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"100 Essential Westerns"

How can a story that takes place in New York in 1750 be considered a "Western"?
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A deceptively easy list. Many of these movies are so crazy obscure they don't even have 5 votes on imdb. To watch some of these movies, I think, you have to visit the hut of a goat farmer in Senegal who owns the only existing copy on VHS.
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A list so terrible, not one person out of 80,000 people even has a bronze yet.
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Olivia de Havilland was miscast; the script clearly called for a homely woman.

IMDb calls her father "emotionally abusive," and despite one poorly thought-out outburst, that is untrue. He was wise and loving. Catherine was the least sympathetic character in this movie. If she would have been less superficial and more self-aware she could've ended up with a good life.
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indecipherable shakespeare filtered through welles' indecipherable fat guy burbling = OMG GENIUS.
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Obligatory 'guy pierce' joke at end of movie.
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A gorgeous, unique, and underrated movie.
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ghostly whisper: *if you watch it, you'll feel bored*
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del Toro had to first prove he was worthy enough for Hollywood by embracing the law of teal and orange.

http://theabyssgazes.blogspot.com/2010/03/teal-and-orange-hollywood-please-stop.html
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I haven't been this bored since The Color Purple.
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Why is this movie so hard to find? It's an English language movie with an American star, and yet I can't even get it on Netflix.
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No one has completed this list yet because two of the films were never released on video, and can only be viewed by appointment at the University of California, Los Angeles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Lynne_%281931_film%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Parade
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The lost Patriot (1928) film was removed, so I guess it's possible to earn a Platinum on this list now, even though no one has done it yet.
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I liked the part where punching.
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imdb lists The Racket (1928) and The Maltese Falcon (1931) as the first two film-noirs. The end of film-noir is more abrupt: Nothing after 1958 is counted as film-noir. (That's the year of Welles' Touch of Evil.)

So Murder by Contract, which was released in December 1958 is the last film which imdb counts as a film-noir.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051959/
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This is like a bad TV movie that comes on at 3 am on the USA network (does that even exist anymore?). If this was a half hour long Twilight Zone episode made in the 1960s it probably could be considered decent.

But it wasn't and it isn't.
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Cheater?! I totally saw this in the theater. I'm 103 years old.

Also I got to third base with Anita Page and voted for Hitler.

... no, wait. Other way around.
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Why does no one have 50 checks? Is this one of those stupid trick lists like 'Oscar nominees' that can't be completed because it contains films that don't actually exist.

http://www.icheckmovies.com/movie/the+patriot-1928/
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Movies from the 1910s have low ratings. These are the highest rated 50, yet everything from #15 (Birth of a Nation) on down has a sub-average score.

No wonder no one cares about this list.
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Audiences and critics *did* appreciate Chaplin, Hitchcock, and Star Wars, etc., at the time of their release. They did not receive the awards they deserved only because of a systematic academy bias against most genres of film that are not dramas (or musicals).
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Dear Aamir Khan,

You have boyish features, but are obviously not 20 years old. Denim and sneakers do not hide this fact. As you are now approaching 50, please consider playing something other than college students.

... Also please try being in movies that are 1.5-2 hours long, the more tolerable length for movies in general, and Bollywood movies, in particular.
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IMDb ratings are good at revealing the biases and blind spots of the academy over the years. For instance many films that are now rated as the best comedies of all time were made in the 1930s, but they weren’t even considered worthy of nomination at the time. Instead the Oscar kept going to melodramas that are now considered bad or mediocre.


1930-31.
Winner: Cimarron 6.1 imdb (lowest rated best picture winner)
Robbed: City Lights 8.6 (not nominated; now the highest rated comedy on imdb, #46 top 250)

1932-33.
Winner: Cavalcade 6.4 (second lowest rated winner)
Robbed: Duck Soup 8.1 (not nominated)

1936.
Winner: The Great Ziegfeld 6.9 (seventh lowest rated winner)
Robbed: Modern Times 8.5 (not nominated; fifth best comedy, # 61 top 250)
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The bias in favor of drama continues into the 1940s and 1950s where some of the highest rated thrillers and film-noirs of all time are consistently overlooked. Alfred Hitchcock wins in 1940 and then is robbed of the Oscar (or even the courtesy of a nomination!) a dozen times over the next 20 years.


1944.
Winner: Going My Way 7.4
Robbed: Double Indemnity 8.6 (not nominated, #54 top 250)

1951.
Winner: An American In Paris 7.2 (tenth lowest rated winner)
Robbed: Strangers on a Train 8.3 (not nominated, #139 top 250)

1956.
Winner: Around the World In 80 Days 6.8 (fifth lowest rated winner)
Robbed: The Killing 8.2 (not nominated, #197 top 250)

1958.
Winner: Gigi 6.9 (sixth lowest rated winner)
Robbed: Vertigo 8.5 (not nominated, #47 top 250)

Not even a nomination for Rope (1948; #234 top 250), Rear Window (1954; #22 top 250), North By Northwest (1959; #37 top 250) or Psycho (1960; #26 top 250).
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The bias in favor of drama continues into 1980s where a number of dull, forgettable films win 'Best Picture' against the best adventure movies ever made:

1980.
Winner: Ordinary People 7.8
Robbed: Empire Strikes Back 8.8 (not nominated, #11 top 250)

1981.
Winner: Chariots of Fire 7.2 (10th lowest rated winner)
Robbed: Raiders of the Lost Ark 8.7 (#23 top 250)_

1983.
Winner: Terms of Endearment 7.3
Robbed: Return of the Jedi 8.3 (not nominated, #97 top 250)

1985.
Winner: Out of Africa 7.0 (ninth lowest rated winner)
Robbed: Back to the Future 8.4 (not nominated, #66 top 250)

1989.
Winner: Driving Miss Daisy 7.4
Robbed: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 8.3 (not nominated, #100 top 250)

In each case -- comedy in the 30s, suspense in the 40s and 50s, and adventure in the 80s -- the academy has failed to acknowledge or appreciate the unique genius of the era because it has been narrowly biased towards one film genre (drama) for almost 9 decades, to the point where poorly made dramas are consistently chosen over amazing films of other genres (animation, horror, and action need not even apply).
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The 1980s was full of dull, forgettable melodramas winning 'Best Picture' against iconic adventure movies that everybody loves and remembers:

1980.
Winner: Ordinary People (1980) 7.8 imdb
Robbed: Empire Strikes Back 8.8 (not nominated)

1981.
Winner: Chariots of Fire (1981) 7.2
Robbed: Raiders of the Lost Ark 8.7

1983.
Winner: Terms of Endearment (1983) 7.3
Robbed: Return of the Jedi 8.3 (not nominated)

1985.
Winner: Out of Africa (1985) 7.0
Robbed: Back to the Future 8.4 (not nominated)

1989.
Winner: Driving Miss Daisy (1989) 7.4
Robbed: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 8.3 (not nominated)
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