Possibly the worst western I have ever seen...

[BigG]

I've been watching the boxed set of Tombstone Territory which ran from '57 to 60 on prime time.

 

[Mickey D]

But you gotta love Terrance Hill's comedy westerns.

 

[Watchdog]

Then you best not watch Dead Man... with Johnny Depp.

I saw Dead Man not long after it was first released (has it really been twenty years?). Like the other horrible films directed by Jim Jarmusch, it's gone on to become a cult film. And it did have what was left of Robert Mitchum in his last film role. And Iggy Pop as a cross-dressing fur trader?!? C'mon, what more could you want in a western?

I like Depp, though, but Dead Man was a career low, not to be equaled until his Tonto debacle in The Lone Ranger.

 

[Evil Dog]

I did enjoy Ben Foster playing the 2nd banana bad guy Charlie Prince..... really creepy !!!

 

[Faulkner]

I was - attempting - to watch this movie.

Started off like The War Wagon. Armored stagecoach with a Gatling Gun. So the bad guys are chasing the coach and the Gatling Gun was shooting the bad guys.

And up in the rocks is a guy with a sniper rifle, and he's shooting the gunners on the Gatling.

A much more intelligent thing to do would be to shoot the horses pulling the coach. Buuuut - as John Ford said, about the Indians in Stagecoach, "You shoot the horses and you have a ten-minute movie."

So I figger they don't want to shoot the horses, and stop the coach.

But then the coach comes around a curve, and the bad guys have driven a herd of cattle across the trail, and the coach tries to avoid them and crashes - didn't catch fire though, or blow up. That was kinda shocking I've obviously seen too any car crashes in movies .

Well, hell. Why didn't they just SHOOT THE HORSES?

And I gave up in disgust. I figger I lasted - maybe - fifteen minutes.

You watched the whole thing?

You are a GLUTTON for punishment, aren't you?

 

[SmokeStack Lightning]

I just finished wasting one hour and twenty-seven minutes of my ever-decreasing life span by watching 3:10 To Yuma.

The original 1957 version of it wasn't all that great, but this one must have Glenn Ford and Van Heflin spinning in their graves at about 7,000 rpm.

Who could have possibly had enough money to convince Russell Crowe and Christian Bale to sign on to this doomed project? The studio must have given them shares in Arizona or something, I don't know.

By the time the movie was a third of the way over, I was talking to myself. When it ended, I yelled something really profane to describe the movie that woke my dogs up and made them give me funny looks. They had slept through the entire sorry mess, giving new meaning to the term "Lucky Dogs".

And one of the publicity blurbs for the movie said, "The best western since Unforgiven". Lord help me.

When I saw the title, I thunk "I'm gonna post 3:10 to Yuma".

You saved me the time!

 

[BigBill]

I have a 20 western on a DVD. There from the 60's not too bad.
It should of been free.

 

[chaparrito]

I am not picky I guess. I'd watch it again.

 

[cmort666]

I don't know, "Silverado" was pretty awful, apart from the five minutes with John Cleese.

 

[Absalom]

Let's not forget that Westerns are fairy tales. The relationship of even the good ones to historical reality and authenticity is about the same as with Shakespeare. They've actually gotten a lot better especially about the hardware since about the 1980s.

Anybody remember "The Comancheros"? Don't get me wrong, I love The Duke, but a movie set in the 1840s, and everybody is blasting away with a Winchester 92 and a Colt SAA? I remember that rubbing me the wrong way when I first saw it back in the 1970s or so.

 

[Frank237]

And the other day I watched "Open Range" for the first time in maybe two years and enjoyed it thoroughly. It may possibly be my favorite Western of all time.

Then again.....I enjoyed "Cowboys and Aliens"...it was a very different take on the genre.

 

[wnwitzell]

Silverado would have been much more bearable without the stupid Kevin Costner character..

 

[gdnagle]

Quite a few of these on the thumbs down list I liked. I find any remake is on my thumbs down list as they never live up to my expectations. And what's with The Lone Ranger being a bad guy in the remake, at least the little bit I watched. Then again I'm not a stickler for accuracy in a western but couldn't handle The Lone Ranger movie.

 

[Wyatt Burp]

I don't know, "Silverado" was pretty awful, apart from the five minutes with John Cleese.

When Silverado came out i saw it about four times (pre VCR days). I thought it was great even though super phony like 60s TV westerns. but it was meant to be. Now when it comes on it is I think it's super corny, especially Costner and his lame outfit (but his guns and rig are great). Yet I can't turn the movie off, corny or not. When it came out I contacted technical gun coach Arvo Ojala and ordered a holster from him inspired by the film. Still got it and it still fits.

 

[Absalom]

When Silverado came out i saw it about four times (pre VCR days). I thought it was great even though super phony like 60s TV westerns. but it was meant to be. .......

I didn't dislike "Silverado" either, I thought it was pretty entertaining, and with its star power (Costner, Glenn, Glover, Dennehy, Kline etc.) it did get people talking about westerns again; the previous years had been pretty sparse.

But contrasting it to "Pale Rider", which came out the same year, illustrates my earlier point about more authenticity creeping in. Beautifully filmed, no silly acrobatics, and the best scene: Here is Clint Eastwood actually reloading an old Remington by switching out the cylinder for a spare!

 

[wuluf]

But you gotta love Terrance Hill's comedy westerns.

"They Call Me Trinity"
"Trinity Is Still My Name"

Classics...

By the way, Terrence Hill's real name was Mario Girotti..

 

[Mickey D]

"They Call Me Trinity"
"Trinity Is Still My Name"

Classics...

By the way, Terrence Hill's real name was Mario Girotti..

Don't forget "My Name is Nobody" with Henry Fonda. The bar fight was great.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkCqSHwhKVg[/ame]

 

[the ringo kid]

It beats "Billy the Kid vs Dracula" and "Cowboys & Aliens".

Ive never seen the Billy the Kid one--who wins?

The most absolute western ever--has to be: White Comanche--with William Shatner as twin half brothers. One was white,the other was comanche.

 

[the ringo kid]

As with a lot of things, one has to look long and hard for a movie remake that was better than the original.

The John Wayne version of Three Godfathers--was a remake and was much much better thsn the original.

 

[the ringo kid]

Clearly you have not seen these classically awful Westerns:

Billy the Kid in Fugitive of the Plains
Billy the Kid in Texas
Billy the Kid Trapped
Billy the Kid Wanted
Billy the Kid’s Gun Justice
Billy the Kid’s Range War
Blind Man
Buddy Goes West
Cattle Stampede
Hanging for Django
The Kid Rides Again
Oath of Vengeance
Pandhandler Trail
Pistol for Django
The Return of Django
Rustler’s Hideout
Take a Hard Ride
Western Cyclone
Wild Horse Phantom

3:10 To Yuma May well be a 7 on a scale of 1 to 10, but in the above list there is not one that is over a 5 on a scale of 1 to 10, and most are well below 5.

Granted 3:10 To Yuma did not live up to the hype, but it is hardly the stinker you portray it to be. LOL

Now you done it, published a list of many of my favorites B Westerns.

Actuay,I have seen a few on this lest and are still watchable.Ill not watch anything Django--especailly the newer version.