This number does include a few vintage titles, but only if I saw them in a theater (often as a restored print, but not always). list every year, and that's because I'm often able to squeeze in a dozen or more films in the last couple weeks of December, mostly stuff that others have told me is worth checking out that I either missed when it came out in Chicago or titles that simply never came out locally.īy my count, I saw 455 films in 2015 (10 less than last year - I'm slipping!), either in a theater or via screener - from Paddington to Point Break.
I'm the idiot who waits until the year actually ends before rolling out my Best Of.
Really Gets Around: Frank Stockburn sired no less than 6 sons with 6 different women.Off with His Head!: Ramon takes off Smiley's head with one shovel blow.Non-Nude Bathing: When bathing in the river, all of the men are wearing long red boiler-suits for some reason, save for Chico.He stepped away to go to the bathroom, passing John Wilkes Booth on the way. My Greatest Failure: Danny was Abraham Lincoln's bodyguard.The Man They Couldn't Hang: Lil' Pete has a ridiculously strong neck due to his mother frequently hitching him up to the plow and in one scene he acts as a distraction by arrange to be hung, and then performing various swinging tricks while in the noose.His feats are often greeted with a proclamation by another character that "That is some mystical shit". Magical Native American: Tommy can speak with animals, make people believe he's a tumbleweed, and interpret Herm's garbled speech.Historical Domain Character: Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth, Abner Doubleday, General George Armstrong Custer, Mark Twain, and Wyatt Earp.a longsword from where it's concealed on his back. Extended Disarming: When Tommy is talking to Ramon's mother, he's shown pulling knives out of his sheaths, out of his boots, from his sleeves.Lil' Pete has a strong neck that allows him to resist the noose during a robbery. The comes in useful as he manages to surprise the Left-Eye Gang and scare them off with gunfire by holding his breath beneath a pool of water and sneaking up to land. Chekhov's Gun: Danny can hold his breath for six minutes.The Cameo: Norm MacDonald plays a Gold Nugget Saloon customer, and Jackie Sandler plays Never Wears Bra.Over their mutual journey, Tommy comes to realize that family is more than just blood. In the process, he decides on accruing the money by robbing the bigots and thieves of the west, and encounters five half brothers sired by his father: the Mexican burro rider Ramon (Schneider), the cheerful simple-witted Lil' Pete (Lautner), the feral mountain man Herm (Garcia), the alcoholic Danny (Wilson), and black saloon pianist Chico (Crews).
It follows Tommy (Sandler), also known by his Apache name of White Knife, who reunites with his father, Frank Stockburn (Nolte) who claims that he is dying of consumption before he is kidnapped at gunpoint by Cicero for the $50,000 he claims to have buried form his prior ill-gotten gains.Īfter Tommy fails to locate the buried money (having been given a vague clue about its location), he decides to follow the path of his father's former life in an effort to locate the money and save his father. The Ridiculous 6 is a Comedy Western written by, produced by, and starring Adam Sandler, as well as Terry Crews, Jorge Garcia, Taylor Lautner, Rob Schneider and Luke Wilson, featuring Nick Nolte and Danny Trejo, and cameoing Vanilla Ice, David Spade, Blake Shelton, and others.
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