Most Hated Westerns

[carson_reb]

First, this thread is Nate's idea. I'm just taking the ball and running with it...

So, with that said, the most hated westerns in my book are generally of the spaghetti variety. I'm just not an enthusiast of the Sergio Leone style.

I thought The Quick and The Dead was kind of dumb, too. I mean, the best gunfighters weren't actually the fastest. They were the ones who outlived all the others. They were the most deliberate.

I don't own Open Range and I don't intend to. It was okay, but the pace of the movie was not my style.

I am unable to watch Dances With Wolves because Cisco gets killed, and Two Socks is shot at and wounded. Not cool. When horses and dogs get kilt, so goes my desire to ever watch the movie again.

Back to the Future III... Not really a western, but takes place, in part, in the Old West. ("Nee-kay...some sort of fancy moccasins?")

I can't say I hate Shanghai Noon because I haven't seen it. But from what I can tell it is just a kung-fu spoof filmed in the Old West. Weird. ...Kind of like the queer combination of Cowboys versus Aliens. Double weird.

 

[Nathanb1]

Thank you, Carson Reb. I can now vent. I HATE High Noon. I'm a huge Gary Cooper fan, but OMG. That movie is so stupid. All it has going for it is a good song. Stupid.

Thank you. I'm sure I'm going to be pounded for that.

Anything where they run cattle or can't ride or do stupid stuff like sit around and sing (oh....that would be pretty much every Gene Autry or Roy Rogers movie)......strangely enough, I love those Bob Hope classics, Paleface, Son of Paleface and Fancy Pants....and Blazing Saddles.

MY favorite part of Blazing Saddles is when Alex Karras socks the horse. My mom did that to her barrel horse at the Pecos Rodeo right after she and my dad were married....standing with a group of ropers. You can imagine the holy heck they gave my dad......

Anyway, thanks for the venting space!

 

[texaswildcat]

I like the spaghetti westers, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is great but the worst might be whatNathanb1 mentions, but also ones such as Wild Wild West with Will Smith. That was just silly to me.

 

[Bonny Blue Flag]

I agree with Texaswildcat about Wild Wild West.

--BBF

 

[redbob]

Cowboys and Aliens wasn't really that bad of entertainment, but ; I just had a problem with Indiana Jones being the bad guy and James Bond being a cowboy...

 

[TinCan]

Probably ,"The Quick and the Dead" it was just a silly movie.

 

[Blessmag]

Back to the Future III... Not really a western, but takes place, in part, in the Old West. ("Nee-kay...some sort of fancy moccasins?")

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Of the 3 Back to the Future movies, I liked the western one better than the middle one that was future focused.

 

[Blessmag]

So tempted to say anything based in Texas but.....

In a way I do not care for the older style, "cowboy gets job, fights, meets bosses daughter, makes good something and then heads off with the daughter, forever happy." Seen one you seen'em all. YERK

 

[Mark F. Jenkins]

If I hated it, I didn't watch enough of it to ever learn its name.

 

[diane]

Thank you, Carson Reb. I can now vent. I HATE High Noon. I'm a huge Gary Cooper fan, but OMG. That movie is so stupid. All it has going for it is a good song. Stupid.

Thank you. I'm sure I'm going to be pounded for that.

Anything where they run cattle or can't ride or do stupid stuff like sit around and sing (oh....that would be pretty much every Gene Autry or Roy Rogers movie)......strangely enough, I love those Bob Hope classics, Paleface, Son of Paleface and Fancy Pants....and Blazing Saddles.

MY favorite part of Blazing Saddles is when Alex Karras socks the horse. My mom did that to her barrel horse at the Pecos Rodeo right after she and my dad were married....standing with a group of ropers. You can imagine the holy heck they gave my dad......

Anyway, thanks for the venting space!

Don't worry about hating High Noon! I can't stand It's a Wonderful Life. Come on, George, a life long guilt trip? Collar that selfish brother of yours and say, hey I got some things I want to do, too. Like get the heck out of Bedford Falls!

I can't remember the name of it now, dadburn it, but it was John Wayne as a singing cowboy. And, any of them who have Indians bouncing around a campfire whooping or the beautiful white girl playing the beautiful Indian princess. Donna Reed, for example.

 

[Carronade]

Even worse, Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin singing in Paint Your Wagon!

 

[diane]

Even worse, Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin singing in Paint Your Wagon!

Aiyiyi ... Clint Eastwood had a pleasant voice but not for a musical. And they had Harve Presnell singing "They Call the Wind Mariah" - that finished poor Clint!

Lee Marvin didn't even try. He just growled!

