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[Thruthefog]

You just say that because there was an Injun in it...


Admit it!

Okay. But not just any injun. He was the chief.

 

[olympicoscar]

Not sure about Hammer, but Unforgiven isn't really a Western.

I like it as a film (get the feeling Hammer didn't), but it's just not a classic Western.

Classic westerns don't cut it anymore. Same with classic everything. Times and people change.

 

[Dolemite censored]

Run Otis. RUN!!!

To the tune of Fly Robin Fly:

 

[HammerDown]

Not sure about Hammer, but Unforgiven isn't really a Western.

I like it as a film (get the feeling Hammer didn't), but it's just not a classic Western.

I like it but think it's overrated.

 

[GNG]

Classic westerns don't cut it anymore. Same with classic everything. Times and people change.

There still is Classic Rock.

 

[Hbomb]

There still is Classic Rock.

BOOM!!

 

[HammerDown]

Classic westerns don't cut it anymore. Same with classic everything. Times and people change.

Awww, dammit! I love classic Westerns but now Oscar doesn't approve of those either.

 

[Thruthefog]

You must have it confused with "The Shining".

Could be. That was Colorado, right?

 

[olympicoscar]

My favorite Western was "One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest".

Happened in Oregon, I think.

Western huh. Great film. Only the 2nd movie to get Best Pic, Best Actor, and Best Actress. Good old nurse Ratched. (sic, very likely). Nicholson in one of his many great films.

 

[BF4L]

Rooster Cogburn
True Grit John Wayne version.

 

[GNG]

I like it but think it's overrated.

It did win 4 Oscars.

 

[olympicoscar]

You just say that because there was an Injun in it...


Admit it!

Good memory. I forgot about the indian.

 

[olympicoscar]

What haven't you done?

Well I didn't fight in the war.

My grandparents all escaped from Russia in 1915 to avoid the war. So I specialized in that time period when I got my Masters Degree.

 

[cezero]

Well I didn't fight in the war.

My grandparents all escaped from Russia in 1915 to avoid the war. So I specialized in that time period when I got my Masters Degree.

Where did you go to school, and what was the focus of your dissertation?

 

[olympicoscar]

"The Guns Of August"...

Barbara Tuchman. I think that was the first WW1 book I ever read. Kennedy said during the Cuban Missile Crisis that he wished he could give a copy of it to all of his staff.

 

[olympicoscar]

There still is Classic Rock.

There's a genre called classic rock, but I don't know what it has in common with the 1960's.

However I do like it.

 

[olympicoscar]

Awww, dammit! I love classic Westerns but now Oscar doesn't approve of those either.

On the contrary. I love classic westerns. But hardly any of them are made anymore.

 

[olympicoscar]

Rooster Cogburn
True Grit John Wayne version.

Both great.

 

[olympicoscar]

Where did you go to school, and what was the focus of your dissertation?

University of Texas. No dissertation. That's for a Doctorate.

 

[cezero]

University of Texas. No dissertation. That's for a Doctorate.

Did you write a thesis? Did you have to defend it? What besides early 20th century Russian history was your specialty, or was that it?