Paint your Wagon belongs top of the Western list.Quote:
Originally Posted by brice618
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Paint your Wagon belongs top of the Western list.Quote:
Originally Posted by brice618
I am absolutly appaled that no has mentioned the two greatest of all time:
My Name is Trinity
Trinity is Still My Name
The right hand of the devil
Those are such parodies of parodied westerns that they kind of take themselves out of serious contention. Still great fun to watch.Quote:
Originally Posted by kano
My Name Is Nobody has Terrance Hill (Trinity) and Henry Fonda. A true western classic.Quote:
Originally Posted by kano
More of a top-10-throwaway-popcorner, but I liked Quigly Down Under.
A more serious nomination: Missouri Breaks.
Once Upon a Time in the West is way up there but that wailing harmonica made my brain melt.
When all is said and done, I gotta go with The Proposition as my #1.
Missouri Breaks - seconded, but IMO a better McGuane/Penn effort is - Rancho Deluxe - a fucking great flick.
sadly, Arthur Penn had little to do with Rancho Deluxe.Quote:
Originally Posted by CountryFunk
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it was directed by Frank Perry, but it's still a good modern Western, for sure.
that said, I can't believe we've come all this way (and it should be noted i've been writing down the films i haven't seen and adding to the queue, so thanks for all the suggestions folks are spouting out) and no mention of YOUNG GUNS!!!???!!!?
So, we've got that going for us, which is good !Quote:
Originally Posted by dookey67
McGuane- what a douche. His brother-in-law writes books that outsell anything Tom passes off as literature.Quote:
Originally Posted by CountryFunk
Buffett has written three No. 1 best sellers. Tales from Margaritaville and Where Is Joe Merchant? both spent over seven months on the New York Times Best Seller fiction list. His book A Pirate Looks At Fifty went straight to No. 1 on the New York Times Bestseller non-fiction list, making him one of seven authors in that list's history to have reached No. 1 on both the fiction and non-fiction lists. The other six authors who have accomplished this are Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, William Styron, Irving Wallace, Dr. Seuss and Mitch Albom.
Betcha that grates Tom's ass in the worst way. Poor Tom, the "celebrity" nobody's heard of.
"Man from Snowy River". Now there's some riding right there. Turbo horse.
I have been on a bit of a Spaghetti Western jag recently.
Amazon Prime is teeming with deep dives of the genre (i.e. post-Leone).
Two that I recently watched which were really solid were:
Cemetery Without Crosses (1969)
Directed by and starring Robert Hossein, it is a nihilistic saturated tale of revenge.
...if you meet Sartana, Pray For Your Death (1968)
Borrowing heavily from Leone's Dollars Trillogy, this film spawned 4 sequels. It actually has enough original flair to stand on it's own, too.
If I were compiling a "Top 10 Spaghetti Westerns" list, these would definitely be on it...
I just read through - some solid selections. The only one I can think of that you guys missed is Bite the Bullet
The Hallelujah Trail
Cat Balou
Rio Bravo
The entire Deadwood Series
Shane.
Clearly, not the best, but some are certainly the silliest. (I love silly westerns).
FWIW, Unforgiven got remade as an Eastern.
Back in 2013, it was re-imagined as a samurai saga by Sang-il Lee, with Ken Watanabe playing the Eastwood role.
Kind of fitting, in an ironic way, given that Eastwood became world famous doing an Italian remake of a classic Japanese samurai flick...
Sadly, I have been unable to find it streaming anywhere...
The Searchers
The Wild Bunch
Stagecoach
Ride the High Country
The Magnificent Seven
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
High Noon
True Grit (Coen Brothers)
Honorable Mention:
Shane
Red River
Unforgiven
High Plains Drifter
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
My Name is Nobody
Fistful of Dynamite (aka Duck You Sucker)
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
ETA: Any western with Randolph Scott
Watched cemetery without crosses. Didnt hold my attention, but I feel I owe it another chance.Quote:
Originally Posted by dookey67
Tried to find "if you meet sartana, pray for your death" but prime popped up the 2nd one(?). Really liked this one. And shit now it shows up. Guess I'm gonna smoke another and watch the 1st one. Appreciate your recs dookey.
CW/OC is kind of an anti-spaghetti in a way. It was more like a French New Wave Western.Quote:
Originally Posted by lifelinksplit
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As for the official Sartana films, the order is:
...If You Meet Sartana, Pray For Your Death (1968)
I Am Sartana, Your Angel Of Death (1969)
Have A Good Funeral, My Friend...Sartana Will Pay (1970)
Light The Fuse...Sartana Is Coming (1970)
I Am Sartana, Trade Your Guns For A Coffin (1972)
I am making my way through them and hoping that they are all as solid as the first one.
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Awesome. It was "I am Sartana, your angel of death" that I first watched. Really liked the way it was shot. Watching the 1st now. Very Eastwood-esque.
Whatcha peddling?Quote:
Originally Posted by m619db
All of the obvious have already been named, so... I know it's a modern western, but I'm a fan of Hell or High Water.
Good call. Captain Kirk was pretty good in that. We should add Extreme Prejudice to the Modern Westerns list.Quote:
Originally Posted by TahoeJ
I regret not listing any Randolph Scott movies other than Ride the High Country, so I revised my Honorable Mentions to include "any western with Randolph Scott."
Re Shane: Any other mags read the book Shane by Jack Schaefer? It's by a mile my favorite western novel and far better than the movie. After you've read the book, you'll laugh at the idea of 5'5" pencil-neck Alan Ladd playing the protagonist.
Has Tampopo been mentioned yet?
The first Japanese noodle western.
IMHO there have not been many original (and certainly very few memorable) westerns made post Unforgiven. We've gotten a lot of remakes (3:10 to Yuma, The Magnificent 7) and tons of direct-to-video (check out Prime and Redbox as both are teeming with low-budget Westerns), but again very few original, creative, and captivating new westerns.
This is one:
SLOW WEST
Came out in 2015.
Written and directed by John Maclean (founding member of great Scottish band The Beta Band, whom if you have never checked out I highly recommend).
Starring Michael Fassbender.
It was one of my favorite films of that year, regardless of genre.
The Proposition is a good one too... came out about 15 years ago with Guy Pearce. Australian western.
Does Breaker Morant count as a western? I don’t care, I like it. Good movie either way.
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Haven’t scrolled through the list and presumably already mentioned , but Little Big Man is one of my all time faves. Great, great movie and definitely a western. Anytime I pass it on the rerun channel it is impossible for me not to get sucked in. Highly recommended. Faye Dunaway at peak hotness, Richard Mulligan as an absolute bonkers Custer, Chief Dan George, and lil Dusty Hoffman. Still relevant and holds up imo.
Wind River too.Quote:
Originally Posted by TahoeJ
that describes the western genre. Lots of bad repetitive shit, a few gems.Quote:
Originally Posted by dookey67
Buster Scruggs was pretty good, more of a bunch of scenes than a movie, but it felt less formulaic regardless. I think a whole movie about just buster would be pretty compelling. Overall though pretty good and fresher than most
Steve Mcqueen made a rodeo-contemporary-western in the 60s or 70s that was pretty good. I couldn’t remember and It’s been bugging me for a while so I looked it up. It was called Junior Bonner. It’s not a shoot em up but it’s worth watching if you come across it.