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 Hey Hollywood, The World Wants & Needs
MORE QUALITY Westerns!
Campaign log 2004
(an online grassroots campaign originally launched in 1999)
Is it true that Westerns are dead...
or has Hollywood just grown tired of this American genre?
We've grown beyond Gene, Hoppy & Roy, so why does Hollywood still attach a stigma to Westerns?
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It's time to let HOLLYWOOD know what you think!
Is Hollywood up to the challenge?
Below you'll find what people AROUND THE WORLD
have to say...
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This grassroots campaign mentioned in Variety
the film industry's premier source of entertainment news since 1905
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Norman O Ravnaas
MandanN. D.
29 May 2004
My son(8 yr old)and a cowboy through and through and myself truly enjoy a well done western story that developes both the story and the characters involved. thank you
Pat Martin
Grand Junction CO
25 May 2004
Please give us more good, quality, authentic western films, not moderized versions of real characters.
BARRIE ROBERT CHARLES MILSOM
CARDIFF
UNITED KINGDOM
24 May 2004
why i think the western should be treated better in hollywood, there are still some great actors that can still play great western roles such as elliott, selleck eastwood, cosner, duvall, berenger plus a lot of old western actors. the western is one of the only genre films you still can take the whole family to see and enjoy
Rocky Rivers
St.Paul mn.
usa
19 May 2004
Howdy,, yes need more westerns,, can anyone there tell me if peacemakers will be renewed???? peace
Terri Moran
Houston TX
15 May 2004
Let's continue to make historically accurate films for our children and our children's children. If a picture is worth a thousand words, imagine what a movie can express, explain and motivate. Please don't let the American legacy die.
Anita Crater
Medicine Lodge KS
10 May 2004
Please give us some quality shows to watch. I have heard that if you quit making movies with so much sex, violence, and filthy language people will quit watching. Nonsense! We are a visual people, but we have imaginations too. I do not have to actually see someone having sex to know that's probably what they are doing. There are so few shows that I can tolerate anymore. Remember, the baby boomers are becoming older and with age comes wisdom and the wish to return to a kinder, simpler way of life. You may find that if you don't make more morally responsible movies, you will lose your audiences. Why else would "The Passion of Christ" have been so big? Thank you for your consideration.
Christina Taylor
Millville, CA
USA
09 May 2004
A good western movie is something that shows how it truly used to be, something you can sit down and watch with your kids and afterwards listen to them as they say "I wanna be a cowboy when I grow up" Those are the good shows.
Heather Michel Freimund
Rochester MN
USA
05 May 2004
Of all the types of movies one can pick from nothing beats a good western. It touches all the senses and makes us all wish for the days when life was hard and pleasures were simple.
Shirley Sweet
Sayre Ok
USA
04 May 2004
We need more good Western films. Our future generations need to see and hear stories of how our country was settled and the hardships that went into its development.
Keith Moore
Oxford MS
United States
03 May 2004
The western is an ever relevant way to create and inspire through art. It is timeless and appeals to all corners of this globe. Just please try and be true to the way it really is and was. Oh yea, and please hire Robert Duvall as much as you can!
JOHN SYLVESTER
NEWCASTLE
NSW
AUSTRALIA
03 May 2004
Latest releases from Hollywood have been fantastic. Keep the Westerns coming. My thanks in anticipation of more great westerns. Thank you.
Mike Hanko
Lodi, WI
United States of America
01 May 2004
A good western is as good as any other genre that is done well. A good western can be more inspiring than almost any other genre. A western imparts values and even ethics that so many movies now made seem to be lacking. I just plain like westerns. Good westerns anyhow.
Bill Alter
Derry PA
USA
27 Apr 2004
I would like to see more "quality" westerns made similar to "Conagher" and "Crossfire Trail". To me, Louis Lamour was the greatest writer and Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott were perfect in his stories. I've read all of his westerns and there are many more great ones that they can make into movies, especially with these actors.
larry richards
degraff OH
usA
24 Apr 2004
give us some heroes to emulate. give a benighted soul in the throes of a moral play where evil looses to the best character of man.
Paul Cullor, Sr.
New River, AZ
USA
22 Apr 2004
Please give us some real good western movies on TV, cable and satelite as well on the big screen....Please!!!
