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Best Western Ever

My faves are:
The Wild Bunch
Unforgiven
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Long Riders
Lonesome Dove
Ride the High Country
 
Peder said:
Midnight Cowboy, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in or out?
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That is what I thought as well.... But not sure what criteria this thread is going for, western wise.

The Searchers
Viva Zapata!
Jeremiah Johnson

Im guessing The Man From Snowy River isn't considered one of the best :sad:
BUT WE ALL KNOW HE SHOULD BE!!!!!!!
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Greatest slapstick , spaghetti western , My name is nobody . Great role by Henry Fonda , probably silly but liked this one a lot , long time ago however , so not sure it would still hit the right spot .
 
Oldies, but goodies, Rio Bravo and The Sons of Katie Elder.

Yeah, I grew up watching Maverick, James Garner was perfect in the role. :D
 
jaybe said:
I'm not a fan of westerns. But Cat Ballou is worth a vote. Lee Marvin is brilliant as the aging alcoholic gunman.

What about The Magnificent Seven? Do none of you like it? I love it.

Desperado's another great film. Any other fans out there?

I wouldn't call Midnight Cowboy a western, but it is one of my all time favourites.
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The Magnificent Seven is one of the best!
 
Some of my favorites are

The Man that Shot Liberty Valance
Silverado
The Magnificent Seven
High Noon
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
My Darling Clementine
The Shootist
Tombstone
Dances with Wolves
Rio Bravo
The Sons of Katie Elder
 
A Fistful of Dollars.
The Gunfighter.
McCabe & Mrs Miller - not a traditional western, but a darn good film all the same.
Tombstone was fun too.
 
I used to love watching Wichita over and over again when I was a kid. Really loved that film, though it was really dated even then.

My favourites now are:

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
A Fistful of Dollars
Young Guns (for sentimental reasons, you understand)

If comedy is allowed, then I would also add Blazing Saddles as it's so very, very funny.
 
Gotta go with The Shootist. I want to see the new version, but I feel that doing so would be a grave sin against the Duke.
 
SFG75 said:
Gotta go with The Shootist. I want to see the new version, but I feel that doing so would be a grave sin against the Duke.
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Just watched The Shootist about a week ago, hadn't seen it before which surprised me as I've seen a lot of John Wayne movies, some better than others but this one was really good. We get a lot of old movies on the AMC network. The Duke seemed more human and not so much the super hero he portrayed in so many other movies (except for The Cowboys where he turns his back on a gun toting Bruce Dern and gets himself shot).
 
Tombstone. It is near-perfect. Val Kilmer should have won the Oscar.
Dances with Wolves. Beautiful. A magnificent first film for director Kostner.
The Shootist is like a haiku of Westerns. It is sparse, but elegant.
Sergio Leone's two masterpiece Western operas (Ennio Morricone's music made them classics), mentioned above, Once Upon a Time in the West and the The Good,The Bad and the Ugly.
The Quick and the Dead is terrific. Gene Hackman, Sharon Stone co-produced, Russell Crowe, DeCaprio.
 
Yes! to The Magnificant Seven, all my favorite actors...Steve McQueen, Yul Brenner, Charlie Bronson, Robert Vaughn...even Eli Wallach, great as the bad guy.

I don't think anyone has mentioned Wyatt Earp, the Kevin Costner, and Dennis Quaid version. Quaid was magnificant as Doc Holliday. I've recently read Doc, and Quaid caught the essence of Doc Holliday, for sure.
 
Polly Parrot said:
So you want Westerns, and perhaps all (Eastwood) films to include someone who starts off humbly and then becomes a big hero? That's a bit shallow.
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Ah, but he actually started out as a murderous drunk, turned pig farmer family man, and returned to his murderous ways to avenge the abuse of prostitutes, for a price, doesn't that make him a prostitute, and falling into the quicksand of revenge and score settling with the ultimate protagonist. Ultimately his new family man side prevails with a sense of honor and duty, but it is surely at the baser level of choices he could have made.

Shallow? I think not. I vote for one of the best westerns made. It had a little of everthing from all the other potential best westerns. At no point does he come out completely clean and washed of his "sins" no matter the superficial nobleness of his actions.
 
Unforgiven is so good. It is definitely my top 3.

I'd probably go with The Good The Bad and the Ugly, Unforgiven, and Tombstone, in no particular order.

The Proposition sucked by the way.
 
Unforgiven (one of my favorite movies of any Genre), Once Upon a Time in the West, Outlaw Josey Wales, Magnificent Seven, Good Bad and the Ugly, Pale Rider, and have to add in the new True Grit.
Pretty good modern westerns : Open Range, Apaloosa, 3:10 to Yuma.
 
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