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BeatDballs...Greatest westerns of all time...??
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Unforgiven (1992)
Once Upon a Time in the West (196
High Noon (1952)
Shane (1953)
Last Train from Gun Hill (1959)
Rio Bravo (1959)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
Warlock (1959)
Viva Zapata! (1952)
@sgtdjones
Bro, mark me present. The western genre has always been one of my favorite past times.
Please include:
Stagecoach
Sons of Katie Elder
El Dorado
Chisum
Destry rides again
@sgtdjones
The darn site doesn’t allow you to edit sometimes.
Also:
The magnificent seven
Hour of the gun
Winchester 73
Gun fight at the OK corral
The big country
Destry rides again
No name on the bullet
Jubal
@sgtdjones
There must be a place for Shane 😄
@hubert
Hope your health is improving...good to see you posting.
I have faced such issues, and then my post instantly vanishes when I hit save.
I must sign after 10 minutes on this site; my plea has been ignored by management.
Not one of the treasured posters...😎
@sgtdjones
Health is improved in one big area but not so good in others as is normal at my age...Still vertical and enjoying my Westerns now even more than what passes for cricket and its ???@@* in the Region 😮
@hubert
One of the many signs of self-loathing among older Caribbean people is their obsession with American Westerns. Luckily, that generation dying out. or at least that way of thinking.
In Westerns, the enemy isn't Nazis, monsters, or space invaders. usually Is the local people defending their own homes. The invaders get treated like heroes. The people protecting their land are the villains. The whole thing is that those who fight for what is theirs are wrong, and those who come to take it are right. How dare the natives claim their own land, eh? The invaders are then praised for spreading "freedom."
Palestine much?, where settlers taking land from people who living there for generations. Outsiders cheering the settlers while ignoring or straight up maligning the people getting pushed out. If history repeats itself, future generations of Palestinians could end up cheering movies about how their own land was stolen by the Israelis.
The good news is that younger Caribbean generations seeing this for what it is. Theyre more educated, more aware. They not so quick to rabidly clap for propaganda or celebrate their own people being pushed aside. That awareness is the best protection against repeating the same mistakes the older generations made.
@VIX
The good news is that younger Caribbean generations seeing this for what it is. Theyre more educated, more aware. They not so quick to rabidly clap for propaganda or celebrate their own people being pushed aside. That awareness is the best protection against repeating the same mistakes the older generations made.
Oh, they are more educated, leaving school to join gangs that control blocks selling narcotics. They do not see their relatives killing each other for Grandma's land? Nah, they just shoot up the house and murder their brothers, sisters, and kids.
Did the older generations have 3 murders per day and some years totaling over 600? I am glad that the younger generations are not interested in the old Westerns. They are too busy with murders, rapes, home invasions, and kidnapping in T&T.
You should have stayed in school longer so you would have graduated after completing grade 7.
Classes go higher than 7...🙄
@VIX
I rarely watch Westerns these days.
They glorify a group of people who committed a genocide against native Americans.
I prefer to watch films that chronicle the suffering of native Americans. Such as 'Geronimo'.
@sgtdjones
Young man, why glorify such utterances with a response. What was it my fourth standard teacher Mr Grannum told us “a little learning is a dangerous thing”. Kind of remind us of the person who would tell peoples who were the cradle of civilization that they’ll bomb them into the Stone Age. Socrates, was right. The only sin is ignorance.
@mikesiva
That’s a bit ironic since Geronimo was directed by Walter Hill, a filmmaker whose whole career is rooted in the Western genre. He even used some of the exact same filming locations as the old John Ford movies to show how differently those stories could be told.
It's important to watch films that bring those hidden histories to light rather than just the 'cowboys vs. indians' trope. Fair enough, everyone has their own preferences for historical narratives.