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Mrs. Elina Korhonen
Espoo
Finland
31 Dec 2002
81.17.194.8
Hi! I love western movies and western lifestyle. It is important for the future that you make westerns with the oldfashion style! I want my children to see what America's about, not any Spidermen or cruel killing thrillers, they oughta see some real good westerns!! Please make films about Civil War or Old West, but please forget all the new tricks you can make with your equipment, it must be an authentic movie, not a new trash!! There happened so many powerful things in the 1860's so please let us live them again, through the movie! Everyone should know what happened in The United States' history!! My children haven't born yet, but when I'm going to have children I shall tell them about America. It's a great country.

Heath Childers
Normangee, TX
USA
31 Dec 2002
205.188.209.74
We want to see the story of [bullriders] Ty Murry,or Don Gay, Or Jerome Davis. Or better yet, all of them.

Gail Apperson
Valdosta, GA
USA
31 Dec 2002
152.163.189.234
I, personally believe western movies should certainly be current in today society. Bring them back on TV and in the movies. My brother and I looked forward to getting to the movies on Saturday just to see the "Old Westerns" as most people want to call them today. It was good, clean, entertainment, and the parents could honestly send their children to the movies alone and knew they would not be watching some uncensored sex movie with all the filthy vulgarity like most movies of today. What happen to the good, clean, family westerns that everyone could not wait to see on TV and spend quality time together. Clean up the Screens and put the Westerns back on.

Ryan Ferguson
Weimar, CA
USA
30 Dec 2002
216.171.196.26
It seems only one good western comes out every year, and that's on cable (Crossfire Trail- The Jack Bull- Johnson County War). It is a shame no more, well good ones, appear on the big screen; the last one being Tombstone back in '94. Bring 'em back!

Barry Fogleman
Owingsville, Ky
USA
29 Dec 2002
208.135.206.187
Bring on the westerns.Bring back the spirit and adventure that made this country great. And let's not forget the work ethic and morality that the western portays. DUTY HONOR COUNTRY

H.K. Bradshaw
Leesburg, Va.
USA
28 Dec 2002
24.47.134.13
I would rather watch a good Western than the sorry excuses Hollywood passes for movies any day! Bring on gorgeous Western hunks like Selleck, Elliott, and especially Eastwood! Best of luck with your petition!

Michael McMillin
Greenville, MO
USA
28 Dec 2002
216.41.153.8
Bring back more about the west, historical or modern it is all interesting. A way of life that is hard and clean. So many different aspects that can be made into a movie. Just look at all the good books that could be adapted to movies that haven't. Good work ethics, morals from a different era and a binding deal was still made on a handshake. Some parts of the country are still this way, but a rarity when found. From the Duke's best to Eight Seconds to The Sackett's, such a wide pallet yet so much in common. Let us see more of our true heritage on the big screen.

Cheryl McLain/Dowd
Empire, Ca.
USA
27 Dec 2002
152.163.189.234
Without the farmer,cowboy,pioneer men and women there would never be cities!!! We need more movies that remind us of this very fact! True stories about the birthing of the west would be educational for us all! Reality & honesty would be a great help too!

Michael S. Lussem
Las Vegas, NV
USA
27 Dec 2002
208.57.202.19
Hey Hollywood, how can you continue to ignore the genre that has the most universal appeal? WE NEED MORE WESTERNS!!!

T Berentz
Alam, KS
USA
27 Dec 2002
63.147.129.101
America needs more quality Westerns. This is a positive culture that should not be lost. Rather than blood and guts and war and special effects, robots etc. Please give us the pure, simple Western. Tom Selleck has the right idea.

Scott Jett
Lees Summit, MO
USA
26 Dec 2002
64.57.42.177
I would like to see more western movies produced in the future. They present an understanding of our forefathers and the price paid for what we have today. They demonstrate how far we have come as a nation. They also demonstrate the morals, work ethics and convictions that made this nation great.

Philip A. McClimon
Oceanside, Ca
USA
26 Dec 2002
12.72.27.180
Westerns are America. Morals and values are put in stark contrast to mediocrity and lawlessness that msut be overcome. At the same time the Western genre captures the spirit of independence and recklessness that resulted in the unique character of America. To ignore this genre is to turn our back on ourselves. This genre should be given primary consideration whenever new projects are developed and old stories should be recast in the Western mold!

