We had to watch westerns when we were little when my mother's friend visited -- real cowboys and Indians stuff. I didn't like them then. After I met and married Johnny he loves westerns I liked them only to repeat scenes mainly when a character is dying. Oh the drama just die already.
No, I don't. Though I thought Tombstone was pretty good, but that was mostly looking at Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer.
I used to watch them all when I was a kid. As an adult, I like Clint Eastwood's Spaghetti Westerns. Eli Wallach was a great actor! And Lee Van Cleef was the quintessential cowboy. But I'll watch Jason Robards, Glenn Ford, Charles Bronson, and any of dozens of the actors of the day in their westerns. Mitchum was one of the great ones, being equally convincing as a good guy and as a bad guy...sometimes both in the same flick. I just took a look at his filmography: -(42) movies in the 1940s --(19) of them in 1943 alone!!! -(25) movies in the 1950s -(21) movies in the 1960s (El Dorado was made in '67, so he had a lot of movies under his belt by then) -(14) movies in the 1970s -(17) movies in the 80s and 90s That's 119 movies, plus a smattering of TV movies and series. Makes me tired just thinking of it.
The death dialogue is often the most extended series of lines an actor gets in those flicks. Everything else is a manly modicum of words, then they suddenly get verbose at the end. Kinda late to get in touch with his anima.
I like westerns ever since a kid, but there are none being made currently to my knowledge. The good guy always got shot in the shoulder and grimaced and the bad guy got killed or went to jail. The TV channel Grit is all westerns. I caught part of one movie with a very young Charles Bronson which I wish they would show again so I could record it.
Absolutely love most westerns, both tv and movie. In fact, we have an entire wall dedicated to old Western tv stars and their horses. Even have a "reenactment" .45/6-shooter on a nice display with a U.S. Marshall badge near it. Same kind of badge Matt Dillon wore on Gunsmoke. Just ordered a few DVD movies: The Promised Land and Destry (Audi Murphy), Two Mules For Sister Sara (Clint Eastwood, Shirley MacLaine) and The Legend of the Lone Ranger (Michael Horse). Already have a colored Lone Ranger movie, The Gambler Returns (Kenny Rogers, Reba McEntire) and numerous old Western tv stars and The Magnificent Seven (Denzel Washington). We also have two channels that show old Western tv shows/movies. That is where we watch High Noon (Gary Cooper). When I was in both grade school and high school, watched all of the old Western TV shows, from Gunsmoke to The Big Valley to Cisco Kid to Sky King. At a Celebrity Rodeo, years ago, I met Dan Haggerty, Doug McClure and James Drury. So, I'd definitely say "we love old Western tv shows/movies!
I have the full length version, with many scenes that were left out of the movie release version. Amazing flick! I've watched this movie about ten times. Will watch it again, I'm sure. In college, my two roommates got in trouble for acting out the three-way duel in the hall, with pellet guns. I hid behind a door so the RA never saw me.