A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
JW movies I can do without: True Grit The Shootist The Cowboys Sons Of Katie Elder McQ Brannigan Rooster Cogburn Train Roberts (Never mind it has Ann Margret so its automatically a favorite) War Wagon The Undefeated
A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
JW movies I can do without: True Grit The Shootist The Cowboys Sons Of Katie Elder McQ Brannigan Rooster Cogburn Train Roberts (Never mind it has Ann Margret so its automatically a favorite) War Wagon The Undefeated
As JW aged, and the popularity of Westerns began to fade, there just wasn't as good a material there to make good movies anymore.
JW movies I can do without: True Grit The Shootist The Cowboys Sons Of Katie Elder McQ Brannigan Rooster Cogburn Train Roberts (Never mind it has Ann Margret so its automatically a favorite) War Wagon The Undefeated
I pretty much am on board with that list except I do like Son of Katie Elder. I think they could have done so much more with McQ and Brannigan. I mean, how can you have John Wayne and Richard Attenboro and make a dude?
"The Democrat Party looks like Titanic survivors. Partying and celebrating one moment, and huddled in lifeboats freezing the next". Hatari 2017
"Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid." Han Solo
JW movies I can do without: True Grit The Shootist The Cowboys Sons Of Katie Elder McQ Brannigan Rooster Cogburn Train Roberts (Never mind it has Ann Margret so its automatically a favorite) War Wagon The Undefeated
I pretty much am on board with that list except I do like Son of Katie Elder. I think they could have done so much more with McQ and Brannigan. I mean, how can you have John Wayne and Richard Attenboro and make a dude?
Whatever became of the horses, and how was Tom's "Wanted" status ever resolved?
Not a real member - just an ordinary guy who appreciates being able to hang around and say something once in awhile.
Happily Trapped In the Past (Thanks, Joe)
Not only a less than minimally educated person, but stupid and out of touch as well.
JW movies I can do without: True Grit The Shootist The Cowboys Sons Of Katie Elder McQ Brannigan Rooster Cogburn Train Roberts (Never mind it has Ann Margret so its automatically a favorite) War Wagon The Undefeated
As JW aged, and the popularity of Westerns began to fade, there just wasn't as good a material there to make good movies anymore.
Maybe so, but Chisum and Big Jake are pretty good and they came around the same time as a few of these..same for the Green Berets
A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
"The Comancheros" was actually the first in the "Back to the Future" series. Considerations for running time caused the part where they took the DeLorean into the future and brought back the firearms to be cut. There is also speculation that Merlin the Magician from "The Once and Future King" was somehow involved in that lives appear to be lived backwards as the Civil War figures into the story as well.
Not a real member - just an ordinary guy who appreciates being able to hang around and say something once in awhile.
Happily Trapped In the Past (Thanks, Joe)
Not only a less than minimally educated person, but stupid and out of touch as well.
JW movies I can do without: True Grit The Shootist The Cowboys Sons Of Katie Elder McQ Brannigan Rooster Cogburn Train Roberts (Never mind it has Ann Margret so its automatically a favorite) War Wagon The Undefeated
A lot of what we don’t like about those films wasn’t the movie itself as much as how our taste for acting and writing changed. Don’t forget that John Wayne movies were about being entertained in a theater, where “Star Wars” changed the whole dynamic in the industry to special effects and John Wayne movies weren’t about special effects...
Like or dislike his acting, same for some or all of his movies, I can't think of another actor that has had near the long term popularity and die-hard fans, their movies replayed on TV, collected and watched over and over again, more than John Wayne. has.
I pretty much am on board with that list except I do like Son of Katie Elder. I think they could have done so much more with McQ and Brannigan. I mean, how can you have John Wayne and Richard Attenboro and make a dude?
Whatever became of the horses, and how was Tom's "Wanted" status ever resolved?
They didn't do a good job of of either developing the character of Katie, explaining the prodigal nature of John Wayne and Dean Martin's characters, or timing up the loose ends. I still watch it when it's on.
"The Democrat Party looks like Titanic survivors. Partying and celebrating one moment, and huddled in lifeboats freezing the next". Hatari 2017
"Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid." Han Solo
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