Favorite Westerns

As far as "great" movies go, few rival Unforgiven IMO.

Others that I haven enjoyed in the more modern (let's say post-'80) would be some pretty ridiculous one's like Tombstone and The Quick and the Dead. Let's face it guys, we wouldn't watch that one twice if it wasn't for Sharon in her prime. Open Range, 3:10, Hateful 8 was pretty good, and Django was just silly but still entertaining as all Tarantino movies are. I liked True Grit with Bridges better than the original.

As far as classics? Well... Rio Bravo, Liberty Valance, all the Eastwood flicks. let's just say I enjoy the genre as background or sleepy Saturday fare. So many of them seem the same I can't remember which are which in most cases. Things like Burt Lancaster or Vic Mature playing the parts of American Indians is pretty hard to not chuckle at, but it's what they did then.
 
Django Unchained is one of the best movies ever! I watched it maybe 5 times already.
Will change my kodi builds (here is the way to do it) and will do it again.
Two beers + chips + Django = great evening and tons of laughs.
 
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"The Ballad of Little Jo" Film

"Hell on Wheels" for a TV series.
 
Excellent choices. I’m on board with almost all of them listed. I’ll add a few personal ones of my own:

(*Edit missed Stevewest above 👆🏻) Big Country with Gregory Peck, Burl Ives, Jean Simmons, Charlton Heston, Chuck Connors

The Man who Shot Liberty Valance…John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Lee Marvin

My Name is Nobody with Henry Fonda and Terrence Hill

Breakheart Pass with Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland, Ben Johnson, Richard Crenna

Hannie Caulder with Raquel Welch, Robert Culp, Ernest Borgnine
 
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These are my two favourites.
The Train Robbers ("She sticks out in all the right places")
and Rio Bravo("You want that gun,pick it up,I wish you would.")
 
In order:

1. The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly (1966)
2. The Big Gundown (1966)
3. The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
4. Django Unchained (2012)
5. For a Few Dollars More (1965)
6. A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
7. Pale Rider (1985)
8. Django (1966)
9. Once Upon a Time in the West
10. The Hateful Eight

The Big Gundown (La Resa Dei Conti) is one of the most underrated westerns, IMO.


Jim
 
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wveah said:
Probably my favorite non-Eastwood western movie
noticed a number of “Deadman“ mentions with which I strongly agree.
Jim Jaramusch (writer and director of Deadman) also made a film “Ghost Dog -Way of the Samurai“ set in NY 1990’s which is a great watch
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Off topic sorta...but check out https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishing_with_John

It's a zany fishing show with (at the time) famous/his Friends actually/people.
Jim Jarmusch is the first episode


*I'm assuming Seinfeld took his idea for the Comedians in Cars, Drinking Coffee show? Idk
 
A couple I have watched and liked, although I have not watched anything lately.

Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia - not much on the right period but I guess it catches the Western spirit and is a heck of a movie

The man who killed Liberty Valance - a pure western and a very cool one in my opinion

I believe The Unforgiven is a cool movie and it started - or was one of the movies who started - the realistic Western style. Still have not watched a movie with Clint Eastwood I didnt like.
 
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