Drinker's Extra Shots - Pale Rider 

The preacher would have a multicolored overcoat, with green hair and painted fingernails. He cries often and Meghan and her mom would save the day by outshooting Stockburn and his deputies.

Don't lose hope, Denzel Washington still has decades of work in him...if he can keep his patience with Hollywood.

@@shrapnel77 Congratulations, some woke idiot just stole your idea, is probably hammering an outline right now, and he/she/whatever-they-identify-as will pitch it to the fools in Hollywood...

Yea he would get kicked in the balls by feminazis a lot

@@shrapnel77 😂🤣🤣😔

Yeah, i did to some degree feel that Unforgiven fit Josey Wales better than the Man With No Name.

Came here to say just this. The fact that Clint Eastwood both stared in and directed several of the best westerns ever made shows just how much he understood the genre. He treated like true art rather than cheap trashy entertainment like so many of his contemporaries did.

@@demonkingbadger6689 Because of Missouri?

@@need-to-know- heh, i actually didnt think of that. More the feel of the character, William Munny had an anger to him boiling underneath. Josey Wales similarly. The Man With No Name, just didnt quite have that same edge. He generally didnt have that boiling anger, at least not as consistently as the other 2. The Man With No Name tended to be more in control and professional to me. Just my take, anyway. Edit: i can also see from her description, a kind of kindness in Munny's dead wife, as the woman Josey Wales saved and hooked up with (the character name is escaping at the moment)

Are you gonna pull your pistols or whistle Dixie.

Though when he tosses the bucket of water over the thug with the lit match...he misses the match.

Yawn.

I once used that line in real life, in a similar context. Sadly, I don't think the fool on the receiving end understood the reference.

I can see Inspector Callaghan’s character show a little during the “hickory” fight scene.

"Just put some ice on it..."

Perhaps my favorite scene. For me it really ramped up the supernatural presence of Preacher. Especially when they lock eyes and for the briefest of seconds and Clint's eyes look solid black and hollow. Made me think he was the Angel of Death sent to claim Stockburn, who had previously gunned him down in an attempt to escape his fate.

His eyes tell the whole story; it made my heart race the first time I saw the scene. We will never know why, and that's good.

Not to mention that the "holes" he left on Stockburn match the same "hole" scars that The Preacher has in his back.

My favorite scene was Preacher and LaHood having a drink in Lahood's office. LaHood says, 'Eeh, You're a troublemaker stranger. You spell bad sense in words that start from here to Seeeatle'. Man, he was right! Not about the 'rit'😅 though, lol.

I think Clint plays the same character from High Plains Drifter. An avenging ghost of the Wild West. "WHO ARE YOU??!!"

Pale Rider is a variation of the classic book and movie SHANE-which were massively popular. Highly recommend watching that one…and a drinker review

@@rbu2136 agreed. Pale Rider channels both Shane and High Plains Drifter. A bit of both. With Eastwood in the title role that Alan Ladd played.

@@rbu2136 And the girl isn’t annoying like the boy in Shane

Shaaaaaayyyyyne! Shaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyne!!!!!! Shaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyne!!!! Annoying? You must be crazy. He had the voice of a Peg Bundy Angel

Outlaw Josey Wales was the best!

Right 🤣

Clint Eastwood: the original baba yaga

Stone Fox being exception.

You need to put that saying in quotes and sign it John Wick. 🙂

IT'S THE LAW!

Yeah, talk about painting the town red.😝😝😝

I preferred this over High Plains Drifter. Though similar, I prefer Clint being a reluctant Death over a vengeful Devil.

The Outlaw Josey Wales is excellent too. So many memorable lines.

I was just about to write the same comment

With a supernatural touch, one of his best, in my top 6 westerns.

"Hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away all he's got...and all he's ever gonna have."

"You gonna pull those pistols or whistle Dixie?"

@@dennisryan5586 Best line I've ever seen in a movie, and played to perfection

IIRC, there was a "You know I had to come back" "Yeah" in there

@@rog6725 yeah. That was cool.

Except bronco Billy.

