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Summary: Deserves 10 stars!
Review: What can you say about Clint Eastwood's westerns except, great! His movies (acting and directing)changed the whole look and feel of this genre. This is definitely my favorite western, heck it's probably my favorite movie...period. Josey Wales is based on the novel by Forrest Carter, "Gone to Texas". After reading the book Clint knew he had to make the movie and he did an excellent job of capturing the spirit of the novel. The DVD transfer is very good. It was like watching it for the first time when I saw the DVD after the VHS version. This is what westerns are supposed to be so... "are you gonna get this video or whistle Dixie"? BUY IT!
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Summary: Greatest Western Ever
Review: In my opinion, this is the greatest western movie ever made. No one makes a better western than Clint Eastwood and he outdid himself on this one. The scene at the end with Ten Bears is classic. This one has some of the best movie lines ever including "The hell with those guys, buzzards gotta eat same as worms".
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Summary: Great movie
Review: Simply one of the best westerns ever made. Im just wondering why the DVD doesn't have the two great documentaries that the VHS did?
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Summary: One of Eastwood's finest hours
Review: In recent years, Clint Eastwood's "The Outlaw Josey Wales" has been elevated to a higher plain than it occupied when released in summer 1976. Praised by a handful of critics, the film did well at the box-office but really acquired a following through no less than six highly rated airings on NBC, ABC, and CBS. Now it's often considered Eastwood's finest hour as director and star, even surpassing his Oscar winning "Unforgiven" in some eyes. Among its fans was the late Orson Welles who praised it as one of the finest Westerns ever made, and praised Eastwood as a director worthy of notice long before it was fashionable to do so. In 1996, Eastwood's fifth film as a director was even recognized by the Library of Congress when it was added to the National Film Registry, that collection of films deemed historically, artistically, and/or sociologically important and deserving of protection from tampering by anyone but the original director. At first glance, I found it overlong and meandering, enlivened only occasionally by some trademark Eastwood gunplay. But if it's a little short on the action for which Eastwood made his name, repeated viewings make it clear that there is much more happening beneath the surface. The Outlaw Josey Wales is very much a film about community and trying to find a place in one. Josey Wales is an outlaw only because he avenged the death of his family at the hands of murderous Union soldiers. Now a hunted man, this peaceful farmer is an Angel of Death wandering the west in search of vengeance but also a place to call home. Its scope is much bigger than the revenge tale at its center, and the film represents an important step in Eastwood's maturation as a director. Beautifully photographed, splendidly acted (especially by John Vernon), and capably directed, "The Outlaw Josey Wales" is one of Eastwood's finest hours (although "Unforgiven" is superior in my book), and one of the finest hours for the western, as well.
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Summary: One of Clint's Best
Review: My only complaint with Outlaw is that it drags on a bit too long in the middle, particularly when Josey and his wounded Bushwacker companion are trying to flee capture. Otherwise this is an excellent movie. My favorite scene is when Josey Wales confronts Ten Bears and delivers a great libertarian message "Governments don't live together, people live together. With governments you don't always get a fair word or a fair fight" and Ten Bears replies "It is sad that governments are chiefed by the double tongues". The whole movie in fact has a libertarian theme, being about ordinary people who just want to live on a plot of land of their own and just be left alone. Also good is the closing scene with Fletcher, his former comrade in arms. For those who like gun battles, Outlaw has perhaps one of the highest body counts in any Western. This film deserves to be called a classic. My only question is this: when Wales rides off in the end, are we to assume he is going back to the ranch now that he knows he is going to be left alone? I like to think so.
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Summary: A DVD review
Review: The picture and sound are very clear for the age of the film. Included are some very good production notes that gives some funny insights into the making of the film. About a dozen trailers for various Westerns are included and comparing the older trailers to the newer ones is interesting. Most of the trailers are from the early 70's, two from the 90's and one from the 80's. This DVD is a must for any Western collection.
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Summary: Dyin' ain't much of livin' boy
Review: This is hands down the best 'reality' based western ever made. You can't help but be carried into the scarred and battered world of Josey Wales. If you haven't seen it, you owe it to yourself to view this movie.*Warning* lots of tobaccie spittin'
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Summary: FORGET MY NAME !
Review: Having seen PALE RIDER and UNFORGIVEN not so long ago, I'm very amazed by the numerous similitudes one can find in THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES with these two movies Clint Eastwood has directed a few years later. In fact, both movies begin where THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES ends. After his last fight, Josey will change his name and become the unknown, the pale rider who will defend the gold diggers 9 years later. The scars of the preacher will betray him. Then William Manny, in UNFORGIVEN, will try in vain to hide his bloody past as a killer. These three westerns form a unique trilogy in motion pictures history and establish Clint Eastwood as a director of the value of John Ford or King Vidor. The high quality of the image of this DVD reminds us also that Bruce Surtees is one of the best american cinematographers. Last but not least, you will find here trailers of Eastwood's other westerns and of some other westerns. Great idea. A DVD full of religious reminiscences.
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Summary: Needed Change
Review: At I time when all westerns seemed to have the same beginning, middle and end. Along came Josey Wales a gritty, different kind of western which gave both humor and adventure. Characters we could identify with and a hero that didn't where white and sport a black mask. Not the best western ever made, simply the best movie ever made.
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Summary: A classic to end all classics. Haunting.
Review: This is an epic about how quickly life sometimes changes for an ordinary person. Watch it, you won't be disappointed.
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