Where's my Western????

[Portia]

Its another awards night, and again, there are no reasonable alternatives. Where are the westerns?

There's plenty out there, and you could guarantee you'd have a different audience to the Grammy one. I want a western, and I want it now!

Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Kurt Russell, I don't care! Please, for the love of god, give me something besides N'Sync!!!!!!

Either a western or some friggin footy for a change, channel nine. You have been told.

 

[Asgardian]

be like me mate, have a video library at home...

 

[Dippers Donuts]

Red River: Best western fim EVER.

Montgomery Clift: Best actor ever (also appearred in Red River )

 

[lioness]

Blazing Saddles perhaps????

 

[Docker_Brat]

Originally posted by Asgardian
be like me mate, have a video library at home...

Thanks for boosting the Canberra and Darwin economies

 

[lioness]

Originally posted by Docker_Brat

Thanks for boosting the Canberra and Darwin economies

 

[Asgardian]

Originally posted by Docker_Brat

Thanks for boosting the Canberra and Darwin economies

HO HO HO, it is to laugh, I never knew Richard Pryor moonlighted as a Dockers fan.

Actually Brat old son you'd find stuff more along the lines of Casablanca, The Cruel Sea (my favourite), Sands of Iwo Jima, Operation Pacific, Operation Tokyo, Operation Petticoat, Father Goose, The Dam Busters, Above Us the Waves, We Dive at Dawn, The Fighting Seebees, The FBI Story, Bonnie & Clyde, The Dirty Dozen, Kelly's Heroes, Earth Vs the Flying Saucers, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Them, When Worlds Collide, Metropolis, Battleship Potemkin, Nosferatu, Citizen Kane, Dracula, Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, Key Largo and 100's more.

I'm a sucker for old movies, if I see a tape of one in the shops I'm like a kid at the candy bar, just gotta buy it.
The most recent acquisitions are "At War with the Army", Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis' first feature together, and "Africa Screams", a classic oldie with Abbott and Costello, plus a heap of classic B actors

 

[RoosLuver]

Originally posted by Dippers Donuts

Red River: Best western fim EVER.

Totally agree there Dipper, loved every moment of it!

 

[lioness]

Originally posted by Asgardian
Operation Petticoat

Oh god I LOVE that movie!!!!!!!!

Hey Chris tell me, do you own 'Barefoot In The Park', 'Prisoner of Second Avenue' and 'The Goodbye Girl'??? Very nice Neil Simon trilogy. None of the films are linked but yeah they go together somehow. Just wondering, coz u seem to have such a great video collection.

 

[Asgardian]

I've got Barefoot in the Park, with Jane Fonda and Robert Redford.

Personally I reckon that Mildred Natwick, as Jane's mum, steals the movie, and does it so delightfully. Fritz Feld plays that same character he does, no matter the movie or TV show, it's always the same character. as far as I know, Fritz Feld is the only actor to do that.

I don't have the other 2 movies on tape.............. yet, lol, but The Prisoner of Second Avenue is all Jack Lemmon, in the type of character study role that he did so well.

It's funny, but the Goodbye Girl is probably Neil Simon's most successful screen adaptation, however of the 3 films you mention, it's my least favourite.

My favourite Neil Simon movie is "The California Suite", the sheer nature of the beast, combining 4 Simon set pieces, means the usual lapses in his movies is replaced this time by a frenetic pace

 

[wagstaff]

Originally posted by Asgardian

Operation Petticoat

That film was actually on community station Channel 31 here in Melbourne a few weeks back. Interestingly, they seem to be the channel that shows the sort of entertainment that many are hankering for here, unfortunately not everyone has access to it and it isn't on at night but if you have a VCR you can make use of it.

 

[wagstaff]

Originally posted by Porthos
Its another awards night, and again, there are no reasonable alternatives.

Yes, Channel 10 do show a lot of awards nights from America, somewhat mysteriously as I doubt they would rate that well.

What I find interesting about these entertainment awards shows is how they have such similar traits, led by the Academy Awards. Increasingly, they seem to be about fashion and the glitzy, flashy designs that the major stars wear above anything else. That possibly suggests something deeper, as these well-off, complacent members of the elite of society are increasingly out-of-touch with the society they inhabit.

Certainly the awards ceremonies seem to get more obnoxious, pretentious and self-indulgent by the year so I generally avoid them like the plague these days.

 

[lioness]

Originally posted by Asgardian
I've got Barefoot in the Park, with Jane Fonda and Robert Redford.

Personally I reckon that Mildred Natwick, as Jane's mum, steals the movie, and does it so delightfully. Fritz Feld plays that same character he does, no matter the movie or TV show, it's always the same character. as far as I know, Fritz Feld is the only actor to do that.

I don't have the other 2 movies on tape.............. yet, lol, but The Prisoner of Second Avenue is all Jack Lemmon, in the type of character study role that he did so well.

It's funny, but the Goodbye Girl is probably Neil Simon's most successful screen adaptation, however of the 3 films you mention, it's my least favourite.

My favourite Neil Simon movie is "The California Suite", the sheer nature of the beast, combining 4 Simon set pieces, means the usual lapses in his movies is replaced this time by a frenetic pace

I've seen 'The California Suite' just once, I remember that I did enjoy it, but I'd like to see it again to really make sure. lol

The Goodbye Girl is pretty good I reckon, probably the one I've seen the most. Of the three, Prisoner of Second Avenue is my favourite. Jack Lemmon is outstanding, and geez wasn't Anne Bancroft just such a brilliant choice to play his wife!!!!!!! It's just all the black humour, I love it!!!!!! I dunno, I've just had times in my life when I can REALLY relate to that movie.
OH yes, that chick who plays Jane's mum in 'Barefoot' is great, I remember a scene where she is recalling a night out with a gentleman friend, oh god. FUNNY. But for me, Robert Redford really shined out in that movie.

Just in all three, the thing that really strikes you (AND with California Suite as well) is the amazingly strong casts. Strong storylines and strong casts, how can you lose.

 

[Portia]

Re: Re: Where's my Western????

Originally posted by wagstaff
Certainly the awards ceremonies seem to get more obnoxious, pretentious and self-indulgent by the year so I generally avoid them like the plague these days.

To me there's no bigger **** than for one of the performing bands to win an award, and have their overplayed song piped out over their coming to get the award, having just sung it. Makes the whole thing look like a closed market, which it is.

Presenter banter.....lowest form of `communication' in the world.

My fave westerns...

Tombstone - Saw it in the cinema, and the fact that Kurt Russell's first scene is a big close up on his face with his obviously fake moustache pasted on....its a cack Val Kilmer plays his best role as Doc Hollidat.

Cheyenne Social Club - Jimmy Stewart and er...I forget. Plays Harvey. A great film, with the opening titles extremely memorable......I never heard someone talk so much!

Paint Your Wagon - Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood sing. Enough said.

The Outlaw Josey Wales - A bit of a classic, I'll watch it whenever its on.

 

[Asgardian]

Cheyenne Social Club, has James Stewart, Henry Fonda and Shirley Jones, very nice "cute" western.

I enjoy most westerns, especially "Unforgiven", "Once Upon a Time in the West", "Shenandoah", "Rio Bravo" and 100's more

 

[Portia]

Unforgiven......how could I leave it off my list?

Much darker than most sci-fi/modern setting films that come out these days that are supposed to be pretty hardcore.