Leon W. Tucker
Lathrop, CA
United States
22 Apr 2004
HI hollywood. I grew up on westerns. we need more westerns.
Harold Charlson
Round Top, Texas
USA
15 Apr 2004
There's a lot of good westerns to be filmed yet that the whole famitly can enjoy.
Randy Reed
Lone Star, Texas
USA
13 Apr 2004
The history of the U.S. was written in the West. More westerns, please.
Tom & Kathi Turner
Drewsey, OR
USA
09 Apr 2004
Please more westerns, it's our way of life, and the world need to see more.
Pat Decker Nipper
San Jose, CA
USA
01 Apr 2004
We can use all the western films we can get. I vote for having those rated G, or PG at the highest. Kids of all ages should be exposed to western history.
william cherry
ridgeway, va
usa
31 Mar 2004
kids today have no heroes to look up to, I was lucky enough to meet roy rogers with my son. He has never forgot. John Wayne was a man on and off the screen. we need some stars like this for the kids.
Larry Abernathy Jr
Cathedral City, Calif
USA
27 Mar 2004
Our history is rich with stories that can fill years of moive making. How about it. Can hollywood make a REAL movie? With out using computer compositing? Just great cinematography, quality acting! The stories are there! We challege you!
Greg Adams
Salina, Kansas
USA
22 Mar 2004
It's a great way to keep the American cowboy legacy going. We need more westerns, because the hero is always the good guy.
Gail Smead
Huntington Beach, CA
USA
22 Mar 2004
Quality westerns are needed in today's society more than ever. The story of the cowboy should not be forgotten. It really needs to brought back to prime time television. Morals, ethics, and the decent people/children are no longer portrayed in most prime time shows.
Nancy Benstead
Grand Forks
B. C.
Canada
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22 Mar 2004
I cannot think of strong enough words to tell you how important western movie making is. This is probably the last generation that can do it with any degree of authenticity. Keep them coming - keep them REAL.
Jody Bennett
Kaufman, TX
USA
20 Mar 2004
What happened to all the westerns?????? I would pay to see good western shows like the one that played when I was a kid.
nofra zaheri
padang
sumbar
indonesia
19 Mar 2004
I like this cowboys and indians film every time
Gayle
salesville, ark
US
17 Mar 2004
It is such a great joy to sit and watch a great western like Tom Selleck and his fellow actors make. It is good for the soul!
Dan Morse
Spokane, WA
USA
17 Mar 2004
Need some more TV movie westerns. Have not seen one on in a long time.
Shirley Edmunds
Lowry City, MO
USA
17 Mar 2004
I grew up on Roy Rogers, Gene Autry values and later as a teenager to love John Wayne and as a lady of 58 I still appreciate Sam Elliott and Tom Selleck in a good Western. Sometimes I think our children today would be much better off if they had a Western hero to look up to rather than some of the things that they seem to watch. As the song says, "My heroes have always been Cowboys" and that will never change no matter what Hollywood does.
becky person
costa mesa, ca
us
14 Mar 2004
Stories about the West can never be outdated. It's what we need, more stories where nature is the star and the people and their lives the supporting cast- pioneers, cowhands, tribes, watch clouds, feel dirt in your toes, smell the grasses and know the endless circle of life...that is what the Western preserves, inspite of the guns and gas stations.
Bobbie McIntyre
Gulfport, MS
USA
12 Mar 2004
The westerns are a history of our country. Every child should know how the west was won. On the whole,they are wholesome, the scenery is beautiful, and the good guys win.
Judi and Pete Green
Sunset, TX
USA
05 Mar 2004
The western genre is a piece of American history, in a time when our country was expanding and reaching for unity. The western captures that part of our short American scene. In addition most of the good westerns pit the good guy against the bad guy, and leaves the movie-goer with a strong sense of right and wrong. Couldn't hurt the younger generation.
Betty Davis
Baltimore, MD
USA
04 Mar 2004
The raw depiction of the human condition is needed in this world again, and that is what westerns bring to this tableau call life. They allow you to exhale from holding not being able to interact with grace, loyalty, and mercy in a modern world that holds technology/materialism above everything in this world. The formula for western is still the same, but through different scenario, one can glimpse at mental conflict of human struggle without the trappings of all of these special effects, etc. I think westerns are reminders of what we all can be and should be in a world of "throw aways."
