Yes! I gave this video a standing ovation - in my apartment, alone, which was weird, but called for.

Brad Pitt getting smashed to smithereens by multiple vehicles in Meet Joe Black is one of the funniest moments in movie history

“My videos don’t drop. They just go off-like a bomb!” 😂 I’m going to start keeping a list of these classic Stevisms!

@LauraRodriguez-Peace

12 күн бұрын

Ha! It’s a pretty loooong list, Pat! 😆

In defense of Sergio Leone’s films: the soundtrack! Morricone’s The Ecstasy of Gold puts the viewers in a trance and makes them forget they’ve been bored for three hours.

@Tolstoy111

9 күн бұрын

The Good the Bad and the Ugly is boring???

“Grammaticant” classic Steve Donoghue! Great list Steve. I had a blast!

@saintdonoghue

11 күн бұрын

We'll pick another category and go at each other again!

“The Good the Bad and the Ugly” is one of the most entertaining films ever made. The phrase “Man with No Name” came from United Artists marketing people a few years after the films were made.

I had a film professor in college who loved John Ford, too.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is my number 1 pick. Wonderful script with endlessly quotable lines, and great acting from every member of the cast.

Grammaticus with the dudebro list, Steve with the Dukebro list!

I was hoping the next movie videos would be Westerns! Leaving John Ford out of a top ten list is mind boggling. And I'm with you Steve in not understanding the man with no name trilogy or why "I'm your huckleberry" gets quoted endlessly. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is the one I would add personally.

It's a Wonderful Life. James Stewart. Leading man.

@saintdonoghue

9 күн бұрын

This is spamming. Assholes spam.

Sergio Leone movies are great! What are you on about?

Great list, Doc Donoghue! The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is all kinds of excellent, of course, but The Searchers will forever be my no. 1. When he lifts up Debbie at the end to that single violin note... incredible! Tears in my eyes just thinking about it.

I agree that Kasdan’s Wyatt Earp is better than Tombstone. Stagecoach is a favorite of mine, too. I love Fort Apache and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon! Steve, how on Earth do we like so many of the same Westerns? Rio Grande, as well! Not a big fan of The Searchers, though. I’ve never seen The Alamo or the original True Grit. God, I haven’t even thought of The Sons of Katie Elder or The Shootist since college. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is a masterpiece. My favorite Westerns are McCabe & Mrs. Miller, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Stagecoach, Dead Man, Unforgiven, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Red River, some Western-adjacent films like Hud and Giant. And frontier epics like Mann’s Last of the Mohicans and Ford’s Drums Along the Mohawk.

Grammaticus books must be a good sport 😜. Loved this video, Steve.

My favorite line in Fort Apache is when Henry Fonda, in his perfect uniform and cap with the neckshield attached and the riding crop says the John Wayne "I'm not a martinet...but"

My favorite western was Dances with Wolves, I'll put that in the ring and step away quietly from this John Wayne hagiography.

It's hard to argue with your list. My favorite western isn't here and I'm not sure where I would place it, but still... That is "The Professionals" with Lee Marvin, etc. Every cliche you've ever heard with a marvelous cast, a good plot, and amazing pacing. It may not be in the top ten, but it's the one I re-watch most often.

John Wayne for the win! Thanks, Steve! Perfection! 😊

Jimmy Stewart was a phenomenal leading man, my friend!

It's humorous that you're aware of bad and, to you, good movies, seeing it all. Funny.

Everyone knows that the greatest Western movie is in fact the novel Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy.

@LiterateTexan

12 күн бұрын

😂😂😂

Winchester 73!? Steve seemed like he had the vapors! Good thing he was already on the fainting couch!

Finally someone mentioned The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. I’m not the biggest John Wayne fan but you could have a top ten of Westerns that were all John Ford movies and I wouldn’t have any complaints.

Agree on Liberty Valence. My personal favorite, however, is My Darling Clementine. I also agree with most of your criticisms of the other top 10, especially Shane and High Noon. Disagree on Leone, strongly. I think the first two are dull, but Good, the Bad and the Ugly is wonderful. Other non- John Wayne movies that I think are worthy (maybe not top 10, but excellent) are Ride the High Country, The Westerner, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, and as parody, Cat Ballou. Oh, and Jimmy Stewart was a perfectly fine leading man if Hitchcock was directing. He carries both Vertigo and Rear Window.

