Favourite Westerns

nax-ian
nax-ian Posts: 209
edited December 2010 in The bottom bracket
Crimbo always brings around a few old classics, an so I just watched The Good ,The Bad and The Ugly. What a film that is!
Go on guys give us a couple of titles I can settle down to when Mrs. N is out.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Fistful of Dollars is better - as is a Few Dollars More.
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  • nottscobb
    nottscobb Posts: 147
    If you want a proper old slow paced western try Django http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060315/
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    The Unforgiven is alright too.

    Then again, Read Dead Redemption makes everything Western better than it is, because it's that good.
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  • sheepworryingbhoy
    sheepworryingbhoy Posts: 167
    Carry on Cowboy.

    Case closed.

    :)
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    The 3.10 to Yuma remake isn't bad either actually.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    (Blazing Saddles?)
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  • Ginjafro
    Ginjafro Posts: 572
    Dances with Wolves - Kevin Costner
    Unforgiven - Clint Eastwood
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  • Bozman
    Bozman Posts: 2,518
    Sam Peckinpah's Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid or The Searchers and The Good the Bad and the Ugly.
  • Smokin Joe
    Smokin Joe Posts: 2,706
    The Good the Bad and the Ugly on cinema, Cheyene on TV.
  • Stewie Griffin
    Stewie Griffin Posts: 4,330
    Tombstone. Other than the old spaghetti westerns this is the best I have seen.
  • MichaelW
    MichaelW Posts: 2,164
    Why not kill 2 birds with one stone. Let the missus stay and watch Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. You can enjoy the Bolivian shootout and she can oogle.
  • Buckled_Rims
    Buckled_Rims Posts: 1,648
    2 of my all time favourite cowboy movies are:

    The Searchers with John Wayne
    Breakheart Pass with Charles Bronson

    I love the Breakheart Pass theme music and it took years to get the CD.
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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Funnily enough, I watched Once Upon A Time in the West this very morning. Epic. And Claudia Cardinale... also epic :shock:

    I'm quite looking forward to the Coen Brothers' remake of True Grit. The trailer looks good:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GkAH7IUWOE
  • kettrinboy
    kettrinboy Posts: 613
    As some others have said "The Searchers" is a John Wayne classic, and "The Big Country" with Gregory Peck and Charlton Heston is another one i watch whenever its on, brilliant score,and i still watch "The Magnificent Seven" whenever thats on as well.
  • Herbie The Dog
    Herbie The Dog Posts: 343
    nottscobb wrote:
    If you want a proper old slow paced western try Django http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060315/

    Django is brilliant. Up there with the best.

    But my vote goes to The Wild Bunch. I know some people don't think of it as a western but who cares.
  • Omar Little
    Omar Little Posts: 2,010
    The Dollars trilogy would be my favourite closely followed by High Noon

    Once Upon a time in the West is great too...epic

    Recent years really like the Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall one, cant remember its name though.


    Honourable mention to the hbo series Deadwood, the first two series in particular are superb.
  • crumbschief
    crumbschief Posts: 3,399
    Some classics already here,but how about They Call Me Trinity,i always liked that one.
  • bobtbuilder
    bobtbuilder Posts: 1,537
    The Proposition just about fits the bill, and is an awesome movie.

    Saw Apaloosa for the first time last week. That's pretty good too.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Does brokeback count as a Western? :P
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  • Smokin Joe
    Smokin Joe Posts: 2,706
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Does brokeback count as a Western? :P
    I couldn't see John Wayne or Clint Eastwood in that one.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Smokin Joe wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Does brokeback count as a Western? :P
    I couldn't see John Wayne or Clint Eastwood in that one.

    Haha, let your imagination run wild :P
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  • brin
    brin Posts: 1,122
    A re-run of The High Chaparral would not go amiss :wink:
  • honcho67
    honcho67 Posts: 12
    paint your wagon.
  • waynej
    waynej Posts: 56
    1st. Got to be The Searchers. No contest. Great story, best ever performance from The Duke (scandal that he didn't get an Oscar for this), breathtaking cinematography, you name it - one of the best "Great American Films".

    2nd Rio Bravo.

    3rd High Noon
  • red dragon
    red dragon Posts: 263
    I hate to admit it but John Wayne in "She wore a Yellow Ribbon" is about all I can stretch to. :oops: :oops: :oops:
  • brakelever
    brakelever Posts: 158
    john wayne westerns , one or two of glen fords , any where jack elam starred he of the odd eye , this list is endless - tombstone was brillant .
  • chocothon
    chocothon Posts: 38
    Once upon a time in the West. Especially the train station at the start and the bit where Henry Fonda shocked audiences when the film was first shown, by turning out to be an extreme baddy.

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  • Lagavulin
    Lagavulin Posts: 1,688
    Kelly's Heroes. It's basically a western but with Tigers, Shermans and half-tracks.

    The Unforgiven was good but probably A Few Dollars More or The Good The Bad & The Ugly. I do think Clint has to be in it. He's the Daddy of the Westerns for me.
    Smokin Joe wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Does brokeback count as a Western? :P
    I couldn't see John Wayne or Clint Eastwood in that one.
    Haven't you watched John Wayne walk. :wink:
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  • Pigtail
    Pigtail Posts: 424
    The outlaw Josey Wales.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    The Three Amigos.

    Class.

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