By Jerry PDX
Tuesday, March 1, 2022 at 11:27:00 P.M. EST
Check out Sam Elliot’s review of Netflix’ “Woke Western” The Power of the Dog:
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/03/01/sam-elliott-calls-netflixs-oscar-darling-the-power-of-the-dog-a-piece-of-st/
I have no idea if the movie is any good. I haven’t seen it, but Sam Elliot, a man’s man, doesn’t hold back with his opinion that it’s a complete “piece of s*%#t.” It’s a hoot, as he lets loose with plenty of f-bombs, though I get the feeling his rant is as much about personal frustration with liberalism/wokism in Hollywood as the movie itself.
N.S.: When I see youtube commenters saying we need to start making Westerns again, I occasionally respond that that would be a waste of time. It would just be more anti-White propaganda, with White heavies and black and hispanic heroes.
Hollywood made enough quality Westerns for a lifetime of viewing: Good, very good, classics and masterpieces. And a 1940s Hollywood B picture that cost at most $500,000 to make will probably be better than a $100,000,000 contemporary picture chock full of pc story lines and CGI.
1. Shane (1953)
2. The Searchers (1956)
3. The Wild Bunch (1969)
4. Unforgiven (1992)
5. High Noon (1952)
6. Ride the High Country (1962)
7. My Darling Clementine (1946)
8. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
9. Destry Rides Again (1939)
10. True Grit (1969)
Warlock (1959)
Fort Apache (1948)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
How the West was Won (1962)
The Anthony Mann Westerns:
Winchester 73 (1950)
Bend of the River (1952)
The Naked Spur (1953)
The Far Country (1954)
The Man from Laramie (1955)
The Tin Star (1957)
Man of the West (1958)
The Alamo (1960)
The Cowboys (1972)
The Shootist (1976)
7 Men from Now (1956)
A bunch of other Randy Scott Westerns, directed by Budd Boetticher, most of which I own, but which I have yet to watch.
And then, in no particular order:
Stagecoach (1939)
The Professionals (1966)
Angel and the Bad Man (1947)
The Horse Soldiers (1959)
Sergeant Rutledge (1960)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
Rio Bravo (1959)
Red River (1948)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Hombre (1968)
Three Godfathers (1948)
Shepherd of the Hills (1941)
Hondo? (1953) (Have yet to see it.)
El Dorado (1967)
Open Range (2003)
The Virginian (1929) (Saw it so long ago, I can only remember, “Smile, when you say that.”)
The Iron Horse (1924) (Have yet to see it.)
3:10 to Yuma? (Have yet to see the original or the remake.)
Jubal (1956)
Dark Command (1940)
The Indian Fighter (1955)
A bunch of silent, 1920s’ Ford Westerns, starring Harry Carey, I have yet to see.
Modern Westerns:
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Giant (1956)
Who’ll Stop the Rain? (1978)
Feel free to add pictures I left off.
Well, that was probably 62 pictures, all but a few of which I summoned up from memory. I’ll bet there are friends here who can come up with another 100 excellent Westerns from memory. For 50 years, the Western was the dominant movie genre. The decline of the Western signaled the decline of pictures, and the decline of America.
He's right. My girlfriend and I tried to watch this. We gave up after twenty minutes. It's unwatchable. Incoherent, boring and dull. A real piece of shit.
ReplyDeletejerry pdx
ReplyDeleteWhen I look at those titles some words come to mind: Sweeping, scope, visionary, epic...
Do any of the modern "Woke" Westerns evoke those kind of words? I tried watching a Quentin Tarantino Western called Django and bailed on it about a third of the way through. Tarantino tried to re create the feel of those classic western he watched as a kid, and as he usually does, failed miserably, it just came off as derivative and clunky.
A few: Sam Fuller's masterpiece RUN OF THE ARROW, the unusually violent Scott Western CORONER CREEK, Laurel and Hardy's totally off-the-wall parody WAY OUT WEST, the 1950's Audie Murphy Universal series, the 3 Mesquiteers series through 1939 (best B Westerns ever, lots of action plus offbeat, even "adult" stories), BEAST OF HOLLOW MOUNTAIN (nice filmed-in-Mexico atmosphere plus a sci-fi twist), and the best TV Western ever, CIMARRON STRIP (1967, Stuart Whitman)-movie-quality TV! And -why aren't the great SERGIO LEONE Westerns on your list????
ReplyDeleteWhat great Sergio Leone Westerns? I'm on a gluten-free Western diet.
ReplyDelete"It would just be more anti-White propaganda, with White heavies and black and hispanic heroes."
ReplyDeleteDon't forget the poor innocent American Indian set upon by the evil whitey man.
Clint Eastwood "Good, Bad, Ugly" was rated four stars. Eli Wallach did play a good Mexican.