I would utterly and completely be here for a full Drinker review series of Eastwood's western canon.

Awesome Idea, would love to see his take on The Outlaw Josey Wales.

Or all of Eastwood's films in general.

@@From-North-Jersey was that the rodeo one? I dont count those as Westerns.

100%. I watch it every chance I get. It's got everything that is required from a great western without glorification of killing. It's excellent

"it's a livin, Dyin, ain't much of a livin"

Criminally underrated.

Josey Wales is his best for me. Great movie for sure.

@@goji059 👍👍

Well now it is sexist to portray men as men. Only women can be masculine in modern media.

There is nothing wrong with having men shown as hyperactive. That is basically what Napoleon and Alexander were. Hyperactive and very, very ambitious. But yeah men and women being portrayed like overgrown children while kids tend to be portrayed like anything but kids is something Hollywood does not see anything wrong with. I can list examples of that too. But I'd rather forget about them

@@MrDwarfpitcher he didn't just say hyperactive. He said "hyperactive overgrown children". And it's not just one movie... It's the trend.

Also BYE real men like CLINT EASTWWOD

Incompetent bumbling fools who have to have their women come in and save the day. Is that _really_ all they can come up with anymore? 🙄

Eastwood's characters are so fawkin ' menacing that even un-armed, all he has to do is squint and give that facial scowl, and outlaws just drop their guns and run for their fawkin' lives!

@@randynutt5660: As do gang-bangers (Gran Torino).

Hickory, dickory, dock

That was precious.

For its time, High Plains Drifter broke more new ground. Pale Rider kind of refined it.

If I had to guess, I’d think Eastwood believed the High Plains Drifter story could have been told better. I do love that movie, but Pale Rider made the characters more believable, the story more intriguing, and greatly improved the cinematography. And the fact that the two movies end exactly the same way - the hero slowly riding into distance and disappearing - is no coincidence. And similarly, Sarah Belding watches him go by, with almost a longing expression, and Megan sees him leaving and literally says “I love you Preacher”

@@ontheroad5317 Agree. I never really got into Pale Rider because it seemed like a remake. I'll give it a new shot 30 years later

It was what I was hoping for….until we got what we did

Really?

💯💯

What... you mean good?

You watched The Book if Boba Fett!! Hahahahha!!!

Even better version of that concept in High Plains Drifter!

@@c3bhm Actually Pale Rider is a sequel to High Planes Drifter. In High Planes Drifter he's a vengeful spirt punishing those who wronged him. In Pale Rider he's a wandering spirt looking for redemption drawn to the mining camp by Megan's prayers. In both films he covers his wound from being hanged.

@@THX..1138 Now, that is interesting. I had no idea it was meant as sequel to High Plains Drifter, but now it does make sense. I always saw Preacher as the Angel of Death come to claim Stockburn.

@@johngolden3714 Yes. Eastwood has alluded to it many times, but though he directed both films they were made by 2 different studios. So if Eastwood admitted the Stranger and Preacher were the same guy the studio that made High Plains Drifter could sue for infringing on their IP. Any case my takeaway from an interview I seen with Eastwood is the Stranger/Preacher like a lot of the characters in Eastwood's westerns. He was at different times in his life either the good or the bad guy. When he died he was a Lawman doing right, but that didn't make up for his bad past. He was too good for hell and not good enough for heaven. So he was left to wander the Earth a ghost. In High Plains Drifter he saves the town, takes vengeance on the men who killed him and punishes the towns people who did nothing while he was murdered...But he wasn’t made a wandering spirit because of what was done to him, it was because what he had done. So after Hell Town he’s left to continue his purgatory. In Pale Rider he‘s drawn to miners by the girl’s prayers in hope he can atone for his past. Maybe he also came to claim Stockburn. Clearly two had a past that may have included preacher taking some bullets in the back, but Stockburn didn’t kill preacher….Really he was just another man like Preacher used to be. Either way when it’s done Preacher again continues his penance roaming the earth a ghost.

@@THX..1138 Ah, straight for the horses's mouth so to speak. Very interesting bit of cinema history trivia there.

