Some mighty fine films here! The impatience of (younger?) folk seems to me to be reflected in the migration from baseball fans to football fans. Baseball is a game of anticipation, thought, strategy, with moments of often glorious athleticism. Football, while it also contains some great athleticism, is bone-crunching action moment to moment (aside from the TV timeouts). I savor a well-crafted, acted, photographed film with a big payoff down the line, but then again, I'm old....
I can only agree with about 3 of your selections, I recommend you watch "Meeks cutoff" 2010, "Heartland" 1979 and the Ox-bow incident (basically a filmed Stage play) all good movies , but slow and draggy, and even There will be Blood and the Searchers had their yawn and look at your watch moments
Two of the better Slow Moving movies are actually of the B Variety that I bet few have seen. 1: Ghost Town ( Roger Smith and Kent Taylor). Why? It is along the lines of 10 Little Indians by Agatha Christie. Why? People getting picked off one by one by the Indians, but who lives who dies, and what man and woman end up together is very unexpected. 2: Apache Territory ( Rory Calhoun and John Dehner). Denher plays a western version of a character he played on 4 Star Theatre with David Niven. Here as there he played a weak man who loses his fiancé to her former beau.
Monte Hellman's 'The Shooting' (1966) is probably the slowest western I've seen. Nothing much happens, we are given no information, have no idea what is going on, yet strangely fascinating. Even the ending leaves you perplexed. The slowest modern western has to be 'The Thicket' (2024) Too much filler & not enough substance.
A slow moving movie can be just as entertaining if done well building to the climatic confrontation!!
Some mighty fine films here!
The impatience of (younger?) folk seems to me to be reflected in the migration from baseball fans to football fans. Baseball is a game of anticipation, thought, strategy, with moments of often glorious athleticism. Football, while it also contains some great athleticism, is bone-crunching action moment to moment (aside from the TV timeouts).
I savor a well-crafted, acted, photographed film with a big payoff down the line, but then again, I'm old....
I can only agree with about 3 of your selections, I recommend you watch "Meeks cutoff" 2010, "Heartland" 1979 and the Ox-bow incident (basically a filmed Stage play) all good movies , but slow and draggy, and even There will be Blood and the Searchers had their yawn and look at your watch moments
Lee Marvin and Jack Palance together? Stunning movie!
Two of the better Slow Moving movies are actually of the B Variety that I bet few have seen. 1: Ghost Town ( Roger Smith and Kent Taylor). Why? It is along the lines of 10 Little Indians by Agatha Christie. Why? People getting picked off one by one by the Indians, but who lives who dies, and what man and woman end up together is very unexpected. 2: Apache Territory ( Rory Calhoun and John Dehner). Denher plays a western version of a character he played on 4 Star Theatre with David Niven. Here as there he played a weak man who loses his fiancé to her former beau.
Monte Hellman's 'The Shooting' (1966) is probably the slowest western I've seen. Nothing much happens, we are given no information, have no idea what is going on, yet strangely fascinating. Even the ending leaves you perplexed.
The slowest modern western has to be 'The Thicket' (2024) Too much filler & not enough substance.
The Claim is so slow moving I won't watch it.