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1. Once Upon A Time In The West.... this movie made me realize what a badass Bronson is. He may not have been a great actor but his presence was all that was needed to let you know that he was a bad motherfucker.. him playing the eery sounding harmonica was strictly gangster... everything from the scenery to the soundtracks were just top notch in this film.
2. Unforgiven
3. The Searchers
4. The good bad and ugly
5. High Noon
Blazing Saddles.
No spoilers.....but one of the most wtf endings there is. Cast of brothers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hs1ZR3uIHw The Good, the bad and the ugly is right up there equal. Also The Outlaw Josey Wales..Broken Arrow..Little Big Man were epic!!
Nice list Finito, I'm a western fan and love all those movies. Butch Cassidy and the sundance kid, A fistful of dollars and a Few dollars more are also pure classics imo.
Most people will have seen the Magnificent Seven, but check out Seven Samurai, the Japanese film it's entirely based on. English subtitles and therefore not a "western" I guess?(completely has the feel), but an unbelievably good movie that just pisses on most any action/adventure film ever made imo.
In recent years, The assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford(way to long a title:p) was awesome, as well as the remake of True grit, much better than the original John Wayne version. No country for old men is also a great movie.
Ironically Kurosawa's inspiration for Seven Samurai was John Ford westerns.
High Plains Drifter is one of my favourite films ever.
The Good, The Bad, The Ugly - this is a no brainer #1 for me, it's in my top 3 favorite movies of all time. Absolute masterpiece.
Unforgiven, Tombstone, Fistful of Dollars (a remake of Kurosawa's great Yojimbo since we're talking about Kurosawa), the Wild Bunch, The Searchers, Rio Bravo, and Stagecoach are also great.
Outlaw Jose Wales
Pale Rider
Tombstone
310 to Yuma
Little Big Man
Unforgiven
Tombstone
The Man with No Name/Dollars trilogy: A Fist Full of Dollars, A Few Dollars More, The Good The Bad & The Ugly
Hang 'em High
The Magnificent 7
Rio Bravo
True Grit
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Searchers
High Noon
Shane
The Wild Bunch
Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
Young Guns
Dances With Wolves
Jeremiah Johnson
Oh and for the Aussie's The Man From Snowy River
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I liked Shane and Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid.
The carry on one was good too. :)
magnificent seven - despite it being a remake of seven samurai, i loved this more! the characteristics/mannerisms/idiosyncracies of the actors made the characters more real for me
- charles bronson rattling off previous jobs and how much he was paid as he chops wood... when he was told the job was only going to pay $20, the reaction on his face is priceless
- robert vaughn's steely cool exterior in turmoil with his fearful/'lost it' interior was cool
- steve mcqueen continously trying to upstage yul brynner with his fiddling of the hat, the fingers counting how many gunslingers they recruited so far, the shaking/checking of the shotgun shell when he rides shotgun with yul brynner in the beginning... all great acting
- classic line/scene from james coburn - horst bruckholz says 'that's the greatest shot i ever saw' after coburn was tracking a desperado riding a horse trying to get away and coburn kills him with a shot from his six-shooter - coburn's reply, "the worst!! i was aiming at the horse!'
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the combo of clint eastwood, sergio leone and ennio morricone in the man with no name trilogy is awesome!
once upon a time in the west is just as good
tombstone
the wild bunch (peckinpah was a huge inspiration to john woo)
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silverado - i liked, but not as much as the others
speaking of remakes/homages/ripoffs/copies:
1) Seven Samurai
Magnicent Seven (and the 3 unofficial or official sequels)
Battle Beyond the Stars (Roger Corman sci-fi version of SS... Robert Vaughn has a role!)
some Hercules or Gladiator movie with Seven in the title - don't recall offhand
old man memory :( ... there may be some more
2) Yojimbo
A Fistful of Dollars
Bruce Willis in Walter Hill's Last Man Standing
David Carradine in the B-movie, probably straight to video - The Warrior and the Princess
Ti Lung in Shaw Brothers' Kung Fu Instructor
old man memory :( ... there may be some more
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Red Sun is good too - Charles Bronson, Toshiro Mifune, Alain Delon - although this wasn't a pure western like the others
as a kid i liked Master Gunfighter starring Tom Laughlin who played Billy Jack - but rewatched recently and well, it wasn't too good... lol at me
'Winchester '73" with Jimmy Stewart.
