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Post by flatandy on Oct 8, 2020 11:27:09 GMT
And Lonesome Dove, the TV programme. Utterly utterly. Never saw the show, but the book is great. |
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Post by flatandy on Oct 8, 2020 11:28:27 GMT
And I’ve been to Yuma. I’ve probably even been there are 3:10. For 6 months of the year it’s a really, really crappy place.
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Post by mids on Oct 8, 2020 11:40:29 GMT
And Lonesome Dove, the TV programme. Utterly utterly. Never saw the show, but the book is great. The TV thing with Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duvall is brilliant. I think it's either last or second last of the book series. |
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Post by flatandy on Oct 8, 2020 11:45:23 GMT
Actually, Yuma's a really crappy place 100% of the year. But for at least 6 months it has astonishingly miserable weather.
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Post by mids on Oct 8, 2020 11:48:19 GMT
It looked a bit sh*t in the film.
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Post by flatandy on Oct 8, 2020 12:03:56 GMT
Never saw the film. It's just a town you go through on the Interstate between San Diego and Tucson. It's a convenient place to stop for a snack, but the options are grim, and the entire town is a soulless concrete dump surrounded by even worse trailer parks built for the lowest rent snowbirds who don't want to pay the money for somewhere like Palm Springs or Tucson.
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Post by flatandy on Oct 8, 2020 12:04:36 GMT
I really should watch the Lonesome Dove TV show. And really should read the other books in the series. But the original book is absolutely fantastic, well worth your time.
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Post by mids on Oct 8, 2020 12:14:22 GMT
I've read them all <smug>. They're great and you get to find out how Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones first joined the Texas Rangers and all the stuff horrible that they did and that was done to them.
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Post by moggyonspeed on Oct 8, 2020 14:27:40 GMT
Oh I have seen 3:10 to Yuma. That was ok. No cows though if I recall. Which one? The 1957 original starring Glenn Ford and Van Heflin, or the remake of 2007 with Russell Crowe and Christian Bale? Even though the latter received two Oscar nominations, I prefer the former as Glenn Ford plays the bad guy, which was rare for him. Black & white too, which adds a certain je ne sais quoi. |
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Post by Minge är en jävla besserwisser on Oct 8, 2020 14:38:00 GMT
Does no country for old men count as a western?
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Post by wetkingcanute on Oct 8, 2020 14:59:03 GMT
Lonesome Dove - the TV series is excellent.
I'll stick this in here:
Antonio Vivaldi comes home to his wife.
"Great news Darling...they've offered me another season!"
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Post by voice on Oct 8, 2020 15:26:10 GMT
I always liked the Spaghetti Westerns, the style is great.
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Post by mids on Oct 8, 2020 15:58:13 GMT
Does no country for old men count as a western? Probably. More or less |
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Post by Repat Van on Oct 8, 2020 21:50:53 GMT
Oh I have seen 3:10 to Yuma. That was ok. No cows though if I recall. Which one? The 1957 original starring Glenn Ford and Van Heflin, or the remake of 2007 with Russell Crowe and Christian Bale? Even though the latter received two Oscar nominations, I prefer the former as Glenn Ford plays the bad guy, which was rare for him. Black & white too, which adds a certain je ne sais quoi. I did not even know there was a 1957 version. To be honest Westerns from that time period really hold no interest for me. The few I have watched (3:10 to Yuma, The Magnificent Seven, Brokeback Mountain which may not count as a Western) are all modern versions. |
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Post by Repat Van on Oct 8, 2020 21:51:26 GMT
Does no country for old men count as a western? Oh I have seen that!! What a sh*t film. (Not sure it’s a Western though.) |
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Post by rick49 on Oct 8, 2020 21:57:30 GMT
Good Westerns are awesome - a universal truth. "3:10 to Yuma", "High Noon", "Little Big Man", "Rio Bravo", "The Wild Bunch", "Unforgiven" etc. etc. ... I mean, come ON people! The Rounders. One of my favorites. |
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Post by rick49 on Oct 8, 2020 22:37:03 GMT
scratch the rounders. i meant 2003's "Open Range" with Robert Duvall and Kevin Costner.
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Post by mids on Oct 21, 2020 12:20:11 GMT
Time for another. Overdue, even.
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Post by Minge är en jävla besserwisser on Oct 21, 2020 12:47:56 GMT
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Post by flatandy on Oct 21, 2020 12:49:58 GMT
Looking like a seal is provocative to a shark. So, being in the water in a wetsuit or on a surfboard...
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