Best Westerns

[Kenny Satch]

Blazing Saddles

"Gentlemen, please rest your sphincters."

[Ripzalot]

[Jong Lafitte]

Unforgiven is a fucking badass movie. "you better clear outta there..."

No Country is a damn good one too.

How about Pale Rider?

Also mentioned was Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, golden, really one of the damn funniest movies ever.

Good thing for all these westerns that UHF wasn't a western, because it wouldn't even be close.

[Tippster]

I really liked 3:10 to Yuma:

[Woodsy]

I really liked 3:10 to Yuma:

http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/2...-Trailer-.html

remake JONG

[Tippster]

So? Does that mean I can't enjoy it?

[Rip'nStick]

I was going to mention this as Once Upon a Time in the West. Opening scene is amazing and I love that it kind of caps the settling of the West with the railroad at the end of the movie. AAnd Claudia Cardinale is smoking hot

[Rip'nStick]

True Grit deserves a mention if nothing else than the character of the little girl Mattie. I liked Coen brother better than original but that was good too.

[Marshall Tucker]

^ Bridges did a helleva job. But the duke...

[Woodsy]

So? Does that mean I can't enjoy it?

I would never deny your pleasure

[54-46]

Tom Horn (Steve McQueen)

[Meadow Skipper]

Tom Horn (Steve McQueen)

Missouri Breaks. No, not really, I kid. It always amazed me how Tom McGuane could write both such a good one - Tom Horn - and such an absolutely shitty one - Missouri Breaks.

Rancho Deluxe (written by McGuane) wasn’t the best anything, but I liked it.

[4matic]

Loosely a modern Western. Duvall Academy Award:

Tender Mercies.

[4matic]

Close to the top for me



Zoetrope films

[4matic]

[ex-powderbroker]

quick and the dead because it’s fun to see young leo get popped

[GeezerSteve]

. . . The Wild Bunch * * * Most westerns made since are influenced by it.

That's an understatement. Nearly all American action movies were directly or indirectly influenced by The Wild Bunch. It changed American popular cinema. Peckinpah cleared the way for Quentin Tarantino and John Woo.

All the Peckinpah westerns are worth watching. My second favorite is Fistful of Dynamite aka Duck You Sucker! with The Ballad of Cable Hogue at 3rd. FWIW, Peckinpah said he was directly influenced by John Ford and, specifically, The Searchers.

My Name is Nobody

The best of all the spaghetti western spoofs by a country mile

[ex-powderbroker]

three amigos is an infamous western

[GeezerSteve]

Sub-thread idea: Best Spaghetti Westerns

My picks: Django (the original), The Great Silence, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West

Anything directed by Corbucci or Leone is worth watching.

[GeezerSteve]

72 posts and nobody mentioned:

McCabe and Mrs. Miller

As good a movie making gets. Roger Ebert deemed it "a perfect movie."

[gointhewater]

Hostiles. On Netflix right now. Best movie I’ve seen in a long while.

[GeezerSteve]

Hostiles. * * * Best movie I’ve seen in a long while.

Sorry to hear that

[babybear]

three amigos is an infamous western

[PB]

72 posts and nobody mentioned:

McCabe and Mrs. Miller

As good a movie making gets. Roger Ebert deemed it "a perfect movie."

Excellent point , Sir.

I give you the following https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7V-CW_SUos
Unfairly labeled an Australien spaghetti western, it is so, so much more.

[MagnificentUnicorn]

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