What's the Worst RPG or Setting That's Actually Popular?

Steven Mitchell · June 22, 2017, 02:37:06 PM

Quote from: Dumarest;970683Haven't seen that one, but if it's a Western then it counts. Why not?

I'm having a difficult time deciding on a list, because I can't decide if "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" is a western or not. It's set in a western, but I'm not sure it is a western.

Rio Bravo is definitely on the list. Out of the spaghetti versions, I liked Hang'em High, but boy is that one uneven (even if it is based on the same original story as the Oklahoma State mascot, which is just weird). Ask me tomorrow, and I might pick A Fistful of Dollars (for the bit with the mule, if nothing else). After that, I'm not so sure, in part because there are still a lot of classics I haven't seen. I'm the only one in my house that enjoys westerns, so I pick my time to watch.

Dumarest · June 22, 2017, 04:11:31 PM

I'm partial to "Destry Rides Again." Still trying to decide on a list of five.

3rik · June 22, 2017, 08:15:26 PM

Quote from: ArrozConLeche;970679I'm also wondering if so-called neo-westerns like No Country For Old Men should count.

I think No Country For Old Men is a neo-noir...? Anyway, it didn't feel particularly westerny to me.

I haven't seen The Great Silence. I'll have to see if I can check that out sometime.

Voros · June 22, 2017, 08:56:17 PM

No Country is set in the modern American West but is more a noirish crime thriller.

Gorilla_Zod · June 22, 2017, 09:09:08 PM

My five favourite Westerns are:

1 Dead Man (if you'll give me it)
2 The Searchers
3 The Wild Bunch
4 Two Mules For Sister Sara
5 Bone Tomahawk

UK here, but I've loved Westerns/Cowboy Movies since I was a wee lad.

kosmos1214 · June 22, 2017, 09:24:47 PM

Quote from: ArrozConLeche;970691Well, that's the thing. I don't know if a Neo-Western emerged as a tag because it's not a "proper" western set in the wild west period (it's set in the modern era). But it has what you could call cowboys, and some of the trappings.

Funny sounds like a bull shit split to me A large number of the older westerns out of the 20s/30/40s where set at the time they where made.

Voros · June 22, 2017, 09:31:05 PM

Quote from: Gorilla_Zod;9708195 Bone Tomahawk

Every horror fan should check out this terrific horror/western.

ArrozConLeche · June 22, 2017, 09:56:33 PM

Quote from: Voros;970817No Country is set in the modern American West but is more a noirish crime thriller.

I would tend to agree. It seems there's some consensus on it being a "neo-western" as well as a neo-noir: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Country_for_Old_Men_(film)

I can sort of see it, not only because of the landscape, but the Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Brolin's characters.

ArrozConLeche · June 22, 2017, 10:02:12 PM

Quote from: 3rik;970807I haven't seen The Great Silence. I'll have to see if I can check that out sometime.

Here's a link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rolp5hcxMA

ArrozConLeche · June 22, 2017, 10:07:38 PM

Quote from: Voros;970823Every horror fan should check out this terrific horror/western.

When I watched it, I was more under the impression that it would be a violent revisionist western...boy was I shocked when things got nasty. Best way to experience that movie, I think, if you can manage it.

Same thing happened to me with Alien, when I was a kid. I was expecting a straightforward sci-fi until John Hurt (R.I.P) got indigestion. I'm sooo glad I lucked out and didn't know it was a horror movie, lol.

Dumarest · June 23, 2017, 12:04:32 PM

Quote from: Voros;970817No Country is set in the modern American West but is more a noirish crime thriller.

Sounds more like Red Rock West then. Probably not really a Western. But again, the only parameters were to name your Top 5 Westerns, with no definition of what a Western is, so I suppose you those Westerns if you like.

Baulderstone · June 23, 2017, 12:38:53 PM

Quote from: Dumarest;970928Sounds more like Red Rock West then. Probably not really a Western. But again, the only parameters were to name your Top 5 Westerns, with no definition of what a Western is, so I suppose you those Westerns if you like.

I thought we had already established that Westerns were movies taking place from October 26, 1881 until October 26, 1881.

Dumarest · June 23, 2017, 02:35:38 PM

Quote from: Baulderstone;970939I thought we had already established that Westerns were movies taking place from October 26, 1881 until October 26, 1881.

Ha. RPGPundit will come along soon enough to tell us what is a true Western. Which we will then ignore since he wrote that Tombstone is the best Western of all time, which is clearly as crazy as thinking you are practicing "real magick."

GameDaddy · June 24, 2017, 09:42:41 AM

Found the problem with the bbs code not accepting non-english characters. Turns out the double quotation mark " is not being recognized when lifted off of some other web pages, because the other web pages are not using a UTF-8 character set, so the vBulletin software that runs this bbs is automatically flagging and prohibiting those characters from being used or displayed. This lame little bug has eaten two or three of my major posts here over the last month or two.

If you get the error code (in red) that your post can't be published because you are using non-english characters, try eliminating every double quotation mark in your post, then try reposting.

RPGPundit · June 26, 2017, 05:39:56 PM

As this thread has veered completely from its original subject, and into something that isn't really RPG discussion (more like Media & Inspiration), I'm closing it.

There were lots of great westerns, but Tombstone was the absolute best because of its balance of historical detail and storytelling embellishment.