The Good Guys and the Bad Guys
Posted: January 30th, 2008, 3:56 pm
This is a continuation of a discussion that was started on the General Chat thread. After a review of The Yakuza, it became kind of a one on one about how Mitchum creates a character, mainly based on the Mitchum collection.
Now y'all know me and my opinion of Bobby M-M-M, but the Yakuza was a little too vicious for me, I spent most of my time with my eyes closed. As for The Good Guys and the Bad Guys, I kind of think of it as the flip side of Ride the High Country. In High Country you have two old law-abiding friends working together, but one decides to do a bad thing to finance his old age, and the other tries to stop him. In Good Guys you have two enemies, one good, one bad, but at the end of their 'careers' they decide to work together to get rid of a bad element, but in this case it's with rollicking good fun, slapstick humor, and verbal zingers, as the bad guy turns good.
Mitchum and George Kennedy meld together like salt and pepper as if they had been making movies for years together. But then, isn't that the sign of a couple of fine actors? Besides them, it's all there, the verbal, the slapstick and the silly situations. There's a train situation that WILL have you chortling at the very least.
So, if you happen to run across that discussion, I'm telling you here, to go ahead and see The Good Guys and The Bad Guys, I'm sure you will enjoy yourselves.
BTW - Miss Goddess - I don't know what the Tall T is either!!! And what you said about Maureen's character is very much how I felt about Geraldine Page in Hondo - If you grew up on the prairie, you should know at least how to ride a horse western style as well as shoe a horse.
Anne
Now y'all know me and my opinion of Bobby M-M-M, but the Yakuza was a little too vicious for me, I spent most of my time with my eyes closed. As for The Good Guys and the Bad Guys, I kind of think of it as the flip side of Ride the High Country. In High Country you have two old law-abiding friends working together, but one decides to do a bad thing to finance his old age, and the other tries to stop him. In Good Guys you have two enemies, one good, one bad, but at the end of their 'careers' they decide to work together to get rid of a bad element, but in this case it's with rollicking good fun, slapstick humor, and verbal zingers, as the bad guy turns good.
Mitchum and George Kennedy meld together like salt and pepper as if they had been making movies for years together. But then, isn't that the sign of a couple of fine actors? Besides them, it's all there, the verbal, the slapstick and the silly situations. There's a train situation that WILL have you chortling at the very least.
So, if you happen to run across that discussion, I'm telling you here, to go ahead and see The Good Guys and The Bad Guys, I'm sure you will enjoy yourselves.
BTW - Miss Goddess - I don't know what the Tall T is either!!! And what you said about Maureen's character is very much how I felt about Geraldine Page in Hondo - If you grew up on the prairie, you should know at least how to ride a horse western style as well as shoe a horse.
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Anne