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  • Re: Movies 52 - 1917: Sonic the Bad Boys of Prey

    Originally posted by The Rube View Post
    Who's the savage now?? I love that movie.
    Hey, I told you it was my failure, not its.

    If it helps any I love Yojimbo.
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    • Re: Movies 52 - 1917: Sonic the Bad Boys of Prey

      What’s the one with Eastwood and gene Hackman?
      a legend and an out of work bum look a lot alike, daddy.

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      • Re: Movies 52 - 1917: Sonic the Bad Boys of Prey

        Originally posted by mookie1995 View Post
        What’s the one with Eastwood and gene Hackman?
        Unforgiven? Very overrated. That was a Career Service medal for Eastwood.
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        • Re: Movies 52 - 1917: Sonic the Bad Boys of Prey

          I like Unforgiven, but yeah it isn't as good as a lot of people think it is. Pretty much watch it for the BAMF lines Clint gives himself toward the end.
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          • Re: Movies 52 - 1917: Sonic the Bad Boys of Prey

            This is pure speculation, but I wonder if The Unforgiven is "all time great" for those that haven't watched a lot of classic westerns or are an Eastwood bobo.

            I like it and I like Clint in it, but I agree that it's slightly overrated.

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            • Re: Movies 52 - 1917: Sonic the Bad Boys of Prey

              Thing is, I love Eastwood both as an actor (A Fist Full of Dollars, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, the Dead Pool, Christ even Firefox!) and also as a director (Play Misty for Me, High Plains Drifter, Eiger Sanction). Unforgiven just isn't a great movie. It's one of a hundred interchangeable melodrama westerns (Clint is many things but subtle aint one of them).
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              • Re: Movies 52 - 1917: Sonic the Bad Boys of Prey

                Originally posted by Slap Shot View Post
                This is pure speculation, but I wonder if The Unforgiven is "all time great" for those that haven't watched a lot of classic westerns or are an Eastwood bobo.

                I like it and I like Clint in it, but I agree that it's slightly overrated.
                I think it really was the same as giving Hitchcock that achievement award when he was old and doddering. It was a gold watch.
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                • Re: Movies 52 - 1917: Sonic the Bad Boys of Prey

                  High Plains Drifter is a really good one. I agree that Unforgiven is a bit overrated, although it is a solid movie.

                  And Kep: Yojimbo is an excellent movie.

                  Westerns (at least good ones) disappeared for a long time, it seemed like, until stuff like Tombstone, Unforgiven, and Appaloosa tried to revive the genre. I think there was such an overload of them back in the day, audiences just tired of it; it was too much.
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                  • Re: Movies 52 - 1917: Sonic the Bad Boys of Prey

                    Originally posted by The Rube View Post
                    Westerns (at least good ones) disappeared for a long time, it seemed like, until stuff like Tombstone, Unforgiven, and Appaloosa tried to revive the genre.
                    I heard a really interesting comment on a media review site a few weeks ago. They were talking about the history of TV dramas and one person said "Cowboy dramas were a staple of TV in the 50s and early 60s and then they disappeared." The other said, "No, they never disappeared. They just became cop shows."
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                    • Re: Movies 52 - 1917: Sonic the Bad Boys of Prey

                      Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                      I heard a really interesting comment on a media review site a few weeks ago. They were talking about the history of TV dramas and one person said "Cowboy dramas were a staple of TV in the 50s and early 60s and then they disappeared." The other said, "No, they never disappeared. They just became cop shows."
                      That's a fair take. The amount of Cop Dramas greatly increased in the last couple of decades.
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                      • Re: Movies 52 - 1917: Sonic the Bad Boys of Prey

                        Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                        I heard a really interesting comment on a media review site a few weeks ago. They were talking about the history of TV dramas and one person said "Cowboy dramas were a staple of TV in the 50s and early 60s and then they disappeared." The other said, "No, they never disappeared. They just became cop shows."
                        this is news? common knowledge for many experienced people. and kepler is an old dude.
                        a legend and an out of work bum look a lot alike, daddy.

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                        • Re: Movies 52 - 1917: Sonic the Bad Boys of Prey

                          Originally posted by The Rube View Post
                          That's a fair take. The amount of Cop Dramas greatly increased in the last couple of decades.
                          Going on five decades for sure. Just to name a few from when I was a kid (and doesn't really even touch on the 80's): Mannix, Rockford Files, Streets of SF, Columbo, Cannon, Police Woman, Starsky & Hutch, Kojak, Baretta, Ironside, Hawaii 5-O, Mod Squad, Charlie's Angels, Barnaby Jones, McMillan & Wife...

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                          • Re: Movies 52 - 1917: Sonic the Bad Boys of Prey

                            Originally posted by mookie1995 View Post
                            this is news? common knowledge for many experienced people. and kepler is an old dude.
                            I had never made the connection before and it (still) seems a brilliant insight to me. If it's a commonplace, well, I never have gotten out much.
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                            • Re: Movies 52 - 1917: Sonic the Bad Boys of Prey

                              Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                              I had never made the connection before and it (still) seems a brilliant insight to me. If it's a commonplace, well, I never have gotten out much.
                              I also never thought of it that way.

                              And don't forget all the CSIs/etc.
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                              • Re: Movies 52 - 1917: Sonic the Bad Boys of Prey

                                Originally posted by Slap Shot View Post
                                Going on five decades for sure. Just to name a few from when I was a kid (and doesn't really even touch on the 80's): Mannix, Rockford Files, Streets of SF, Columbo, Cannon, Police Woman, Starsky & Hutch, Kojak, Baretta, Ironside, Hawaii 5-O, Mod Squad, Charlie's Angels, Barnaby Jones, McMillan & Wife...
                                yup. as bonanza, et.al transitioned out.
                                a legend and an out of work bum look a lot alike, daddy.

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