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What are you watching now?...2024
240B:
Star Trek Discovery on Paramount
It is a good compelling story line
Fishrrman:
Last weekend, watched "Esther" (1999), about the Biblical story.
That one was (I think) a made-for-tv movie and was ok, but nothing great.
A week earlier I watched "Paul, Apostle of Christ" the 2018 film, compelling, very well done.
DCPatriot:
--- Quote from: goatprairie on May 09, 2024, 03:19:15 pm ---Well, obviously there are numerous holes with many Westerns. I used to yell at the tv or movie screen when during a gun battle, the good guys would leave the bad guy's, who'd just been shot, guns around instead of picking them up and having extra firearms/ammo to fight the rest of the bad guys.
Virtually the end of every Lone Ranger episode had the Lone Ranger punching out the bad guy while many times he had both of his six guns in their holsters.
Of course, the Lone Ranger never shot and killed anybody in any of the hundreds of Lone Ranger episodes. He just shot the guns out of their hands. Which was, of course, a ridiculous common plot element of thousands of westerns.
As was the quick draw, fast gun, shoot from the hip character. The stereotype fast gun duel of countless westerns was mostly of figment of western screenwriters imaginations. One of the few instances where it might have been true was the Wild Bill Hickok-Dave Tutt gun battle in 1865 in Springfield, Missouri.
I've read several accounts of that shootout one which claimed it was a real fast draw duel and a different one where they both had their guns out looking for the other guy. At any rate, the fast draw duel was a staple of innumerable tv and movie westerns.
Nevertheless, I still love the old tv and movie westerns. Just watched "Winchester 73" with Jimmy Stewart and Steven McNally for the umpteenth time yesterday.
BTW, "Winchester 73" had a scene where after an Indian battle, Jimmy Stewart told cavalry captain J.C. Flippen to collect the repeating rifles of the attacking Indians who had been shot and killed and lying on the battlefield. That's the only time I've ever seen that happen in any Western I've ever watched.
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@goatprairie
??? Should have pinged me. Don't know how I missed this. Good stuff!! :beer:
Came here to comment about EQUALIZER 3...Robert McCall (Denzel) in Altamonte, Sicily.
Have seen it twice and am watching it for the 3rd time right now.
By 30 minutes in...you cancel all your immediate plans.
By 56 minutes in...you are getting pissed off that the movie will end in less than an hour from now.
By 66 minutes in...you get upset that somebody is calling you on your cellphone.
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corbe:
Great Series, Worth a rewatch, on HBO.
Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey in 2012.
DCPatriot:
Just watched THE JUDGE, with Robert Downey, Jr., and Robert Duvall
Amazingly stunning performances...both of them!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBvK6ni97W8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TA5Y86yAo4
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