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The Wild Bunch (1969)
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"I really wanted to be impressed by this movie, and I was, in a sense. The color is fantastic, and the cinematography is nothing to sneeze at either. It even had what must have been some very cool gunfights for its time. Unfortunately the narrative itself was too hard to follow. Call me racist, but I had trouble differentiating the various bosses from each other due to the similarity of their names to my western ear. This left the majority of dialogue fairly difficult to comprehend. I wish I had seen this movie before being exposed to some of the better handgun-based action movies made since, such as A Better Tomorrow, A Better Tomorrow II, The Killer, Hard Boiled, Desperado, etc. Even The Wild Bunch could be included in that category. "
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AFI's 10 Top 10: Western
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"The Western Top 10 is the toughest for me. As some of you may know, while I'm hardly Richard Slotkin or Jane Tompkins, I write, teach, and think about this genre on a regular basis, and, as a result, my views are not only fairly strong, but well-informed. And, where certain well regarded classics are concerned, they are also iconoclastic. This is probably nowhere more obvious than with The Searchers (1956), the film that tops the AFI list. This film does not resonate with me on any level. I have never found the ending credible. John Wayne does not portray Ethan Edwards with any of the complexity needed for his embrace of Debbie (Natalie Wood) to ring true after his 118 (or so) minutes of hard, racist ranting about Native Americans and his intent to kill her. I also find the photography and production design to be garish without purpose, and for all of its superficial sophistication about Native peoples, the talk of ritual, the use of indigenous language, it only serves to perpetuat ... "
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"Years ago, a local film critic (living in the Dallas-Ft. Worth Metroplex) dismissed Crimes of Passion by saying, “Why doesn’t Ken Russell just go back to England?” as if this were a legitimate, professional reaction to any film. You just couldn’t help the feeling that she didn’t get it. “It” not being the film itself. It was awful but I don’t think it’s ever okay to pan a film because one’s sensibilities are offended. Or ravaged. Ironically I find myself in a similar situation after viewing Spike and Mike’s Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation. Call it Karmic Justice. I repeatedly wondered if I’d viewed this collection, say, 25 years ago, if I’d have been rolling in the proverbial aisles. Though I’d like to think I’m smarter today. From The Grand Guignol Theatre of 19th Century Paris, to Peter Jackson’s Dead Alive to the Mr. Creosote sketch in
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Top 5 Westerns
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"1. Once Upon A Time In The West2. The Good, The Bad & The Ugly 3. The Searchers4. Rio Bravo5. The Wild Bunch "
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""Ain't had no water since yesterday, Lord. Gettin' a little thirsty. Just thought I'd mention it. Amen." That touching prayer comes in the early moments of the movie, but those early 20 mins or so were the only excellent minutes. I'm a fan of all sorts of westerns. Don't have to be bloody, intellectual, comedic, whatever. They just have to be good. Overall Cable Hogue is borderline -- I'm sitting on the fence, so I rate it neutral. The story is simple: Cable Hogue is left in the desert to die, finds water, and makes himself a rich man because of it. The most potential in the story is the revenge theme. What will Hogue do if he ever spots those dastardly devils again? Slaughter them? Make them beg for their lives and then slaughter them? Or is he capable of forgiveness? Unfortunately, the revenge issue was ignored at times and rushed at others, so by the end I felt a little ripped off. The love story was solid. No complaints there.Final compla ... "
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