More criticism of western movies

[Bob Wright]

Due to my rather poorly condition I've been exposed to more TV than is healthy. But I've got two westen channels, Grit and Outlaw. So here's my observation:

The sound of horse's hooves. riding across the desert sand they "clop" as the same sound as when galloping over hard ground or pavement.

And as men stalk toward each other, their boots crunch in the sandy street like the sound of walking in gravel.

Anybodhy else notice? Or am I just getting crotchedy?

Bob Wright

 

[Wvfarrier]

The running W used to drop the horses makes me crazy

 

[sfhogman]

You can only make so many horsey noises with two coconut halves...

 

[jimbo1096]

A pair of coconut halves make excellent horse hoof noises

 

[blume357]

Yes Bob, you are old and crotchety ... join the crowd.

 

[gnappi]

I also have OTA "Outlaw" and "Grit" (still hoping for a martial arts channel) and I take them with a grain of salt.

From far too many shoot from the hip at very long distance and full gallop handgun kills, to never needing to reload, smokeless gunpowder and wounds that do not get infected it's far and away from reality enough to ignore. One positive thing I found, most of the spaghetti western ricochet sounds seem to have faded into an obscure footnote in western cinematography

 

[Chief 101]

Having been a horseman for many years I cringe at a lot of actors on horseback...mostly treating horses like teenager drive their automobiles....

 

[nvbirdman]

I like watching them spin the cylinder to see if the gun is fully loaded (how do they quickly tell if that's a fired primer), and then shove the gun in the holster without putting an empty chamber under the hammer.

 

[turd]

Yeah, but it still is entertaining and better than watching Soaps. Plus it gives you the chance to use your knowledge and senses to find the inconsistencies in the production and so retain your interest though you may have seen the specific movie or episode several times.

 

[rugerguy]

It is what it is Bob, look at the NEW folks trying to make a "western", Alex Baldwin and the likes............damn,,,,ouch....and sad

 

[artey]

Reminds me of shows where a vehicles on gravel but the tires are always squeeling when they accelerate

 

[XUSNORDIE]

The sound of horse's hooves. riding across the desert sand they "clop" as the same sound as when galloping over hard ground or pavement.

Funny you should mention that Bob.....was watching "Mckenna's Gold" this past weekend and said the same thing. Loved that movie as a kid and hadn't seen it in many years.....now it's just plain goofy.......especially the horses running on sand/dirt sounding like the Budweiser horses coming down the street.

 

[Mike J]

She passed many years ago but my mother used to fuss every time a western was on TV when I was a kid. She was born in '37 & grew up kind of all over the West but her home town was Andrews, Texas & her father was a working cowboy when she was a little girl. She would start fussing about what they showed someone doing in the movie. Then she would say, "That guy is a dude!". Then she would talk about what they were doing wrong & how stupid it was. Growing up where she did, when she did the term dude wasn't a compliment.

 

[Mobuck]

My 'pet peeve' is equipment (guns or tack) that wasn't even invented at the time the movie was supposed to have taken place. It's gotten much worse lately (let's say the past decade) since apparently not even the equipment provider/manager knows the 1894 Winchester wasn't around in 1876 or that stainless steel bits/spurs weren't either.
Not too long ago , I noticed a saddle with the maker's stamp of a saddlery that was in business in north central MO from approximately 1925 to 1973 in a late 1800's era movie. I've also noticed several (TexTan)'Hereford' branded saddles in 'old timey' movies/TV shows.

 

[Yaworski]

The sound of horse's hooves. riding across the desert sand they "clop" as the same sound as when galloping over hard ground or pavement.

In TV land car tires squeal on sand or gravel.
In TV land Glocks make a hammer cocking sound.
In TV land folks who are asystole get revived by a defibrillator.

 

[turd]

Its only a movie. And you know it is, so if it bothers you because your superior knowledge is affronted, change the channel. Its called entertainment, these are not billed as documentaries.

 

[Yaworski]

Probably the only TV shows to have few technical/procedural errors were Dragnet, Adam-12, and Emergency.

If you watch them and pay attention to details, you see the equipment changing from season to season as the police or fire department changed their equipment.

I once read that for Adam-12, the hot sheet that they had clipped to the dash changed every shift. Not every episode, if a show covered three work days, there were three different hot sheets.

Randolph Mantooth said that there was a LA county firefighter/paramedic on set and if he said, "We wouldn't do that .. ." it didn't happen.

For the record, it irks me that Gunnery Sergeant Vince Carter was always addressed as "Sergeant" and not "Gunny."

 

[JackBull]

Similarly I laugh every time I hear a Glock "get cocked" on detective shows.

 

[JackBull]

How about in the movie, The Quick and the Dead, Gene Hackman has a perfect hole shot thru him be a 45! You can see daylight thru his chest.

 

[Yaworski]

How about in the movie, The Quick and the Dead, Gene Hackman has a perfect hole shot thru him be a 45! You can see daylight thru his chest.

It was a really big 45.