Westerns

[pointless]

no, once upon a time in the west.

 

[Thecsm]

Lonesome Dove

 

[spacekowboy]

Lonesome dove
Tombstone
The Searchers
The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

This top 5 is iron clad.

 

[pointless]

have you people never seen once upon a time in the west? seriously, it's better than the good, the bad and the ugly. the opening itself is a thing of beauty.

and the showdown? dear god, the showdown.

also, the red head is nice to look at.

just a taste of the awesomeness

 

[Sean]

have you people never seen once upon a time in the west? seriously, it's better than the good, the bad and the ugly. the opening itself is a thing of beauty.

and the showdown? dear god, the showdown.

also, the red head is nice to look at.

just a taste of the awesomeness

Great film. Goes on for about three days if I remember right.

 

[VaticanAssassin]

have you people never seen once upon a time in the west? seriously, it's better than the good, the bad and the ugly. the opening itself is a thing of beauty.

and the showdown? dear god, the showdown.

also, the red head is nice to look at.

just a taste of the awesomeness

Problem is that the opening scene is so fucking good it just goes down hill from there.....

 

[oggbashan]

The Westerns of the 1930s and 1940s were classic formulas:

Fastest gun nearly a bad guy turns good to hunt down worse baddies and gets the girl.

Goodies wear white hats; Baddies wear black hats. Goodies get shot with .44 ammo and can still fire back. Six shooters fire ten shots without reloading. Goodie shoots baddie at half a mile with Winchester consistently.

Only good Indians are dead Injuns, except Tonto.

Women are either church-going or saloon bar whores.

Cattle are supposed to be dangerous longhorns, but are all placid Herefords.

BUT - All the actors could really ride their horses and do their own stunts.

 

[pointless]

Great film. Goes on for about three days if I remember right.

spock?

Problem is that the opening scene is so fucking good it just goes down hill from there.....

nope. it's solid throughout. one of favorite movies. no modifiers.

 

[trysail]

The dolf option has been screwed up. I always vote for dolf but, in this case, that would be a contradiction.


I watch The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly once a year. The score, alone, makes it worthwhile.


Val Kilmer's performance in Tombstone will never be equaled. He delivers some immortal lines with incomparable aplomb and a rich drollness.


Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was and is highly overrated (the same is true of the wooden, talentless Robert Redford).


Dances With Wolves is one for the ages. The same is true of Little Big Man.


Soldier Blue is worth watching if for no other reason than the opportunity to drool over a very young Candace Bergen. As long as I live, I will never forget the film score's haunting fife in the rendition of Garry Owen.


Unforgiven is entertaining but not one of the all-time greats.


Duke Wayne was, of course, iconic but many of his films are pedestrian and have faded with the passage of time.


The Long Riders has some classic portrayals, well-delivered stereotypical characters and epic scenes.


The Magnificent Seven has its pluses and minuses but only those who were alive in that era will ever comprehend that the entire United States of America once had a soundtrack and it was composed by Elmer Bernstein.


Once Upon A Time In The West is a classic and, like The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly is worth viewing solely for the score. That whistle alone sends shivers down my spine. It's interesting to see just how good Henry Fonda was at being bad. Throw in Charles Bronson, Jason Robards and Claudia Cardinale, and what's not to like?




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[Sean]

spock?


nope. it's solid throughout. one of favorite movies. no modifiers.

Huh, according to wiki, the American release was twenty odd minutes shorter than the European print.

 

[doctor_insanus]

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

Yup.

http://i.imgur.com/P6A22bX.gif

 

[Conager]

The Westerns of the 1930s and 1940s were classic formulas:

Fastest gun nearly a bad guy turns good to hunt down worse baddies and gets the girl.

Goodies wear white hats; Baddies wear black hats. Goodies get shot with .44 ammo and can still fire back. Six shooters fire ten shots without reloading. Goodie shoots baddie at half a mile with Winchester consistently.

Only good Indians are dead Injuns, except Tonto.

Women are either church-going or saloon bar whores.

Cattle are supposed to be dangerous longhorns, but are all placid Herefords.

BUT - All the actors could really ride their horses and do their own stunts.

"Lash" Larue lied about knowing how to handle a whip in order to get a part. When they found out he didn't know how to handle it if they just hired somebody to teach him. He went on to teach Harrison Ford how to use a whip.

 

[thør]

"Where the Hell did you get that shirt?"

"I'm back, Bob"

 

[ryan8558]

In no particular order.

Last of the Mohicans with Daniel Day Lewis. Not quite a normal western but liked it anyway.

Appaloosa with Ed Harris and Viggo Mortenson

The Searchers - still my favorite John Wayne - John Ford western

The Unforgiven - Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn

Open Range - Robert Duval and Kevin Costner. The gunfight through the town is one of the best.

Outlaw Josie Wales - think I enjoyed this more than Unforgiven

Clint's spaghetti westerns. all of 'em

Little Big Man

Tombstone - brilliant performances by all

And because I need another John Wayne movie - She Wore a Yellow Ribbon.

The Coen brothers True Grit.

The Missing with Tommy Lee Jones

 

[LincolnDuncan]

Clint Eastwood was the best cowboy. Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda and Tom Selleck follow him. The only duke movies I like are The Searchers and The Shootist.

 

[Fata Morgana]

I love Westerns. Deadwood, Tombstone, Dances, The Proposition, Jeremiah Johnson to name a few. I even have the boxset of Alias Smith & Jones!

 

[Fata Morgana]

The Fucking Searchers was on again today. No matter what time of day it is, or what day of the year it is, you'll always find that and Columbo on some channel.

 

[sircumvent]

These days they can't come up with an original idea, so they fuck up the classics trying to do a remake.

 

[jomar]

Ran across Silverado on tv a bit back. Good, though derivative.

 

[1sickbastard]

Open Range was a damn fine Western in an era of Westerns presented more as a subcategory of fantasy.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

You need a Kurosawa-Mifune option...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Noor needs to come vote Tombstone for Byron...

 

[Ishmael]

I agree with most here, 'Tombstone" is the benchmark.

Re. Wayne. Player in a lot of formulaic westerns. He created an image and the movies were more about him than the script. He received the Oscar for 'True Grit' as an atonement for the academy NOT awarding him the Oscar for 'The Searchers.' 'The Searchers' is well worth watching for Wayne's acting and the cinematography, a western that has influenced other directors to this day.

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned 'Silverado.' Actually a pretty good movie if not for Costner's over-acting.

As an aside, every 'quick draw' shootout in every western is based on a single event that was only recorded once in history. The shootout between "Wild Bill" Hickok and Davis Tutt in 1865. No other instance of such an event has ever been recorded.

Ishmael

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Ran across Silverado on tv a bit back. Good, though derivative.

Sorry, but someone did mention it.

 

[Ishmael]

Sorry, but someone did mention it.

I missed that one.

Ishmael