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The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Searchers
The Magnificent 7 (Steve McQueen, Steve McQueen, the coolest godamn mother fucker on the silver screen...)
The Wild Bunch
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Winchester 73
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
Lonesome Dove
Hang Em High
Shane
Nice list. Seen most of those (have not seen Winchester 73, She Wore A Yellow Ribbon or Lonesome Dove)
I'd add the following to the list, though:
1. Ashes of Time - it's technically an "Eastern" and is pretty existential, but it's cool.
2. McCabe and Mrs. Miller - also a bit more moody and character driven than most westerns. It's Altman, so it's an alternate styled Western.
3. The Shootist - John Wayne's final bow, is pretty solid.
4. High Noon
5. Once Upon A Time In The West - the quintessential Spaghetti Western
6. High Plains Drifter
7. Ride The High Country
8. The Man From Laramie
9. The Professionals
10. Dead Man
11. The Grey Fox
The fact of the matter is that there are tons of great Westerns floating out there, too many to relegate to a Top 10. I mean John Wayne alone contributed a lot to the genre and has a number of solid pictures under his belt. Ditto for Clint, Jimmy Stewart, and countless others. And the Italians kicked out a number of classic (but little seen) westerns that went beyond the whole Man With No Name/The Stranger motif popularized by Clint.
That said, if I had to only pick 1, I'd go with The Wild Bunch. That movie rocks on so many different levels it's not even funny.
The Ox Bow Incident
Blazing Saddles
Tom Horn
True Grit
The Cowboys
The Culpepper Cattle Company
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence
Open Range
Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
The Outlaw Josie Wales
Unforgiven
Lonesome Dove
Paint Your Wagon.
Ok, I know it's been on TV a million times but seriously, when was the last time you watched the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly properly? I'm talking all the way through (no commercials) in widescreen. There's a reason this movie is played so much. It's fucking incredible.
The Sergio Leone trilogy
Josey Wales
High Planes Drifter (painting the town red and renaming it "Hell" = genius)
The Magnificent Seven
Liberty Valance
Wild Bunch
No Country For Old Men (nobody said it had to be set in the 1800's)
The Proposition
I really liked Dead Man when I first saw it, but it seems kinda pretentious now. Iggy still rules tho.
YES! Although maybe its a far eastern? or far western? Not sure. One of my favorite flicks ever.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jer
Others:
Unforgiven
Good the bad and the Ugly
Pale Rider
Shane, so cheesy, but so great.
Lonesome Dove
Winchester 73
I really liked the original 3:10 to Yuma. You really get the sense the main character is just an ordinary simple farmer who finds himself in an incredible situation, not automatically a baddass gunslinger the way every hero has to be in most action movies.
Somehow I just can't put the Magnificent Seven on my list because I like The Seven Samurai better, which it is based on.
I really feel like I'm forgetting something important, but maybe I'll remember later.
Never saw The Seven Samurai. Weren't the Sergio Leone films based on some Japanese film?
The new 3:10 was not very good, especially compared to the old one.
I've never seen Lonesome Dove - I really should I guess.Everybody says it's great.
Pale Rider was good - what's not to like about an ass-kicking preacher? That little girl creeps me out, tho.
Pale Rider makes my top ten list too
I forgot Outlaw Josey Wales, and I also forgot to say that I really liked Ride With The Devil, although technically it doesn't take place very far west.
Seven Samurai is cool, its not that incredible or anything, but the Magnificent 7 was sort of ruined for me after I saw how exactly it mirrored 7S, the only difference is guns instead of swords and mexico instead of Japan. Even the characters are all the same.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jer
Yojimbo is the Kurosawa film most often connected with Westerns, specifically the Sergio Leone Clint Eastwood Trilogy (A Fistful of Dollars, in particular).
Found this on the Net: Leone's 1964 film, 'A Fistful of Dollars', was at times almost a shot-for-shot steal of 'Yojimbo' as Clint Eastwood's nameless gunslinger went through the same misadventures as Kurosawa's nameless samurai. As Kurosawa said in a note to Leone, "You have made a fine film. Unfortunately, it is my film."
While I love the Clint joints, if you have never seen Once Upon A Time In The West with Charles Bronson and Henry Fonda, you owe it to yourself to check it out.
also Leone's My Name Is Nobody, is a pretty good Western spoof.
Never heard of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by dookey67
Speaking of spoofs: Dookey - you're a big film guy - have you ever seen A Porklips Now? I think the guy who did it was in San Fran.
Ok, theres a movie I'm thinking of, but I can't remember the damn name.
It's not REALLY a western, but I remember the plot is a piano player and a chick travel through mexico killing lots of people. I think it was made in the late 70's, real bloody and violent, especially for that time.
Ring any bells to anyone?
are you talking about el mariachi? cause that was made in like 1993-ish
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Originally Posted by leroy jenkins
El Topo?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067866/
Went for a bike ride and remembered it in the middle of a flowy techy section, it just poped into my head, wierd how that works.
"Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071249/
I actually haven't seen the whole thing, so maybe I'm not qualified to mention it, but from what I saw it was kind of cool, and very much a western, although a little later than most in the genre.
Having the pope in your head would be kind of weird.
What about the Quick and the Dead? ya it's kind of camp and over the top but that's what Sam Raimi does and quite well at that.
I liked the remake of 3:10 to Yuma. Silly me.
Once Upon a Time in the West is amazing... as was Claudia Cardinale's rack:
http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/date-m...-C11796961.jpg
I love Sergio Leone's Westerns.
My favorite ten off the top of my head:
Tombstone
Josey Wales
Two Mules For Sister Sarah
Young Guns
The Alamo
The Shootist
Good Bad & The Ugly
Liberty Valance
Few Dollars More
Death Rides a Horse
and pretty much anything else with Lee Van Cleef. Open Range would probably be in there too if I were allowed eleven.
Honorable Mention? Sons of Katie Elder and the Treasure of The Sierra Madre
Does Gunga Din count? It was filmed in the west. :confused: I really like that one.
Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia is a Sam Pekinpah flick made post Wild Bunch and with Warren Oates, so I can see why one would think of it as sort of a Western.
Since somebody mentioned El Topo, here are 3 other "trippy" Westerns worth a look-see if you're into non-traditionalism:
1. Zachariah (The First and Only Electric Western) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068011/
2. Dust - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243232/
3. Blueberry (aka Renegade) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0276830/
Once Upon A TimeQuote:
Originally Posted by dookey67
My Name Is Nobody
Little Big Man
Dead Man
The Good, The Bad.....
A Man Called Horse
Jeremiah Johnson
Breakheart Pass
No love for Brokeback Mountain?
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Dances with Wolves
The Seachers
Tombstone
True Grit
The Cowboys
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Silverado
Unforgiven
Support Your Local Sheriff
Lonesome Dove is by far the best Western "themed" film ever made as far as I'm concerned, but it's a MINI-SERIES...not a movie.
I honestly would put Brokeback Mountain way before Dances With Wolves and Silverado.
The Apple Dumpling Gang, anybody?
Also:
Back To The Future III
From Dusk Til Dawn 3: A Hangman's Tale
Tremors 4
Gingersnaps 3
The Burrowers
Dead Birds
Oblivion
Westworld
Ravenous
(okay, admittedly the above listed are not Top 10 Material, but they deserve the most miniscule of points for taking the Western genre into strange and uncharted territory)
PS
why is it when a B-grade franchise runs out of ideas they either go back to the 1800s or into the future? (Leprechaun, BTTF, F13, Hellraiser...)
In no particular order
stagecoach
the cowboys
jeremiah johnson
Serio Leonne: GBU, Fistful of $$, for a few $$ more
Mcclintock (for campy relief)
Blazing saddles (purely as a comedy relief)
Once upon a time on the west
Pick most any John Wayne western
Little big man
Outlaw Josie wales
Love treasure of sierra madre but thats really more southamerican western.
Tombstone
Last of the Mohicans
Legends of the Fall
Silverado
okbye
Lonesome Dove is by far my favorite Western to watch. I've seen it countless times, and it never gets old.
Forgot about this one. Certainly not a traditional western.Quote:
Originally Posted by cawaco515
I saw it back in 74 so something when it was first released. But I was too young to really appreciate what it was all about. Saw it again recently and was amazed by how good a movie this is.
Not sure how I forgot little big man or Jerimiah Johnson either, its funny those aren't really the ussualy western, but they're far more of a real western than any of the shoot em up gun fighter movies.
Ravenous is cool too.
all this mention of Jerimiah Johnson got me to remembering this flick:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074299/
Challenge To Be Free (aka Mad Trapper of the Yukon)...takes place in Alaska, has similar thematics to JJ, and is not really a Western, but an offshoot of the genre in many ways.
And while we're on the subject of Robert Redford, The Electric Horseman is a pretty cool modern twist on the Western...
Try "Lonely Are The Brave" 1962 Kirk Douglas a 20th c. western about the end of individual, rugged men, and cowboy ways very good different type of western.Quote:
Originally Posted by dookey67
In fact KD was in some great westerns. Last train from boothill, man without a star, there was a crooked man.......
What? No love for Two Mules For Sister Sara?
This thread's about westerns, not western beastiality.Quote:
Originally Posted by XtrPickels
One Eyed Jacks with Karl Malden and Marlon Brando is interesting...
and then there's 100 Rifles with Raquel Welch and Jim Brown AND...Burt Reynolds!
John Huston's The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is pretty awesome, a little older than most of these but still great to watch.
The Searchers is sick too.
I didn't think lonesome was that great of a movie. It read so much better than the movie showed. However, I generally like to read my westerns more than watch them so my opinion may be a wash.
Watched that just the other day, so many good eastwood westerns. They are about the only ones I really enjoy.Quote:
Originally Posted by XtrPickels