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Old September 25, 2010, 05:36 AM   #51
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Best movie rant has got to be Edmond O'Brien as Sykes from The Wild Bunch.

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Tector Gorch: Silver rings.
Dutch Engstrom: [upset] "Silver rings", your butt! Them's washers! Damn!
Lyle Gorch: Washers. Washers. We shot our way out of that town for a dollar's worth of steel holes!
Pike Bishop: They set it up.
Lyle Gorch: "They"? Who in the hell is "they?"
Sykes: [laughs hysterically] "They"? Why, they is the plain and fancy they, that's who "they" is! Caught you, didn't they? Tied a tin can to your tail. Led you in and waltzed you out again. Oh my, what a bunch! Big tough ones, hunh? Here you are with a handful of holes, a thumb up your ass, and a big grin to pass the time of day with. They? Who the hell is "they?"
No one's mentioned it yet, but a really good one is McCabe and Mrs. Miller. The music is dated, but Julie Christie is HOT, and Warren Beaty's acting is just right.

And finally, The Ballad of Cable Hogue, another Sam Peckenpah movie.
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Old September 25, 2010, 06:12 AM   #52
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I like the 3 westerns Robert Duvall made recently: "Lonesome Dove", "Open Range" and "Broken Trail".
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Old September 25, 2010, 07:41 AM   #53
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Gotta vote for Lonesome Dove. Have watched it multiple times and enjoy it just as much every time.. (feel the same about the book having read it several times)
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Old September 27, 2010, 03:45 AM   #54
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"The Frisco Kid" 1979.
Absolutely foolish!
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Old September 27, 2010, 03:50 AM   #55
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(PARAPHRASE ONLY) "You hear that sound? That's you choking on your own blood." Jack Nicholson speaking to Marlon Brando. Randy Quaid was in the movie too.

"The Missouri Breaks" (1976)
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Old September 27, 2010, 09:45 PM   #56
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Wow, the Wild Bunch only got mentioned twice? It was one the GREATEST western flics in the history of films, it also had the best two lines in all of moviedom, no, not Zhillsauditor's pick, but towards the final scene after a night of frolic and drink the WILD BUNCH are buttoning up and loadin and bucklin lookin around and Warren oates character lyle Gorch says "Let's go." and William Holden's character Pike Bishop says "Why not?" a rhetorical question not needing an answer...Anyway, two great lines.
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Old September 27, 2010, 10:09 PM   #57
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"Will Penny" and "Hombre". My favorite line in "Hombre" is when Newman asks Richard Boone, "How are you going to get back down that hill?".
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Old September 28, 2010, 05:00 AM   #58
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Warren oates character lyle Gorch says "Let's go." and William Holden's character Pike Bishop says "Why not?"
You have the speakers reversed--Bishop says "Let's go" and Gorch says "Why not?".

I think the most famous line, however, is from the beginning of the movie: "If they move, kill 'em". Sam Peckenpah's biography is titled that, as well as a song by Primal Scream.
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Old September 28, 2010, 05:49 AM   #59
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Zhillsauditor, right you are. I usually watch it every two or three years, but haven't seen my VHS copy for some time and the little woman hasn't picked up a DVD of it. What size lens do ya think Peckinpah used for the walk up the street?
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Old September 28, 2010, 05:50 AM   #60
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I am really kicking myself- all the movies I've seen&never once the 'wild bunch'. that drought is comin to an end
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Old September 28, 2010, 07:52 AM   #61
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The Outlaw Josey Wales and Tombstone are my favorites.
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Old September 28, 2010, 07:52 AM   #62
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Not sure what Peckenpah filmed in, but if you don't have HD and blu ray yet, The Wild Bunch is a great reason to purchase it. The desert scenes are so much better in all westerns on HD--the desert just comes to life. I was fortunate enough to see The Wild Bunch back in the late 90s on the big screen when it was re-released.
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I am really kicking myself- all the movies I've seen&never once the 'wild bunch'. that drought is comin to an end
You've never seen the Wild Bunch? -- he asked in his most annoying Eustice Haney voice. You're in for a treat.
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First time I saw it was in 69 or 70 @ Long Bien military base. Halfway thru the flic we got sirens indicating incoming, mortars or rockets, it was a big base. Finally the First Sergeant had to unplug the projector to get people out of the hooch and into bunkers. Great movie.
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Old November 13, 2010, 08:21 AM   #64
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True Grit

Sorry to bump up an old thread, but it seemed appropriate.

I was a bit nervous when I heard about the remake of True Grit, even though I do like Coen brothers' movies. The trailer looks like it might be okay though. Well, I can't turn down a western even if it looks bad.

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Old November 13, 2010, 08:41 AM   #65
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Here it is....

.....Every line that Richard Farnsworth spoke in "The Grey Fox", but especially, "If you come at me again, I'll put a window in your skull, so help me." Then, "I apologize for this disturbance, Gentlemen."
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Old November 14, 2010, 01:42 AM   #66
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Not sure about the realistic part but if you like old gun movies , The Professionals and The Wild Bunch are packed with turn of the century weaponry.
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Old November 14, 2010, 06:53 AM   #67
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Check out the Internet Movie Firearm Database:
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Old November 14, 2010, 07:05 AM   #68
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Yes, "The Wild Bunch" is one of the best, not only because of the story or filming, but it had several actors near the end of their careers, just like the characters in the film. Great actors from a previous era. None better. Holden, Ryan, Borgnine, O'Brien, Johnson, Oates.

They don't make actors like these anymore. Real men with real lives previous to film. Now they're just prissy wannabees. Sad.
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Old November 17, 2010, 01:43 PM   #69
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I've managed to accumulate a fair assortment over the years, including most of the titles mentioned so far.

When I've "just gotta" watch a western though, the ones I'm most likely to reach for these days are: "Barbarosa" ("You been s--t outta luck ever since you was born, ain't ya?"), "Unforgiven" ("You shoulda thought of that before you decided to decorate your saloon with my friend!"), "Open Range", or "The Outlaw Josey Wales".

On the increasingly infrequent occasion that I've got six+ hours free at one time, "Lonesome Dove".
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Old November 17, 2010, 03:51 PM   #70
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I like most all of the ones mentioned here. Another one that I like a lot is Pale Rider.
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Old November 17, 2010, 05:00 PM   #71
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HO! Maclin! Good Fight! No whiskey. We go home!
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Old November 17, 2010, 06:24 PM   #72
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Hondo and Unforgiven. The line when Eastwood is leaving town at the end the movie. Cant remember it all so someone help me
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Old November 17, 2010, 06:37 PM   #73
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Wasn't it something like...

".....and they all lived happily ever after.."?

No?

I coulda sworn....
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Old November 18, 2010, 05:26 PM   #74
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105695/quotes
Yes, that one was good.
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Old November 18, 2010, 05:44 PM   #75
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"Deserves got nothin' to do with it."

-right before little bill gets his head blown off-
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