Re: [DL] Movie recommendations

[Scott Foster <saf2c@comcast.net>]

Is it just me, or was Hang 'em High kind of a let-down compared to others,
like Pale Rider and Josey Wales?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Evil Robot Shane From Another Dimension" <wishkah@redbrick.dcu.ie>
To: <deadlands@gamerz.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 7:05 AM
Subject: [DL] Movie recommendations


> On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 07:48:58AM -0400, Brett Dixon said:
> > So anyway, what other movies do people recommend?
>
>  Clint Eastwood seems to have a sort-of-maybe supernatural thing going
with
>  a number of his later movies.  To see what presumably inspired the
Harrowed,
>  watch Hang 'Em High, Pale Rider and High Plains Drifter.
>
>  The Quick & the Dead is one of my favourite movies of all time - it's
about
>  as close in style to Deadlands as any movie could really be expected to
get
>  without adding in supernatural elements.  It's cheesy and over-the-top
and
>  supremely stylish and directed by Sam Raimi and contains Gene Hackman and
is
>  utterly utterly brilliant from beginning to end.
>
>  Oh yeah, and Once Upon a Time in the West is about the best western ever
>  made (insert lengthly debate here), also by Sergio Leone, and tells the
>  tale behind the origins of a railroad town.  It's fantastic, I can't even
>  begin to describe it.
>
>  Right, that's enough to be getting along with, I think.  :>)
>
>  Wishkah
>
> --
>        -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
>        | This is pointless and will only promote in-jokes and cliquism.|
>        -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
>
>
> To unsubscribe, send a message to esquire@gamerz.net with
> unsubscribe deadlands@gamerz.net
> as the BODY of the message.  The SUBJECT is ignored.
>
>