tOfficial Western Movies Thread

[Godstree]

The Searchers
Unforgiven
Tombstone
Maverick I just loved this movie even though it was corny
The Shootist

I have many more and not sure all would be top five tomorrow 'cept the The Searchers.

 

[BigKen]

Ditto on the most liked ........... The Wild Bunch (1969) turned western movies into real action. First movie to actually show bullets piercing the body and the bloodshed that resulted.

Last night I watched a forgotten classic Clint Eastwood western.............Joe Kidd (1972). Robert Duvall as the bad guy rich rancher and John Saxon as the Mexican/Indian hero trying to get back a piece of Duvall's 600,000 acre ranch. Amazing that Eastwood could do classics in the 60's and 70's, become Dirty Harry and then get on horse and do an all time great western like Unforgiven in 1992.

 

[outofyourmind]

Here's the Top 5 of All Time:

1. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
2. Tombstone
3. The Man who shot Liberty Valence
4. Unforgiven
5. Rio Bravo

6. True Grit

 

[BamaDude]

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, in my opinion, is nowhere near the best. But it might be close to the top ten if you take out the scenes that had that awful "Rain Drops Keep Falling on My Head" playing in the background. Or, leave the scenes in & substitute a better piece of music. Yuck!

 

[BearDownUA]

6. True Grit

Would you take the Duke over the Coen adaptation?

 

[BamaDude]

Would you take the Duke over the Coen adaptation?

I liked the John Wayne version better, even though the storyline in the Coen Brothers film may have stuck a little closer to the book.

The main drawback to the first film was the rather lame acting by Glen Campbell. The second film didn't flow that well, and could have been done much better, in my opinion.

 

[outofyourmind]

Would you take the Duke over the Coen adaptation?

Certainly I would. It's no contest.
1st one = Great
2nd one = Not that great.

 

[Skerpokes]

Open Range is on and I will still claim it as one of the best Western Movies ever.

Paraphrasing here;

Charlie: You reckon cows are worth getting killed over?

Boss: Cows are one thing. But one man telling another man where he can go in this country is something else...

Lettin’ his law man lay down the law until he figured it was time to show us who gave the order around here.

Oooh. Sticks in my craw.

Charlie: I’ll saddle the horses.


Mic drop

 

[Hank Kingsley]

Open Range is on and I will still claim it as one of the best Western Movies ever.

Paraphrasing here;

Charlie: You reckon cows are worth getting killed over?

Boss: Cows are one thing. But one man telling another man where he can go in this country is something else...

Lettin’ his law man lay down the law until he figured it was time to show us who gave the order around here.

Oooh. Sticks in my craw.

Charlie: I’ll saddle the horses.


Mic drop

The big gunfight is stellar. when Costner walks up to Kim Coates and asks if he's the guy who shot his friend.... Hole in forehead, no fucking around.

That's a gunfight.

 

[outofyourmind]

The best Western theme song came from TV.
Just sayin'

 

[Hank Kingsley]

The best Western theme song came from TV.
Just sayin'

It was good enough for Joliet Jake and Elwood Blues as well.

 

[PatsFan2003]

One I saw a long time ago that not many have heard of.

Glenn Ford and Jack Lemmon (?!?!) in a flick called simply, "Cowboy."

Lemmon plays a Chicago hotel clerk who uses his savings to finance Ford's
effort to keep ownership of his cattle ranch in exchange for the chance to participate in a cattle drive
and become the cattleman he's long fantasized about being.

Unorthodox but worth watching if you can find the DVD.

It is a good film with Lemmon and Ford.

 

[BamaDude]

Rio Bravo
The Outlaw Josie Wales
El Dorado
Two Mules for Sister Sarah
River of No Return