It's biblical heresy but's it's Hollywood heresy storytelling gold. Everybody misinterprets the scriptures and uses the scriptures to manipulate or terrify. And Hollywood puts it on the screen for all to see. We should all fear Jesus, not "the Preacher," Clint Eastwood. But while we wait for Jesus, Eastwood is very entertaining, and irreverent.

One of the best movies for me.

"Buzzards gotta eat, same as worms"

Hell is coming for breakfast.👍🥃

"Dying ain't much of a living"

"The Good The Bad and The Ugly" has to be included to make a mafia-style triumvirate.

And right before that you listen to Joy Division's Unknown Pleasure.

Same here with a glass of whiskey and the fireplace blazing in the background.

And in the heat of summer "High Plains Drifter" of course. It's an obligation for the knowing ones.

That quote sets the movie up beautifully.

Kurt Russel quotes that in "Tombstone" (what a cast that film had!) "You tell him I'm Coming ... and Hell's coming with me!"

I'm sure it's the Drinker's, also.

Whet. Holy shit... I'm that guy!! Arrrgggghhhh

I also loved him in the Larry Cohen films (Q: The Winged Serpent, The Stuff). Fun and weird movies.

I've stopped watching recent movies almost entirely. Recently rewatched China Town by Roman Polanski. Great flick, just didn't like the ending. Other than that it is a movie worth watching over again.

"tiresome hearing about all the failures" Well if looked at by the standards of storytelling and entertainment, then yes, failures. But if looked at as Marxist Intersectional Propaganda and Cultural Vandalism then they are doing a great job. Then it is no longer tiresome but frightening. Especially considering that it is nearly all owned by 6 Multinational Corporations.

The woeful state of modern pop culture can only be fully appreciated by reflecting on movies and music of the past.

There are so many great movies out there through the decades, there's no need to watch the garbage they regurgitate(then basically spit on you for it), for me the 70s is the best though been watching some 50-60s movies. Few years ago I finally found an uncut copy of The Devils, the movie is so good it's hard to believe it was made in 1971.

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one of many

Yeah it's a fantastic film for sure. I prefer The Outlaw Josey Wales but it's great all the same.

Me too. It broadens people to not just look at the art of the last ten minutes as if that were all there is. And with hindsight, it is easy to find classics to talk about, or hidden gems.

Older and "smaller". LOL. You are clealy young. Pale Rider was a BIG DEAL. Its not and never was a "small film". Its not even that old, although i grant you. If you are barely 20 something from the '80s would seem old.

@@jamesmaybrick2001 You got that right. "Kids these days" huh!

Actors like this exist, stories like this exist... but not many movies putting the two together.

@@Kevin-hb7yq yea plenty of actors can still portray real men, but real men are not written into screenplays of today's movies.

@@creed22solar123 Mainly 'Wa-men' feature these days but it will change for the better at some point.

There are so few actors today and the ones we do have are aging and retiring. TV / movies / the visual medium is dead as art. Now we have RU-vid activists, who are actors, but not artists, because activism requires acting, but precludes art. Acting without art is just an expression of "lying."

Classy is always in style.😄

Same

Do check out Young Guns 1 & 2, they were MTV era westerns for Gen X kids. Mayb not classic westerns, but it's a guilty pleasure for that time.

Same here. They are amazing

@@leadsin99er Young Guns 1 & 2 has classic status imo. Great casting and Emilio Estevez at the top of his game as Billy the Kid is fun to watch. 💯

Break heart pass is one of Bronson's best imo.

Bronson movies are great I've been watching a bunch on tubi and they are so entertaining

@@natestathes I'd never heard of that one. Thanks for the heads-up. Will watch it.

@@c3bhm it's free on RU-vid

If you like Bronson, don't miss "Hard Times"...

Try Robert Altman's "McCabe & Mrs. Miller". A similar basic storyline and setting, but told realistically. How an anti-hero helps build a mining village into a real community, in spite of himself. It really is a story of a town getting the hero it deserves, not the hero it needs.

