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re: I now understand why old men like Westerns & Cowboy shows
Posted on 11/9/22 at 8:24 pm to Obtuse1
Posted on 11/9/22 at 8:24 pm to Obtuse1
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In the real Western frontier, there was just as much gray as in modern times. The puzzle wasn't simple it just had different pieces. You are correct that the period movies from the bygone eras often portrayed good and evil as digital but it has always been analog just like today.
It was also a continuation of the Civil war. The James-Younger gang were ex-Confederate guerillas who weren't offered the same amnesty regular soldiers were. The Earp's were from Illinois (albeit their ally Doc Holliday was from Georgia) vs the Texan Red Sash gang.
Then there was class warfare with big ranchers vs small landowners, and of course the ethnic cleansing of natives.
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Posted on 11/9/22 at 8:28 pm to Hangit
Cool just found Grit TV on DirecTv its channel 81. Looks like they added it this last September.
Posted on 11/9/22 at 8:29 pm to mytigger
The 3:10 to Yuma remake was a very entertaining movie as was the movie Hostiles. I wonder how realistic those movies were.
Posted on 11/9/22 at 8:30 pm to Obtuse1
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In the real Western frontier, there was just as much gray as in modern times. The puzzle wasn't simple it just had different pieces. You are correct that the period movies from the bygone eras often portrayed good and evil as digital but it has always been analog just like today.
Yes this is true. However, it’s useful to isolate one or two moral issues to dramatize without having the distractions of the gray nuances of regular life.
That’s why the formula works with other “non-traditional” westerns such as Star Wars.
Posted on 11/9/22 at 8:34 pm to mytigger
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basic necessities of life
You had an opportunity here, and you failed.
Posted on 11/9/22 at 8:35 pm to mytigger
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I now understand why old men like Westerns & Cowboy shows
Because It portrays men as men. Except for Broke Back Mountain!
Posted on 11/9/22 at 8:36 pm to Oates Mustache
The rifleman was a bad mother fricker.
Posted on 11/9/22 at 8:42 pm to Hangit
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How many folks here get Grit tv
Many people don't realize they get some free live TV channels with most smart TVs and on Rokus.
Grit TV is one of the free channels. I love putting it on at night to sleep or work day when wfh.
This post was edited on 11/9/22 at 8:43 pm
Posted on 11/9/22 at 8:51 pm to mikelbr
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Many people don't realize they get some free live TV channels with most smart TVs and on Rokus.
My Grit is just broadcast from Tampa.
Posted on 11/9/22 at 8:53 pm to OK Roughneck
quote:That was a damn fine movie.
cowboys and aliens
Posted on 11/9/22 at 9:15 pm to mikelbr
MeTV on Saturdays have great old western shows...Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Rawhide, Wanted Dead or Alive, Rifleman.
Posted on 11/9/22 at 9:18 pm to OK Roughneck
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Bruce Dern
He was great in "Support Your Local Sheriff."
Posted on 11/9/22 at 9:24 pm to TidenUP
Posted on 11/9/22 at 9:33 pm to OK Roughneck
I discovered the Gunsmoke channel on Pluto TV. It’s been playing on my ipad for 3 or 4 weeks now. Non-stop.
Posted on 11/9/22 at 9:36 pm to 9rocket
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I discovered the Gunsmoke channel on Pluto TV. It’s been playing on my ipad for 3 or 4 weeks now. Non-stop.
Great show too bad they dont make them like that anymore.
Posted on 11/9/22 at 9:50 pm to mytigger
Classic Biblical story of good vs. evil. Pro wrestling was the same before the mid 90’s (babyfaces/good guy vs. heels/bad guy).
Posted on 11/9/22 at 9:54 pm to Rambler
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He was great in "Support Your Local Sheriff."
"Pa has a heart as big as all outdoors, but he ain't got a single brain in his whole head".
Posted on 11/9/22 at 10:02 pm to Jim Rockford
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It was also a continuation of the Civil war.
Yes. A lot of bad blood between north and south lingered in the west.
Posted on 11/9/22 at 10:04 pm to OK Roughneck
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Bruce Dern
frick him. He killed John Wayne.
Posted on 11/10/22 at 1:47 am to mytigger
Because they are closet gays who have a thing for rugged alpha cowboy types?
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