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 Posted: Mon Aug 27th, 2007 02:17 am
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 I hear you, Basecat, about modern westerns such as Hopalong Cassidy and Gene Autry, and the Lone Ranger.  I was a kid then and I couldn't stand them either.  I have to think. Maybe the Lone Ranger didn't have aspects of modern life such as phones and cars.

Anyway, by modern western, I mean a storyline with the same tradition of the original westerns. "No Country for Old Men" meets that definition for me because the same story could be moved back into the 1800s and just change cars for horses, drugs for stolen money from a bank or stolen gold from a gold mine, etc and change the clothing and the story could fit right in.

By the way, if 3:10 to Yuma and Jesse James are box office successes, I bet Holly- wood will put out a bunch of westerns in the next couple of years until everyone is sick and tired of them. Then they will disappear again.