Western Section

[daisho2004]

I'm just curious about the possibility of starting a Western Section on this board and how everyone would feel about it. Like Asian Movies Westerns cover a board range of styles and genres. from Classic to Spaghetti, to Modern movies. I for one would love to see it have its own place on this board.

[Bravery]

I don't know if there would be enough interest on this board, but i'd be for it, I love westerns.

[daisho2004]

Lets spread the word and see how it turns out. I think it will do pretty good.

[Alex]

i like westerns as much as the next guy, but having a separate western section on a board specifically dedicated to martial arts cinema seems a little out of step with the concept

[SamuraiDana]

I'm just curious about the possibility of starting a Western Section on this board and how everyone would feel about it. Like Asian Movies Westerns cover a board range of styles and genres. from Classic to Spaghetti, to Modern movies. I for one would love to see it have its own place on this board.

Well, pardner, first we have to get these young 'uns to watch some westerns!

No more Shaw Bros. until you've had your Warner Bros. Let's see, two Warner westerns to start: THE SEARCHERS and THE WILD BUNCH. You'll be getting a quiz next Monday! XD

[niro]

I hate westerns, especially the ones which make out cowboys are good and native americans are bad...it's like showing films which make out the nazis were fighting for justice and the allies were just thugs

[daisho2004]

Well true this site is really more of a Martial Arts board but we do have a lot of general interest topics as well so, I thought it wouldn't hurt to have a Western Section all by itself. I be Looking for Josey Wales, you a Bounty Hunter? Man's got to do something now a days to make a living, Dying ain't much of a living boy!

[Chinatown Kid]

Not a bad idea, there's even been martial art westerns like The Stranger and the Gunfighter, Fighting Fists of Shanghai Joe, and of course the tv series Kung Fu. I don't think a western section would be that out of place here. "You gonna pull those pistols or whistle Dixie?" ;)

[Cesare]

I hate westerns, especially the ones which make out cowboys are good and native americans are bad...it's like showing films which make out the nazis were fighting for justice and the allies were just thugs

It's not as simple as that, the Natives could be very fierce adversiaries and while, on a greater scale, they indeed were and are in the right (in my opinion, at least), they were no innocents either. The forefathers of white Americans are actually guilty of genocide (a pretty succesful one, unfortunately), but I wouldn't compare cowboys to Nazis. But yeah, I do understand your sentiments - and to some extent, I share them.
That said, I like westerns; or some of them, to be more accurate - I very much dislike John Wayne and what he stands for (no matter how good his films were - can't stand most of them).

As for western section - hmmm, no. I think the "general cult film" will suffice. I, as an avid horror fan, may just as well plead for a horror section - gore and gialli, hammer films, old Universal stuff, German expressionism, slashers, the current wave of Spanish horrors, Thai, Japanese...
Nah.
Let's focus on wuxia and MA...;-)

[SamuraiDana]

I hate westerns, especially the ones which make out cowboys are good and native americans are bad...it's like showing films which make out the nazis were fighting for justice and the allies were just thugs

Well, if the Nazis had won they would have made films like that, wouldn't they?

[SamuraiDana]

I hate westerns, especially the ones which make out cowboys are good and native americans are bad...it's like showing films which make out the nazis were fighting for justice and the allies were just thugs

Seriously, there've been plenty of westerns that have critiqued the treatment of native Americans or sought to give voice to Native Americans, including many that are often dismissed by politically correct critics. Check out FORT APACHE (1948), a cavalry western directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne and Henry Fonda, which tells a thinly-veiled fictionalization of Custer's Last Stand. The film is more than fair to the Native Americans and makes Col. Thursday (the Custer type played by Henry Fonda) look pretty bad, making it the first Hollywood western to criticize Custer's actions. Plenty more such films followed, including many that called Custer by name.

[Alex]

As for western section - hmmm, no. I think the "general cult film" will suffice. I, as an avid horror fan, may just as well plead for a horror section - gore and gialli, hammer films, old Universal stuff, German expressionism, slashers, the current wave of Spanish horrors, Thai, Japanese...
Nah.
Let's focus on wuxia and MA...;-)

this is exactly what i was alluding to, if you add a western section you might as well add a horror section, and a noir section, and a euro-crime section, etc.... Minor connections to all these genres can be found in the realm of Martial Arts movies.

[CrazyFrog]

Don't forget about the Rob Schneider section, a Faster and Furious-er section, and the imagination-deficient remake/reboot section. All essential. WHAT"S UP MR. POLLARD?!?

All kidding aside, I wouldn't mind a kaiju/giant robot/anime section. Hopefully it wouldn't be a section where venoms5 displays his encyclopedic knowledge of every non-mainstream film on the planet...wait a sec.... venoms5 could be a giant robot...that would explain quite a bit.

As for westerns, I don't need to get caught up in a whole other genre right now. It must stay in the "cult movies" dungeon.

[Alex]

the fast and the furious section is something i would support, but only if torque, you got served and never back down was allowed to be included by association

also, Segal section is imperative

[daisho2004]

Well at least add a permanent sticky to the general interest section for westerns at the top of the page so it won't be forgotten down the road.