Best Western Film...

yeah "man called nobody" Stagecoach, yeah the Searchers was great really showed the predjudice towards indians. it took a lot of guts to show this. Wagnes best! oh how about True Grit classic Wagne. well i do love Shane and the greatest bad guy Jack Palance. high noon the cinematography is awesome! The Cowboys another, The LONG riders all the real brothers playing the james, youngers, and ford brothers, i love the MOUNTAIN MEN, AND Blaine mentioned Jerimigha Johnson, damn i can never spell that name!
 
#1: Unforgiven - not only my favorite western, but my favorite movie
#2: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
#3: The Searchers
#4: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
#5: Once Upon a Time in the West
#6: Dead Man
#7: McCabe & Mrs. Miller
#8: A Fistful of Dollars
#9: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
#10: High Noon
 
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The Profesionals (Burt lancaster) just grrrreat
Makenna's Gold (Gregory Peck) Pure adventure pure fun!
The Ballad of Cable Hogue (surreal)

...Of course Sergio Leone rules!

PS: How could anyone say young guns or silverado!!!! jezuz.....
 
Unforgiven was a great movie but nooooooooo way the best ever made!
Watch some more westerns guys!!!
Little Big Man is miles above Unforgiven
 
Ogrus said:
Unforgiven was a great movie but nooooooooo way the best ever made!
Watch some more westerns guys!!!
Little Big Man is miles above Unforgiven
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LITTLE BIG MAN was cute.

I'm a sucker for films that deconstruct a mythos and both UNFORIGVEN and THE SEARCHERS do this. UNFORGIVEN takes Eastwood's Man With No Name and gives him a name and a conscience. Great, great stuff. Takes the film far beyond most white hate/black hat westerns.

Edited my original list to add DEAD MAN. Can't believe I forgot that one!
 
Dead Man is not a true western its more of a comedy western....and its too freaky due to Johnny Dep! "There was a crooked man" is way better as a western-comedy.
Unforgiven was original due to the twist in it, a different view of the western genre ...but really, that was pretty much it. Its cinematography was as bland as Pale Rider's was. From a cinematographical point of view, Unforgiven, it just cannot be compared to the grandeur of films like Little Big Man (not my favorite anyways) or The Profesionals. Those epic adventures are the true spirit of the true all american western movie tradition. Any western filmed around the 90`s and beyond have never captured the true essence of a cowboy movie filmed in the 60's . Dancing with Wolves was as close as a western will ever be to the past glories, and it still lacked something...
Those films from the past, you feel it... they have something,
 
Ogrus said:
Dead Man is not a true western its more of a comedy western....and its too freaky due to Johnny Dep! "There was a crooked man" is way better as a western-comedy.
Unforgiven was original due to the twist in it, a different view of the western genre ...but really, that was pretty much it. Its cinematography was as bland as Pale Rider's was. From a cinematographical point of view, Unforgiven, it just cannot be compared to the grandeur of films like Little Big Man (not my favorite anyways) or The Profesionals. Those epic adventures are the true spirit of the true all american western movie tradition. Any western filmed around the 90`s and beyond have never captured the true essence of a cowboy movie filmed in the 60's . Dancing with Wolves was as close as a western will ever be to the past glories, and it still lacked something...
Those films from the past, you feel it... they have something,
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Dead Man? A comedy? Nu-uh
 
Ogrus said:
Dancing with Wolves was as close as a western will ever be to the past glories, and it still lacked something...
Those films from the past, you feel it... they have something,
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I think the "something" you're looking for is "poor color transfer" ....

I jest, I jest.

DEAD MAN was definitely a comedy. One of my favorite comedies, in fact. Some of the best dead pan (pun intended) humor around.

William Blake: What is your name?
Nobody: My name is Nobody.
William Blake: Excuse me?
Nobody: My name is Xebeche. He who talks loud, saying nothing.
William Blake: He who talks... I thought you said your name was Nobody.
Nobody: I preferred to be called Nobody.
 
I loved Tom Horn


If you dont see the comedy in Dead Man, you probably didnt see the sarcasm in Spaceship troopers....


PS: I just dont....feel it, these 90's westerns....
 
Ogrus said:
Any western filmed around the 90`s and beyond have never captured the true essence of a cowboy movie filmed in the 60's .
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As a generalization, this is somewhat true. However, I think Tombstone was an incredibly good Western. And Open Range was surprisingly good, considering it starred Kevin Costner. And while it was a mini-series, I think it's important to remember that Lonesome Dove was kickass.
 
lonesome dove yeah baby! open range yech! Duval i love mind you but come on Robby pick another character, do something with your voice and hand gestures...he does the same thing in all the westerns.
 
I'd toss my hat for Unforgiven as being the greatest Western ever made. The only other ones i enjoy as much are The G The B and The U. And then pale rider.

For me the Western is less about the cinematography and more about men being men back in the days when men did things the way men did things.


I have tons of appreciation for the likes of Shane or the Searchers but what Leone and Eastwood brought to the genre can not be topped.

Ohh and The Wild Bunch i can't forget Peckinpah.
 
John_Hudson said:
Sure to get some flack for my list. I realized a few things:

1. There aren't that many good westerns
DEADWOOD !
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what happened.... you grew up in a closet?


3. The old school films (Beyond the 70's) I find hard to like due the rudimentary approach to filmmaking

Rudimentary? I would suppose that you would call Alfred Hitchcock a student film maker!
 
Damn MAv ! You can;t quote me out of context like that !

1. There aren't that many good westerns
2. I havent seen that many westerns
3. The old school films (Beyond the 70's) I find hard to like due the rudimentary approach to filmmaking
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I just honestly have not seen that many westerns despirte my film whoreage.

I need to invest a solid year in playing catch up; actually seeing these films in widescreen glory and not KTLA Channel 5 full frame crap.

Shiiieetttttt

Hitch is the master and a primary influence on my personal heroes (De Palma, Tarantino)
 
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