Rick J. Anderson
Plano, Tx
USA
04 Mar 2004
The time for westerns is at hand. Hollywood and completely dumbed down it's mindset. ....We need reaffirming movies and nothing can do it better than a good old horse opera! Bring it on!
Mike Linaker
Leabrooks
United Kingdom
26 Feb 2004
I saw Ghost Rock on DVD some months ago. Now I'm not one for making casual comments on movies, but if that movie is supposed to be helping the resurgence of the Western, then we are all in trouble. Sorry, folks, but this will not help our cause. I sat through it because it had to be seen to be believed. Part of the trouble was it couldn't make up its mind where it was going. The "Martial arts" elements were hysterical (unintential I'm sure). But this movie did not make it happen. To convince me all I had to do was take another look at Crossfire Trail. Yes, Hollyood, let's have some more new Westerns, but real Westerns - please - not hybrids that have lost their way even before they have taken the first step.
Mike Linaker
Leabrooks
United Kingdom
25 Feb 2004
In RESPONSE TO Jamie-Lyne Darling's (Australia)comments, Feb 6 - 2004 (about 18 postings down).
Slight touch of bitterness there I suggest? Quigley was a rousing adventure, well made, and and I don't feel there was any need to make the email a rant. Why take it out on a damn good movie? Keep that kind of thing for elswhere. Last thing we need. The board is for discusing Western movies not sour feelings...
Maryann PInto
NJ
USA
25 Feb 2004
Great site!! THanks for all the contests :)
Sherry Craft
Stephenville, Texas
United States
25 Feb 2004
There is nothing like a good western on the t.v. when we have so much junk to look at. Westerns include usually one if not several of the following: good morals, humor, family values, cultural history and a great way of life. We need a lot more of this kind of entertainment.
Michael Martin
Garland, Texas
USA
24 Feb 2004
Westerns remind us of a time when there were men and women had good and honest. A time when you could believe in real heroes and role models.
edward banks
victoria, texas
24 Feb 2004
I think the best film to be seen is The Cowboys, there is nothing like a good western film to take one back to a time when men were men.
Sharon & Jacob Alves
Tiverton, RI
USA
22 Feb 2004
My grandson and I are waiting too long already for another western with Tom Selleck. We're big western fans and haven't seen this quality since John Wayne. (Sorry. Clint!)
Editor's Comment: Tom's been very busy filming many other projects (Good for him!), but he has assured us he has yet another western coming up! (More about that later.)
Pamela Rideout
Stout, Oh
America
22 Feb 2004
Need a more wholesome program. Westerns are entertaining, educational, and just a quality way of relaxing. I love Westerns always have always will, the old ones and the new ones alike. Hope to see more and soon. Not everyone likes these so called reality shows and trash talking soaps some people still have some values left.
Jackie Oubre
Marrero, LA
USA
20 Feb 2004
Westerns are my favorite. The Wild West was history in the making. Our children need to know how this country was made so great and by whom--the men and women who risked their lives to tame the wild land.
Ron Broughton
Henderson, NV
USA
18 Feb 2004
As A Cowboy Action Shooter, It would be Great to see the Old West as only the cinema can portray it. ... So Bring Back the western and all it stood for..Thanks
Tony Corbett
Louisburg, NC
USA
16 Feb 2004
Westerns Rule! We want more quality western books, movies and TV !
Rick Carpenter
Nashville, TN
U.S.A.
15 Feb 2004
I think [the filmmaker's in Hollywood] bear some responsibility for the current wave of thug/hip-hop themed movies with nihilistic/misogynist messages which led to the [SuperBowl's] "Super Half-wit show." Why not produce more Westerns? They have morals, values, and show immediate consequences to choices made. The audience is HUGE, the choice is yours.
James R. Wieda
Zeeland, MI
USA
14 Feb 2004
We need more quality Westerns.... The crap that is dominating our TV is not worth watching, so we don't! Violence and crime is not what our children and grandchildren need to watch. Westerns are like a history lesson.