 

[carson_reb]

Thank you, Carson Reb. I can now vent. I HATE High Noon. I'm a huge Gary Cooper fan, but OMG. That movie is so stupid. All it has going for it is a good song. Stupid.

Thank you. I'm sure I'm going to be pounded for that.

Anything where they run cattle or can't ride or do stupid stuff like sit around and sing (oh....that would be pretty much every Gene Autry or Roy Rogers movie)......strangely enough, I love those Bob Hope classics, Paleface, Son of Paleface and Fancy Pants....and Blazing Saddles.

MY favorite part of Blazing Saddles is when Alex Karras socks the horse. My mom did that to her barrel horse at the Pecos Rodeo right after she and my dad were married....standing with a group of ropers. You can imagine the holy heck they gave my dad......

Anyway, thanks for the venting space!

You know, Nate, I agree with you about High Noon. When I first watched it, I did so with the bias of a Gary Cooper fan. I figured that because it's Coop, then it has to be good. (kind of like with a name like Smuckers) But, really, the movie is dull. The excitement didn't start until about the last five minutes. I actually tried to find something good about the movie to justify keeping it around. The aerial shot of Coop standing all alone in the middle of the street was nice cinematography...unless you spot the skyline of Culver City in the background with its many telephone poles. Really, the best things about High Noon are Grace Kelly and Coop. But that's all. And it isn't near enough to make the movie a stay-in-your-seat kind of western.

Omigosh, I forgot about the Paleface movies! Really very entertaining and slapstick fun. Of course, it helped to have Roy Rogers and Trigger in The Son of Paleface. ...And Jane Russell, too. Yes, Jane Russell.

Have you ever seen Paint Your Wagons with Clint Eastwood? It was one of his very first roles, and I believe his first western film. Very strange to see Eastwood (along with Lee Marvin) in a musical comedy like that one. Still, I thought he did well. Not what he is known for, that's for sure.

 

[carson_reb]

MY favorite part of Blazing Saddles is when Alex Karras socks the horse.

Yes, that was hilarious. ...Thankfully I never tried that with any of dad's horses. His were great, big quarterhorses. They probably would have trampled me if I had tried that.

 

[Nathanb1]

You know, Nate, I agree with you about High Noon. When I first watched it, I did so with the bias of a Gary Cooper fan. I figured that because it's Coop, then it has to be good. (kind of like with a name like Smuckers) But, really, the movie is dull. The excitement didn't start until about the last five minutes. I actually tried to find something good about the movie to justify keeping it around. The aerial shot of Coop standing all alone in the middle of the street was nice cinematography...unless you spot the skyline of Culver City in the background with its many telephone poles. Really, the best things about High Noon are Grace Kelly and Coop. But that's all. And it isn't near enough to make the movie a stay-in-your-seat kind of western.

Omigosh, I forgot about the Paleface movies! Really very entertaining and slapstick funn. Of course, it helped to have Roy Rogers and Trigger in The Son of Paleface. ...And Jane Russell, too. Yes, Jane Russell.

Have you ever seen Paint Your Wagons with Clint Eastwood? It was one of his very first roles, and I believe his first western film. Very strange to see Eastwood in a musical comedy like that one. Still, I thought he did well. Not what he is known for, that's for sure.

Paint Your Wagon came out when I was in high school. Our school choir actually performed the songs one year in concert. Until then, I hated the movie. Couldn't understand why people liked those songs. Oh. Wait. They're really great songs. Just crummy singers.

I prefer Oklahoma as a musical, and one of my dad's pet peeves was dancing cowboys.

 

[Nathanb1]

Yes, that was hilarious. ...Thankfully I never tried that with any of dad's horses. His were great, big quarterhorses. They probably would have trampled me if I had tried that.

My mom's mare was almost 16 hands high. She was huge (great barrel horse--famous, as a matter of fact). I can just imagine the look on my mom's face when she fell over!

 

[carson_reb]

Of the 3 Back to the Future movies, I liked the western one better than the middle one that was future focused.

Yeah, it was better than BF2, and was a good sci-fi comedy. But as a western? ...Not so much.

 

[carson_reb]

I prefer Oklahoma as a musical, and one of my dad's pet peeves was dancing cowboys.

Yes, great musical, Oklahoma!

Dancing cowboys... Oh, I don't know, I like the parts in westerns where cowboys are forced to dance through a shower of bullets.

 

[NFB22]

A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die

Basically its a Civil War-Era version of the The Dirty Dozen but is a horrible movie. The only thing it has going for it is it's ACW ties and the fact they actually used some actual names of military commanders associated with the Western theatre of operations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Reason_to_Live,_a_Reason_to_Die

 

[Bob Owen]

Chuck Conners as Geronimo in "Geronimo"!