[quote=“Silence, post:9280, topic:141”]There are a lot of SW actors in it! Would you recommend it?[/quote]Not really unless you’re big fan of Berger or eurowestern completist. There’s so many better films out there.
“The Ride To Hangman’s Tree” (1967)
-Jack Lord
Plot: IMDB
Three young outlaws try to stay together and keep one step ahead of the law.
Phantom’s Review: Likable, light hearted western adventure. A good (and very recognizable) cast intentionally pull out all of the western cliche’s. and have fun doing it. Very enjoyable.
Comanche Station (Boetticher / 1960)
An old favourite. In contrast to The Magnificent Seven this film is a perfect example of how less can so often be more. The last of the Ranown westerns and possibly the best. I have difficulty choosing between them.
[quote=“Phil H, post:9283, topic:141”]Comanche Station (Boetticher / 1960)
An old favourite. In contrast to The Magnificent Seven this film is a perfect example of how less can so often be more. The last of the Ranown westerns and possibly the best. I have difficulty choosing between them.[/quote]
black and white movie?
No, one in beautiful colours
Don’t know if you’d like it, but to me it’s one of the greats (along with Ride Lonesome Boetticher’s best)
Tre pistole contro Cesare/Death Walks in Laredo 2/5
Due once di piombo/My Name Is Pecos 3,5/5
Anche nel West c’era una volta Dio/Between God, the Devil and a Winchester 3/5
[quote=“Phil H, post:9283, topic:141”]Comanche Station (Boetticher / 1960)
An old favourite. In contrast to The Magnificent Seven this film is a perfect example of how less can so often be more. The last of the Ranown westerns and possibly the best. I have difficulty choosing between them.[/quote]
One of my favourites too - I love its harsh simplicity. However, picking the best of the series is hard: they are all great in their own way.
No Room To Die
See the thread.
SEVEN MEN FROM NOW - Another solid Boetticher western, lots of twists in this one
TERROR IN A TEXAS TOWN - Sterling Hayden armed with a harpoon confronts a lethal gunman. Excellent stuff. I reckon this influenced SW quite a bit, gunman’s outfit and some shots brought some very classic SW things to mind
WONDERFUL COUNTRY - Mediocre film with Mitchum, confused by plot and lost interest quite early
THE BIG COUNTRY - Can this be called a pacifist western? Coz this is what it’s all about. Some scenes drag a bit, but as a whole I found it quite good. Burl Ives is half the film, in the end he spits almost a litre of saliva at Chuck Connors, he really got into that scene haha
Bastia: Dynamite Jack[url]http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Dynamite_jack[/url]
-French comedy western with Fernandel playing dual role in the often used plot where the hero is the spitting image of the famous villain. Ok film with good looking sets but the film is just too unfunny for the comedy. I think there was potential to add some Laurel & Hardy style humour in many scenes and with few jokes here and there the film would be much more entertaining.
Requiem for a Gringo. I was pleasantly surprised, the Sinister Cinema DVD from amazon didnt look too bad at all 
Definitely low budget stuff but I found it rather unique and I really liked it. Especially the weird characters. 4/5
[quote=“scherpschutter, post:7140, topic:141”]That’s exactly the point, Silence
The point some of us just don’t buy.
I don’t know if you’re serious (some strange ideas brought forward on these pages the last few days) but those film makers certainly were. Somehow they thought in those days that women liked to be raped and unconsciously didn’t want otherwise: the man of their dreams was (in this crackpot idea) a brute who’d grab them by the hair and take them by force.
I can assure you, Silence, that rape is horrible thing, it’s humiliating
I don’t condemn the entire movie for it, The Hunting Party has some things to say for it: it is exciting, it is well-acted, the violence is effective, but I don’t like this ‘women like to be raped’ aspect of the movie, that’s just one step too far
Okay?[/quote]
Agreed!
Ok, I know this post is old, but I felt I had to reply.
“A Man For Hanging” (1972) a film that does not turn up often and is a western oddity and very rarely mentioned in any western film reference books. it has a short running time of 75 mins which suggests it may have been originally intended for t.v but if that was the case it would have been too violent for its time. By todays standards it is tame but the violence towards women in particular would have been controversial. it starts off ok then seems to come to a halt and then has a not unexpected conclussion but approaches it in a rather off the wall manner. film concerns a disfigured outlaw who his gang has carried out a bank robbery and are now on the run and he carries out a series of murders and rapes on farm houses he comes across, all the while being pursued by a vengeful posse.Not brilliant but not uninteresting and is watchable mainly through it’s short running time. 6/10.
Django on Blu Ray (Christmas gift)one of my favorites!
[size=12pt]Cowboys and Aliens[/size] (2011, Jon Favreau)
Aliens visiting the West in search for … gold. Now who would have thought that? It’s all adequately executed, but like most CGI oriented SF-horror movies, it loses itself in CGI monsters running and jumping around and an awful lot of explosions (my ears are still tingling). The final scene reminded me of the exploding Challenger of twenty years (or so) ago
Works best as a western, and I wish they would have left all this abduction stuff out. As a horror movie it simply fails to impress. There’s too much nonsense and in my humble opinion things were far more convincing in the days of Alien and Predator, when it still was a hell of a job to create believable visual effects. Directors were forced to be creative, and the final result was far more suggestive and scary. Today they can get any monster they want, and we audiences get more than we ever asked for.
Performances are adequate too, although I had trouble to accept Craig as a cowboy. He would do better in a Peplum-SF-horror blend.
6,5 out of 10
[quote=“scherpschutter, post:9295, topic:141”][size=12pt]Cowboys and Aliens[/size] (2011, Jon Favreau)
Aliens visiting the West in search for … gold.[/quote]
they want gold? really? (haven´t seen it yet) - then it´s like Battlefield : Earth, a scientology shitus magnum with John Travolta and his fellow Psychlons looking for gold on Earth
Haven’t seen that one, at least not until the end. One of the worst ever, they say. Saw a couple of minutes of it on TV, seemed to be the right label.
one of the worst, but still it has some good production designs and postapocalyptic sceneries, which are worth a watch
and John Travolta is not bad at all
it just has very stupid screenplay - but on the other hand i must admit, that some sf films exist, which are considered as good, but contain dumb storytelling and ideas also
sometimes i wonder if Battlefield Earth wasn´t Hubbard´s child, the critics and audience response would be maybe different
‘DALLAS’ 0/5
’THE GREATEST ROBBERY IN THE WEST’ 2/5
There are few genuinely intelligent SF-movies. Most SF movies are in reality fantasy movies, which is something different. The best movies use story elements from authors like Stanislav Lem, Philip K. Dick, Asimov or Robert Heinlein, but none of them really reaches the intelligence of some of these guys’ books. The best SF book I know is Solaris, but none of the adaptations really does the novel proud. Some ideas of it were used in films like Event Horizon and Avatar.