Suzanne Flowers
North Charleston, SC
USA
14 Feb 2004
My great grandfather worked as a cowboy in Texas in the 1870s-80s. I grew up watching quality westerns on TV as well as in movie theaters. I am so tired of FBI, police, lawyer, and hospital shows that I could scream. We need good characters in old fashioned plots told in story form- with some humor thrown in!
Darrell Pfingsten
Studio City, CA
US of A
11 Feb 2004
How about a decent Western! That's what we need.
Justin
Savannah, GA
USA
10 Feb 2004
Westerns offer a life that can never be had again, and we need to explore what went on back then, They also make for great entertainment!!!
Troy Briggs
Decatur. IL
USA!
09 Feb 2004
I'd just like to say, in this, my second comment, that I own a LOT of Western Videos! My nephews and I watch Lonesome Dove, Conagher, The Cowboys, and Monte Walsh, over and over and over! I've seen Crossfire Trail several times. I grew up watching, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Rawhide and The Rifleman with my Dad. I have also worn out 2, that's right 2 copies of Quigley Down Under! I recieved Open Range as a gift from my mother this past weekend. I really enjoyed it too. 'Kept me on the edge of my seat. I would definately do whatever possible to get behind any Western Movie Project. I'd like to say in closing, To Harry Carey Jr, "Go Get 'em Dobie!!"
Crow
Kingston-Upon-Hull
United Kingdom
06 Feb 2004
212.50.169.207
Totally agree, keep it western.We have a big following in the UK from re-enactment,living history,Civil war societies and getting stronger and we all think,there are not enough.Should be more.
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Our first-ever piece of hate mail; a glowing example of the power of films upon judgmental people:
Jamie-Lyne Darling
Melbourne Australia
06 Feb 2004
203.164.147.10
Sitting in front of my TV this week I saw for the first time, Matthew Quigley Downunder. As an Australian I was horrified and appalled at this presentation of this wonderful country having a American save the Aborigines. Unfortunatley for Americans, as a people you have not conquered or invaded every country yet, certainly not this one. Look to your own back yard clean up your own problems. America is such a laughing stock to the rest of mankind you all wonder the world hates you. Wake up and smell the coffee. |
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Deidre Legg
Columbus, Ohio
U.S.A.
06 Feb 2004
205.188.209.48
I grew up on westerns.My whole family were western freeks. I love them all. I sure hope they can get them back on a regular basis. |
K.G. Schmidt
Janesville, CA
America
04 Feb 2004
205.188.209.48
There have been many before him, however, John Wayne best depicted the cowboy and what it was to be a "man". I truly think Hollywood has an obligation to continue to produce westerns and show Americans this side of history lest we forget. They define courage, strength, teamwork, and most of all honor.
Joseph Haberstroh
Gerald, MO
U S A
01 Feb 2004
216.229.64.95
Please produce more good western movies. They are not only good but they are good family entertainment.
Karin & Carole Sitts
Tombstone, AZ
USA
01 Feb 2004
152.163.253.66
Please bring back the western movies and shows.
Barbara Costello
Pleasanton, CA
USA
30 Jan 2004
24.4.25.220
I grew up on Westerns, Rawhide, The Lawman, Gunsmoke, Bonanza. ... There is definitely an audience for the Western among the young as well as the old, but Hollywood beware of changing the genre to reflect the modern world. The Western's appeal lies in the undeniable fact of good guys versus bad guys.
Kenneth Myhrberg
Helsingborg Skane
Sweden
24 Jan 2004
217.115.39.68
It is not only Americans who love their history. I'm a Swedish male who has loved Western movies since I was a little kid. My all time favourites are the John Ford cavalry trilogy. If there is any truth to the fact that Hollywood has opened their eyes to Westerns again, I´ll be running down the street of my home town screaming YYEEEEEHHHHAAAWWWW!! Kenneth.
Penni Smith Weston
Riverside, CA
USA
20 Jan 2004
66.81.169.245
I for one have loved westerns ever since I went to see True Grit 4 times. I even saw the Wild Bunch when I was much too young to know better. ...A western gives you a good story. And there's so much ground that still can be covered from our wild west past. I love the genre. Hope it comes back big.
