that said, my favorite right now is McCabe & Mrs. Miller. A simply flawless film.....perhaps more of an "anti-western" in some respects, but a great great film nonetheless. Altman's best work imho.
Charlie Goose
03-13-03, 12:59 AM
Favorite Thread About Favorite Westerns (http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=251932&highlight=western)
Mountain Biker
03-13-03, 01:37 AM
Tombstone
The Nature Boy
03-13-03, 01:43 AM
The Good, the Bad and The Ugly, hands down. I'll take any Leone as the best western of all times. After that, I love the Jimmy Stewart and/or the Henry Fonda westerns, both are such phenonmenal Western characters.
As for non-traditional westerns, I love Silverado and Easy Rider.
funkymonk
03-13-03, 04:15 AM
Tombstone
DVD Smurf
03-13-03, 07:15 AM
Originally posted by Josh
Unforgiven
Here is another vote for the same film.
LBPound
03-13-03, 08:44 AM
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
B.A.
03-13-03, 08:47 AM
McLintock
Geofferson
03-13-03, 10:17 AM
Shane
keyed
03-13-03, 12:46 PM
Pale Rider
Matt925
03-13-03, 12:51 PM
Unforgiven and Yojimbo (even if that barely fits the category). I watched Unforgiven for the 4th or 5th time just a few days ago, and I think it is a really excellent film. I'm not a big fan of the genre, but I think every aspect of it is great.
Mowork
03-13-03, 12:54 PM
Originally posted by The Nature Boy
The Good, the Bad and The Ugly, hands down.
No doubt about it. I've seen this movie more than a dozen times and it never gets old. It's visually and musically stunning; not to mention that the mood and pace of the film is perfect.
Plus, it's got Eli Wallach's incredible performance holding it all together.
CCGoldRush
03-13-03, 01:32 PM
The Searchers and Rio Bravo are pretty much a tie for me.
Dah-Dee
03-13-03, 02:04 PM
Originally posted by LBPound
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
Definitely.
Tuco: "When you have to shoot, shoot, don’t talk."
Tuco: "There are two kinds of people in the world, my friend: Those with a rope around the neck, and the people who have the job of doing the cutting."
The Man With No Name: "You see, in this world there’s two kinds of people, my friend. Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig."
GuessWho
03-13-03, 02:14 PM
Back to the Future Part III
seriously.
sundog
03-13-03, 02:31 PM
I recently caught Anthony Mann's The Naked Spur for the first time. I was blown away. It's all shot on location in the Colorado Rockies. If there ever was an answer to Ford's Monument Valley settings, this is it. James Stewart gives a fierce performance, matched by a slimy Robert Ryan (The Wild Bunch) with ample support from Janet Leigh, Ralph Meeker (Paths of Glory) and Millard Mitchell.
It's a very tense movie with a lot of psychological intensity and Mann uses the mountain locations perfectly.
It definitely became one of my favorites.
a few more:
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Wild Bunch
Johnny Guitar (surreal!)
Pants
03-13-03, 02:38 PM
sundog-is that the one where they are herding cattle through the mountains? I saw that one day on TMC and it did have incredible scenery, but I didn't know what it was.
BTW, my favorites are She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, The Searchers, and the Wild Bunch.
Jason
03-13-03, 03:24 PM
The Wild Bunch
The Magnificent Seven
The War Wagon
Stagecoach (1960's version - better cast than the original)
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
fmian
03-13-03, 03:51 PM
I'm not into many of the older movies, so my choice would have to be Young Guns, and then The Quick and the Dead.
sundog
03-13-03, 04:03 PM
Originally posted by Pants
is that the one where they are herding cattle through the mountains? I saw that one day on TMC and it did have incredible scenery, but I didn't know what it was.
I know which one you're talking about, I've seen part of it (on TCM). I can't remember if it's black & white or Technicolor.
The Naked Spur (in Technicolor) has Stewart trying to bring Robert Ryan back to Kansas to claim a bounty, with Ryan's girlfriend (Leigh) in tow. Along to claim a share of the bounty (which Stewart doesn't want to give up) are Meeker, a dishonored cavalry soldier with Indians on his trail, and affable, but desperate, prospector Mitchell.
Pants
03-13-03, 04:08 PM
Originally posted by sundog
I know which one you're talking about, I've seen part of it (on TCM). I can't remember if it's black & white or Technicolor.
The Naked Spur (in Technicolor) has Stewart trying to bring Robert Ryan back to Kansas to claim a bounty, with Ryan's girlfriend (Leigh) in tow. Along to claim a share of the bounty (which Stewart doesn't want to give up) are Meeker, a dishonored cavalry soldier with Indians on his trail, and affable, but desperate, prospector Mitchell. That sounds good, but you're right, it's not the one i'm talking about.
The one I'm talking about had Stewart and was in COLOR and was a "later day western". Probably made in the '60s by the looks of it.
brizz
03-13-03, 04:33 PM
Are you talking about The Rare Breed? that was on TCM sometime in the last week.
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0060884
Kashmir
03-13-03, 08:16 PM
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Tombstone
CitizenKaneRBud
03-13-03, 08:22 PM
Originally posted by brizz
that said, my favorite right now is McCabe & Mrs. Miller. A simply flawless film.....perhaps more of an "anti-western" in some respects, but a great great film nonetheless. Altman's best work imho.
Great pick. A lot of people think Unforgiven is great for defying the western conventions. McCabe & Mrs. Miller did that 20 years prior!
my favorite westerns -
1- the good, the bad, and the ugly
2- mccabe & mrs. miller
3- butch cassidy and the sundance kid
4- once upon a time in the west
5- dances with wolves
DVDHO
03-14-03, 01:46 AM
No name Trilogy
Tombstone
BC&SK
Wild Bunch
Young Guns
tdirgins
03-14-03, 09:11 AM
A three-way tie:
The Searchers
Dances with Wolves
Jeremiah Johnson (not a Cowboy movie but definitely Western)
Dah-Dee
03-14-03, 09:41 AM
Yahee yahee yaaaahh, wah wah waaaaahhhh!
JesseCuster
03-14-03, 12:41 PM
The Wild Bunch
Honorable mention:
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Unforgiven
The Magnificent Seven
Red River
Once Upon a Time in the West
devilshalo
03-14-03, 01:26 PM
I can always watch The Quick and the Dead and never get tired of it. I think it's the best comic book, over the top type of western there is.
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