Beverly F Griffith
Martinsville, IN
USA
26 Dec 2002
65.88.129.204
We need good role models. Country pride, family pride and "having given your word means everything" attitude. There are good family values still left in this country. They need to be immortalized and instilled in a new generation which is seeing just the opposite glorified. God, country and family it is so very important. Hard work and loyality are things to be proud of.

Troy Waters
Edgewood , NM
USA
26 Dec 2002
205.188.209.109
We need more westerns insted of the drug and sex movies that are all over the screen.

Scott Tabor
Miami, Florida
USA
26 Dec 2002
68.155.69.62
There needs to be more Westerns made like Tombstone and Young Guns! Some of these westerns are getting pretty bad

Becky Sherrill
Ruidoso, New Mexico
USA
26 Dec 2002
68.114.188.83
I LOVE WESTERNS, HORSES, RANCHING, RODEOS, & COWBOYS!!! John Wayne, Sam Elliott, Tom Selleck, & Roy Rogers (especially Roy Rogers) are my HEROES!!! I MISS the good ol' fashioned western, whether on the big screen or on Television, especially the ones that are historically correct in clothing and gear. I know alot of actors don't like to get "type-cast" as a "western" actor, etc. But, these guys are SO good at it!! Alot of people think it reflects the simpler and easier way of life, but the truth is there was nothing about the "Great Old West" that was easy....You had to work long and very hard just to make it day to day, month to month, and year to year....Actually, Ranching and Farming hasn't changed that much, it's just that the equipment and mode of transportation has modernized, You still have to work long and hard to make it...and pray Mother Nature co-operates. I grew up in the Mid-west on a farm and know what I'm talking about and I now live in New Mexico and alot of my friends are ranchers and I see the struggles. The WESTERN is a part of America and OUR culture....It is something that is TOTALLY American and no other country can truly duplicate that.....Let's not let it slip away.

George Bouch
Evansville, IN
USA
25 Dec 2002
63.185.33.46
We need more westerns in the format of the old John Wayne, Randolf Scott, and the newer Tom Selleck. Good clean, family entertainment mixed with authenticity.

JB First
Oklahoma City, Okla
USA
25 Dec 2002
67.192.193.214
Will Penny, Crossfire Trail, the Sacketts- Nothing can compare with a GOOD, AUTHENTIC, western. NOTHING. Those kids today who haven't grown up with heros whose roots are sadly in the past have lost a great part of real U.S. history. Harry Potter may have played the sorcerer and ET may have called home, but it took a REAL American Cowboy to help make this country come alive!! Don't forget OUR ROOTS!!

Mandi Foster
Waterfall
PA
USA
22 Dec 2002
4.23.226.45
I would really like to see some new westerns, i think half my family can recite every word to old john wayne movies and even tom selleck's new ones.

Ken E, Burris
Madera, Ca
USA
22 Dec 2002
24.127.23.25
Western culture. Ahhhh! A simple life (or so we are lead to believe) where men respected women above all else. If a person should immerse him (or her) self in a culture let it be in Westerns. Sure, there is violence. Violence is everywhere (Don't belive me? Think back to all of the Popeye cartoons. How many times did Popeye and Brutus mix it up?), but at least in the Western genre of movies and books a man's character is usually defined by his actions and not by the greed and avarice of this generation of films and film makers.

Jeff Radaj
Whitewater, WI
USA
22 Dec 2002
156.46.180.198
I'll add my support and I'd also like to add my assistance. I'm also a Wild West and Civil War Reenactor, that has been writing westerns for the past few years.

Warren & Vilma Ralston
Folsom, Ca
USA
21 Dec 2002
158.222.226.150
Good Westerns are what made our early years so enjoyable. They offered the real spirit of the West, right and wrong, and the good guys always won....which is exactly what they should do!

Eunice Boeve
Phillipsburg, KS
USA
20 Dec 2002
209.64.118.230
I love good westerns, the ones with good story lines, characters, etc... Love the scenery and the horses and cattle scenes as well.

