What is your favorite Western?
03-12-03, 10:32 PM
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The Wild Bunch
03-12-03, 11:59 PM
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Well, for starters, you may want to check these threads:
http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthr...hreadid=277283
http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthr...hreadid=251932
http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthr...hreadid=244035
http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthr...hreadid=250465
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.
http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthr...hreadid=277283
http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthr...hreadid=251932
http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthr...hreadid=244035
http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthr...hreadid=250465
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.
03-13-03, 12:43 AM
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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.
As for non-traditional westerns, I love Silverado and Easy Rider.
03-13-03, 11:51 AM
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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.
03-13-03, 11:54 AM
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Originally posted by The Nature Boy
The Good, the Bad and The Ugly, hands down.
The Good, the Bad and The Ugly, hands down.
Plus, it's got Eli Wallach's incredible performance holding it all together.
03-13-03, 01:04 PM
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Originally posted by LBPound
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
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."
03-13-03, 01:31 PM
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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!)
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!)
03-13-03, 01:38 PM
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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.
BTW, my favorites are She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, The Searchers, and the Wild Bunch.
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03-13-03, 03:03 PM
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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.
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.
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.
03-13-03, 03:08 PM
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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.
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.
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.
