CHAT Lonesome Dove-Best Western Ever?

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Marseydoats

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I liked it, but I didn't like that Gus died.
Best western ever --- toss up between Rio Bravo and The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.
I really like Red River and The Rounders too.
 
Bogey

Bogey

“Where liberty dwells, there is my country.”
So many great westerns. Lonesome Dove being one of 'em. I watch it at minimum once a year.
 
marymonde

marymonde

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My husband LOVES ‘Lonesome Dove’. His other favourite is ‘Tombstone’.

My favourite is ‘The Outlaw Josey Wales’. My other fave is John Wayne in ‘The Cowboys’.
 
Tortie

Tortie

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OK, I haven't seen the movie yet. But the book? Best western book ever. It is actually a 3 book series, one prior to Lonesome Dove and one after. Must watch the movie soon!
 
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Dozdoats

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True Grit, both versions for different reasons. And the book is better than either movie.

Someone is missing a bet by not making a movie out of Winding Stair.

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Same setting as True Grit but later in time.
 
Bubble Head

Bubble Head

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I really like Westerns. Pretty hard for me to just pick one when another pops into my head. Just now without even trying The Cheyenne Social Club popped in along with True Grit.
Henry Fonda with Jimmy Steward riding from Texas to Wyoming when Henry Fonda never stops talking. They refuse to make good Westerns. Guess they are afraid they will lose a few Soy Boys.
 
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Border Collie Dad

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Went to Amazon to pick up the book(s) but changed my mind when I saw the price.

As far as John Wayne westerns, I like The Seekers as, maybe, his best.

I'll commit blasphemy and say Jeff Bridges' True Grit was better

My favorite older western is High Noon with Gary Cooper
 
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Walrus

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Marseydoats said:
I liked it, but I didn't like that Gus died.
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Same here. McMurtry has always been dark like that, though, in his books. It made an awesome movie, though, and great casting. The only one I had to reach on was Tommy Lee as Woodrow but he done all right. I just envisioned him differently from the book.

The Outlaw Josey Wales is an all-time favorite, as was McClintock. I liked the John Wayne movie where he was the retiring Captain but I forget the name of it now. But I like any John Wayne movie, even The Shootist. Thinking of that movie kind of reminds me of Johnny Cash singing that Pearl Jam song at the end of his life.

Another I really liked was Silverado.

And of course, how could I leave Blazing Saddles out of the list? "I couldn't POTHIBLY!"
 
cleobc

cleobc

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Monte Walsh, the version with Tom Selleck. And not just because I have a sort of connection with Monte Walsh (rode a horse for many years that I bought from the man who inspired the character of Monte Walsh, a personal friend, and I also met Jack Schaeffer where I worked outside Santa Fe.)
 
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Walrus

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Hognutz said:
Cowboys and Aliens?:poop:

Little Big Man!:chg:
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Little Big Man was a good reminder and made me laugh. It's the first time I saw Chief Dan George in a movie; he always had great lines in whatever movie he was in after that.

It was filmed up around Billings or Hardin somewhere, but I didn't know where exactly. I have friends who were extras in that movie but I remember that they couldn't even pick themselves out, they were so drug-addled most of the time. They were muleskinners and Indian warriors in the scenes with lotsa people.

The Tom Selleck reference reminds me of that Quigley Down Under movie. I kind of liked that one, too.
 
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Dozdoats

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Nah, not blasphemy. I am a reader more than a moviegoer, I come by that honestly. My mom's mother loved to read, and she had gotten a copy of True Grit shortly after it was published. When I was young we visited my grandparents often, and I read the book there in one day. I loved it. I got my own copy and read it some more. Then I found out they were making it into a movie, and I worried the horns off my parents to take me to see it. They did. I loved that too. That was of course the first version of the movie.

Decades later we had a family reunion in Ouray, Colorado, not far from where part of the first movie was filmed (the town of Ridgway - Home - True Grit Cafe) .

Not being a purist, I got the second version on DVD. I liked it too, especially having Iris Dement on the soundtrack (
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anhPfU3WGXk

True Grit (2010) - Iris Dement
RT 02:50)

BTW, the chili at the True Grit Cafe was pretty good :D - twelve years ago, anyway.
 
cleobc

cleobc

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Personally couldn't get through the first episode of Yellowstone. Stupid unrealistic story lines and situations (like pretending a new born calf would jump up and run away.) They could have done so much better.
 
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