Charles R. Reeves II
Stagecoach, Nevada
USA
20 Dec 2002
67.28.107.62
I am reallllllllly tired of all the junk the movie industry is puting out. I haven't been to the movies in years except to see the Lord of the Rings. Why are the CrossFire Trail, and Monte Walsh films coming out on TV instead of the theater? Can the crap, give me a good WESTERN.

Della Burks
Woodbridge, Virginia
USA
20 Dec 2002
68.86.27.242
I think that there should be ALOT more westerns on TV because they are far, few and in between. Westerns are the most exiciting genre there is. And seeing as there is lack of them should be illegal. I love to watch them and woul like to see more. And the quality of em' r good and should be even greater in the future.

RODRIGO CESAR LUCAS AFONSECA
Houston, TX
USA
19 Dec 2002
200.206.143.70
Western movies are important because they reflect the history of the american nation.

serre jean jacques
bordeaux
France
19 Dec 2002
80.11.105.51
bravo pour votre site .il est dans mes favorits....amities ...bonne annee..jjs
ROUGH TRANSLATION: Bravo for your site. It is among my favorites.

Norm Keech
Overland Park, KS
USA
19 Dec 2002
12.171.33.174
I grew up on the movies of the likes of Tom Mix and Hopalong Cassidy and all the rest of the Western characters and actors. This led me to have greater interest in the history of the U.S. which has been an entertainment source. We have very few good movies today of any subject.

Richard A. Dandrea
Houston, TX
USA
19 Dec 2002
66.140.28.111
Capturing the hardships of life in the old west gives me a connection with my country's history. It makes me feel good to know that our forefathers had what it took to tame a wild land. How can you top movies like "The Searchers" and the TV show "Lonesome Dove?"

Sonia Fischer
Randall, Mn.
USA
19 Dec 2002
64.90.77.51
Yes we do need more then one a year

Yipee! Jeanes
Chicago, IL
USA
18 Dec 2002
152.163.189.234
We need Westerns, now more than ever, because urban sprawl has lowered morale across our country. Keep up the wonderful work! Thanks and Happy Trails....

Kay Crane
Newark, Ohio
USA
18 Dec 2002
166.102.247.53
Whats your Dream? welcome to Hollywood???? Make our dreams come true, let us relive the past, put us in log cabins, riding horses, sitting on stumps by a river, cooking over open fires, living life under the stars, sharing hearts in an open decent manner, give us the wild critters and thier antics and the conquest of those early American families that knew what contentment and happiness truly were. I for one am so sick and tired, of rapping, gangsters, death, terrorist, death, rapes, kids abused, dope, although its reality for today, refresh my hopes by letting us revisit yesterday.

Jim
Glade Spring, Va
USA
18 Dec 2002
216.24.68.144
More westerns please. I am desperate.

Donna Kissick
Junction City, KY
USA
17 Dec 2002
207.246.80.191
Because Westerns Are Great Movies!!!

Vanessa Madison
Primm Springs, TN
USA
17 Dec 2002
64.12.96.237
Please give us more Westerns!! I want my children to be able to watch a Western that they will love and enjoy. Everyone has grown up watching Westerns and now they are a dying breed that needs to be put back on television and in the movie theaters!! Please bring Westerns back!!!!!!

Tami Forbes
Thornton, CO
USA
17 Dec 2002
32.97.110.142
Bring back the westerns!!! Good quality, good values. Good vs evil and good always wins. Beautiful scenery and beautiful horses. Believable plots. Awesome action, great entertainment.

JOHN ALDER
GUERNSEY, C.I
England
17 Dec 2002
205.188.209.109
just more WESTERNS PLEASE

John Brooks
Tacoma, Wa
USA
17 Dec 2002
64.12.96.7
I would very much Like to see more Westerns and fewer Doctor and Police shows.

Les McCullin
Pryor, Ok
USA
16 Dec 2002
205.240.136.240
We need more western! Especially like the ones Tom Selleck has done on TNT.

