thank you western movies

[Dimis]

i dont know if im the only one or not but everytime i watch a western i fall in love all over again with firearms
i know its strange but im not just speaking of old SAA lever rifles and double shotguns i mean all firearms

i think about how the world was (at least hollywoods point of view) and how the world is now i feel as if back then if you didnt carry let alone have a gun you might as well be naked
and i think about how alot of us stuck by the rules of the older times and buy our firearms on the basis of how useful they are in general not just special purpose guns
and i always end up fantisizing about how modern arms have just revamped the old logics with new technology
think about how law enforcment agents always carry a reliable sidearm a 12 gauge shotgun and an ar rifle (mind you the latter two are usualy left in a vehicle)
then think back to the old days the marshalls and sheriffs carried there equivalent in there SAAs double 12s and 10s and a lever rifle which was the modern fast shooting rifle of the time
i also always see how simple things were back then there were no "experts" to tell them what they used was a poor choise they made the decisions on there own and used what they felt was best and usualy got pretty good at it

 

[Duke of Doubt]

Yeah, there was even a gun in "Cat Ballou."

 

[Walkalong]

there was even a gun in "Cat Ballou."

Great movie. I really enjoy watching the big gun control advocate (with her private body guards) "Hanoi Jane" shoot someone.

 

[mbt2001]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QclV...5B2276C0&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=20

I love westerns... Encore has the Western Channel.

 

[Hungry Seagull]

I grew up on Gunsmoke and Bonanza. Sometimes I watch those all over again on Satellite and understand how good they were for the time.

Blazing Saddles was the last western I watched and I think recently we had one series called Lonesome Dove and a bunch of others as well. All good stuff.

I would NOT want to live in the dirt and on horseback all the time but thank God for Westerns. They tend to strip out the bull that is impregantating (Spelling?) Modern society today.

 

[Dimis]

its a bit odd but most of these movies were around before me as im only 29 but dad watched ALOT of westerns so thats where i get it from what really got my attention is the fact that ive been watching the new ones without him (appaloosa 3:10 to yuma etc...) because sadly he passed 2 years ago but my love of westerns and guns is really thanks to him

 

[230RN]

I recently got a copy of Tom Mix's "Miracle Rider," a saturday matinee serial... 30 episodes or so.

It romanced me back to the time I was a kid, late forties. I didn't hit the movies every Saturday but I remember seeing particular episodes of "Miracle Rider."

Funny thing was, just about everyone carried a gun except the women. And, since it was made in the late thirties, the bad guy (who wore a suit) carried a 1911 in a shoulder rig. (And no, he did not rack the slide every time he drew it!)

Almost everyone else had a belt holster, and the variety of guns was interesting. I guess since people were so casual about guns back then, nobody would really notice that Mix was carrying a DA revolver in one episode, and an SAA in another, and he'd lose his gun in a fight or a tumble down a hill, and the very next instant there it would be again, in his holster.

Nowadays, we'd catcall and hoot about such faux pas, since we're so intimately interested in guns, but back then (late forties) nobody would notice much, since it was just a gun, and a gun is a gun is a gun.

Kind of interesting.

Terry, 230RN

 

[bannockburn]

Johnny Dollar

Funny you should mention "Eldorado" as I just watched the whole movie last week on youtube, in like a dozen or so 10 minute segments. Still good stuff after all these years. I remember my dad always taking me and my brothers to the movies anytime a John Wayne western was released.
I've also enjoyed the attention to detail in Tom Selleck's western movies, like "Monte Walsh" and "Crossfire Trail", as well as "Open Range" with Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall.

 

[kabrn]

I always liked the spagetty westerns like trinity, and they still call me trinity

 

[alemonkey]

'nuff said:

 

[largecaliber]

Working cowboy

Hey all. Yea I grew up on westerns also and have always had a soft spot for them but I have to admit, being a real working cowboy in my younger days I have spent my time living with the cattle during calfing season and at other times. I have taken a bath in the watering tank, cooked over the fire as well as used it for warmth, slept on the ground more than most, shot preditors and spent many, what seemed to be endless days a horseback and I have to tell you, I like my electric lights, I like flush toilets, I like hot showers, I like soft beds and I like jumping in my truck and getting too town in very little time with the heater running in the winter and the air conditioner running in the summer. If we had all been born back during the 1800s we would not have known the difference because it would have been the best of times. To go back from now to then would be a nightmare of an adjustment. No thanks, I think I'll just go and watch a western.

 

[Midian]

The Searchers, baby. All you need to know.

Well, a good Sergio Leone film never hurt, either.

 

[bannockburn]

Midian

That'll be the day.

Probably the Duke's finest performance, along with "Red River" and "True Grit".

 

[Doodler]

You guys that like the old westerns will LOVE this, maybe even tear up a bit
http://www.oldfortyfives.com/thoseoldwesterns.htm

 

[chuckusaret]

My favorite western right after Shane. High Noon comes in third.

Hey, you are dating yourself. "Come back Shane"

 

[Dimis]

oh i never posted my favorite westerns
gotta go with the
"magnificent seven"
"joe kidd"
and blasphomy but "young guns 1&2"


oh and doodler aint no tearin up round here allowed thats just my eyes leakin lol
(sorry sounded like a cowboy line in my head)

 

[chuckusaret]

Heck, I am older than you. Was in the service in 53.....I like it also, it was a great movie.

 

[Carl]

Clint Eastwood westerns are my favorite.

 

[shaggy430]

Quigley is great, but it isn't really a western. It's an Austrailianer.

 

[Carl]

Next to The Duke,I concur.
What is your favorite Clint western.?
Mine is The Good,the Bad and the Ugly.(1966)

Oh man, I'm not sure if I could pick just one.

It'd be a tie between Outlaw Josey Wales and Unforgiven,

 

[230RN]

I loved Shane, too. Especially the part where he's explaining to the wife that a gun is just a tool. She was such a perfect handfluttering wimp with the perfect whiney voice.

It just so epitomized some of the antis nowadays that I can still hear her voice in the back of my head whenever I run across one.

 

[chuckusaret]

My wife liked the Army as much as me. I'd love to be able to do it again, I'd do it then same way.

 

[possom813]

They Call Me Trinity
Trinity is Still My Name
My Name is Nobody-Absolute favorite movie of all time
Boot Hill

^^^All Terence Hill movies, good stuff.

Unforgiven
Young Guns 1 & 2
Tombstone

There's a couple others in the back of my head, but it's either too early or too late to decipher the secret message.

 

[M60]

"Open Range" is a good western movie that is pretty new. I liked it a lot.


-Mark.

 

[Rellian]

Shaggey430 said:

Quigley is great, but it isn't really a western. It's an Austrailianer.

Yes and No, Quigley (you will recall) is an American Cowboy in Australia.

Best line:

Quigley: "I said I never had much use for one, I never said I didn't know how to use one"

(on the subject of revolvers)