Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys. | Young Guns [Blu-ray]

The Forgotten One | Young Guns [Blu-ray] | Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland

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	• Young Guns [Blu-ray] Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland Lions Gate, 2007 average customer review:based on 74 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Great Movie

This is a great movie i watched it like five hundred times last year. I loved it! It was so funny and i love guns and stuff like that! So i watched it and watched it and watched it...Now i wont watch it because i have watched it so much! But i have to admit it is REALLY GOOD!!!

Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys.

YOUNG GUNS isn't a typical "classical" Western that were massed produced in the 1950s and 1960s. Nor is it like the darkly tragic Westerns of the 1970s. In fact, about the only thing that YOUNG GUNS shares with Westerns of the past is that just about all of them like to mess around with and screw up historical accuracy. The movie also has a terrible soundtrack (usual for movies in the 80s) which distracts from one's interest in the film.

However, despite it's flaws, YOUNG GUNS remains one of the best Westerns from the "modern" era (after Star Wars) and is still entertaining to this day. The movie does portray events in Billy the Kid's life that have been overlooked in many movies about his life, e.g. the murder of Tunstall and the Linoln County Wars. It also stars a cast of actors that at the time of filming were considered by many women to be "hotties". Despite their sex appeal, these actors were able to bring to life some difficult characters in a totally believable and memorable fashion.

The film moves at a believable pace and is full of action and gunfights. Athough the film is full of cheesy dialogue, the movie does have some great one-liners and memorable scenes (e.g. killing the man in the outhouse and the draw with the man in the bar). I hadn't seen the film in over ten years and after watching it recently, I was impressed by how entertaining and interesting the movie is. Of course, it may also remind mothers of all the reasons why they shouldn't let their babies to grow up to be cowboys.

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The Forgotten One

Young Guns was a film that wasn't appreciated at its time. Sure it made 45 million dollars in 1988, but sometimes profit is overlooked by the quality of the film. Everytime I watch Young Guns it makes me smile. The excellent cast(except Charlie Sheen) was outstanding. But the performance by Emilio Estevez was one step higher. His protrayal as "Billy the Kid" was phenomenal. The scene where Billy taunts the man in the bar, and then shoots him, was hilarious. Even though Young Guns was overlooked, in my eyes it will never be forgotten.

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A fun movie

This is a pretty good film from the 80's, which is widely hailed as a "bratpack" western. But if you look below the surface, and at what is really going on in this movie it provides some interesting counterpoints to the mainstream interpretation of the film.

The story itself is partly a traditional coming of age story, but the lessons taught are strictly late 20th century (despite the setting). There are huge themes of searching for a purpose and a place, the almost unbearable uncertainty of life in a world that seems so intent on running life its own way and then our "Regulators" who are not really "regulating" anything except the chaos and carnage they're causing.

The metaphor of a "whirlwind" is used repeatedly throughout the film, and it hints at the unstoppoable sense of alienation those born between 76 and 80 feel towards the rest of the world. There is a great loss of identity here that hints at the same nerve Nirvana's Cobain would later tap into musically.

Traditional notions of family, morality and sanity are thrown aside and instead the characters develop from their own initial world views into something of their own... "pals". Whatever that means.

My own personal overanalysis aside, watch this flick for fast paced gun fights, some great one liners ("he was hackin' on me" and "no, no, no... it's 'you and I'" come to mind). Not to mention Jack Palance as an over the top stereotypical Irish gangster villain. And a great peyote scene that shows some people (Dirty Steve and Billy Come to mind) should NOT use drugs. For Chavez and Doc, it's an illuminating experience that shows not all drug use is "bad".

All in all this film is one of my favorite flicks to date.

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Young Guns

Maybe Marshall Fine ought to READ a little of the Billy the Kid and Lincoln County war history before condeming something he obviously knows nothing about. His high point, the "old reprobate" character of John Henry Tunstall (played by Terrance Stamp), was a actually a young Englishman and considered to be "open, sincere and public spirited," before he was murdered by the Murphy-Dolan faction, which initiated the Lincoln County war. No, the movie is not historically acurate and does make use of brat pack "star" types to play the roles in question. What do you expect from Hollywood? Other than that, they are strong actors and do a good job with the script they had to work with.

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