haven't seen the movie(yet?) but I'll check it out. I hate when they get things wrong. BTW weren't the cow...e'hem...pokes in the movie married too? Not that there's anything wrong with that.

I have worked on helicopters for years, and have always hated that they use a Bell 47 sound in place of a Jet Ranger, a Jet Ranger for a 204-212 (Huey), and now they use Huey sounds in place of an A-star. Yer Killin' Me, Smalls!

 

Whoa there, 4thF100. Let's not get carried away. No need to "check it out". Might be a bit hard to stomach. I'm with you on machine effects accuracy in the movies. But let's leave this one to the critics.

 

How did America go from John Wayne to Bendover Mountain in what is not that great many years? What has happened? Why is right and wrong such a debatable issue all of a sudden. I say this. Some things are just not meant to be seen and are better off kept a bit hush-hush if nothing else for the sake of our children.

Everything does not NEED to be PC portrayed as being OK just because some over emotional group of people decide to try to become mainstream. This is not a statement against the type that would enjoy a good family gay western but more a statement saying in America we need to take a good long look at what is CORRECT.

The strangest thing is that I have always been a self professed liberal but I am just getting sick of PC and all the garbage that seems to be made socially acceptable behind its shield. Meanwhile you never see a television personality smoke a lousy cigarette on the air. Now THAT would be the wrong image.......

 

The end of westerns came for me when they started portraying one of each little group of minorities in every western. Women gunfighters, and minority cowboys is kind of re-writing history in a way that fits our times, not theirs.

The One western series that seems to get it near right is "Deadwood".

 

It's about moral relativism and normalizing deviant behavior. And the rape of the Marlboro Man is just the beginning, not the end. Like I said, I'm sorry I brought it up. Now let's get back to talking about trucks.

 

Ya mean it's wrong to be married now too? Geesh, I guess I'm way outside the PC loop!

Is there such a thing?!

I read through this thread and really got a good laugh at all the attempts at everyone trying to do the PC dance. Very Funny.

There was a made for tv movie about a indian kid and his grandfather making their way to a tribal council in a turquise truck pulling a horse trailer. Just came to mind. Anybody remember what the truck was? My daughter was watching it and I saw glimpses of the truck, but never got to see what it was.

 

Those two are not cowpokes, but perhaps "poke-Ow'" better describes them.

 

I read the other day about a British woman that married a dolphin in Israel. The dolphin's owner gave consent. Just like in the old days when a father was asked for his daughter's hand. I love my truck?

 

Wow. My first day at FTE and I find this thread. I own a great '62 F100 and I'm gay, but that's not why I'm writing. Instead, as someone who's actually watched the movie, I feel compelled to point out that yes, there are some great old trucks in Brokeback Mountain. No, they didn't get them wrong; indeed the movie starts in 1963 but it covers 20 years. An old GMC is all you see before 1967.

 

I really do enjoy a good western and occasionally one comes along that really stands out. Open Range, with Kevin Costner and Robert Duval, comes to mind. When I saw the previews for Brokeback Mountain I was interested until I realized what the movie was about.

I try to be open minded, but I don't think I have to agree with all things "PC". About a year ago I was standing in line at a gas station and ahead of me were two very attractive females, probably in their mid twenties. They completed their transaction and headed out the door, accross the lot, to their vehicle. As they did this (again, these were two very attractive females so I was compelled to observe them as they walked away) they put their arms around each other, one slid her hand down and placed it on the behind of the other and they proceded to kiss, then went on to their car.

I think I can safely say that the community in this part of Texas is conservative and something like that is rarely seen, if ever. Twenty years ago I may have been more "open minded" about the whole thing, but I have to say that what I saw made me feel uncomfortable. It is one thing to see this in a movie, but completely different as a part of every day life events.

Jethro, sometimes these threads take on a life of their own and you just gotta' let it run its course

Anyway, anyone know what color the color code M is for a 1963 f100?

 

I'm thinking M was Corinthian White in 63.

 

Thanks, Sam. White is the color the truck is now, but it has been re-painted. Corinthian white must be an off white of some sort.

 

The other day, I was chatting with a buddy who's wife was going to that movie with my wife. Now this fellow was about as "cowboy" as you can get - the real macoy so to speak. I asked him if he was going to see it with them. Of course he mearly chuckled and replied that he was not. He did however make a point of correcting me at one point when I used the term "Cowboy". "By the way" he sort of sondered, " them guys are'nt cowboys, -they's shepards". So don't all you cowboys go getting all upset, just remember "theys shepards. LOL

 

Alright this is getting too much like Deliverance! Sheep, Cows, whats the difference?

 

Apparently, you never heard the old adage, goes like this

Montana
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Oklahoma
Texas
Wyoming
Dakota
Colorado
(pick one, this is where REAL cowboys live)

"Where men are men and Sheep are nervous!"

I too have a cousin who is the Genuine article. Lives on an Historic ranch in the Foothills of the Rockies, drives a dualie and does his cattle rounds on a horse, all year round. He, apparently, is not in a rush to see this movie any time in the next 17 decades either. Says he'd rather go listen to someone recite cowboy poetry for his money. Or work the release gates at the Stampede. (there's only ONE Stampede)