What is your Favorite Western?

[AngelEyes]

Westerns are one of my favorite genres and I find it unfortunate that there aren't as many as there used to be. There have been so many good westerns over the years that it's difficult to choose which is my favorite. I loved the turn that they took in the mid sixties with the Spaghetti Western and I consider the dollars trilogy to be among the best trilogies in film history. If I had to make a decision I suppose I would pick The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Personally, I believe it possessed the greatest combination of plot, humor, acting and cinematography.

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All three lead actors, Eastwood, Wallach, and Van Cleef were brilliant in their roles and the ending is one of the great scenes in history.

Another one of my favorites would be Unforgiven. This is a very dark movie but is so well done, with fantastic acting, Hackman especially, and a beautiful score.

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[Just2McFly]

Shanghai Noon>>>>

My name is nobody>>>>

[clipse026]

The Good, The Bad, and The Weird. Does that count?

[johndeeregreen]

All of the following could be #1 to me:

The Searchers
Liberty Valance
Unforgiven
Good, Bad, Ugly
Once Upon a Time in the West

Followed on the next tier by:

The Proposition
Josey Wales
Stagecoach
Red River
Rio Bravo
Open Range
High Plains Drifter
True Grit (both the original and remake have their redeeming qualities and belong on this list)
Pale Rider
The Naked Spur

And then below them:

Fistful
For a Few Dollars More
The Far Country
Winchester 73
The Man from Laramie
Hang em High
The Shootist
El Dorado

All I can think of off the top of my head, certainly I've missed some of my favorites.

[AngelEyes]

All of the following could be #1 to me:

The Searchers
Liberty Valance
Unforgiven
Good, Bad, Ugly
Once Upon a Time in the West

Followed on the next tier by:

The Proposition
Josey Wales
Stagecoach
Red River
Rio Bravo
Open Range
High Plains Drifter
True Grit (both the original and remake have their redeeming qualities and belong on this list)
Pale Rider
The Naked Spur

And then below them:

Fistful
For a Few Dollars More
The Far Country
Winchester 73
The Man from Laramie
Hang em High
The Shootist
El Dorado

All I can think of off the top of my head, certainly I've missed some of my favorites.

What about Treasure of the Sierra Madre, is that considered a western?

[johndeeregreen]

What about Treasure of the Sierra Madre, is that considered a western?
I don't consider it one, no. It's just as good or better as any film on my list, but I wouldn't categorize it in that way at all.

[Lebron23]

The Magnificent Seven
Once upon a time in the West
The Quick and the Dead
True Grit
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Unforgiven
Tombstone

[NoGunzJustSkillz]

Haven't watched many Westerns, but one of my fav movies all-time;

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[jbot]

all time fave is probably Unforgiven. i like it's realistic approach.

good, bad and the ugly and once upon a time in the west are great too.

[1987_Lakers]

I don't really like Westerns (My Dad loves it), but The Good, the Bad and the Ugly was a really good film, the soundtrack in that movie is top notch.

[TaLvsCuaL]

The Wild Bunch

[Solidape]

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly + the music :lebronamazed:

[Myth]

1. Unforgiven
2. High Plains Drifter

[RoseCity07]

Most people will pick an old movie but I think 3:10 to Yuma is every bit as good as any classic you can name.

It is one of the best movies of the past 10 years as well.

[AngelEyes]

Most people will pick an old movie but I think 3:10 to Yuma is every bit as good as any classic you can name.

It is one of the best movies of the past 10 years as well.

It's as good as The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. No Blondie, no Tuco and no Angel Eyes but it's still as good? How can that be....?

[DonDadda59]

Unforgiven. For a Few Dollars More.

[Myth]

Most people will pick an old movie but I think 3:10 to Yuma is every bit as good as any classic you can name.

It is one of the best movies of the past 10 years as well.

I was really tempted to throw The Good, The Bad, & The Weird in as my number 2, but decided to stick with traditional westerns.

