The Searchers (one of the best John Wayne movies)
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It's the greatest western of all time.
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Nah, the Greatest Western of all time is Lonesome Dove. IMHO.
I've watched the Searchers a bunch of times, but always found it kind of depressing.
Big John Wayne Western fan though. I always thought The Cowboys was his best.
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I've been watching the really old John Wayne movies from the 1930s. Many have Gabby Hayes in them. I can't believe how terrible they are. The movie titles have no relation to the movie. The fist fights are horribly fake with fists missing the guy's chin by at least a foot, but the guy falls over anyway. Every movie has a scene of John Wayne (probably a double) jumping into water, and the exact same water scene occurs in more than one movie. 0 -
But! But! John Wayne dies in The Cowboys! 
Bruce Dern regrets the day he did this movie! It set his career back a good long ways.
I also REALLY find Lonesome Dove to be one of the best western miniseries ever made!
The old classics including The Searchers never grow old IMO!0 -
Brookwood the Japanese guy that played the main Bad Dude (Cpl./Sgt Watanabe) in Unbreakable, had reservations taking the part. Citing Bruce Dern from the Cowboys.
He seemed like a really nice, very intelligent guy.
Played a major league guy you would totally hate, in the movie.
That is a difficult movie to watch. (I've seen it 3 times now.) I cry every single time at the end when they show the real prisoner/Olympic athlete (Sorry, drawing a blank on his name just now.) from the ordeal, the last 5 minutes or so after the movie ends.
The only person who would not meet him years later, was Cpl./Sgt. Watanabe (The Bird.) That guy should have been hanged for War Crimes.
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JW said it was his best movie.For me the best western is probably "The Wild bunch" with "Lonesome Dove" a very close second and Tom Horn in there too.I am a huge Western fan and a big JW fan too.
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i agree john wayne's best movie. is depressing tho. 0
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