Any Audie Murphy western, especially 'Destry Rides Again.'
Fantastic selections, fellas. I'll try to add a few not already listed:
The Professionals
Chato’s Land
Tom Horn
Lone Wolf McQuade
The White Buffalo
Sacred Ground
The Mask of Zorro
Young Guns II
Dead Man
A Man Called Horse
Return of A Man Called Horse
Triumphs of A Man Called Horse
The War Wagon
Red River
Rooster Cogburn
3 Godfathers
McLintock!
The Sons of Katie Elder
The Cowboys
The Shootist
Draw!
Angel And The Badman
Black Robe
Saddletramp (Hyapatia Lee, Nina Hartley)
Quigley Down Under
The Desperate Trail
The Silent Enemy(1931)
The Legend of Walks Far Woman
The Missing (Tommy Lee Jones)
Never Cry Wolf (not a western, but it has a frontier feel because it's set in the arctic under remote conditions)
Breakheart Pass
Comedies:
City Slickers
Paint Your Wagon
Three Amigos
Almost Heroes (Chris Farley)
Once Upon A Texas Train (Willie Nelson)
Saw that crappy Jonah Hex film starring Josh Brolin and Megan Fox. It p!$$ed me off because some fans knew way back in the 70s and early 80s that Clint Eastwood would've been perfect for the role way back then.
Jonah Hex (1975)
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Pale Rider (1985)
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F*<K !!!
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There's a good Korean Western called "The Good, The Bad, and the Weird". Check it out if you don't mind foreign films.
The genre is called "Kimchi Western" after Takashi Miike's "sushi western" Sukiyaki Django - cameo by Quentin Tarantino. Which of course followed Westerns made in Italy, called "Spaghetti Westerns"
Ok this might not be one of the better westerns...actually it was one of the biggest box office flops of ALL TIME but Heaven's Gate which starred: Jeff Bridges, Christopher Walken, John Hurt, Kris Kristopherson, and the smoking hot Isabelle Huppert was an interesting movie.
It was long as hell, but it told a decent story. It told a great story about the often overlooked horde of Eastern European immigrants who sought the American Dream and in that respect I thought the film did a good job.
Also, although perhaps it's not a true western 'There Will Be Blood' is pretty fucking solid.
Westerns don't normally draw huge box office success (see The Lone Ranger for proof of that)
Other films: 3:10 To Yuma, Appaloosa, Lonesome Dove
I don't know what to chalk up the lack of box office success of the recent The Lone Ranger to:Quote:
Originally Posted by El Kabong
- bad marketing?
- Johnny Depp - fat?
- Johnny Depp - way weird?
- Johnny Depp - with a dead bird on his head?
- Johnny Depp - typecast as Capt Jack Sparrow for Disney audiences?
- moviegoers not embracing the Western genre in the current climate?
- Mis/Bad-timing for Westerns?
be that as it may, my kids and i enjoyed TLR - it could've been better but then it could've been worse
Was Brokeback Mountain a western?
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Kicking myself. There is one I'd watch with the old man, it had Warren Oates and "Sheriff" in the title??? I might be way off :p
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Originally Posted by El Kabong
I've heard all the horror stories but have yet to see it haha
Some parts were solid others were horrible like Jeff Bridges skating while playing a fiddle.... you are forced to sit through the entire song and it is a DOOZIEQuote:
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Originally Posted by El Kabong
I've heard all the horror stories but have yet to see it haha
Both True Grits are great for different reasons. Westworld does that count?:-)