Ralph & Maxine Jones
Midland, SD
USA
16 Dec 2002
64.251.161.16
We need more QUALITY, westerns based upon the massive quantity of real stories available from the first person histories such as will be found in (especially) the small, old communities throughout the west (to the west of the 100th meridian). They could be humorous, which we need more of, uplifting, which we most certainly need more of in movies, based on real people and demonstrating success through personal perseverance. I have read many such, and am descended from people who lived those stories. I have neither read nor heard at my grandparents feet, many stories of the strong,wealthy westerner abusing the weaker such as is frequently the scenario portrayed. That needs to be demonstrated to right the injustice of such portrayal in the past. Such stories as in the journals and local history books in the west could be exciting and even morally clean as most people then were moral people striving to build good communities in which to raise their families. Watching the old westerns on TV is what gets my real cowboy and ranch owner husband through the ordeal of monthly bookkeeping and the annual marathon of tax preparation. Some new ones would be greatly appreciated.

LOUISE JAMES
MERIDIAN, MS
USA
16 Dec 2002
172.129.16.228
I'VE ALWAYS LIKED WESTERNS. WISH THEY WOULD MAKE THEM AGAIN BUT WITHOUT ALL THE DIRTY WORDS. I CAN VISIT THE WEST THROUGH THEM AND THEY RELAX ME TO WATCH A GOOD WESTERN. ON WITH THE WESTERNS,PLEASE.

ROBINSON DELACRUZ
ALEXANDRIA, VA
USA
16 Dec 2002
63.164.145.161
VERY OFTEN I LOOK BACK TO MY CHILDHOOD IN CHICAGO AND THE MANY NIGHTS AND SATURDAY MORNINGS WATCHING MY FAVORITE WESTERNS E.G THE RIFLEMEN,BONANZA,ROY ROGERS ETC... WHEN NOT WATCHING THE TELE,WE GATHER AROUND AND READ WESTERNS OR LISTENED TO OUR DAD READ THEM FOR US. SUNDAYS WE WOULD SPEND IT AT THE MOVIES WITH DAD WHO LOVED WESTERNS JUST AS MUCH. SO, YES WE DO NEED MORE WESTERNS ON SCREEN AND MORE ACTORS WHO CAN LEAVE AN IMPRESSION IN OUR MINDS AS THOSE LONG GONE. WESTERNS ARE NOT BY FAR GONE OR OUT OF STYLE- THERE JUST TO MUCH HYPE ON OUTOFSPACE SCI-FI AND INTER GALACTIC MANIA-WHICH AFTER A WHILE GETS BORING WITH THE SAME PLOTS DIFFERENT TITLES. GUYS, LETS SEE MORE ON THE WESTERN HEROES THAT ONCE CAPTIVATED OUR HEARTS AND BROUGHT A LOVE FOR THE WEST. THERE IS SO MUCH THAT HAS NOT BEEN SAID OR PORTRAYED OF THE WEST,SO MUCH MATERIAL TO BE EXPLORED THAT WITH A LITTLE CREATIVITY YOU WIZARDS OF THE SCREEN WOULD HAVE NO PROBLEM FINDING MATERIAL TO WORK WITH. THANK YOU.

Frank H. Meyers Jr.
Oakmont, Pa.
USA
16 Dec 2002
209.195.140.185
We definately need quality western films instead of the trash that hollywood now puts out as entertainment.

luiz roberto costa
Ipameri
Go
Other
14 Dec 2002
200.163.116.58
I love the westerns,unfortunately Hollywood doesn't think like me. please make more westerns.

James Mason
Pueblo, CO
USA
14 Dec 2002
67.235.43.155
How was the West Won? By making more Westerns! Come on, Let's see more Westerns!!!

Mary Matli
Paulden, Arizona
USA
13 Dec 2002
24.116.228.84
Let's not forget our heritage.

Tom and Edie Murray
Charlotte, MI
USA
13 Dec 2002
65.148.87.85
We love the west, as our ancestry, our roots, and our personalities are all geared to the old time traditions, where good overcomes evil, and you can smell the smoke of the campfires, etc. A good western takes us all to a place where we can be heroes and or the hero's girl. A good western depicts our land and countryside as it was in the early days, where the struggle for law and order and putting food on the table were top priority. God and man worked together for good, lets have more good westerns, with lots of heart to them. thank you for letting us spout off.

