Westerns
I was watching Breakfast this morning and they had a discussion about the Western and that there are four or so coming out soon.
There was a guy there who was the president of the UK Western film society or something and he said it was good to see them back after so long.
He mentioned that after Heaven's Gate the studios got scared off and left them alone.
Eh?
Off the top of my head from the past 30 years
Unforgiven, Toomstone, True Grit, Deadwood, Desperado, 3:10 Yuma
The Proposition
Young Guns
Jonah Hex
The good the bad and the weird
Dances with Wolves
City Slickers
Wild Wild West
Maverick
The Quick and the Dead
Sure, some of them are different genres with a Western theme but i'd say the basics were still there .
There was a guy there who was the president of the UK Western film society or something and he said it was good to see them back after so long.
He mentioned that after Heaven's Gate the studios got scared off and left them alone.
Eh?
Off the top of my head from the past 30 years
Unforgiven, Toomstone, True Grit, Deadwood, Desperado, 3:10 Yuma
The Proposition
Young Guns
Jonah Hex
The good the bad and the weird
Dances with Wolves
City Slickers
Wild Wild West
Maverick
The Quick and the Dead
Sure, some of them are different genres with a Western theme but i'd say the basics were still there .
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But even so that's not that many films in 30 years. I'm sure there are a lot more than you listed, but even so the number would fall short of how many were made I the 40s, 50s and 60s. There is still very few films of the genre made these days.
Four or five a decade isn't too bad for an old genre. Probably more than musicals for instance.
I prefer more realistic westerns now, makes me chuckle to see a western from the 50's/60's and the cowboy's are walking around with Tony Curtis style hair and clean shaven.
C5s recent Hatfield and Mcoys was entertaining enough, though it strayed a bit to much into Romeo and Juliet territory with the lovers from warring families imo.
The film is about his attempt to go home being scuppered when he encounters a young outlaw.
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