Thread: Last movie you saw - and rate it

Originally Posted by Timmy!

I mean, he's wrong, but that's a solid list.

That’s why I made it known I was saluting him for posting the list after I asked. Of course he’s wrong.

“I got two guns for ya...”

But -5 for no Blazing Saddles.

Originally Posted by Timmy!

We prefer the term "Highland Mountain Oaf"

And don't think i didn't see that salute, fat jesus in a tie.

I’m too ugly to be Jesus. I’m the knock off brand with lard filling.

I don’t think Django is a western.

Originally Posted by aberdien

This isn’t libel but the John Wayne love is tribal.

Originally Posted by Valar Morghulis

Terrible score, terrible fake drama, terrible acting

Once the western genre became super derivative, you absolutely got a lot of generic shitty westerns like those to which you refer. But those aren't the only ones!

Not to mention Tombstone is more in the vein of those derivative ones than the more original ones....

Originally Posted by MOtorboat

Basically using Unforgiven as the cutoff. I’ve heard this theory before.

Unforgiven is a beast of a movie.

Originally Posted by King87

John Wayne was overrated.

You are overrated.

John Wayne was never thought of as a good actor. He couldn't act in any role that wasn't in a Western. But as a western actor he was one of the best, particularly early on in his career. To deny this is style all over your own face.

Originally Posted by Valar Morghulis

Exactly, the unforgiven was one of the first good Western movies

This is the worst opinion. Not that Unforgiven isn't one of the best, but that there weren't great, original, revisionist westerns before it.

You might like The Wild Bunch and other revisionist westerns that played on the old "cheesy John Wayne" format.

Originally Posted by MOtorboat

I don’t think Django is a western.

wtf even is this opinion, MOseph.

Originally Posted by aberdien

wtf even is this opinion, MOseph.

I mean, it carries some characteristics of a western, but is it really a western? Die Hard carries some characteristics of a western. Is it a western?

Originally Posted by MOtorboat

I mean, it carries some characteristics of a western, but is it really a western? Die Hard carries some characteristics of a western. Is it a western?

I just can't even with this all-time bad opinion.

"This movie based off of a 1960s western that takes place in the old west, involves cowboys, shootouts, frontier justice, etc is not a western."

Originally Posted by aberdien

Once the western genre became super derivative, you absolutely got a lot of generic shitty westerns like those to which you refer. But those aren't the only ones!

Not to mention Tombstone is more in the vein of those derivative ones than the more original ones....


Unforgiven is a beast of a movie.


You are overrated.

John Wayne was never thought of as a good actor. He couldn't act in any role that wasn't in a Western. But as a western actor he was one of the best, particularly early on in his career. To deny this is style all over your own face.


This is the worst opinion. Not that Unforgiven isn't one of the best, but that there weren't great, original, revisionist westerns before it.

You might like The Wild Bunch and other revisionist westerns that played on the old "cheesy John Wayne" format.

Overrated? I’ve been right for three years runningand they still hate the king.

Originally Posted by aberdien

I just can't even with this all-time bad opinion.

"This movie based off of a 1960s western that takes place in the old west, involves cowboys, shootouts, frontier justice, etc is not a western."

Django takes place in Mississippi. When did Mississippi become “the old west?”

I see that salute, Dave. I know your geography sucks!

Originally Posted by King87

Overrated? I’ve been right for three years runningand they still hate the king.

You are our John Wayne.

Originally Posted by MOtorboat

Django takes place in Mississippi. When did Mississippi become “the old west?”

It is not a "standard" western since it doesn't fit 1 of the many criteria of a western movie, but it is a western no less. How do you define a western? Looking at all of the different western subgenres, Django is absolutely a revisionist western.

Originally Posted by aberdien

It is not a "standard" western since it doesn't fit 1 of the many criteria of a western movie, but it is a western no less. How do you define a western? Looking at all of the different western subgenres, Django is absolutely a revisionist western.

I think a “western” needs to be in the Old West. I think that’s probably the largest component to the genre.

Don’t get me wrong, I understand why someone might say it’s a western, but I don’t think it’s a western. Vigilante justice isn’t a motif that’s unique to westerns, and I don’t think cowboy hats in Mississippi can make something a western. That’s more of a post-slavery antebellum revenge movie in my mind, despite some of the costumes.