[qrich]

Tombstone :bowdown:

Love it even more that I drove down there on a few occasions since its only about just over an hour away. City is really nice. Same with Bisbee

[gigantes]

All of the following could be #1 to me:

The Searchers
Liberty Valance
Unforgiven
Good, Bad, Ugly
Once Upon a Time in the West

Followed on the next tier by:

The Proposition
Josey Wales
Stagecoach
Red River
Rio Bravo
Open Range
High Plains Drifter
True Grit (both the original and remake have their redeeming qualities and belong on this list)
Pale Rider
The Naked Spur

And then below them:

Fistful
For a Few Dollars More
The Far Country
Winchester 73
The Man from Laramie
Hang em High
The Shootist
El Dorado

All I can think of off the top of my head, certainly I've missed some of my favorites.
wow... nice shots indeed.

[johndeeregreen]

Most people will pick an old movie but I think 3:10 to Yuma is every bit as good as any classic you can name.
I think you're insane and/or haven't seen most of the films named, but the addition to the thread is appreciated. 3:10 is worthy of mention, but certainly not the GOAT or even close if you ask me.

[Dbrog]

I actually have a huge love for For A Few Dollars More. It's probably my favorite closely followed by Rio Bravo and then Good, Bad, and Ugly. Once Upon a Time in the West is very good too once you get past the first half of it. Jeremiah Johnson is a nice one too! I actually really didn't like the Searchers and Unforgiven (which I know are many people's favorites). Also wasn't a big fan of Josie Wales or High Plains Drifter either.

Next on my list to watch is Magnificent 7 and Wild Bunch. Btw, has anyone seen Lonely are the Brave? I've heard it's pretty good.

[KevinNYC]

The Searchers is just a kick in the head at the end.
A movie you can't make up your mind about until the very last scene.

Also the original 3:10 to Yuma is a better movie, it's not as amped up an action movie, but the drama is better.

The original short story for 3:10 to Yuma was written by Elmore Leonard who became more famous for crime novels like Get Shorty and Jackie Brown.

It was also used in a great song about death by Warren Zevon called My Ride's Here which he recorded just before finding out he had terminal cancer.

I was staying at the Marriott
With Jesus and John Wayne
I was waiting for a chariot
They were waiting for a train
The sky was full of carrion
"I'll take the mazuma" *
Said Jesus to Marion
"That's the 3:10 to Yuma
My ride's here..."

The Houston sky was changeless
We galloped through bluebonnets
I was wrestling with an angel
You were working on a sonnet
You said, "I believe the seraphim
Will gather up my pinto
And carry us away, Jim
Across the San Jacinto
My ride's here..."

Shelley and Keats were out in the street
And even Lord Byron was leaving for Greece
While back at the Hilton, last but not least
Milton was holding his sides
Saying, "You bravos had better be
Ready to fight
Or we'll never get out of East Texas tonight
The trail is long and the river is wide
And my ride's here"

I was staying at the Westin
I was playing to a draw
When in walked Charlton Heston
With the Tablets of the Law
He said, "It's still the Greatest Story"
I said, "Man, I'd like to stay
But I'm bound for glory
I'm on my way
My ride's here..."

* mazuma is Yiddish for cash.

That man could write a song.

[KevinNYC]

Also for Western fans, you definitely need to see Red River which is a ridiculously entertaining movie.

For film fans, you should check out virtually any movie by Howard Hawks. He did great Westerns like Red River and Rio Bravo, great film noirs like The Big Sleep, hilarious screwball comedies like Bringing Up Baby and His Girl Friday and even gangster films like Scarface. When the French came up with the theory that the director is more important than the producer of the movie, they had Hawks in mind.

[johndeeregreen]

Also for Western fans, you definitely need to see Red River which is a ridiculously entertaining movie.
Red River would be a contender for all-time great Western if the ending wasn't such typical Hollywood camp of that time period.

