Comments for Cowboy Movies

Comment on Six Reasons Why by bela

bela — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:33:39 +0000

it was a very nice movie

Comment on A Fistful of Dollars by Tom Betts

Tom Betts — Sun, 24 May 2009 03:35:36 +0000

One of the few films I ever saw that totally blew me away. From the opening whistling of Alessandroni to Morricone’s music and sound effects this was a great experience. I went to see it only because of Clint Eastwood and was waiting to see the worst movie ever made. Instead I told everyone I knew the had to go and see this film. What it did for the western no other film has ever done. 40 years later we are still seeing its influence. 5 stars for sure.

Comment on ¡Three Amigos! by 6 Shooter

6 Shooter — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 21:47:11 +0000

This movie has an innocent charm about it, much like the 1920’s films it is supposed to portray. Martin Short in particular gives the perfectly campy performance his role demands. This movie lays the foundation for the current “Galaxy Quest”. It’s great to see actors whose characters are actors themselves, trying (and succeeding) at finding the strength within themselves to actually prevail in the situation with which they are confronted. There are plenty of laughs, many subtle touches to fit the period (eg. I love the German mercenary, who’s even packing a period-correct German pistol), and forgive me ladies, but Patrice Martinez is so beautiful, it’s a wonder we haven’t seen her in more films. I heartily recommend this film. It’s a pleasure to return to each time I’ve viewed it.

Comment on Young Guns II by 6 Shooter

6 Shooter — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 21:45:47 +0000

Western films have slowly deteriorated in quality since the passing and changing of certain actors such as John Wayne and Clint Eastwood. It is good to see a western that captures the same hearts as did earlier westerns. We need more movies like this one.

Comment on Rooster Cogburn by 6 Shooter

6 Shooter — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 21:44:11 +0000

I actually prefer this movie to the first appearance of Wayne as Cogburn, “True Grit,” even though he got the Oscar for that while this one seems to have sunk with hardly a critical trace. A sort of Western remake of “The African Queen” (complete with Katie Hepburn as a strait-laced spinster), with murderous outlaws taking the place of the Nazis, it finds Rooster unwillingly joining up with missionary’s daughter Eula Goodnight (“Sister,” as he calls her) to catch her father’s murderers, who happen to be the same gang of ordnance-hijackers he was sent out from Fort Smith to apprehend. Though played much more for laughs than its predecessor (here, as in “McLintock” and “Donovan’s Reef,” Wayne clearly displays an unmistakable gift for comedy), it’s not without either headlong action, taut suspense, or sexual tension. Admittedly I’m not sure there are any river gorges like these in the *real* (former) Indian Territory, but who cares when the scenery is so breathtaking? And there’s a definite advantage to starting a script from scratch rather than trying to translate Charles Portis’s probably-authentic but somehow not-quite-flavorful-enough dialogue to film. While I never bothered to add “True Grit” to my permanent collection, this sequel is definitely a part of it.