you said you were a big fan of westerns? what movies would you suggest? i've got a pretty big blind spot to the genre. i liked Unforgiven, and the first Red Dead Redemption game. but i know very little about westerns overall. have you seen Brisco County Jr.? it's completely silly. but you might think it's fun.
I have WORN OUT Tombstone. I fucking love that movie. …Michael Biehn, Powers Boothe, Kurt Russell, Bill Paxton, Sam Elliot?? …..shooot.Shane for me is the pinnacle classic of the genre….A must watch. The first I remember watching as a girl with my older relatives.If you want your western with cheese? The Quick and the Dead is my guilty pleasure. Sam Raimi directs with plenty of scene-chewing Evil Dead-style zooms.Silverado is another one I’ve watched so many damn times as a youngster. That opening with Scott Glenn is greatness.Lonesome Dove is the one for long classic mini-series viewing. Few saw it, but I also really enjoyed Kevin Costner’s Open Range.3:10 to Yuma, both versions are terrific.TV-Wise I still watch re-runs of The Young Riders and a little known anthology series called Dead Man’s Gun.For some reason Unforgiven didn’t resonate for me like it did so many others and The Missing also left me cold (the sacrificial Native American pissed me off). Also, the HBO series Deadwood, felt like it tried to hard to be edgy with the language (especially given that those words weren’t in common use back in those days), it was to the point that it distracted from the story.The remake of The Magnificent Seven with Denzel feeds my ‘diverse ragtag badass group with different specialities’ fetish.True Grit, not the old version with simple racist John Wayne, but the newer version with the damn near perfect debut performance by Hailee Steinfeld is good and one of the few that well-uses some feminine energy.I also love the spaghetti-ploitation flicks, the Django movies (the white guy with the guns in the guitar case), the ones with Clint.I’ll mention Posse because it’s the only almost all-black western I’ve seen that actually included an all-black western town, which fascinates me (right along with the mixed-race ones, like this in Ohio and Appalachia, those are the type of the period movies/tv shows of color I want to see someone tackle instead of our oppression all the time). …But truthfully, that movie was garbage.And of course, Blazing Saddles is one of my anti-depression movies. A pre-PC movie that punches solidly up. And though certain white savior aspects make cringe, Dances with Wolves still gets me.I’m still waiting for a great western that’s accurately inclusive without being precious about it.And YES!! I did watch Brisco when it aired. I loved seeing Sho Nuff from The Last Dragon do his thing in it.