High Plains Drifter

The Outlaw Josey Wales is probably my favorite western of all time, followed closely by Jeremiah Johnson. Check that one out too.

Try Joe Kidd. Another passed over Eastwood western that's more than worth it.

@@arobb4481 I’ll watch Jeremiah Johnson for sure

@@vogsphere2719 I never heard of Joe Kidd, I’m curious now

@@chucksenhowzen9740 Well worth the watch. It has John Saxon, Dick Van Patten, James Wainwright, Robert Duvall and of course Clint.

Whenever someone says my hero or the like i always want to puke

@@jackburton8352 that sounds uncomfortable you should probably get that checked out

@@arafat2924 Having hero's makes you weak that's why we have an infestation of woke snowflakes today who are useless members of society. Imagine actually living in a time that this film depicts. You think anyone cares about pronouns or feelings in such a time? Grow up

@@jackburton8352 Just let fly, no one gives a rat to ass.

@@stevewhite3424 Why comment then?

It's a good move, but it's as subtle as a brick to the head.

It also contains one of the most memorable lines ever in cinema; "You're gonna look awfully silly with that knife stuck up your ass!" LOL, that one goes right up there with Eli Wallach's immortal delivery in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly; "You're the son of a thousand fathers, all bastards like you!"

Great observation I see so many Parallels in the characters of these two movies also. Clint Eastwoods character (High plains) is told that he should be careful because he is a man who makes other men afraid, at which he responds “ It’s what men know about themselves inside that makes them afraid.” Could the Western be dying out because the modern day man is turned off by it , could that be because it makes him uncomfortable to see men who are not controlled by fear?

@@lonniewalthall1971 "Modern day man". Do you mean the latest generations, who don't know what they are and are told how to think by keyboard warriors with bigger insecurities than they have.

No I mean men that don’t believe in the bill of rights, and would give up what their fore fathers bleed and died for, to a government or anyone to be taken care of rather than taking care of themselves. Men that would give up their rights for the supposed good of all, never realizing that that also means giving up responsibility, and I believe that those men are portrayed even in the movie, so no I’d say that they have always existed, and maybe there isn’t anything that modern about them.

Law and Order was a great show. But the only seasons I needed to own were with Moriarty, from the first episode to the brilliant last episode.

@@darkpatches Hear,Hear

Hear hear!!!!!

Seemed to have some very different attitudes between the two movies. Of course, he WAS pretty p**sed off at the whole town in HPD, while the folks in PR had never done him any harm.

I second that !!!

Totally agree, High Plains Drifter is certainly the spiritual father of Pale Rider, with a nod to Shane as well. And I'm perfectly fine with that.

Clint Eastwood, has said in interviews that his character in Pale Rider is in fact a ghost. The spirit of a man killed by the hired "sheriff" Stockburn. The pattern of bullet wounds you see on Preachers body exactly mirrors that of the bullet pattern he shoots into Stockburn, at the end.

I would trade anything to watch Top Gun: Maverick with my father. Word of advice, never skip a phone call or cancel time with your dad or mom.

Go for it, ThatFilmBuff!

I would love to see those two collaborate on movies. The Drinker and The Rageaholic.

True. except for one scene halfway through when the far too young supporting actress tells the aging star and director that she wants him to 'teach' her some 'stuff' Edit: other than that it's really good

@@plainsimpletailor402 As the Preacher noted she's a kid and has no idea what love is, plus her mom told her that getting married and starting a family at 15 was something she did (and failed at). I had no problem with the kid be stupid, the mom on the other hand shafting the good dude the entire movie, admitting she loves him towards the end and then cheating on him by making out with the Preacher was something I hated.

"Sheriff first man ever whip Mongo."

@@asshat6482 Mongo only pawn in game of life

More like very fine aged whiskey in good oak barrel.

It was on RU-vid a few months ago......🍻👍

Chris Pratt, The Terminal List.

@@booshmcfadden7638 Entertaining, but nowhere near the same calibre.

@@booshmcfadden7638 great actor but Clint is a different league

Nope, the golden age of Hollywood stars is well and truly gone. We're just waiting for the last of them to completely age out and die unfortunately.