Connie & Mark Huft
PRiest River, ID
USA
13 Dec 2002
4.18.250.130
Real cowboys are a dying breed, but the western spirit is alive and well!! MAKE MORE AUTHENTIC FILMS, With well developed characters and plots, like Larry McMurtry books!!!!! WE BUY THEM, AND GO TO THE MOVIES A BUNCH!!

Tim
Charlotte, NC
USA
13 Dec 2002
205.188.209.109
Most Definitely, This American wants MORE WESTERNS ! I grew up in Spain and even there they love movies "del Oeste". I have recently been introduced to the western genre in books and love it. This has also sparked more enthusiasm and desire for western film as well, HONESTLY, AMERICA DOES NEED MORE WESTERNS !!! thanks.

Kathy Shane
Kempton, Pa
USA
13 Dec 2002
63.214.197.52
Western, good westerns, are timeless, they are part of the history of our great country, about the pioneers, cowboys, ranchers, outlaws, brave women, American Indians and the land itself. Hollywood, give us more GOOD westerns!

Robert Beene
Eakly, OK
USA
12 Dec 2002
164.58.149.97
We need and want more westerns that our children can watch. Both my boys love Westerns and have about worn out my John Wayne collection.

Jerry Mike Bruhnke
Honolulu, HI
USA
10 Dec 2002
198.81.26.205
Sirs: I and my many friends no longer go to the movies because there are no real Westerns to see and enjoy. If you want to get a larger segment of the viewing public into your movie theaters, you will have to produce several great Westerns for these, larger than life, Western movie lovers. Thank you


Helen Wamsley
Mercer, Pa
USA
10 Dec 2002
65.244.108.236
Please Hollywood take into consideration that there are many whom would like to see you produce and show more westerns in your movies. It is part of our american culture that so many do not know much about. It is time for the younger generations learn more on the west the pride of the cowboys and cowgirls It can show the younger generations how devoted so many were to finding a new life for themselves by traveling west to the new frontier so to speak and how they would band together to keep their homes safe and treat others with respect.


Sandra Kruger
Scottsdale, AZ
USA
09 Dec 2002
216.27.215.229
Well, seeing as how Space Cowboys wasn't REALLY a western...we're hankering for a real shoot-em-up movie with real horses, some rodeo action, maybe even some Native American rodeo action. Shoot it up on the Navajo Rez...where much of the country is still in it's natural form. Something with clean language, morals, principles, and apple pie. Maybe another funny one like City Slickers, although I preferred young Guns I & II myself!


Jeffery A Richman DVM
Cleveland, Ohio
USA
09 Dec 2002
205.188.209.74
Never enough Westerns. We need to see the good guys win again.


DONNA MOTTO
CAMDEN, WV
USA
09 Dec 2002
205.188.209.74
MY FAMILY HAS BEEN WAITING FOR A GOOD WESTERN FOR YEARS. WE GREW UP ON WESTERNS, WE ADD TO OUR COLLECTION OF MOVIE VIDEO'S OFTEN, CHOOSING MOVIES WHO HAVE BEN JOHNSON IN THEM. WE LOVE REAL COWBOYS, ONES WHO KNOW WHAT A HORSE IS ABOUT. ARE THERE ANYMORE OUT THERE LIKE HIM????


Linda Sever
Fort Collins, CO
USA
09 Dec 2002
129.82.62.11
There is a severe shortage of good westerns being put out by Hollywood. Personally, I would pay money to see a good western rather than the horror(ible) flicks being produced. It's truly a shame that most of the really good westerns are "made for TV" movies only. It's bad enough that ranching and agricultural life are becoming extinct occupations, don't compound this loss with ignoring the existence of this way of life by not making quality westerns. I realize that Sam Elliott, Katherine Ross, and Tom Selleck to name a few don't want to be typecast in only westerns. However, they personify these characters in a very heroic way. Please,don't let our heritage disappear in mindless teen movies or horror flicks.


Dana Sphar
Ellensburg, WA
USA
09 Dec 2002
12.144.139.239
YES, YES, YES!!! MORE WESTERNS!!! MORE SAM ELLIOT PLEASE!!


