Your favorite Western Movies

[Beanflicker]

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.

[IamInuit]

Outlaw Jose Wales
Pale Rider
Tombstone
310 to Yuma
Little Big Man

[El Kabong]

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

[Master]

I liked Shane and Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid.

The carry on one was good too.

[Stickgrappler]

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

[Stickgrappler]

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

[Stickgrappler]

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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

[bradlee180]

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)

[bradlee180]

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)


Pale Rider (1985)



F*<K !!!

[Stickgrappler]

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"

[El Kabong]

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

[Beanz]

Both True Grits are great for different reasons. Westworld does that count?:-)

[Spicoli]

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