Tommy Tainant
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Im not a fan of spag westerns either. Josey Wales is the best of Eastwoods work. I do like John Waynes films. I find him a reassuring presence.Personal preference. I like the 40s & 50s movies, the 60s, 70s & 80s had some good ones but for me they were few and far between, the 90s onwards is a mixed bag.Thats probably a thread in itself. When was the best time for movies ? Probably depends on what sort of films you like.I would revise his statement to; most movies between the 1960s and 1990s sucked ass. To put that into perspective there's around 600 movies released per year in the US alone.I would say the opposite. But that might be an age thing. I dont think that they make films for me any more. These wretched marvel movies are the modern day westerns and before them the star wars type films were the modern westerns. And the star wars genre provides the reference points for todays directors. Its just explosions with a John Williams soundtrack.Pretty much every spaghetti western ever made........
He probably means the M7 remake, most people watch a remake expecting to see the exact same movie with different actors. Many times the film they love is itself a remake of an earlier film.
Let's be honest. A lot of people are blinded by nostalgia. Most movies before the 1990s or so sucked ass.
Not a major Eastwood fan, basically hated all his spaghetti westerns, Wayne for me is a mixed bag, some really good, some not so good.
Shane was playing on tv this week and its a film that I cant see getting made today. Certainly better than anything made in the last 50 years.