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

Started by RPGPundit, May 16, 2017, 05:54:21 PM

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ArrozConLeche

#300
June 21, 2017, 05:08:44 PM Last Edit: June 22, 2017, 06:54:17 AM by ArrozConLeche
Quote from: Dumarest;970395So...name your Top 5 Western movies?

(I need to think a bit before I post mine...I actually haven't seen that many as I prefer books and have seen more Western TV shows than movies.)

I'll try not to let Leone & Eastwood monopolize my list, but it's hard. I generally don't like much of anything from the classic western era of Ford & John Wayne.

1. The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
2. Lonesome Dove
3. Keoma
4. Unforgiven
5. My Name Is Nobody

Five slots is too little. I want to put The Magnificent Seven in there, but I'd have to bump one of the others.

Opaopajr

#301
June 21, 2017, 05:51:24 PM
Quote from: tenbones;970176WTF happened to this thread?

Did anyone say Exalted yet?

I think that one has been more of a foregone concensus for several pages now.
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Opaopajr

#302
June 21, 2017, 05:54:28 PM
I really liked the Apple Dumpling Gang. :)
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Dumarest

#303
June 21, 2017, 06:48:55 PM
Quote from: ArrozConLeche;970460Five slots is too little. I want to put The Magnificent Seven in there, but I'd have to bump one of the others.

It's the limitation that makes you have to stop and think which ones you really want to include, otherwise we'd just get long lists of movies.

3rik

#304
June 21, 2017, 08:01:18 PM Last Edit: June 21, 2017, 08:03:29 PM by 3rik
Quote from: Dumarest;970195
Quote from: tenbones;970176WTF happened to this thread?

Did anyone say Exalted yet?

We decided cowboy movies are more interesting! :D

Awesome!

Jeremiah Johnson
Little Big Man
Outlaw Josey Wales
Dollars Trilogy
Once Upon A Time in the West

I'm sure I'm forgetting to consider some that I really like...
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Voros

#305
June 21, 2017, 09:38:37 PM
We obviously should start a Western RPG and film thread.

My top 5, off the top of my head in no particular order:

1. Wild Bunch
2. My Darling Clementine
3. California
4. The Hired Hand
5. Once Upon a Time in the West

3rik

#306
June 22, 2017, 06:58:13 AM
I wanted to like Wild Bunch more than I ended up doing.
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Black Vulmea

#307
June 22, 2017, 07:35:06 AM
Glad to see this stupid thread put to good use.

Stagecoach
The Ox-Bow Incident
Rio Bravo
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Unforgiven

This is more properly my five favorite Westerns rather than 'five greatest' because I would have to swap out The Ox-Bow Incident for The Searchers and The Outlaw Josey Wales for Fort Apache if it was the latter.
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TrippyHippy

#308
June 22, 2017, 08:04:18 AM
Hmm....favourite western movies:

1) Once Upon a Time in the West
2) High Noon
3) A Fistful of Dollars (just marginally ahead of The Good, The Bad and the Ugly these days if I had to choose)
4) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
5) Blazing Saddles (ahem)

Tried to watch The Wild Bunch a couple of days ago again, but I always struggle to get through it to the end.
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3rik

#309
June 22, 2017, 08:37:14 AM
Quote from: TrippyHippy;970637Tried to watch The Wild Bunch a couple of days ago again, but I always struggle to get through it to the end.

There's definitely good things in it, but somehow overall it just didn't rub me and my wife the right way. YMMV but for example we thought the idyllic Mexican village scenes seemed so silly they broke suspension of disbelief. The train heist scene on the other hand was pretty cool.
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tenbones

#310
June 22, 2017, 11:15:44 AM
Now you guys are having me second-guess my list. I didn't put Magnificent Seven on there because it's technically a re-skin (but GLORIOUS). And Lonesome Dove was technically TV - but it makes my living room get *REALLY* dusty... so I try to put that one out of my mind.

And Unforgiven... how in the farkity-fark-fark did I forget that?

ArrozConLeche

#311
June 22, 2017, 11:40:32 AM
Lonesome Dove really made me appreciate Tommy Lee Jones' acting in this kind of role. The scene when he gives his watch to his unacknowledged son almost made me cry man-tears.

If I were to take it out of the list, I think I'd stick either The Great Silence or The Wild Bunch. I really like The Great Silence, especially since it's one of the few where the location is not a hot, semi-arid landscape, but one of heavy snow. Plus everything else rivals Leone for me in terms of directing. However, I've come to hate the ending as a sort of betrayal to the western as a genre. I respect the director, though, for having the balls to go there.

I'm also wondering if so-called neo-westerns like No Country For Old Men should count.

Dumarest

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June 22, 2017, 11:41:49 AM Last Edit: June 22, 2017, 11:44:04 AM by Dumarest
Quote from: Black Vulmea;970631Glad to see this stupid thread put to good use.

Stagecoach
The Ox-Bow Incident
Rio Bravo
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Unforgiven

This is more properly my five favorite Westerns rather than 'five greatest' because I would have to swap out The Ox-Bow Incident for The Searchers and The Outlaw Josey Wales for Fort Apache if it was the latter.

I'm more interested in favorites; that's why I asked for your Top 5 Western movies, not critical consensus best cowboy movies of all time.

Dumarest

#313
June 22, 2017, 11:43:50 AM
Quote from: ArrozConLeche;970679I'm also wondering if so-called neo-westerns like No Country For Old Men should count.

Haven't seen that one, but if it's a Western then it counts. Why not?

ArrozConLeche

#314
June 22, 2017, 12:04:17 PM
Quote from: Dumarest;970683Haven't seen that one, but if it's a Western then it counts. Why not?

Well, 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.
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