If you don’t like Brandon de Wilde, fine, but 1) there’s no way he’s “the most undeserving Oscar Nominee of all time.” There are much worse nominees, not to mention WTF nominations for technical awards that seem to be picked out of a hat.

Well I suppose the most undeserving nominee is probably the editor of Bohemian Rhapsody, and he admitted it too. (I think.)
Worse acting nominees though…well, I never saw Scent Of A Woman and I know you hate that one, but what are the others?

2) He’s kind of the movie’s raison d’etre, since he’s the audience stand-in who sees Shane as a b-movie Western hero in what turns out to be a 1950s post-My Darling Clementine “adult western” about how the old west needs to die. Which I understand to be what André Bazin was slamming (although that’s only “extrinsic to the genre” in the sense that it’s commenting on it self-consciously).

I guess he did a great job yelling “Shane, come back!”

Weird that you compared it Unforgiven which it doesn’t really make me think of (maybe Elijah junior’s death? Or the insertion of an “audience” character into the story?) because Clint >Eastwood actually remade Shane as Pale Rider, a movie that I’ve not been able to convince myself to like.

I did learn while reading the reviews that Pale Rider is basically an unofficial remake of Shane but I haven’t seen it. I was thinking about the whole “deglamorization of violence” thing, but yes there are other movies that did this too.

-Disagree on Jack Palance, that’s an aspect of the movie I’m all in on

Have you seen Palance play Dracula? He did once.

-Although the women still have makeup, this is otherwise supposed to be one of the most authentic westerns in terms of costumes and sets. I don’t demand authenticity and this is a somewhat weird movie to turn out to have so much authenticity in it, but it gives the movie a distinct look. It has appropriately muddy streets, instead of the dusty streets we see in most westerns. I’ve seen it pointed out that only Jack Palance has beltloops, which were only a thing on baseball pants back then.

I didn’t know that about the belt loops. I think the most amusing frequent goof is when women in period pieces have shaved armpits, which wasn’t a thing until 1915 I’ve been told.

If you saw it in widescreen, you’re required to rewatch it in 4:3. It played in theaters in both aspect ratios and I’ve streamed it in both aspect ratios. But 4:3 is the “real” aspect ration, the widescreen is a crop and is clearly inferior.

Ooooohhhhkay.....well no offense but that’s probably not going to be happening any time soon.

I hope you didn’t watch the Disney Plus stream that redubs “Robert E. Lee was trash” as “climate change is a hoax.”

Uh.....is this for real? I don’t have Disney Plus anyway (rarely watch any Disney stuff anyway.)

I don’t think that many people like Last Tango In Paris much anymore. I thought it was okay, and I bet I would like it less now.

It only has 85 external reviews on IMDb, which I always consider a bit telling for any once-acclaimed film. The Wild One, which I’m watching now, has a mere 62. I would say any genuine “classic” movie having less than 100 reviews is sort of shocking.

Band Of [Offensive term for Romani People] - Machine Gun is a masterpiece and one of Hendrix’s greatest tracks. The rest of it…I like the sound, but the songs aren’t that good. The band are good musicians, but Miles is obnoxious on vocals. Hendrix thought so too, and cut out alot of his scatting. you can hear the complete versions on the “Songs from Groovy Children” box set. I’m not sure that Hendrix was otherwise unhappy with the music, so much as he wasn’t enthusiastic about working on the album because they didn’t have alot of choice >in the matter and it was just to fulfill a contract.
I love “noisy” Hendrix, but recordings like this show that he was amazing even without all the pyrotechnics.

I am going to do the other live Hendrix stuff this year (Isle of Wight, Woodstock, Monterey Pop) but right now am doing South Saturn Delta and First Rays Of The New Rising Sun. I did know that he did the album to fulfill a contract.

I like the album very much but I think that it’s _over_rated. The idea that it’s not very good is one you probably got from Babble/The WRC. It’s generally pretty beloved. On Rate Your Music it’s a 4.00, higher than Axis.

Okay, that’s a possibility if it’s rated higher than Axis. That’s, uh, disgusting to me. I adore Axis.