Susan J. Sherwood
Niles, Mi
USA
09 Dec 2002
216.65.170.43
We have so many fine actors that have done westerns, who have not had a recent movie. How about Scott Glenn, Sam Elliott, Tom Selleck, etc. There is a huge market out there for new westerns. Thank you.


Darlene Wuolle
Horicon, WI
USA
09 Dec 2002
64.118.36.169
We need to get back to the basics of life, even if it is only in the movies!


Rochelle Nicholson
Tampa, FL
USA
08 Dec 2002
67.243.71.95
Please make MORE quality western movies..perhaps remakes of some of the Zane Grey stories.


Robert Lee
F
OH
USA
08 Dec 2002
66.119.33.167
Please more good Westerns


Bill McLendon
Stone Mountain, Ga
USA
08 Dec 2002
152.163.189.98
Because a lot of people love them.


Chris & Peter Warner
Stanford le Hope, Essex
England

08 Dec 2002
195.93.32.11
We just want to see some decent new westerns made!!


Esther Shomper
Jacksonville, FL
USA
08 Dec 2002
172.170.152.54
We want more Westerns!!! We want more Westerns!!! We want more Westerns!!!


Chris Gordon
Donaghadee
N. Ireland

08 Dec 2002
213.122.84.140
Love the Cowboy way of life and what it stands for. Current movies contain to much bad language, sex and violence. Western movies can be watched by all the family.


Victor T. Anderson
Estes Park, Co
USA
08 Dec 2002
64.156.55.62
I go to maybe 1 or 2 movies a year, because what is out there is mostly trash. I would go to a western with any kind of a plot that features a hero, his or her nemesis, a problem and a solution. I'd particularly enjoy a western musical. The music from the old westerns, whether warbled by the hero or as background music was fun to listen to. Let's have more westerns, please


J. A. Lander
Independence, OR
USA
08 Dec 2002
216.26.17.103
The more the better. I don't go to many movies because not many interest me. A Good Western always interest me.


Pamela Michaud
Limerick, ME
USA
07 Dec 2002
63.114.222.169
I love westerns & there needs to be more made!


Karen Heried
Viroqua, WI
USA
07 Dec 2002
207.190.77.168
Hey! As a student of grandparents who introduced me to the likes of Louis L'amour and Zane Gray and watching John Wayne, Audie Murphy, Gene Autrey, Roy Rogers, and Hoppy, Clint Eastwood, I believe we need to have some real "Back to the good Ol' west" exciting Western movies.


Larry Davis
Englewood, FL
USA
07 Dec 2002
67.243.16.213
A good Western movie would fill the theater with seniors (Baby-boomers). We don't have movies to go to any more


Debbie Tomeski
Vass, NC
USA
07 Dec 2002
63.50.55.5
Wake Up! Give us more Westerns please!!!!!!! Don't let it die!!!!!!!!


Susan Van Alstyne
Malone, NY
USA
07 Dec 2002
12.107.143.180
I would love to see a few new westerns. With todays technology and talent this type of movie would surely be a hit.


Rick D. Adkins
Cushing, Texas
USA
07 Dec 2002
209.39.210.139
There is just nothing like a good western movie for the whole family to sit and watch together. Just as i have sat and watched when I was a child with my parents and my grandparents to.I don't know anyone who doesn't like a good western. Thanks for listening


Sherry Spell
Austin, TX
USA
07 Dec 2002
64.12.96.76
I have a fascination with the old west, after all thats how this country was founded. I am so tired of movies with cussing, blood & guts showing & too much sex in the movies. My son who is 7 & I love to watch old John Wayne westerns. Sure people get killed, but you don't see anything, that's what makes them more of a family thing. I have always loved to watching Bonanza, Rifleman, Wagon Train etc. Lets see some more Westerns before some of the last Western actors are gone.


Dodie
Cutler, Indiana
USA
07 Dec 2002
65.201.194.147
I really miss a Good western movie, seems it's been to long since one came out.Since the Duke passed away they have been to few and far between.


