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Best western movie ever?
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Tom?
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Dominus_Lex
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Silverado, because it broke about a ten year drought on westerns. My wife would say Open Range, and argues the best line ever in a western come at the end "how is this gonna work, if you don't do what I say" for some reason she finds that funny?
1. The Searchers
2. Outlaw Josey Wales
3. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
4. High Noon
5. Unforgiven
Gotta go with The Searchers only because of the last scene were John Wayne stands in the doorway, turns around and walks away as only he could.
2. Outlaw Josey Wales
3. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
4. High Noon
5. Unforgiven
Gotta go with The Searchers only because of the last scene were John Wayne stands in the doorway, turns around and walks away as only he could.
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My favorites
1. The Searchers
2. Open Range
3. The Quick And The Dead
4. The Shootist
5. She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
6. The Life And Times Of Judge Roy Bean
The list could be endless, cause we love 'em all! There's a little cowboy in all of us and more in some of us. "Cowboy Up"
Cheers;
Lefty
1. The Searchers
2. Open Range
3. The Quick And The Dead
4. The Shootist
5. She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
6. The Life And Times Of Judge Roy Bean
The list could be endless, cause we love 'em all! There's a little cowboy in all of us and more in some of us. "Cowboy Up"
Cheers;
Lefty
OFT II
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John Ford's "Stagecoach" with John Wayne made in 1939. There have been two re-makes but they can't touch the original.
6thtexas
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I don't believe there is a "best" western. My top picks would include (in no particular order):
Stagecoach (the original)
High Noon
Shane
Lonesome Dove
The Shootist
The Searchers (Wayne should have got an Oscar for this one)
The Wild Bunch
Will Penny
True Grit (original)
Best recent western:
Apaloosa
Honorable mentions:
Major Dundee
Rio Grande
The Gunfighter (Gregory Peck)
Monte Walsh (either one though I like the one with Tom Selleck a little better)
The Professionals
Two Rode Together
BTW: I guess I'm different, but I like Wyatt Earp much better than Tombstone. I thought Quaid played a mean drunken dentist with TB better than Val Kilmer and all the characters seemed more realistic in Costner's version.
Stagecoach (the original)
High Noon
Shane
Lonesome Dove
The Shootist
The Searchers (Wayne should have got an Oscar for this one)
The Wild Bunch
Will Penny
True Grit (original)
Best recent western:
Apaloosa
Honorable mentions:
Major Dundee
Rio Grande
The Gunfighter (Gregory Peck)
Monte Walsh (either one though I like the one with Tom Selleck a little better)
The Professionals
Two Rode Together
BTW: I guess I'm different, but I like Wyatt Earp much better than Tombstone. I thought Quaid played a mean drunken dentist with TB better than Val Kilmer and all the characters seemed more realistic in Costner's version.
While Tombstone may not be the best western, this scene in particular is my favorite ~3:00 of any western:
*Note: slight language, kiddies*
YouTube - I Said Throw Down, Boy!
*Note: slight language, kiddies*
YouTube - I Said Throw Down, Boy!
Pick just one???/ Hell, I like 'em all.
OP
One of my favorite scenes, also. Billy Bob Thornton did a good job as a scurrilous *$%&*, also. I think this incident in the movie does a great deal to establish Wyatt's cold-blooded demeanor. Great acting!
John
I'm kinda late to this party and have not sifted through all the pages of this thread, but hopefully someone has Clint Eastwoods Pale Rider up among the best.
This movie has a very relevant theme. The story of some hard working miners looking for their big score, being brutally leaned on by an elitist family and their hired thugs. Eastwood is the preacher drawn unwillingly back into a life he had chosen to leave behind...........a remake of Shane(another top 10 western) in that regard. I like the final scene when the hired marshal exclaims......YOU!..........as Eastwood guns his corrupt *** down.
I see the miners as the American middle class. I see the crook mining company family and their thugs as our current batch of elitist politicians that are trying to slowly enslave us. The "You" are people that have had quite enough of this nonsense and are willing and able to return our nation to something more in line with what our founding fathers envisioned..........Tea Party folks come to mind. Watch this movie again and see this allegory for yourself...........not to mention the fact that the scenary in the movie is outstanding.
This movie has a very relevant theme. The story of some hard working miners looking for their big score, being brutally leaned on by an elitist family and their hired thugs. Eastwood is the preacher drawn unwillingly back into a life he had chosen to leave behind...........a remake of Shane(another top 10 western) in that regard. I like the final scene when the hired marshal exclaims......YOU!..........as Eastwood guns his corrupt *** down.
I see the miners as the American middle class. I see the crook mining company family and their thugs as our current batch of elitist politicians that are trying to slowly enslave us. The "You" are people that have had quite enough of this nonsense and are willing and able to return our nation to something more in line with what our founding fathers envisioned..........Tea Party folks come to mind. Watch this movie again and see this allegory for yourself...........not to mention the fact that the scenary in the movie is outstanding.
