In Reply to: Gone west! posted by Bambi B on May 14, 2004 at 11:35:41:
Hi Bam,Thank you for good comments on movies - some of them I have seen. My biggest problem with Westerns as the genre is with the mandatory idea of a super hero - the mere presence of one kills the suspence, even in the better ones. Add to this the kind of shooting people do in them and you have a perfect receipt for an early pre-Bond boring cliche. While every little boy in all of us cries for that super hero, it makes the whole experience artificial, even the better ones, even the "anti-hero" ones, even the Gary Cooper's High Noon.
I recently read a detective story where things were going well, and I read with interest... until the hero suddenly killed five opponents with just a few strokes of his skillful hands. There it lost it for me.
On watches... are you sure that Lange was 48mm? I never heard of one, the largest I know they make is 42mm. I know it is big for some people, but still that is not a huge watch. Expensive, without any doubt.
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- Re: Gone west! - Victor Khomenko 20:35:54 05/14/04 (1)
- Re: Gone west! - Bambi B 18:09:27 05/15/04 (0)