The Merc with the Lounge

[Reek]

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*winner gets a grilled Reek*

 

[jokesonm3]

Before and after losing your good hair.

 

[dude stannis]

No idea who that could be.

I finished my revisit of the Dollars Trilogy last night. All of them are still amazing of course. But man, The Good, The Bad & The Ugly feels like it's been heavily edited down. I'd love to see Cinemax or Netflix tackle it with a 10 episode miniseries. Antony Starr, Stephen Lang and Demian Bichir as the three leads.

 

[Victarion]

Unforgiven is still my favorite western. TGTBTU was my first one, though.

 

[Reek]

the best western of all time

 

[KevanG]

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*winner gets a grilled Reek*

Stannis The Mannis?

 

[dude stannis]

Unforgiven is still my favorite western. TGTBTU was my first one, though.

Love Unforgiven so much. My favourite would probably be Once Upon a Time in the West.

 

[Reek]

Oh for the love of...

 

[Victarion]

I hope to add The Gunslinger to that lineup. The AICN summary didn't have any dialogue, but for the most part it sounded like a good mix of the western elements from The Gunslinger and the science-fantasy of the later novels. Only one bit in there I didn't like, it sounded like really heavyhanded exposition.

 

[dude stannis]

Yeah, I've been hankering for a weird western for so long now.

 

[Victarion]

I'm hankering for a good fantasy epic that can make bank at the box office.

 

[flickchick85]

No idea who that could be.

I finished my revisit of the Dollars Trilogy last night. All of them are still amazing of course. But man, The Good, The Bad & The Ugly feels like it's been heavily edited down.

Really? I always felt like TGTB&TU was great, but maybe a little longer than it needed to be. Huh.

Speaking of classics, I'm now officially more than 1/3 of the way through my great Hitchcock binge. My rankings of the ones I've done so far:

[FONT=&quot]1. Notorious (1947)
2. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
3. Strangers on a Train (1951)
4. Vertigo (1958)
5. North By Northwest (1959)
6. Psycho (1960)
7. Rear Window (1954)
8. Spellbound (1945)
9. Rope (1948)
10. The Birds (1963)
11. Dial M for Murder (1954)
12. Rebecca (1940)
13. Saboteur (1942)
14. Foreign Correspondent (1940)
15. Blackmail (1929)[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]16. I Confess (1953)
17. Under Capricorn (1948)[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]18. Easy Virtue (1928)[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]19. The Ring (1927)[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]20. The Farmer’s Wife (1928)[/FONT]

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[FONT=&quot]I've enjoyed all of them to varying degrees, except The Farmer's Wife. No idea what Hitch was thinking there.
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[dude stannis]

Really? I always felt like TGTB&TU was great, but maybe a little longer than it needed to be. Huh.

There's a lot of plot the movie absolutely blitzes through in the early stages. Feels like a lot of it is on the editing room floor.

Speaking of classics, I'm now officially more than 1/3 of the way through my great Hitchcock binge. My rankings of the ones I've done so far:

[FONT=&quot]1. Notorious (1947)
2. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
3. Strangers on a Train (1951)
4. Vertigo (1958)
5. North By Northwest (1959)
6. Psycho (1960)
7. Rear Window (1954)
8. Spellbound (1945)
9. Rope (1948)
10. The Birds (1963)
11. Dial M for Murder (1954)
12. Rebecca (1940)
13. Saboteur (1942)
14. Foreign Correspondent (1940)
15. Blackmail (1929)[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]16. I Confess (1953)
17. Under Capricorn (1948)[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]18. Easy Virtue (1928)[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]19. The Ring (1927)[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]20. The Farmer’s Wife (1928)[/FONT]

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[FONT=&quot]I've enjoyed all of them to varying degrees, except The Farmer's Wife. No idea what Hitch was thinking there.
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Enjoy the rest!

 

[flickchick85]

There's a lot of plot the movie absolutely blitzes through in the early stages. Feels like a lot of it is on the editing room floor.

Oh I get your meaning, you might be onto something there. Leone seemed way more interested in getting to the 3rd act, given the way he drags out every little moment in it, lol.

 

[dude stannis]

Oh I get your meaning, you might be onto something there. Leone seemed way more interested in getting to the 3rd act, given the way he drags out every little moment in it, lol.

Yeah he does that. A Fistfull of Dollars is like 90 minutes long, but feels like it's a two hour film lol. It's a shame your country caused Jane's Got a Gun to flop. Means I wont get to see it in theatres now.

 

[Victarion]

...its not two hours? News to me.

 

[flickchick85]

It's a shame your country caused Jane's Got a Gun to flop. Means I wont get to see it in theatres now.

Well by all accounts we dodged you a bullet there, lol.

 

[dude stannis]

[FONT=&quot]I've enjoyed all of them to varying degrees, except The Farmer's Wife. No idea what Hitch was thinking there.
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I've only ever seen Strangers on a Train, which is quite brilliant. I definitely need to see more.

 

[dude stannis]

Well by all accounts we dodged you a bullet there, lol.

So it's not your life story?

 

[Captain Bryan]

Hey guys. How is everyone doing tonight?

 

[jokesonm3]

Fan Made

 

[RLAAMJR.]

Listening to Justin Bieber's latest album.

 

[RLAAMJR.]

While playing DOTA 2.

 

[Captain Bryan]

I'm watching the Dolph Lundgren Punisher right now.

 

[flickchick85]

So it's not your life story?

Wouldn't know, didn't see it.

I've only ever seen Strangers on a Train, which is quite brilliant. I definitely need to see more.

Oh my word, yessir you do! He's given us so many of the best movies ever made, Strangers on a Train being one of them, imo. Everyone immediately thinks of his most iconic films of the late 50's-60's (Vertigo, Psycho, The Birds, North by Northwest), but I firmly believe his best period was the one right before that, the ones of the 40's/early 50's, which included Strangers on a Train, Shadow of a Doubt and my fave, Notorious. This binge has just reaffirmed that belief for me. Shadow of a Doubt was Hitchcock's personal favorite of his films. His heroines were much more interesting and compelling to me during that period as well, before his "icy blondes" phase.