Will & Sandy
Libby, MT
USA
07 Dec 2002
65.197.129.180
Not only do we need more good quality Western movies,,but we need whoever is responsible to release the 20 years of Gunsmoke episodes, 633 or thereabouts?,not to mention wanted:dead or alive,,Wyatt Earp,etc,,etc,,that would satisfy us


Carole Nicolle
New Orleans, La.
USA
07 Dec 2002
66.157.25.14
There could never be another Duke, Roy, Gene...but there are still western heros out there! Sam and Clint and Tom are still around. We need more westerns!! Please!!


Anita Hohl
Greensburg, KS
USA
07 Dec 2002
66.138.112.53
Western movies portray the times that formed most of this country....and if they are done right, can teach children (and grownups!) about true courage,hard work, determination, strength, honor, and respect. We need more of that!! BUT-- not just heavy violence and evil in a western setting!!!


Teresa W. Sihler
Mount Jackson, VA
USA
07 Dec 2002
63.112.229.239
We need more tales of courage and perseverance during the expansion of our country westward.


LaNell Beil
Albany, Mo
USA
07 Dec 2002
Please, more westerns....The ones I have on video are memorized and I need something new and exciting.


brenda wallace
ridgecrest, ca
USA
07 Dec 2002
westerns need....to be a mainstay/to reaffirm what this country, was originated from....and the mentality, that is its roots


Ellen Amos
Glide, OR
USA
07 Dec 2002
It is time to bring back the wholesomeness of a good movie. There is no need for the foul language and blood everywhere. Give us a break!


ROGER JOHNSON
IMPERIAL, MO.
USA
07 Dec 2002
THE ONLY GOOD MOVIE NOW A DAYS IS A WESTERN MOVIE!! I GREW UP WITH THE DUKE AND BEN JOHNSON THE LONE RANGER AND ROY ROGERS. TO ME THESE MEN WERE NOT JUST ACTOR'S BUT REAL COWBOYS, WE SHOULD KEEP THESE MEN'S NAMES ALIVE BY MAKING AS MANY WESTERN MOVIE'S AS POSSIBLE.HOLLYWOOD SHOULD LET TOM SELLECK MAKE MORE LOUIS LAMOUR STORIES INTO MOVIES!! I WILL CLOSE BY SAYING LONG LIVE THE WESTERN!!! GOD BLESS ALL THE OLD MOVIE COWBOYS ,THEY DID THEIR JOB WELL .


Jon Wood
Smithland, Ky
USA
07 Dec 2002
208.18.23.3Children sit on the edge of their seats spellbound as cowboys ride across the screen teaching them of early american history. And how it was or might have been. Western readers and watchers aren't dead: we are at the line shacks just awaitin. Jon Wood


Peter Sheean
Sydney
Australia

07 Dec 2002
Please, Make more Westerns...they are eternal.


George Key
Whitewright, TX
USA
07 Dec 2002
I love westerns. Please make more westerns!


Toni Kavanagh
Norwalk, WI
USA
07 Dec 2002
We just need more good wholesome westerns.


jodie u
billings, mo
USA
07 Dec 2002
we need more westerns, westerns that families can watch together. Westerns with actors like Sam Elliott, Randy Travis, Tom Selleck.


Alex Cullum
Nesbyen, Norway
07 Dec 2002
Westerns are part of the American Culture. Westerns are how we in Europe learned about your beautiful country.


edward r buchanan
langley, wa
USA
07 Dec 2002
Please make some more WESTERNS. At least three a year, you know that the good ones always make money.


Gene and Deb Reimann
Endeavor, WI
USA
07 Dec 2002
Yes, please! More westerns ~ This is real entertainment!


Charles Strickland
Pigeon, WV
USA
07 Dec 2002
Love the John Wayne and Clint Eastwood classics! Bring 'em back! Characters like them are what America should still be made of- not drug dealers, rock stars, or liberal politicians.


Zoonie McLean
Riverton, UT
USA
07 Dec 2002
Need more authentic movies like Tombstone with consultants who know how clothes, guns, props, really were. Maybe Hollywood could consult someone in the know and tell things as close to as they really were for a change. We need more westerns and less movies by guys like Sylvester Stallone.


Tom Pope
Baird, tx
USA
07 Dec 2002
We need more quality westerns, where men are men (Not like the modern sitcoms), ones that the family can watch, and where the good guys win for a change.


