Is on the Encore Channel right now. One of the best of all the "Modern" Westerns. Then followed by "A Fistful of Dollars" and then "The Gauntlet"
I know, I know.... The Gauntlett is not that great of an Eastwood Movie. But it sure beats the hell out of watching those Liberal [bleep] on SNL any old day.
"Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston Texans, "We say Grace, We Say Mam, If You Don't Like it, We Don't Give a Damn!"
My favorite seen is where Gene Hackman tries to get "English Bob" to take the loaded handgun in the jail cell from the dumb ass biographer.
Of course, ole English Bob doesn't know the Six Shooter is loaded!
"Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston Texans, "We say Grace, We Say Mam, If You Don't Like it, We Don't Give a Damn!"
"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated." Thomas Paine
NRA LIFE MEMBER GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS ESPECIALLY THE SNIPERS! "Suppose you were an idiot And suppose you were a member of Congress... But I repeat myself." -Mark Twain
Yep! Definately one of his all time Top Three Movies, in my Book. My favorite is "Pale Rider" followed by "The Outlaw Josey Wales!
My favorite of his "new" movies is Definately "Grand Torino"
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"Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston Texans, "We say Grace, We Say Mam, If You Don't Like it, We Don't Give a Damn!"
Unforgiven The Outlaw Josey Wales Million Dollar Baby Gran Torino
I can swap the order on 3 and 4, but IMO Unforgiven stands a head above Josey ("You gonna pull them pistols, or whistle 'Dixie'?") ("Dyin' ain't much of a living.") , and the first two stand head and shoulders above everything else he did.
"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated." Thomas Paine
The government plans these shootings by targeting kids from kindergarten that the government thinks they can control with drugs until the appropriate time--DerbyDude
Whatever. Tell the oompa loompa's hey for me. [/quote]. LtPPowell
Loved Million Dollar Baby, untill the end, of course. Never saw that plot twist coming!
I was lucky enough to get to meet Mr. Eastwood in 1992, while he was here in TX scouting locations for the movie "A Perfect World" . Very nice fellow, and pretty humble, too. He stopped at the LGS that my buddie owned looking to buy old Colt Single Actions.
"Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston Texans, "We say Grace, We Say Mam, If You Don't Like it, We Don't Give a Damn!"
Except for all the other best Western movies ever made.... True Grit(both versions), Shane, Silverado, Wyatt Earp, Tombstone, High Noon, Rio Bravo, No Country For Old Men, and so many other Contenders...
But I hold Unforgiven pretty high up in that pantheon...
"I'm gonna have to science the schit out of this." Mark Watney, Sol 59, Mars
In the movie Clint borrowed the kids S&W Schofield and killed a bunch of guys in the bar. I had a Uberti Schofield at one time in .45 Long Colt. It was a heck of a shooter, We use to shoot at jugs and cans at 100yds and the Schofield always won. I sold that gun in one of those "why did I ever do that" moments...
"We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past"
I was watching Lonesome Dove on TV tonight for the 100th time. I'm a western movie fanatic and LD is at the top of my list of best westerns. My favorite part is where Gus slaps the surly bartender up side the head with his Dragoon pistol...after he breaks his nose on the bar.
"We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past"
Best western movie line ever: by Val Kilmer as Doc Holiday
" I'm afraid the strain was more than he could bare "
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"Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston Texans, "We say Grace, We Say Mam, If You Don't Like it, We Don't Give a Damn!"
I grew up on Clint Eastwood and John Wayne westerns but never really cared for Unforgiven and still don't. IMHO, Josey Wales is Clint's best and one of the best all time.
Tom Selleck's westerns are wonderful and "Last Stand at Saber River" and "Crossfire Trail" are the reason why I own nearly a dozen topless Colt replicas.
Tombstone is excellent and I happen to like the remake of "3:10 to Yuma" quite a bit. Enough to get a Schofield and make a replica of Charlie Prince's "Flames of Hell" rig, from the pattern offered by the maker who did the leatherwork for the movie.
I am afraid I did not like it that much. The underlying statement that I got out of the movie was: even good men do bad things when they are drunk, and that is OK. A little too much of modern thought for me.
Josey Wales is almost the perfect movie, except for the poor acting of the Kid. The character actors in that movie were classic.
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