Brant Seacrist
Chesapeake, WV
USA
20 Jan 2004
24.196.187.198
Please make more westerns
Larry Collins
scottsbluff, NE
USA
19 Jan 2004
198.206.239.253
We need more westerns that are ok for us to take our kids to!!
Troy Briggs
Decatur, IL
USA
19 Jan 2004
209.240.205.60
This is my plea to Hollywood.....C'mon Y'all, These Cowboy Actors want to work & we want to watch them do their thing!! Please don't stop makin' Westerns just because the Teen Agers don't want to see them. A lot of us out here will spend our hard earned money on 'em. That includes Me & my family & friends.
Lorna Croteau
Methuen, MA
United States
18 Jan 2004
205.188.209.48
I never miss the chance to watch a good western. Every Saturday on the Hallmark channel is a day of all the westerns I watched growing up as a kid. I so enjoy sitting down and watching them. We need more westerns. We went to Arizona this past July. We went to Old Tucson. It was so nice to go back in time. It was our 3rd visit there. I hope to go back again.
Steve
Boulder, Colo
USA
16 Jan 2004
209.179.51.119
If there is fund for making Westerns, I'll put up my money for Comanche Stallion and support Mr. Carey right now. Why don't the rest of you do too. I want to see this movie made....now!!
Editor's note: We agree. Looks like we're all chompin' at the bit to see this one! Harry & crew are going to do it right, and that in itself is what makes it so exciting. Surely it'll be worth the wait.
Joe Long
Cayce, SC
USE
16 Jan 2004
167.7.120.2
Twice a year, I take my family to an old-time Western matinee locally, where I can be sure to see movies that I not only don't object to - but which actively teach my "classic American" values. If you made those movies more often, you'd sell four tickets more often!
hirley Ingram
Beeville, Tx
USA
15 Jan 2004
63.154.16.7
This is my first visit to check on the "Comanche Stallion" movie. I like what I see. We need all the support for the western way of life we can get. I will be visiting this site often.
Marthy
Enkhuizen
NH
the Netherlands
12 Jan 2004
193.172.248.117
The other day I saw a wonderful documentary about Westerns and whether the West was still alive or almost dead. And I must say looking at that documentary made me realize I miss these good old movies. All that rubbish they are making these days makes me want to go back in time and see some old Westerns again. So even from here in the Netherlands - Hey Hollywood, do something about it!!
Franklin Frankfort
Amstelveen
the Netherlands
09 Jan 2004
22:37:26
213.10.11.21
I grew up with western movies in Europe like most people of my age(44) all over the world and the images I saw made a deep imprint in my soul.I just love westerns,partly of course because they remind me of my childhood but also because it's such a wonderful genre.
Henk Sparreboom
Ridderkerk
ZH
Netherlands
09 Jan 2004
80.56.217.172
We also want more westerns in the Netherlands Thank you! Greetings Henk
Bartek Sollie
Groningen
the Netherlands
09 Jan 2004
80.89.236.24
Westerns are great movies with beautiful images. bring back the western genre. thanks to sergio leone and all the other great actors and producers
Agnes Hovinga
Leeuwarden
Netherlands
09 Jan 2004
81.91.5.26
Hi, Always have been very fond of westerns. I saw your website address in a review of the Dutch documentary "Go west, Young man!", tribute to the Western. I support your initiative with all my heart. Wake up Hollywood!! We want Westerns. Kind regards from Agnes Hovinga - Good luck with your action and your website which I will visit regularly from now on.
Aad Stadman
Apeldoorn
Holland
09 Jan 2004
62.140.137.30
Get the western back in Hollywood, because it's the heritage of America.
MaryClaire VanWie
Rochester, NY
USA
09 Jan 2004
24.169.217.137
This past year should have made you aware that westerns on big screen and small are being well received. (making money for the studios)
DW
St. Johns, MI
United States
08 Jan 2004
66.227.141.108
Westerns represent America, whether the perspective is from the side of the Pioneers, Cowboys, or The Native Americans. They tell the story of our youth as a nation. ...Western movies have, and continue, to portray heroes who fight for justice, outlaws who get justice, and people who have the grit and determination to survive. Westerns are anything but boring... Yes, there is a traditional "formula" to the genre, but Western characters can face whatever comes, just as people today have to. ...Hollywood, we want Westerns, we need them, and we pay to see them. Give the people what they want!
