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Movies from comedy to drama to your favorite Hollyweird Star.

Two extremes: The Wild Bunch & Silverado! One gritty and realistic, the other romanticized; both are excellent.

What I'm less enamored of are the one-note, ham-fisted John Wayne westerns. Yeah, Richard Boone is pretty good in just about any western (always liked his Have Gun-Will Travel series), but his acting was good in other types of films as well (unlike John Wayne).

Many of the best westerns have been the gritty, loner-against-the-odds tales Clint Eastwood filmed over the past four decades. These bridge the gap between epic grandeur of the Old West and personal storytelling (Pale Rider, High Plains Drifter, The Unforgiven, etc.); Eastwood's westerns are very stylized and believably realistic, IMO.

However, when all is said and done, there are few western movies which actually represent the Old West the way it really was for anyone who has done the historical research.

AuPh


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