-)

I checked out Silverado on IMDB, and now I remember it. That assjerk Costner, but a lot of good actors, and especially John Cleese who was, to me, the highlight of the movie.

Woo hoo!

[DarkPhenyx]

34. John Cleese?

In a bit part? Over Danny Glover? You are seriously going to hafve to dig fast to get out of this hole you put yourself in.

[Rabrrrrrr]

36. I like Danny Glover. It's just that I was a Cleese fan

for about a decade or more before I ever heard of Danny Glover.

So of course I noticed Cleese more.

I do like Glover, though. I wish he had been used more often, and more seriously, by Hollywood. But that's still kind of the fate of the african actors, isn't it? Not quite taken seriously enough.

[moof]

9. Silverado was good so was Young Guns.

Now does Back to the future part 3 qualify ?

It has Clint Eastwood in it.

[DarkPhenyx]

12. No, it dosen't.

not even Clint could save taht thing. :)

[moof]

14. Yes it does, you snivilling git !!!

[DarkPhenyx]

16. Sniviling git?

SNIVILLING GIT!!!!

You! You! You ewe you!

[DarkPhenyx]

17. BUGGER OFF YOU EVIL GIT!

:evilgrin: there! told you I did! :evilgrin:

[moof]

18. Oh I'm sorry, is this a five minute argument, or the full half hour?

VACUOUS TOFFEE-NOSED MALODOROUS PERVERT!

[DarkPhenyx]

19. I dunno.

ummmmmmmmmm, what do you want? 5 minutes or 30?

[moof]

21. Did you bring a henway with you ?

If not, how do you feel about PBS.

[DarkPhenyx]

22. Love PBS.

You gotta problem with that? :)

[moof]

25. Do you actually feel you are one with PBS ?

Please don't toy, this has become serious.

[DarkPhenyx]

26. No.

I am one with the most recent naked woman in my life.

well, that and the History Channel.

[moof]

27. Still this could be the start of a beautiful friendship.

Attached in much the same way here but always wished that PBS was a real person so at last moof might have a real world friend.

[DarkPhenyx]

28. The start of a "beautiful friendship" was...

...Casablanca....not PBS. :)

[moof]

29. Great, then we can be one together separately ?

Imagine that in a really good Tigger voice

[DarkPhenyx]

31. Which makes me wonder...

...if you know what my underware looks like.

[moof]

32. Trick question ? Not that you are likely to have any underware on,

moof doesn't even care what you put in them.

It's what's between the ears that counts.

[ET Awful]

20. Didn't 'The Unforgiven' with Clint Eastwood come first? n/t

[moof]

23. Yes, but they called the orginal " The Good , The Bad & The Ugly "

The remake was called the Unforgiven

[DrWeird]

30. Unforgiven wasn't fit to clean TGTBATU's dressing room.

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly is possibly the single greatest film of all time, of any genre.

[moof]

35. You know thinking back on it,

With the exception of the Great Escape it's hard to think of a film that had as good a combination of actors preformances, direction,
cinematography and script. There have been better ones of each but not as high a level all together. Was that convoluted enough ?

[Rabrrrrrr]

37. More so than The Wild Bunch?

I'm not claiming it to be so, just wondering what your opinion is.

[moof]

38. Yes, Wild bunch had great actors and was a good film,

but the script and plot were not as gripping as The GB&U

Depends a bit on taste though certainly reasonable people could go with either one. The Mag 7 would be a much closer call but the fact that there are only three characters to carry the script in TGB&U makes it a better film.

Maybe it's the lack of dialogue, but thinking about it, if it was the desert Island for 20 years and only room for one more DVD The Good bad and Ugly is getting the nod of the three.

What's your take ?

[moof]

24. Silverado 1985 , Unforgiven 1992

The Good, the Bad & the Ugly 1967