Young Gun Junior Iron

Is that a gun in your pocket?

Advantages: Entertaining, Action and Estevez
Disadvantages: Not a typical western

and bloody rampage which sees them becoming outlaws instead of men of the law. With both the law and Murphy and his men after them, the band of regulators can only do one thing, and that is to rely on some old fashioned western gun slinging and justice. Released back in 1988, Young Guns is more of a vehicle to capitalize on the then appeal of the Hollywood brat pack, than a true western. Yes it may be set in the west and feature cowboys, but unlike classic westerns, this is more about action and escapism than being factually correct or really gritty in the John Wayne and Clint Eastwood sense. Just take a look at the lead players of Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez, they can be in a really dusty location and in the middle of a shoot out, but look like they have just come out of make up, with not a hair out of place. Don't get me wrong, as I ...

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He was hacking on me!

Advantages: Great film
Disadvantages: None really

Young Guns is the 1988 film with an all star brat pack cast that tells the story of the emergence of Billy the Kid and the regulators he reputedly rode with. The film is one of the more entertaining modern Westerns, and remains set as one of the better known of the modern era. The Plot New Mexico, 1878. Landowner John Tunstall takes in tearaway youths and educates them in return for them working for him in keeping his land and cattle safe and looked after. He calls them his regulators. Rival landowner Lawrence Murphy wants Tunstall's land and will do anything to get it. When Murphy has Tunstall murdered, the Regulators are determined to bring him to justice, but one of their number, William H Bonny (aka Billy the Kid) takes it a bit too far, sparking the biggest manhunt seen in a long time. The Cast and Performances There are ...

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A silly billy gets em all in trouble

Advantages: one of the wittiest, wiliest westerns ever
Disadvantages: nothing really its all pretty good

YOUNG GUNS ∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞ =The Cast Emilio Estevez as Billy the Kid Kiefer Sutherland as Doc Scurlock Lou Diamond Phillips as Jose Chavez y Chavez Charlie Sheen as Richard "Dick" Brewer Dermot Mulroney as "Dirty Steve" Stephens Casey Siemaszko as Charlie Bowdre Terence Stamp as John Tunstall Jack Palance as Lawrence G. Murphy Terry O'Quinn as Alexander McSween Sharon Thomas as Susan McSween Geoffrey Blake as J. McCloskey Alice Carter as Yen Sun Brian Keith as Buckshot Roberts Tom Callaway as "Texas" Joe Grant Patrick Wayne as Pat Garrett Young Guns focuses around a bunch of reprobates under the care of a successful English businessman called John Tunstall, and tells the story of the famous Lincoln County Wars in 1878 New Mexico. Tunstall has ...

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