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[jcdeboever]

Is it just me or did I just get old in this thread?

 

[smoke665]

Is it just me or did I just get old in this thread?

Nah you just realized you were fortunate enough to grow up in a time when kids could actually be kids, and the heroes of the big screen actually stood for decency. As you got older you and your buddies might talk trash on the street, but you made certain your parents, your grandparents,or the people who knew either, didn't hear you. Not if you wanted to sit down or speak without blowing soap bubbles. Now a lot of parents and grandparents are worse than the kids.

 

[limr31]

. I was more likely to sit through a Saturday kung-fu matinee

Oh I loved those also. Remember how there was a lag between them speaking on screen and the English audio?? As dumb little kids we didn't know better so when we played kung fu fighters, we would move our mouths the same way then speak

I do remember that perfectly! And we are not the only ones

 

[smoke665]

@limr I'd forgotten the sounds effects we made emulating the movies. Never did figure out how to do the floating thing though. No matter how hard we tried to defy gravity, we invariably ended up flat on our back!

 

[jcdeboever]

I was always amazed by the dexterity and balance of Kareem Abdul Jabbar. The dude was 7' 2 and gave Bruce Lee all he could handle. Time to take my Geritol

 

[SquarePeg37 8]

Howdy Pardners! I mean Hosers... Treasure of the Sierra Madre is probably my favorite old western.

 

[table1349]

@terri there were so many really good old westerns. They didn't need to use shock or gore to be good. Another favorite is John Wayne, The Shepard Of the Hills.

Is there a bad Western? Horses, guns, good guys, bad guys ... what could be bad ...

Have you ever seen any of the "My Name is Trinity" movies? Bow Wow westerns at the head of the pack.

 

[table1349]

. I was more likely to sit through a Saturday kung-fu matinee

Oh I loved those also. Remember how there was a lag between them speaking on screen and the English audio?? As dumb little kids we didn't know better so when we played kung fu fighters, we would move our mouths the same way then speak

El Ray network tomorrow night Starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern time.

 

[tirediron]

...Also, I like Blazing Saddles. That's a western, right? ...

That's the BEST western!

 

[tirediron]

@terri there were so many really good old westerns. They didn't need to use shock or gore to be good. Another favorite is John Wayne, The Shepard Of the Hills.

Is there a bad Western? Horses, guns, good guys, bad guys ... what could be bad ...

Have you ever seen any of the "My Name is Trinity" movies? Bow Wow westerns at the head of the pack.

Also the "Nobody" series.

 

[table1349]

...Also, I like Blazing Saddles. That's a western, right? ...

That's the BEST western!

I would agree if we are talking about the best Western Comedy. Best Western of all time is pretty tough. Stagecoach comes to mind as does The Shootist. It's pretty hard to not put The Outlaw Jose Wales in the bunch along with High Noon. There are just too many great Western's that were made.

 

[table1349]

@terri there were so many really good old westerns. They didn't need to use shock or gore to be good. Another favorite is John Wayne, The Shepard Of the Hills.

Is there a bad Western? Horses, guns, good guys, bad guys ... what could be bad ...

Have you ever seen any of the "My Name is Trinity" movies? Bow Wow westerns at the head of the pack.

Also the "Nobody" series.

Yep all Terrance Hill movies and all stinkers.

 

[smoke665]

Sorry Blazing Saddles didn't do much for me. For comedic westerns, James Garner in Support Your Local Sheriff and Maverick, Paint Your Wagon, Paleface and Son Of Paleface, Cat Bellou, there's a list a mile long of good ones. Shanghai Noon combined kung fu and and cowboys, how much better can you get. Most of John Wayne's westerns were good Mclintock, Big Jake, Eldorado, and the others already mentioned. I could lock the doors and load the DVD player up for a 24/7 weekend of the Duke. Clint Eastwood's High Plains Drifter, Two Mules For Sister Sara, Fistfull of Dollars.

 

[terri35 7]

I was never much for Western movies. The books were always so much better. I don't like John Wayne in anything but True Grit. Never cared for Clint Eastwood in anything but Play Misty for Me, and that's not a Western. Overrated actors, both of them.

High Noon was terrific, but really more of a thriller with spurs.

 

[snowbear117 48]