benos Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Me and my girl really liked (the new) True Grit movie. Afterwards she commented that that was the first western she'd ever seen. So I thought I'd take her on a western tour... I started with High Plains Drifter, then The Outlaw Josey Whales. Both of which she really liked. Next up is another one my Clint favorites, The Unforgiven. So what are some of your all's favorites? be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strangedays Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 The first True Grit is great (I have yet to watch the new one) Tombstone is by far my all time favorite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Hefta Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Blazing Saddles The Good, the Bad and the Ugly I have been watching Gunsmoke on the Western Channel every night at 6pm central for about a month and am really enjoying it... I forgot how good that show was! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reinholt Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 "The Wild Bunch" We watched this with my father every Thanksgiving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Vigilante Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 (edited) High Noon (0riginal w/Gary Cooper), Shane, and the original 3:10 To Yuma. These are "real" Westerns!! Edited January 24, 2011 by The_Vigilante Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powder Finger Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Don't leave out Pale Rider, Tom Horn. Maybe try Long Riders, Missouri Breaks for off the path shows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUSHARP2 Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 The Magnificent Seven. Any of the John Wayne movies(McClintock, Cowboys, Hondo, Chisum, The Shootist)some are the same movie just with different names. All still good in my book. I liked Open Range, with Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall. Also there were a couple movies (made for TV) based off some Louis L'Amour books that Tom Selleck did in the late '90s that were pretty good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Smith Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 "Silverado" tops my list of the recent movies and if you have not seen it, "Appaloosa" is pretty good. Some of the old John Wayne movies are my favorites: "Big Jake", "Rio Bravo", "Sons of Katie Elder", "McClintock", "Shootist" And lets not forget the biggest one of all, "How the West Was Won" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlosa Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 I'm surprised that no one has named Clint Eastwood's "unforgiven". the showdown at the end is just epic... Most people disagree with me and that ok but.. but I'm a much bigger fan of the spaghetti west with it's crude dirty conflicted characters, than the cleaned up idealized Hollywood west. if you digg Sergio Leone's movies (the good the bad and the ugly, fist full of dollars, for a few dollars more, etc) a must see is "duck you sucker (fist full of dynamite)" it is my favorite by far... by the way, i saw the original True Grit on AMC a few weeks after watching the new one... the new one is Muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch better.... I know lots of people love John Wayne but the man was a terrible actor, his the Charles Bronson of western if you ask me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guns_and_labs Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 +1 on Pale Rider. Must see Clint Eastwood. The Sacketts, with Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott. Tombstone, with Kurt Russell. The Quick and The Dead, with Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe - if only to find one with a female heroine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Di Vita Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 The Unforgiven, El Dorado, Tombstone are my favorites. I liked the new version of 3:10 to Yuma a lot. Quigley Down Under is another good choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlosa Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 +1 on Pale Rider. Must see Clint Eastwood. The Sacketts, with Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott. Tombstone, with Kurt Russell. The Quick and The Dead, with Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe - if only to find one with a female heroine. oh man i was not a big fan of the "quick and the dead" at all.... but the idea of a female heroine in the west is pretty cool. The Outlaw Josey Wales is another good Eastwood flick.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benos Posted January 25, 2011 Author Share Posted January 25, 2011 Missouri Breaks That's a great one. Thanks for all the replies - that will keep us in weterns for quite a while. be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trini Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 Unforgiven, Open Range, Ride the High Country, Tombstone, Quigley Down Under, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and of course the Wild Bunch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nik Habicht Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 My favorite movie is a western -- directed by Sergio Leone: Once Upon a Time in the West. I pull something new out of it every time I watch it. I also really like The Magnificent Seven. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlosa Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 (edited) My favorite movie is a western -- directed by Sergio Leone: Once Upon a Time in the West. I pull something new out of it every time I watch it. I also really like The Magnificent Seven. Yeeeeees!!! that one is good!! Charles Bronson is pretty good in it too (probably because he doesn't talk ) Edited January 25, 2011 by carlosa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ima45dv8 Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 I agree with most of the ones listed, but do take the time to watch Lonesome Dove. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duane Thomas Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 It's awfully hard to make a case against Once Upon a Time In the West as the best Western ever made. Really Red River and The Outlaw Josey Wales are, in my ever so humble opinion, the only two movies even worthy to be mentioned in the same breath. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpyOne Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 (edited) Me and my girl really liked (the new) True Grit movie. Afterwards she commented that that was the first western she'd ever seen. So I thought I'd take her on a western tour... I started with High Plains Drifter, then The Outlaw Josey Whales. Both of which she really liked. Next up is another one my Clint favorites, The Unforgiven. So what are some of your all's favorites? be You pretty much nailed it, except for "Two Mules for Sister Sarah". The soundtrack alone is worth watching it. Not really a western per se, but "Jerimiah Johnson" is pretty high up on the list as well.... Also check out "The Professionals", Lee Marvin, Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan And for comedic relief in a spaghetti western, look at the Trinity series, "They call me Trinity" , "My name is Nobody", etc. Edited January 25, 2011 by GrumpyOne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GentlemanJim Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 We all, or most of us..Love the Duke and many of the modern westerns, most of the best have been listed But dont forget the roots...Randolph Scott, Gregory Peck, and so many others from the 50s and 60s. Many of those early westerns are as good as gold Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Rusert Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 +++ re Missouri Breaks, probably my all time favorite. The Cowboys - a GREAT atypical western Cat Ballou - Lee Marvin in a western comedy with a very young Jane Fonda Charge At Feather River - this is a 1950's era 3D movie that doesn't need to be in 3D. The Ox-Bow Incident Red River Lonely Are The Brave (Kirk Douglas' favorite movie) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 Red River was Wayne's best performance ever IMO. An exceptional film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merlin Orr Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 It's awfully hard to make a case against Once Upon a Time In the West as the best Western ever made. Really Red River and The Outlaw Josey Wales are, in my ever so humble opinion, the only two movies even worthy to be mentioned in the same breath. IMO... Red River is the best of the "early" westerns ever made. Once Upon a Time In The West is the best western Ever made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duane Thomas Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 I could buy that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMS42 Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 I liked The Train Robbers with John Wayne and Ann-Margret. Also liked some of the old Glen Ford movies, Fastest Gun Alive, and one about a hotel clerk that goes on a cattle drive with Glen Ford. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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