Brad Pitt is the best. J Depp used to be. Sean Penn was first class.

So did Clint show up and blow his car up? A mans got to know his limitations.

@@rogersmith7396 Nice “Magnum Force” reference. :)

@@comedyoferrors77 And a Hal Holbrook reference. If only Clint had blown up Mark Twain.

I have/had this in DVD somewhere. Have to watch again when able.

Shane is fantastic. One of the greatest movie kills of all time at the hands of jack palance.

Jack Palance played the hired gunslinger Wilson with great elan

You must love Cowboys and Aliens.

Here we go again?

@@joejones4172 the annoying kid in Shane

Judging from those six bullet scars on his back, I doubt he would have survived without supernatural intervention. (Notice those are entry wounds, meaning Stockburn shot him in the back.)

@@stevenscott2136 It's POSSIBLE that if he were shot with (e.g.)one of the early .36 calibre cap and ball revolvers, through a heavy coat and the muscles of the back or into the shoulder blades, that he might have survived naturally. But one does wonder.

@@stevenscott2136 There have been people shot multiple times and survived but yes, it is quite an uncommon event. Has happened enough times that there's a chance at least but also depending on the number of times and calibre of the weapon, rare enough that you could consider the presence of the supernatural in the context of this film as well.

Clint loves to give his buddies some work here and there...Ive watched both Star Trek, and Outlaw Josie Wales a zillion times...and I only JUST clued in last week during a rerun that the Andorian spy in "Journey to Babel" is the Ferry-man in Josie!!!..AND the barber in High Plains Drifter. Oh I wish I wuz in the land of cotton...... And that actor is stick kickin!

John Russell played a great western villain. Stockburn and Nathan Burdette in Rio Bravo are two prime examples.

Clint has a coterie of actors he likes to work with . I imagine that he values their talent and professionalism and they in turn give their best for him.

@@projektkobra2247 He was also one of the Black Widows in "Every Which Way but Loose".

Pale Rider is a remake of Shane. I can't believe nobody is mentioning that here

If you like Gran Torino, you may enjoy Michael Caine in Harry Brown. It is rather harsher, but quite good

I liked Unforgiven also, but yes Pale Rider and Gran Torino are his best.

All of the Dirty Harrys.

What did you think of Hostiles?

I still dig Westerns. Hollywood often times just doesn't know how to write a decent Western this century. I remember one that came out like 20 years ago that looked like a cheap Young Guns ripoff with no name actors. That was never going to work. Young Guns did it right, and actually captures some young actors at their prime. I like Open Range too even if he got a little over zealous with how many bullets are being fired from 6 shooters and rifles. It's still a pretty cool shootout at the end. and I even dug the Hateful 8, it's the Western I prefer from Tarantino over the other one.

Truly movie as an artform but darn entertaining.

"I never surrendered, they took my horse and made him surrender."

"How's it on stains?"

@@From-North-Jersey 😁😁😁 Yes! It had humor as well.

Even the small bit parts were great in that movie, like Granny Hawkins.

@@From-North-Jersey "They've probably got him up in Kansas pulling a wagon."

They are definitely "sequel-LIKE" to be sure...I mentioned above that I wished they had more an obvious connection...but they dont really need to...theres a saying, "The Artist only really ever makes ONE work of Art"...

I like your theory, & how it really can't be dispelled.

Yup, there are mountains of great entertainment in the past. Personally I would e.g. show my kids older kids shows than any modern stuff.

Not even close. Open Range was much better.

@@TheLastRelevantSage2 I was just going to comment about Open Range, superb movie.

@@slowmarchingband1 Yeah, Costner and Duvall, great team, great screen presence.

@@DavidWHorst Yeah, time just keeps drifting away. To me both are in the same time period I guess. Stopped watching movies and TV all through the late 80's and the entire 90's.

Silverado was shite thats why it doesnt get mentioned

Rowdy Yates, I think was his Rawhide character. I was maybe 12 years old or so when that ran. Me and the old man watched it all the time.