David Kampf
Phoenix, Az
USA
07 Jan 2004
204.155.172.9
I have always been a big western fan. The number of historic action movies at the box office would seem to indicate that the public is ready for something other than most of the two-hankie movies playing now.
Mike Falter
Jefferson City, MO
US
06 Jan 2004
15:28:17
69.29.97.181
We're tired of the trash, period. Westerns portray a dignified lifestyle.
Madison Walker
Mesa, AZ
United States
05 Jan 2004
140.198.102.26
I am a professional storyteller (blackhistory.com). My alias is Nat Love. You may already know that Nat was a Black Cowboy who wrote "The Autobiography of Nat Love," which was published in 1907. There needs to be a number of westerns that focus on the multicultural aspects of the West. Asians, Hispanics, African Americans, Native people and pioneer women all contributed to the development of the American west. As the award winning motion picture, "The Unforgiven," demonstrates, a great story comes in all colors!
James brewer
Hammond, LA
USA
01 Jan 2004
64.12.96.237
While action, drama, love stories etc. make for big box office takes and consequently more for the industry, there is a whole sector of America's population who would just as soon watch a western or cowboy movie seven days a week. Most of the great Hollywood cowboy figures are gettin on in age or have done passed on to their rewards and thus seems to be creatin a deficit in this area of the film industry. Westerns depict a way of life that is more simple than the complex world we live in today and very much have their place in the industry as they depict a way of life also that was how the life we live today was forged. If it hadn't been for those scraggly, tough , and ragged cowhands and the great cattle companies of that era what might our world be like today. After all it was those folks who helped feed and settle this country from coast to coast. It wouldn't hurt none either for the next generations of younguns coming behind us , ours , and theirs to have something like the cowboy movies to teach that there is more to life than gettin wasted or how much dope can they consume in how brief of a period before totally passing into oblivion.Time for a come back of old time morals and manners.
Keenan Wilcox
May, TX
USA
30 Dec 2003
67.202.2.198
So that many of our young children can learn about our past history and Western heritage. And let's not forget the American Indian's way of life.
Rick Carpenter
Nashville, TN
USA
29 Dec 2003
68.53.119.209
Who will fill the shoes of John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, James Arness, Ben Johnson and all the great western actors of the recent past? Hollywood needs to get off the hip-hop music, quick-cuts, and special effects and find some REAL stories, and the American Western is the answer!
Lisa Harrell
Jefferson, OR
USA
29 Dec 2003
209.181.61.10
I think that America would benefit from more movies about the Old West, and how this country started, than from all of these Hi-Tech Horror films that are out these days.
Linda Murray
meridian, ID
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29 Dec 2003
198.81.26.167
I will not miss a western movie regardless of when in time it is set. (i.e.: Young Guns or The Electric Horseman) Despite bad reviews, which I ignore, I enjoyed Open Range and will probably buy the video when it comes out. I buy only western videos.
BILL BARNES
DORA, AL
UNITED STATES
27 Dec 2003
64.12.96.237
I am a 68 year-old die hard John Wayne western fan . love to watch good western movies, [but] hate profanity... hooray for stars like Wayne, Fonda, Eastwood, Elliott, Selleck and anyone else of the same caliber I may have missed.
Rafael Contreras
Coral Gables. FL
USA
26 Dec 2003
205.188.209.48
Comanche Stallion project is the best news I have had in months. I think Harry Carey (Jr) will hit with this at the perfect time. The cast is fine .they all love and live the West. Carey should be at least assistant director or at least should have whomever he hires watch John Ford westerns like The Searchers and Rio Grande. The audience in general would be thrilled. After all Lucas and Spielberg patterned their best movies on John Ford. Let's not forget he also had the great in every aspect JOHN WAYNE.
Janet France
Archer, FL
United States
26 Dec 2003
216.78.86.154
More westerns, please :-). How about some cowgirls femme fatales while you're at it? Thanks!
