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Westerns
Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 12:02 am
by danlo
do we have a Westerns thread? If not...off the top of my head
(in no order-ish)
The Unforgiven
The Hi-Lo Country
Tombstone
All The Pretty Horses
Red River
Broken Arrow
A Man Called Horse
Dances With Wolves
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Wyatt Earp
Little Big Man
Hombre
The Claim
High Noon
For A Few Dollars More
Jeramiah Johnson
Young Guns
Open Range
Silverado
Into the Badlands
The Missing
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Shane
How the West was Won
Grimm's Prairie Tales
I'm sure I'm missing alot of good ones...
Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 1:35 am
by dlbpharmd
I absolutely love The Unforgiven. Dances with Wolves is also great, as is Tombstone.
And, of course, there's Blazing Saddles.
Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 1:51 am
by Worm of Despite
I'm spoiled by Sergio Leone. Can't enjoy most other Westerns, though I did like Unforgiven.
Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 1:53 am
by danlo
"I'm your huckleberry."
Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 1:56 am
by dlbpharmd
Although it's a mini-series, I think Lonesome Dove is absolutely fantastic, and a beautiful story to boot.
Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 5:10 am
by danlo
The Searchers
The Magnificent Seven
The Stalking Moon
Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 5:14 am
by Holsety
The Magnificent 7 reminds me of The Wild Bunch.
EDIT-Not because they're similar...just that Magnificent 7 makes me think of the Dirty Dozen and then I make the connect to the Wild Bunch, even though Dirty Dozen isn't a western.
Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 5:15 am
by Cail
I think that Tombstone is probably one of the best westerns made.
But I also like...
Pale Rider
Shane
Stagecoach
Unforgiven
The Sackets
The Long Riders
The Wild Bunch
The Shootist
Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 5:37 am
by Holsety
The Magnificent 7 reminds me of The Wild Bunch.
Cail wrote:I think that Tombstone is probably one of the best westerns made.
But I also like...
......
The Wild Bunch
jaNnage! (1 minute gap)
Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 5:41 am
by danlo
Missed one of my favs! Tom Horn-Steve McQueen
Really good bad guys-
Lee Van Cleef
Jack Palance
and Fernando Lamas in 100 Rifles (...and I must tell you, my dear, you louk mavalus
)
Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 3:37 pm
by dlbpharmd
The Searchers is overrated, IMO.
I've never watched all of the Magnificent Seven, I always have good intentions but something prevents me.
I see Danlo added Wyatt Earp, that's great also but not as good as Tombstone.
Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 7:10 pm
by Worm of Despite
dlbpharmd wrote:The Searchers is overrated, IMO.
A-freaking-men.
Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 9:38 pm
by Cail
Didn't care for Wyatt Earp. Probably because Kurt Russell did so well with the character in Tombstone.
And I really can't say enough about how good Tombstone is. I was a western fan long before that movie came out, but I think it's just about perfect. One of my favorite films of any genre.
Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 9:56 pm
by dlbpharmd
Agreed, Tombstone is a classic! I think Val Kilmer is the key actor, he sets the movie apart.
Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 10:22 pm
by Cail
Absolutely. Val's portrayal of Doc was the performance of a lifetime, and elevated a good movie to a classic.
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 12:25 am
by dlbpharmd
danlo wrote:
"I'm your huckleberry."
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:38 am
by Cail
"Are we cross?"
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 6:46 am
by dlbpharmd
"Why, Johnny Ringo! You look like someone just walked over your grave."
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 7:11 am
by Avatar
Cail wrote:The Sackets
They made a movie about the Sacketts? No way...those were always my favourite of the Louis L'Amour stories.
--A
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 9:13 am
by Marv
I'm not a huge Western fan but Butch Cassidy is probably my favourite movie of all time. I havn't seen a lot of those on your list.
I liked Open Range. Some of it's quite drab but there are a number of great scenes.