Welcome to Thursday Movie Picks, a weekly series hosted by Wandering Through the Shelves where each Thursday you have to pick three films to match the week's topic.
This week password is western aka stories involving cowboys, gunfighters, Native American, bandits, bounty hunters, outlaws, and so on. Actually that's not what comes to my mind when I think about westerns. Sergio Leone, Clint Eastwood and Eli Wallach are. Maybe because they were in first westerns I've seen - thank you highschool teacher for that. That being said, even though I liked those films, I went on a different road and picked my favs.
Slow West (2015)
At the end of the nineteenth century, a 16-year-old boy journeys across the American frontier in search of the woman he loves, joining a mysterious traveler and being pursued by an outlaw in the process. I only watched this because of Michael Fassbender, but it turned about to be such a touching and engaging western, even despite its very slow pacing.
The Hateful Eight (2015)
It's winter in Wyoming, and eight travelers, all headed to the town of Red Rock, seek refuge at a stagecoach stopover, and will come to learn that they many not make it to Red Rock after all. I know a lot of people hated this film, I didn't. It is so insanely brilliant I can't help for love it. There's everything I love about Tarantino, from the witty and engaging dialogue, to the sick characters. And the violence, of course.
Dances with Wolves (1990)
After being exiled to a remote western Civil War outpost, a Union Army lieutenant befriend wolves and Native Americans. Kevin Costner's directorial debut is a spectacular, adventurous and romantic film that tells a story about Native Americans so beautifully. It's a "what if" story, but it's still truly beautiful.
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