It’s not terrible, just disappointing - feels like a TV movie with a little more graphic violence.
It’s terrible, like many McLaglen westerns.
I liked it enough to put it in my top 20, to me he made his 3 best movies around that time North Sea Hijack, Wild Geese and Last Hard Men.
Then I don’t really like any of his other westerns apart from Shenandoah… all his movies with John Wayne are pretty bad, especially McLintock! imo
It’s a tough category because I won’t sit-through a bad one if I can help it, so I can’t honestly comment on 'em. Plus we discussed how awful Andrew McLaglen’s works usually are on other threads.
I remember being bored and disappointed with Cat Ballou.
And The Hallelujah Trail, with Burt Lancaster. Instead of action, it was all about anti-whisky feminism-nonsense.
This is an aspirant to replace Silverado in my Bottom 20 list. It’s not awful, and some action is done pretty well, but I expected a lot more.
The Hired Hand (1971, Peter Fonda). Atrocious hippie arty garbage.
I actually enjoyed that movie. 
I enjoyed a lot of the films people have listed as terrible. It’s all about personal taste.
Yep, thats one of my favorites. 
I kinda always liked hippie vibe in westerns.
One, two, three
For goodness sake
I got the hippy hippy shakes
Yeah, I’ve got to shakes
I got the hippy hippy shakes
Oh, I can’t sit still
With the hippy hippy shakes
I had to google it. I know jackshit about music.
I thought about it when you were talking about the hippie vibes in westerns.
Personally i don’t like those hippie movies from the sixties and early seventies (not even El Topo), but if my memory doesn’t betray me, I thought The Hired Hand was one of the more endurable of the lot, but i can’t say I really enjoyed it.
You once said on fb that Easy Rider is great movie, so now I’m bit perplexed…
Well, it’s just slightly more hippie than let’s say Josey Wales (they are both quite similar looking characters), but you are not very fond of that one either. Anyway, personally I don’t really care about hippies, but I appreciate some of the movies/music related to the subculture (Big Lebowski and such).
Easy Rider yes, but I was referring to westerns (Ride the Whirlwind, The Shooting, El Topo, The Hired hand, a couple of others). Easy Rider is one of the most representative movies from the late Sixties, it’s the hippie movement, or better the counterculture in a nutshell
Come on, really? I created topic here for acid westerns some time ago
I did not endure till the end of the movie so it is hardly endurabale. 
It is just another early 70s boring experimental movie where hardly anyone talks.
Those were the movies I was talking about 
and the ones I don’t really care for.
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Okay, but I still don’t get it how you can say Easy rider is great (which is by far trippier/hippier than any of those westerns) but don’t care about the rest. But on the other hand, I don’t care that much about Easy rider but do care about some of those westerns… Anyway, just saying.
I think that’s the point! … it’s showing that life in the ‘wild west’ wasn’t all gunfights and snappy dialogue … it’s mundane and full of hardships.
I liked it as a movie … haven’t seen it for a while, so maybe time to re-watch and see if I feel differently about it.
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