Larry Jay Martin
Clinton, MT
USA
26 Dec 2003
68.169.132.133
Check out your own movie-for-sale racks and you'll see 33% are westerns. There's a real pent up demand for classic westerns such as Open Range, however with conventional 2 hour lengths. And the old pics don't have to be remade infinitum. There are plenty of great "new" old west stories out there!
Roy Lawrie
Galashiels
Slk
Scotland
25 Dec 2003
213.78.118.34
Yes, we sure do need many more Westerns produced by Hollywood, we have a never ending appetite for good Stories behind the Western Heritage of the U.S.
Betty Stewart
Newport News, Va
USA
24 Dec 2003
141.152.168.12
Please do more quality westerns, especially starring Sam Elliott (the ultimate cowboy actor,) Tom Selleck, etc. Thanks!!
Shane Mc Endree
Farmington, KY
United States
24 Dec 2003
207.48.35.222
Dear Sirs, I believe that more western films should be made and made more available to the viewing public at home or by the big screen. Movies that I have seen just in the last couple of months has brought back to the viewer the past and ideas of our fore fathers. Also capturing the harsh reality that they faced and also caused their fellow men and women of all races to witness. The movies "Open Range" and "The Missing" and soon the movie "Cold Mountain" are just a few of the examples. They gave great examples of what helped to make our country great but, also showed the truth. I hope that I could receive more details pertaining to Ms. Linda R. Wommack's future project on the Sand Creek Massacre documentary film for PBS. Thank you. Sincerely, a person interested in Westerns and History
Orville e. Cox jr.
Taylorsville, KY
usa
22 Dec 2003
68.18.65.113
To whom it concerns: Please continue to produce more western movies. Western movies are indeed a real part of our nation's history, and it also helps to ensure that we all can appreciate how our forefathers struggled in the western day.
William Downs
Bridgeport, Tx
U.S.A.
21 Dec 2003
205.188.209.48
The Western Movie is as American as you can get. I'm sick of blood and gore movies. If Hollywood invest in truly good scripts and quality movies more people would go to see them.
Joyce McKinney
West Harrison, IN
USA
20 Dec 2003
205.188.209.48
We need to keep making the "Good Ole Western" movies that used to be watched by the whole family together! These brought out good clean family living, morals, hard work, and right from wrong. These values are breaking down with the new generations coming along. Some of us today are finally getting to "play" Cowboy, like we used to watch and fantasize about on TV in years past. Keep the Westerns coming!
Jean Stewart
Wichita, KS
USA
20 Dec 2003
64.123.112.29
We need heroes for our young people to look up to. We need the good thought provoking westerns back with out the trashy sex and violence.
Amy
Rapid City, SD
U.S.A.
20 Dec 2003
65.171.6.209
Who doesn't like a good western! Slowly they are becoming harder and harder to find. I was and still am a big fan of The Magnificent Seven T.V. Series. This show had good ratings and a following of fans, but They canceled the show anyway. If I had the money I would bring the show back better than ever. Can you tell I liked this series. Anyway, more western movies/series should be produced or they will die out with each new generation.
Barbara Ann Barker
ESTERO/ N. NAPLES, FL
USA
20 Dec 2003
206.102.214.237
Please, Hollywood find some good, interesting, westerns with moral fiber interwoven, although the people should be kept human -- don't elevate them to a higher moral character than a normal man or woman could aspire to be in real life. Make westerns that show true human struggle, and human frailty, in which people do their best to "do the right thing", but sometimes they fall a bit short (just a bit), and sometimes they put their or their families needs just a bit before their basic moral beliefs -- while still doing the best they can to be as virtuous as they can. And please, dress these people in proper period garb, with proper weapons (a poor man can't afford an expensive gun or the finest horse, saddle, or boots). Give us some real life stories from the old west -- check turn of the (20th) century books (obscure books, too -- if possible / I'd enjoy a job doing the research -- although you've got people who do that, I bring a vast amount of experience and mature concepts to finding exemplary literary works, locations, and timely outfittings & setting insights that your people may be overlooking due to preconceived ideas they can't shake about "The Western". ...Just make sure you put Tom Selleck & his good "western friends" in these movies! Keep the violence limited to justified actions, and teach a moral to our young people in each film, and give women good roles -- as w/o them the west wouldn't have been won!
