Best Western
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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? |
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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.
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Oh, and The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. |
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at the Shiloh Inne: http://images.hotel-rates.com/hotels...IL-exter-1.jpg 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?
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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? |
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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! |
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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.
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Nobody liked Deliverance?
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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. |
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That's a good one too. |
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"What Ah rekwahr is that you gitcher ass back up in them woods." |
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D'ya think you used enough dynamite there Butch?
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If you were to look at west in strictly a directional capacity, that is. |
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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).
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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 |
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I like several, but these are a few of my favs.
Outlaw Josey Wales Silverado Open Range |
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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
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Long Riders
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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.
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