Watched my Requiem for Gringo blu-ray, and it was so weird watching this film in good quality.
Really good SW, despite Lang Jeffries 
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I wonder do the BBFC know about that poncho !? 
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āWe jumped into Bill & Tedās phonebox and went back to witness the skinning there and then. We decided the leopard didnāt feel enough pain for us to censor the poncho.ā
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Sancho and the black leather villain is the stars in this movie! The blu ray is fantastic but the gunshots sounds a bit thin, donāt they?
Yeah the gunshots sound worse than usual SW gunshots, and that is saying something.
The leather-clad gunman is great, he reminds me of Jack Palance in Shane. Lang Jeffries just sucks. Nuff said.
I think his dub is a bit annoying, thatās part of what makes him a bit weak for me. Anthony Steffen or George Hilton would be perfect for this role. Still love this one though!
I re-watched
Black Jack
1/2
Kill Them All and Come Back Alone
1/2
And Nowā¦ Make Your Peace with God
Blood River
Buckaroo - The Winchester Does Not Forgive
1/2
Escondido a.k.a. A Minute to Pray, A Second to Die
Bandidos
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I understand your appreciation for A minute to pray, a second to die. Wonderful, melancholic movie, but I do not understand the relatively low marks for Bandidos. What did/didnāt you like ?
The target shooting component, in particular. Secondarily, a couple of performers (Jenkins and M. Martin).
But three stars, thatās not a bad ratingā¦ 
Jenkins is indeed bad. Apparently he was a model, not an actor and was held for somebody else by the producers
So - please donāt mock me - I saw Viva Maria! for the first timeā¦ on BluRay. Quite the fun flickā¦ but really not a western in any senseā¦
Done watching Broken Trail. It was a great western TV film.
Hostiles (2018) Scott Cooper
Iāve mixed feelings about this modern western with Christian Bale, it keep me stuck to the screen and while youāre watching itās easy to like, following the story till the end, the worst part came while you start thinking about what you have just seen.
It works as a road movie with a strong redemption plot that is the heart of the film.
The acting is top notch, Bale is probably the best mainstream male actor of actuality, Wes Studi and Rosamund Pike are also pretty good, itās a good part for Wes Studi.
The photography follows the parameters of modern filmmaking especially in these more slow paced films with long shots of symbolic things with a somehow cold and grey feeling coming out of the screen.
So whatās the drawback, well the history with the all redemption issue, maybe Iām just skeptical for nature, but I just donāt believe that so much hate can disappear in such a fast way, for such a realistic movie, I just canāt believe the history.
There are better redemption stories in average Western spaghetti.
Still itās a quality film with strong acting that just tries to transport present day morals to the past, I call it revisionism.
3.5 out of 5
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My feelings are the same as yours about Hostiles.
Watched Arizona Colt Returns tonight. Pretty decent spag with Anthony Steffen and Aldo Sambrell. Watching Bandidos right now.
Classic western double-Peck.
The Gunfighter - Cool gunshot effects for a fifties western, but the story didnāt really grab me. Am I suppose to believe that marshall would let the killer in the end just go?! Come on. 40%
The Big Country - Oh man, I was hoping the two guys would settle down their account with those old guns instead of Peck and Connors doing that. 70%
Trak of the cat - (1954) William Wellman
A strange film that Iāve never heard before, canāt even be classified as a Western, more of theatrical dramatic play about a disarranged family, with a big black cougar or panther as an allegory for the meaning of life.
I like Mitchum and his usual indifference approach, he was brilliant in some films while in others it was like if was doing someone a favor just to be there, but the best in doing so.
Clearly he was making an effort to be brilliant in this one, and he was even with some unusual overacting for him, the problem is that the storyline is just unbalanced for his part supposedly the main role, most of the film Mitchum his chasing the big cat in the snow landscape.
The indoor scenes are directed like in a theater play, and just donāt connect with the search for almost mystical black cat.
For the director this was a labor of love, with great cinematography (it must be amazing in the big screen), filmed in way that almost seems like B&W even if itās a color film.
The dialogues are great, and the acting especially from actresses is also a plus (the male cast apart from Mitchum is an odd one) but the best of the film is the cinematography brilliant stuff.
Wellman a mostly regular director (Worked usually with Wayne), had the ambition to make a classic, but he just could not find the right balance in the storyline, and the outdoor scenes almost seemed like an intrusion to the rest of the film, even if brilliantly filmed.
Anyway a must see at least is different from any western of the period, more of a curiosity
3 out 5
(5 for the cinematography)
Few weeks western movie rating summary:
Ballad Of Buster Scruggs - 80%
Ballad Of Cable Hogue - 50%
Ballad Of Lefty Brown - 40%
Major Dundee - 40%
Unforgiven (Clint) - 100%
Jeremiah Johnson - 60%
The Sisters Brothers - 70%
Big Country (Peck) - 70%
The Gunfighter (Peck) - 50%
Stagecoach (1939) - 60%
LOL ā¦ this is better than āCable Hogueā, āJeremiah Johnsonā, āMajor Dundeeā and āStagecoachā !!! ā¦ always unconventional 
I didnāt rate the āSisters Brothersā at all ā¦ almost instantly forgettable.
I watched The Quick and the Dead (1995). It was perfectly average western with nothing really standing out besides Russell Croweās trickshots.