re: Turner Classic

Agree, Turner took a political turn a few years ago and it's disappointing. I miss Osborne too.

In an interview in 2009, Osborne stated his favorite films included:

A Place in the Sun (1951)
All About Eve (1950)
The Third Man (1949)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
Rebecca (1940)
Red River (1948)
Stagecoach (1939)
The Razor's Edge (1946)
This is Spinal Tap (1984)

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The Searchers is the greatest western film ever made.

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There is really nothing racist about this movie. You have to have a biased imagination to project racism into this movie. The Comanche were brutal killers, torturers, kidnappers, and heathens.

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analysis of what a horribly racist film “The Searchers” was.

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He does know that Ethan is not a sympathetic character, right? It's why he doesn't get to go in the house with the rest of the family at the end. He's a bitter, hateful person.

Democrats destroy everything. Because they aren't good at building anything.

Instead of creating the "Gay Pedo Sex Scouts" with merit badges for the most stretchable anus, they destroy the Boy Scouts.

Like they've destroyed the Justice Department, FBI, IRS, SEC, Congress, the courts, and everything else they can get their pedo-loving, money-grubbing hands on.

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There’s a lot of backstory to the Ethan Edwards character. A lot in the script that wasn’t shot...for example, that his hatred for the Comanche stemmed not from some innate racism, but from the fact that they had massacred his mother (Grandma’s tombstone that Debbie hides behind early in the picture). There are also inferences that Debbie is not really his niece, but rather his daughter...hence the affection between he and his sister-in-law upon his return from the Civil War.

But I’ve never seen your interpretation of why he didn’t go into the house. I always just assumed it was because he had finally accomplished his obsessive mission of restoring Debbie to her family/friends and just wanted to ride off into the sunset.

It really was one of The Duke’s finest roles...AA nomination-worthy, at the very least.

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This x 1000. Ethan Edwards was a hero. This country could use more like him today.

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This would be why I own it on Blu-ray, as well as a number of other John Wayne films on BR/DVD.

People scoff at owning physical media, but relying solely on streaming leaves your access at the mercy of people that will inevitably censor that content (either scenes, dialogue or entire films).

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Yep, physical all the way.

Not to mention, it's just the superior way to watch a movie. A 4k stream is only comparable to a 1080p blu-ray. And a 1080p blu-ray still can process data at a higher rate than the best 4k streaming service (Apple) at over 40+mbps. 4K blu-ray can hit over 100mbps vs. Apple whose best 4k streams can top out at a little over 30mbps. Netflix 4k streaming is like 15mbps.

If you want to work in mass media or pop culture, you are going to be an out-spoken Leftist. PERIOD.

"There’s a lot of backstory to the Ethan Edwards character. A lot in the script that wasn’t shot...for example, that his hatred for the Comanche stemmed not from some innate racism, but from the fact that they had massacred his mother (Grandma’s tombstone that Debbie hides behind early in the picture). There are also inferences that Debbie is not really his niece, but rather his daughter...hence the affection between he and his sister-in-law upon his return from the Civil War.

But I’ve never seen your interpretation of why he didn’t go into the house. I always just assumed it was because he had finally accomplished his obsessive mission of restoring Debbie to her family/friends and just wanted to ride off into the sunset. "

Also he returned from the Civil War, no telling what horrors he saw and participated in. He most likely had PTSD. These damned liberal types are so 1 dimensional, they take History out of context and they are wrong for that.