Thank You, Barbara Barker (dau. of Bob)
Charlie Fulton
Vinita, OK
U.S.A.
20 Dec 2003
65.172.246.63
Enough of this crap of making Westerns disguised as moving picture "firsts"--all plots of these so called modern day "epics" have been done and redone in the Westerns of yesterday and today,only in their real environment. All these "Cops and Robbers" are Westerns set in the grime and low life of big cities--all of this junk such as Lord of the Rings have plots taken from Classic Westerns--the Godfather? just another Land Baron--Bond,James Bond,,Just a poor mans' Randolph Scott---So,please!!Keep 'em mounted and riding Tall in the Saddle,in the Beautiful Scenery in the Wide Open Space of the West--doing what the Pioneers that shaped this great land were doing!
Shannon Kootsouradis
Richmond Heights, Ohio
United States
17 Dec 2003
67.73.184.210
The Western is the classic American genre. In a time of horrible reality and crime shows on television and dumb witted films; we need the wonderful escape of Westerns to rescue us. There are so many good western stories and ideas still out there that could be used in film and television. I work in a library and see that Western (books) really have never gone out of style. There is an interest and audience out there wanting more of the West from Hollywood.
Janet Whitehead
clacton-on-sea
essex
England
17 Dec 2003
194.223.23.8
My husband is a western author, and we are both big fans of the old west. I think we need to get back to those old style films that have traveled the years - The Cowboys, The Sheep Man, in other words, ones made in the '70s. Westerns made today are too squeaky clean!
Maralee Seymour
Hussar Alberta
Canada
15 Dec 2003
161.184.52.168
I feel that westerns should be made still today just for the simple fact that we need to preserve and retell our history to the new and next generations of this world. There are so many stories out there that still haven't been shared with the world - just look at all the cowboy stories that could be made into movies.
Pancho
Detroit, MI
USA
14 Dec 2003
67.72.194.51
We all spend money, the bottom line to see westerns. Put out some more, We love them.
George Bell
Tallahassee, FL
USA
13 Dec 2003
205.188.209.48
The western Genre has and always be the most emotionally moving and heartfelt stories ever told. New westerns need to be developed and could even be used to bring us all closer together. How will the young people of today know where they are going if they don't know where we have been. Also we need to release the old classics like the High Chaparral and others to be recorded and distributed in the DVD format before all historical copies are lost forever. My father had bit parts during the first season of HC and I would love to show him his youth again while I still have a chance.
Martin Keene
Greenville, S.C.
U.S.A.
13 Dec 2003
66.169.5.212
I think Hollywood avoids westerns and war films as they think they are "politically incorrect" and violent. What I want to know is why is it OK to constantly depict criminal and urban violence in films yet censor historical violence for which there was a reason and from which we can actually learn something?
Orville E. Cox Jr.
Taylorsville, KY
usa
10 Dec 2003
68.210.140.74
I have just finished watching the Tom Selleck Movie "Crossfire Trail". Tom has done a lot to help preserve our country"s western heritage. Please continue to make more western movies. The fan "base" for good western movies is HUGE. Good western movies do a lot to help preserve the United States History. PLEASE continue to do more. thanks
Kim Robinson
Mars Hill, NC
USA
05 Dec 2003
66.0.78.33
We need more good western movies!!Something that is real,not like the movies that are playing nowadays!
Paul Pearce
Brisbane
qld
Australia
05 Dec 2003
210.49.31.184
I think the westerns are still great and especially like the movies produced by Sergio Leone and similar. As a gun toting cowboy child of the 60s in New Zealand I loved the High Chaparral TV series and have not seen it since the early 70s. I would love to see it again on TV or dvd or video. It was the greatest western TV series ever. (even better than Bonanza which seems to be the popular choice for rerun airplay).
Lisa Skinner
Rockwall, TX
USA
04 Dec 2003
65.210.199.29
Hi Hollywood! There's a whole nation of us out here who absolutely love westerns. I was so excited this year when Open Range and The Missing came out to name a few (am counting the days until The Alamo is released) Please help keep the old west alive by producing more fine westerns, this country and future generations need to know of our great past and heritage. Long live the Code of the West!
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