Talk:How the West Was Won (film)

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This was, absolutely, one of the best westerns, I have ever seen. I seen this film, in the theater, when it came out. I was 7 years old, in one of the old curved wide screen theaters with the curtains that would pull back as the movie began. At that age the movie seemed to last forever and it went on for close to 3 hours and I did not want it to end. I cried thru some parts and laughed thru others. It had a big impression on me and I will never forget it. Mark R.

Grotesque

In light of the rampant environmental destruction brought on by the petroleum-automobile industrial complex--sprawling overdeveloped suburbia, instant blight, hideous, depopulated city centers, smog, road deaths, and so on--not to mention the addiction to oil that lies at the root of the world's current destabilization, the ending of this film borders on the obscene. We see the camera pull back from the Wild West to downtown L.A. freeways (undoubtedly shot on a Sunday so as to appear carefree and uncongested) in a moment of ludicrious American triumphalism. I can't imagine how anyone who has battled ever-lengthening traffic and burned up countless gallons of gas just commuting to and from a pointless job in an office cubicle could bear to watch it.