[Jackass18]

Tombstone is my fav followed by:

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Once Upon a Time in the West
Unforgiven
The Wild Bunch
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
For a Few Dollars More
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Open Range
High Plains Drifter

[Thorpesaurous]

I went out as Blondie for Holloween in college once.

I would throw for contempary stuff out there Brad Pitt's Jesse James as well. That movie is gorgeous.

[HardwoodLegend]

I wish there were more spaghetti western classics out there that are made to the level of quality Sergio Leone reached with his Man With No Name trilogy and Once Upon a Time in the West. The Italo style is my fave..

The Proposition
The Assassination of Jesse James
3:10 to Yuma

Some of my recent traditional Western faves.

[LJJ]

C'era una volta il West is the best one. You can pause that movie at any time and just keep the still as decoration, beautiful.


Django is the best campy western.

[rufuspaul]

Unforgiven
The Outlaw Josey Whales
Dances With Wolves
Cowboys and Aliens

[Stuckey]

I've only seen 3:10 (Crowe) and High Noon

[Thorpesaurous]

There was a nice little run on Westerns a few years back. Jesse James, 3:10, that Ed Harris/Viggo Mortensen Western, Appaloosa, wasn't bad. And there are people who'd make the case No Country for Old Men is a western. We're probably still in it with Django coming out.

[Lebron23]

Just added Django Unchained and the Great Silence. The Great Silence has one of the best endings of all time. The main villain killed the hero at the end of the movie.

[L.Kizzle]

No mention of Buck and the Preacher or Thomasine & Bushrod?

[Myth]

Django Unchained is definitely my new #1 western.

[Bucket_Nakedz]

north to alaska
the white buffalo

[Lakers Legend#32]

Unforgiven. They might as well have ended the Western genre after that one.

[Myth]

I've only seen 3:10 (Crowe) and High Noon

Wait, those are the only westerns you have seen?

[bdreason]

I spent much of my younger life (4-14) raising and riding horses... but I've never been a fan of Westerns. I actually enjoy the setting, but I'm not a fan of the typical Western storyline I guess. :confusedshrug:

[bdreason]

And is someone going to flame me for saying Young Guns? Not my fav of all-time, but I didn't see it mentioned.

[Whoah10115]

Unforgiven is the best film that is a Western. It's one of the greatest films ever made.

[pauk]

The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
For a Few Dollars More
Once Upon a Time in the West
A Fistfull of Dollars
Django
Django Unchained
Unforgiven
The Great Silence
Death Rides a Horse
Sabata
The Big Gundown
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Tombstone
3:10 to Yuma
High Plains Drifter

and my #1......... Blazing Saddles! :pimp:

[daily]

Pale Rider
Unforgiven
Josey Wales are my Eastwood favs

I like The Long Riders too and Jerimiah Johnson

Val Kilmer as Doc Holiday, With Russell as Wyatt Earp is always watchable

So many great westerns out there

[No_Look604]

Nice thread:applause:

Nice change up to ISH hating on weed:facepalm

[Mach_3]

Surprised no one mentioned Blazing Saddles yet

[Myth]

Surprised no one mentioned Blazing Saddles yet

It was mentioned.

[Burgz V2]

Unforgiven

[Lebron23]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBdBCTvK5zM

For a Few Dollars More Ending.


:bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown:

[Lebron23]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0vqQjaXLOU

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02051/magnificent_seven_2051119b.jpg

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[fsvr54]

The Proposition is my all time favorite.

Magnificent Seven, Companeros, The Searchers or Once Upon A Time in The West are great too

[pauk]

For a few Dollars more
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
A Fistful of Dollars
Once Upon a time in the West
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Unforgiven
Tombstone
Blazing Saddles

[Myth]

Traditional:
1. Unforgiven
2. High Plains Drifter

Nontraditional:
1. Django Unchained
2. The Good, The Bad, and the Weird

A criminally overlooked western: The Proposition

[Myth]

The Proposition is my all time favorite.



Just saw this post :applause:

[KingBeasley08]

Once Upon A Time In The West