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"FacebookPinterest\n\nIn recent years, Netflix has dumped thousands of movies and T.V. shows into their Watch Instantly section. Pay a monthly fee, and they can be streamed on your computer, Blu-Ray player, Wii, etc. This is a wonderful thing. Problem: Quality control. With so many awful movies available\u2014looking at you,  Titanic II \u2014you may feel like you're sifting through the $1 VHS bin. So, your intrepid correspondents at  GQ have taken it upon themselves to pore over the offerings and select one film, every Friday, from the impenetrable thicket that is Watch Instantly (and other sites). Get to streaming. \n\n The Fourth of July is upon us. It's difficult to endorse much more than grilling with the people that you love. Unless, that is, we find the perfect film to stream from Netflix. We do not want to go all patriotic a la Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. We also want to avoid Bulworth&amp;amp;#xAC;-esque flippancy. So we set out to find a Western: as quintessentially American as credit default swaps (there goes the cheekiness\u2014some things cannot be avoided) but not exactly a salute to the flag. We choose High Noon, the 1952 classic starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly.\n\n Let's start off by saying that this is Bill Clinton's favorite film, who claims to have watched it more than 20 times. And that was from an interview in 1999\u2014who knows how many viewings he's had in his Chappaqua man cave since.\n\n What draws Bubba to it? Cooper plays a former marshal who, on the day he is married to his bride played by Kelly and is set on seeking a more peaceful life, decides instead to defend his town one last time from a vengeful murderer. The film plays out in real time leading up to the murderer's return at\u2014you guessed it\u2014high noon, following Cooper's increasingly desperate attempts at recruiting his fellow townspeople in the fight. Turned down by the very folks he has fought to protect, the marshal resolves to face down the murderer himself. \n\n Let us get a few things out of the way: Cooper, 51 at the time of the film's release, looks more like 22-year-old Kelly's father than her husband. Their passion is as strong as the bond between a man and his proctologist. And yes, the dialogue is occasionally a bit clunky.\n\n These minor problems are overshadowed by Cooper's performance, revelatory in its time (he won the Oscar for Best Actor). He throws vulnerability and self-doubt into an archetype\u2014the Western protagonist\u2014that is known primarily for its gritty masculinity. His shifty eyes, hound dog face, and slouched amble aren't exactly signals of heroic strength. And yet, as we follow his minute-by-minute breakdown and ultimate resurgence, we sympathize and root for him in a way that we never felt John Wayne needed. Fierce individualism with a heart: makes a man want to pop popcorn, curl up with Clinton on the couch, and swell with patriotic pride.\n\n Other Recommendations:\n\n 1. Rio Bravo (Netflix)\n\n Purportedly made as an answer to what many saw as the anti-blacklisting undertones of High Noon, this Howard Hawks-John Wayne Western is great despite its Fuck Yeah America agenda.\n\n 2. Stagecoach (Netflix)\n\n Forget car chases: The wagon chase in this 1939 film starring John Wayne, one of the greatest Westerns of all time, is as gripping as anything Michael Bay has committed to camera.\n\n 3. Duck, You Sucker! (Netflix)\n\n A Spaghetti Western from the Italian master Sergio Leone that is often overlooked\u2014perhaps because Clint Eastwood doesn't star as in Leone's earlier films, or perhaps because of the so-bad-it's-good title.\n\n 4. The Quick and the Dead (Crackle)\n\n A far cry from a perfect Western, you may want to see it for the talent alone: Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe and Leo DiCaprio, as directed by Sam Raimi of Evil Dead and Spiderman fame.\n\n 5. Silverado (Crackle)\n\n A sprawling romp, an homage to the Western genre, and an ensemble cast that includes Kevin Klein, Brian Dennehy, Kevin Costner, and John Cleese. Need we say more?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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