Best Western

NOt:headshake

But cowboys and such. Ive just seen The Great Silence, which Alex Cox waxed lyrical as the best spaghetti western ever, certainly a great movie, stunning scenery of deep snow ( set in Utah during the great blizzard of 1899 or something) but I don't know about better than Once Upon a Time in the West. We had a great thread on war movies back a couple of months ago so how about westerns, Clint Eastwoods been in a lot from his early career in 'Dollars movies to the later ones he directed (Pale Rider, Unforgiven, the Outlaw Josey Wales) pretty much all of which are contenders.
Modern westerns, or old school Duke and the 7th Cavalry?

Also
For the boys or do chicks dig them too?

I liked Shane a lot. And I stayed over night in Kanab, UT years ago...

Pale Rider, Jeremiah Johnson and Unforgiven are at the top of my list. Been wanting to see 3:10 to Yuma for awhile now, heard good things. Oh and Blazing Saddles of course.

Blazing Saddles of course

Of course. :D

Oh, and The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.

jinx;524760 wrote:

I liked Shane a lot. And I stayed over night in Kanab, UT years ago...

at the Shiloh Inne:


we went out to dinner that night, and were waited on by Massive Headwound Harry.

I think I'll have to get Shane, I don't know if I've ever seen it.

There were a couple of Wyatt Earp movies out a couple of years ago (14 :eek: ) Wyatt Earp and Tombstone. Val Kilmer's Doc Holiday was awesome in Tombstone.

I don't know about best Western, but my favorites are Rio Bravo and Silverado. I love Walter Brennan as Stumpy. And his griping at Dude (Dean Martin) is a hoot.

Silverado has good action and enough humor to be more than a morality play.

Does There Will Be Blood count?

I can't speak for chicks, but this chick likes a few westerns.

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly...well it's in my top 20 movies.

Mom loved Shane...and that is why my older brother's middle name is Alan. I have never seen it, believe it or not.

Treasure of the Sierra Madre

The Wild Bunch

Wait, shouldn't this be Beest Western?

Shawnee123;524858 wrote:

Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Badges? We don't need no steenkeen badges!

Not in order of preference, the ones that immediately come to mind are:

Pale Rider
A Fistful of Dollars
High Plains Drifter
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Cat Ballou (just sayin', my confirmation name is not Catherine because of Catherine of Sienna or anybody else who was having stigmata sometime in the Middle Ages ...)
Little Big Man
Dances with Wolves

I hesitate to add Outland, but I think it really was a Western, even if it was set in a space station.

Ohhhh...Little Big Man. Classic.

"I'll be your wife, Little Big Man."

love your conf name!

wolf;524879 wrote:

I hesitate to add Outland, but I think it really was a Western, even if it was set in a space station.

I thought of Outland before posting the thread, trying to think of 'alternative westerns', totally a western plot, just spaced up, maybe Connery couldn't do the accent :D .

Man, I've seen sooooo many. My list is totally subject to my mood, but off the top of my head I'd say my top 10 are....

Blazing Saddles
The Magnificent Seven
Tombstone
The Searchers
High Noon
The Wild Bunch
Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
Shane
Rio Bravo
The Shootist

Unforgiven
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
El Dorado
The War Wagon
The Sons of Katie Elder
Silverado
Jeremiah Johnson
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
True Grit/Rooster Cogburn
Stagecoach
Big Jake
The Shootist
Winchester 73

There's just too many great ones. And you can probably tell I'm a big fan of The Duke. Not of his politics, but of the actor.

My coworker lent me Shanghai Noon. It was a goofy western but I liked it.

Nobody liked Deliverance?

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

Bad Bob comes to town:

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Aliantha;525111 wrote:

Nobody liked Deliverance?

It's not really a western, Ali. It's set in the east part of the US and it's set in in the 1970s.

It's found under the western genre, and I studied it as a western at uni (years ago).

I know that it's not typical as far as westerns go, but apparently it has the elements including banjos and rednecks. lol

eta: I agree though. I've never thought of it as a western. I just thought that's what the general concensus was. Fits more into the horror/action genre for me.

lumberjim;525117 wrote:

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

Bad Bob comes to town:

[youtube]yNM64VP2JBw[/youtube]

That's a good one too.

Aliantha;525172 wrote:

It's found under the western genre, and I studied it as a western at uni (years ago).

I know that it's not typical as far as westerns go, but apparently it has the elements including banjos and rednecks. lol

eta: I agree though. I've never thought of it as a western. I just thought that's what the general concensus was. Fits more into the horror/action genre for me.

West is a matter of perspective. ;)

"What Ah rekwahr is that you gitcher ass back up in them woods."

Shawnee123;525228 wrote:

West is a matter of perspective. ;)

"What Ah rekwahr is that you gitcher ass back up in them woods."

While not a precise science and certainly some grey around the edges of the exact definition, I'm really not seeing anybody fitting Deliverance under the western umbrella. Quigley Down Under on the other hand..

Beest;525512 wrote:

Quigley Down Under on the other hand..

Definitely a Western.

Beest;525512 wrote:

While not a precise science and certainly some grey around the edges of the exact definition, I'm really not seeing anybody fitting Deliverance under the western umbrella. Quigley Down Under on the other hand..

There are a lot of things west of the area in which Deliverance was set. In fact, everything west of Deliverance all the way around the world, to right before Deliverance.

If you were to look at west in strictly a directional capacity, that is.

Aliantha;525111 wrote:

Nobody liked Deliverance?

It's a great movie, just not.... Westish

Although a redneck can technically be from anywhere, the real ones are from the Southeastern U.S., therefore, not a Western (It was also set 100 years too late to be a 'real' Western).

I rented Lonesome Dove and I'll watch it this weekend. I've heard it's pretty good. My wife and daughter are going to Vietnam for a month without me. I'm going to be pretty depressed for a month or so.

This is the second time my wife is taking my daughter from me for a month. She's never been away from our daughter for a single day. She wouldn't let me take our daughter somewhere without her for a day, let alone a month and she has no idea how much it hurts me to be away from her.


Anyway, my parents told me Lonesome Dove is really great and I'm finally getting around to checking it out. I got both DVDs

Radar;525719 wrote:

she has no idea how much it hurts me to be away from her.

Have you tried, you know, telling her?

I like several, but these are a few of my favs.

Outlaw Josey Wales
Silverado
Open Range

glatt;525721 wrote:

Have you tried, you know, telling her?

:eek:

lol

glatt;525721 wrote:

Have you tried, you know, telling her?

Yes, but it doesn't matter. She tells me to be tough and it's "only a month". She's never been away from our daughter for a day. I'm sure it seems easy for her because she's never had to go through it.

I love Westerns.

I like:
Jeremiah Johnson
Tombstone
3:10 to Yuma was fantastic, Bullitt
Quigley
And pretty much any episode of Bonanza

Tombstone, The Outlaw Josie Whales, and Shane

Long Riders

Shawnee123;524858 wrote:

Treasure of the Sierra Madre

That's my #1.

Its at a disadvantage since its so old and in black and white but the story and acting are exceptional. Right after that is High Plains Drifter which Eastwood later remade into Pale Rider (also in my top 5).

Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a good movie, but I wouldn't classify it as a western. I know it has horses, and takes place in the Mexican desert, but it's more of a thriller than a western.