He was phenomenal.



And I will shamelessly flood this thread with The Duke. He is unquestionably my favorite actor. I am an unabashed John Wayne fan boi. And right about now I think we could all use a bit more John Wayne in our lives.

"The hell there ain't!"


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Good luck finding them on streaming services.

I downloaded some hot garbage app called 'Tubi' so I could find a few seasons of QI and the it had Big Jake and Red River (colorized, so...y'know...worse). True Grit is on Netflix.

But it's 'bout damn near impossible to find a decent John Wayne catalog right now.
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From some of my all time favorites (Casablanca was already done):










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Glory is a movie that I absolutely love and absolutely cannot re-watch.

Seen it beginning to end twice and it's just an incredible film. And I have no desire to watch it again; just a heart-breaker all around.
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Glory is my No. 2 favorite movie of all time, right behind Casablanca. That ending.... fuck. I've never seen another movie in the theater that absolutely blew me away like that. I remember walking out to the car in a daze.
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Oh I know. Thankfully I have an OK collection on DVD that gets revisited on a fairly regular basis. I check the stream services every so often to see if any thing new has been added. Prime actually has quite a few currently, though they are mostly from his B collection. I rewatched The Fighting Kentuckian a few nights back which I haven't seen in years. And they have just recently added Sands of Iwo Jima which, along with a couple of others, has disappeared from my collection over the years.

I really need to go back to building that collection with some blu-rays so I do not have to rely on streaming services.
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I'm not sure what alternate universe I grew up in, but in said universe they showed us that movie at school when I was in 4th or 5th grade. I cannot imagine kids seeing that in elementary school these days. I remember thinking "woah" and then not watching it again until my mid 20s because it was just damn heavy. I figured I'd see if time changed it or me.

Nooooope. Still as incredible and gut-wrenching as I remembered it being.

Just the damn soundtrack will get to you.



I'm all about recognizing its greatness but that movie's just a rough one.
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A few more:










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Best outlaw/western movie of all time, I lost track of how many times I’ve watched it a looong time ago
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4th or 5th grade? Damn. I can see why it fucked you up so much. It messed me up and I would have been 24 when it came out.
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