Howard Bogus
Florence, Al
USA
06 Dec 2002
I have always watched Westerns and this started in the fourties. We need westerns that are period correct, type of guns, tack clothes and etc.There are other great lawman and otlaws besidies Wyatt Earp and Billy the Kid. I notice a lot of video stores do not carry westerns and I tell them about it. Most recent was the Johnson County War. Hollywood make more Westerns.


Verla
Golden, Co
USA
06 Dec 2002
I grew up watching westerns, and didn't like Dale when she married Roy,he was my hero. I never got over the love of the western way, in fact I write stories now about it , the latest is the story of my great grandfather who was shot in a gun fight in Cow Springs New Mexico in 1886. Lets keep the west alive.


Rickey W Watson
Plainview, Tx
USA
06 Dec 2002
I enjoy a good John Wayne movie ( Western ) all the time I also enjoy Clint Eastwood , Sam Elliott etc.  I do think if they would show more westerns it would bring our kids and thier kids closer together. Without all this other gang and massive violence that they show on tv.


Phyllis nast
Las Cruces, NM
USA
06 Dec 2002
A western is something the whole family can watch. These movies now as an senior citizen, I don't even go to see. And then the movies now are more and more computerized. Please bring back the western.


Carol Copp
Ranchester, WY
USA
06 Dec 2002
We need some good Westerns, we need Heroes that are good and honest like John Wayne, and Sam Elliott.


Sheila M. Hall
Carbondale, CO
USA
06 Dec 2002
I grew up watching westerns on TV with my dad. We watched every one there was. The good guy was always fighting for what was right, the bad guy was just rotten to the core. And you always knew which was which. The good guy wore the white hat! I would like my grandchildren to learn these lessons the way I did, but there are no more TV westerns. But the movies, that's a whole different matter. They could watch the videos over and over again, and learn what's right from what's wrong, without even realizing that was what they were doing. Please, for the children of America (of all ages), make more western films.


Ann Marie Calabrese
Dewey, AZ
USA
06 Dec 2002
Westerns are clean, wholesome entertainment that depects good triumphing over evil. There isn't the senseless violence that todays youth is hooked on. It also shows the Western United States, a beautiful and unusual landscape (when really filmed in the US) to many that will never get to come themselves. Westerns give everyone a feeling of pride in themselves since most can identify with the "everyman" that is most times the hero of the story. When done well, the Western can be as riviting as any other genre.




Gerald w Totman
Spearfish, S.D.
USA
06 Dec 2002
Yes we would love to have all kinds of werterns. Great miss new ones. Thanks


Faith Hopkins
Spartansburg, PA
USA
06 Dec 2002
I want to see more westerns and less car chases, the west is always an adventure for all, old and young.


William R. Smith
canton, oh
Other
06 Dec 2002
I would like to see more realistic westerns, or non-fiction movies about western people.


Jeff D Patterson
Kingwood, TX
USA
06 Dec 2002
Westerns are where most of your tough guy action hero types started. Make more westerns to find the new action heroes for other movies. All the old tough guys are gone or too old.


Lee Stone
Lacombe, LA
USA
06 Dec 2002
Westerns are an important part of our heritage and provide holsome entertainment for most of the population. One only has to look at the great number of western theme books that are continually being published to see that westerns are one of the most popular types of entertainment, not only here, but world wide.


Chas Hamilton
Bellflower, CA
USA
06 Dec 2002
We need more good western films to watch in the movies. Most movies are not worth spending my fixed income on.


Marla Rhoades
Bluff Dale, Texas
USA
06 Dec 2002
Our family loves westerns, we watch the western station all the time and would love to see some good quality - NEW Western, Cowboys, Rodeo Movies


James Lee Weaver Sr.
Danville, VA
USA
06 Dec 2002
Westerns are an important part of our heritage, not only should Hollywood make more westerns, they should also be taught in school. The only way that they can have a good outcome for all ages, especially the younger groups is to make them with good morals, teach honesty, and that the good always wins in the end, and that the law breakers have to pay a price for their actions.


Tink Mercado
Clio, CA
USA
06 Dec 2002
We need more movies about the west; the kind of movies where the good guy wins and the bad guy loses.


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