cowboys

Nothing quites makes praying feel more efficacious than when someone is dying. You tend to pay more attention to words that you normally gloss over.

Saw the new trailer for "3:10 to Yuma" a cowboy flick with Russell Crowe and Christian Bale.



Which looks just as good, if not better, than Crowe's other cowboy movie, the lesser known but surprisingly watchable "The Quick and the Dead" (1995).



My top 10 cowboy movies of all time? Cowboy movies seem to have died off, for the time being.

1. The Magnificent Seven - You can't really lose with Yul Brynner, can you?
2. Tombstone - James hated it when I kept saying every quote every time we watched this.
3. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - with the seminal cowboy soundtrack of all time.
4. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
5. Pale Rider
6. Unforgiven
7. High Plains Drifter
8. The Outlaw Josey Wales - I'm more of a Clint Eastwood guy than a John Wayne guy.
9. Rio Bravo
10. Shane

The last "cowboy" movie of note is "Brokeback Mountain," which I think is indicative of the genre being a little stale. Really hasn't been very many, let alone good, cowboy movies lately. "The Missing?" "Open Range?" "Shanghai Noon?" The nice thing about "3:10" is that it looks like it'll stay within the boundaries of the genre, namely, dudes with funny hats, six shooters, mustaches, horses, whiskey.