CAJUNLAWYER
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maybe not the best ever but I liked them.
Paint Your Wagon
Barbarosa
Texas Across The River
Lonsome Dove.
Paint Your Wagon
Barbarosa
Texas Across The River
Lonsome Dove.
Nope. When I think Tea Party, I think "zombie slaves of the evil billionaire".
Lots of good choices in this thread, and I have over half of them on DVD already.
One I bought recently that is not in this thread yet is Larry McMurtry's (SP?) Streets of Laredo with James garner.
I like it.
My all time favorite would probably be Shane.
One I bought recently that is not in this thread yet is Larry McMurtry's (SP?) Streets of Laredo with James garner.
I like it.
My all time favorite would probably be Shane.
anothermiller
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I like the old remake of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.
YouTube - Knockin on Heaven's Door - Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
YouTube - Knockin on Heaven's Door - Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Staggolee
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El Dorado is a personal favorite. John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan, a cool theme song, memorable characters and some interesting guns and gunfights. it just hits all the right spots.
High Noon was a powerful film that always makes me think of duty, honor and the importance of relying on your own abilities. Gary Cooper in that movie was never equaled by any other western actor, IMHO, and never will be.
I still come out to the theaters to see new westerns when they come out-rare as that is-and I should recommend one called Appaloosa to just about anyone interested in the age of the gunfighter. it's a bit different from the westerns I grew up with-the gunfights are shorter, there's a bit more cursing and one of the good guys wears black-but I still think it deserves a place on the shelf. A few of the actors are actually gun guys in real life, and it shows when you see them actually using the ejector rod on their SAAs, checking the chamber when they pick their guns up, etc...Good to see that there are still a few movie guys who know what they're doing.
High Noon was a powerful film that always makes me think of duty, honor and the importance of relying on your own abilities. Gary Cooper in that movie was never equaled by any other western actor, IMHO, and never will be.
I still come out to the theaters to see new westerns when they come out-rare as that is-and I should recommend one called Appaloosa to just about anyone interested in the age of the gunfighter. it's a bit different from the westerns I grew up with-the gunfights are shorter, there's a bit more cursing and one of the good guys wears black-but I still think it deserves a place on the shelf. A few of the actors are actually gun guys in real life, and it shows when you see them actually using the ejector rod on their SAAs, checking the chamber when they pick their guns up, etc...Good to see that there are still a few movie guys who know what they're doing.
edw794
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"the fastest gun alive" with glenn ford.
hannstv
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When you say Westerns, I think John Wayne! I like The Searchers more than any other. I think Lonesome Dove was the best series ever produced for TV. Thought HBO's Deadwood was pretty top shelf also, would have liked another season of it to kind of wrap the story.
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One I've always liked, actually since I read the book, is "Centennial." A 25 hour, star studded, epic that spans three centuries, it's the one I pull out when the snow flies around here and we get socked in. When I read the book, I felt I knew the characters. The movie was no different. Gregory Harrison as Levi Zendt was what I think of now when I think of a "pioneer." Starting off with nothing more than a rifle, an ax, and a woman at his side, he carved out an empire. Anthony Zerbe was perfect as the villian Mervin Wendell.
Along the lines of "Blazing Saddles" is one I haven't seen in years, but I remember I laughed at until I cried, was called "The Villian". Staring "Arnold", Kirk Douglas, and Ann Margaret, is little more than a Loony Toons cartoon, with live actors. It has ever silly gag you've ever seen in a cartoon, from anvils dropping, to characters being flattend by rolling rocks, to painting a tunnel on a rock wall. My wife said if I wasn't such a kid, I'd have realized just how bad the movie was. Hey...It's a cartoon.
And it had Ann Margaret in it...She's easy on the eyes.
Along the lines of "Blazing Saddles" is one I haven't seen in years, but I remember I laughed at until I cried, was called "The Villian". Staring "Arnold", Kirk Douglas, and Ann Margaret, is little more than a Loony Toons cartoon, with live actors. It has ever silly gag you've ever seen in a cartoon, from anvils dropping, to characters being flattend by rolling rocks, to painting a tunnel on a rock wall. My wife said if I wasn't such a kid, I'd have realized just how bad the movie was. Hey...It's a cartoon.
And it had Ann Margaret in it...She's easy on the eyes.
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clubleaf206
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I agree. Dennis Quaid dropped 50 pounds so that he looked like he was wasting away from "Consumption". And I think he captured Doc Holiday's irrascible, crabby nature. He does a better Georgia accent, too, Val Kilmer sounded as though he was from Virginia. That being said, I still enjoy watching Kilmer in 'Tombstone'.
Oh, and one of my favorite westerns is 'Bite the Bullet', critics consider it the best western of the 1970s.
joeintexas
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So many really good ones to choose but I still have to put Lonesome Dove, Tombstone and Open Range as my favorites. Not just the acting but the music as well.