10.Broken Trail 9. Open Range 8. Outlaw Josey Wales 7. Tombstone 6. The Cowboys 5. No Country For Old Men 4. High Noon 3. True Grit Coen Brothers 2. Unforgiven 1. Lonesome Dove

Can Jeremiah Johnson be considered a western? It's one of my favorite movies. I also like Little Big Man.

👏👏👏👏A great list. Of course, it doesn’t mirror my list so it falls on the side of wrong - no Randolph Scott?!😄😄😄

Steve, which of the official World U.F.O. Days do you mark?. the first on June 24, the date in 1947 that Kenneth Arnold saw seven "Flying Saucers" in Washington State or the other, and I think more celebrated day, July 2, the date in 1947 of the alleged U.F.O. crash at Roswell, New Mexico.?

@saintdonoghue

11 күн бұрын

Hah! I don't mark any UFO days!

A fine list but I would absolutely swap out Fort Apache with My Darling Clementine (1946)

That's the problem, I had to keep my list down to two John Wayne movies otherwise the whole list would have been Wayne movies... even with my criteria of using only book adaptations.

I like both lists. Combined they would make a great top 20.

@saintdonoghue

11 күн бұрын

No they wouldn't! THERE IS ONLY STEEEEEVE!

"The Assassination of every western not directed by John Ford" By Steve Donoghue

Steve check out 2013 Out Of The Furnace. Christian Bale does a great job. His supporting cast was Sam Sheppard William Defoe Forrest Whittaker Casey Aflac and another great performance by Woody Harrelson. I think you would enjoy it.

The doctor stands over dead Liberty Valance...''Quick, get some whisky...(doc takes a swig)....He's dead! Lee Marvin as a bully was insidiously wicked, a troubled production. I have read that Marvin defended Wayne against Ford's ongoing taunts regarding Wayne's background. Cat Bellou was very memorable film too. However, Clint Eastwood's The Outlaw Josey Wales (Gone to Texas) - is my must watch late Western film...''I come here this way, so's ye'll know that my word of death is true...and thet my word of life...then is true''. -Andrew Mackenna, Christchurch, NZ

Rio Bravo The Searchers The Wild Bunch Once Upon a Time In The West Unforgiven The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid The Shootist Lonsome Dove The Proposition

Loved both lists, but I would have to include The Assassination of Jesse James. Even if you don't like Brad Pitt, there are fantastic performances from Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard, Jeremy Renner, and Sam Rockwell.

@saintdonoghue

11 күн бұрын

But he's the whole movie! It's like saying you really like the Mona Lisa except for the CHICK in the middle!

As I'm not an American I can't be accused of being un-American if I say that the best western ever is The Good The Bad and The Ugly. I can of course be accused of not knowing anything about the genre as I'm not an American and that we Europeans have egregiously culturally appropriated your art form! 😁

High Noon, Steve? Sentimentality? Come on.... As for me, my top western is "True Grit," by the Coen Brothers. But now you've peeked my interest in John Ford. Thanks

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is the greatest western of all time

@stretmediq

12 күн бұрын

I made that comment before you got to your #1 choice btw so there's hope for you and as an aside I have that in an old mass market paperback collection of short stories by Dorothy M Johnson that also includes A Man Called Horse but I have no idea where it is and I haven't seen it in years

Wouldn't "finding his own character" be appropriate for actors?

For someone who can't stand Gunsmoke, you seem to have an unusually high tolerance for Ken Curtis' lame comic relief in The Searchers. And where is Ride the High Country (on either list)?

@saintdonoghue

11 күн бұрын

I didn't mention Ken Curtis, right?

...so I guess Hostiles didn't make the list 😅

Oh, I saw Winchester '73 last year because I never had, and it was SO boring! And Shane, the movie, is slow and dreary. High Noon is another I think it is so overrated. People need to explain to me that's it's a metaphor for McCarthyism, (ok duh, but it seems like this factoid is the main reason they like it). None of these work for me like Ford, Hawks, Budd Boetticher.