I like M7 as well. It’s lack of action somehow makes me like it.
So a film that has a lot of action means you’re not too keen on it?
Do not mind The Magnificent Seven, but is one I tend not to view very much.
Depends, in some films the action is really badly done so it gets boring.
Escape from Fort Bravo
The Law and Jake Wade
Bad Day at Black Rock (if it counts as one)
All much better movies than The Magnificent seven, which is a nice Christmas western (a western I like to watch in the last week of the year, after a copious meal and a few glasses of wine) but no more than that.
True. if an action scene goes on too long, it can get boring.
[quote=“scherpschutter, post:7225, topic:141”]Escape from Fort Bravo
The Law and Jake Wade
Bad Day at Black Rock (if it counts as one)[/quote]
I haven’t seen Escape from Fort Bravo; I didn’t think too much of The Law and Jake Wade, but Bad Day at Black Rock is one of the all time greats, and yes, better than The Magnificent Seven.
This one is also a fav of mine. it’s one those films that’s made you wish you’re the main character, simple story great cast very effective, pitty I only saw in television and do not have a DVD of it.
Watched SANTEE. Can’t say I could identify with Ford’s character very much, on the contrary I was hoping for him to be killed in a sadistic way in the end.
“Jonah Hex” (2010)
-Josh Brolin
First let me say I’m a huge fan of “Jonah Hex” The comic book, I’ve followed the character since he first hit comic stands in the early '70’s and when I first heard about this film I thought "great, I hope they do it right"
Well now Ive seen it it all all I can say is…it’s okay. Not the worst movie of all time, but given the source material it should have been great.
Josh Brolin is perfect in the part, but the film makers were so intent on making a "Comic Book Movie"they forgot that Hex is first and foremost a western.
All the sci-fi and supernatural aspects of the film were totally unnecessary, Had they stuck with a basic revenge story it would have been a much better movie.
The last Western I watched was also JONAH HEX.
I think I probably liked it a little more than our amigo The Phantom Stranger did, but I also wished it had been more like the original comics (ALL STAR WESTERN and WEIRD WESTERN TALES period).
I had a good time watching it.
The Last Hard Men (Andrew V. McLaglan)
Rewatch.
No classic, but much better than it’s reputed to be
Actually quite a good ‘dirty’ western.
(Review coming up on Silence’s forum)
Still not watched my copy from last time you watched it, maybe next year perhaps when my to watch western pile has gone down a little.
Thought I had written something about it here, but couldn’t find my notes
Anyway, my thoughts are a bit more positive after rewatching it
Could have been a really good movie with a better director
That maybe so. I remember it only as a total waste.
The Last Wagon. The survivors of an apache attack on a wagon train have to put their faith in wanted killer Commanche Tod to lead them to safety through hostile territory.
Hadn’t seen this one since i was a kid. Remembered liking it a lot at the time, and still enjoyed it this time round, though it had less action than i recalled and i could have done without the slightly twee ending.
[quote=“Silver, post:7235, topic:141”]The Last Wagon. The survivors of an apache attack on a wagon train have to put their faith in wanted killer Commanche Tod to lead them to safety through hostile territory.
Hadn’t seen this one since i was a kid. Remembered liking it a lot at the time, and still enjoyed it this time round, though it had less action than i recalled and i could have done without the slightly twee ending.[/quote]
Stars Richard Widmark and directed by Delmer Daves. Can’t go wrong with that in a 50s western.
Rewatched Anthony Mann’s The Tin Star - not the same calibre as Mann’s intense Westerns with James Stewart, but the mentor-pupil relationship between lawman-turned-bounty hunter Henry Fonda and callow sheriff Anthony Perkins is essayed nicely by the leads, lifting what is otherwise a fairly trite storyline.
Mann’s direction is elegant, though there are nowhere near enough rugged exteriors - his natural home.
Last Western I watched was John Sturges’ THE LAW AND JAKE WADE.
I hadn’t seen it in many years. I distinctly remember when I first saw it (somewhere in the early 1980’s), I thought it was a pretty slow-moving film. However, I didn’t find it to be slow this time around. Reckon I am just getting old and slow, myself, maybe.
At any rate, I find this one to be OK.
It is definitely my least favorite Western from Sturges, though.
One Eyed Jacks (Marlon Brando)
I think I’m correct in stating that this one is pretty popular around here. And Stanton even likes it’s action sequences!! :o 
I like this one. It has a distinct look and feel to it. The Mexican scenes have a sort of swashbuckling look to them that is different than most other Westerns. By swashbuckling look I mean the ornate castle prison, the fanciful stone builty Mexican village, and the tight fitting costumes with scarves and such.
The story is well played out here. And some of Brando’s initial intentions for the film are clear even after significant cutting. Originally intended as a 5 hour + epic where the lines between good and bad are completely smeared. However, as it is, it’s quite obvious that brando is the hero. But some of his actions and that of the villain, Karl Malden, show signs of the original idea. Brando plans to kill Malden for adandoning him. But Malden’s actions were much more logical and not deliberatey spitful. And he shows himself to be honestly troubled because of his betrayal of Brando. This does not stop Brando, however, from impregnating Malden’s step daughter just to spite him.
Brando’s direction is rather good but his performance is goofy and flat. His mumbling gets old and unrealistic and his apparently ad libbed dialogue sounds corny in the way people sound when trying to sound like cowboys. And supposedly threatening phrases become laughable when he mumbles out “Git up you big tub o’ guts.”
Rio Conchos.
Small team of men go on the search for some stolen army rifles and have a few troubles along the way. Come across as fresh to me, probably because I have never seen before which surprised me. Seemed as film was made a little later than it was. Viewed a Spanish dvd with english audio which is great picture quality, but…well there usually is one with me. Starts off at credits in full Cinemascope and then gets cropped down, which is a shame.