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If you enjoyed High Noon from the movie club, or looking for westerns recommendations in general, these are a few I recommend: I mentioned this one in the movie club thread. It's from 1950, so it can be a bit hokey at times. Gregory Peck is on the run, but has to make a quick stop in town to see an old flame. Don't worry, he has plenty of time.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGYoChoijvY In the late 50s, Budd Boetticher directed a string of westerns starring Randolph Scott and this one is probably my favorite. Richard Boone, better known as Paladin from Have Gun Will Travel, plays the villain.  Lee Marvin won an Oscar for his performance in this western comedy. Nat King Cole appears throughout the film in like a Greek chorus framing device.  If you're looking for a violent spaghetti western, then The Great Silence is one of my favorites. I was stunned by the ending the first time I saw it. There are plenty of great westerns out there. The problem is there are thousands of westerns, and probably 95% of them are terrible.
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more of a Days Inn man myself if i gotta go economical e: misunderstood. apologies
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symbolic posted:more of a Days Inn man myself if i gotta go economical lol
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havent watched many hayes code or pre-code westerns but i fuckin love spaghettis and some modern westerns. some personal recs: stagecoach: basically the first action movie, invented all the cool shots and lots of the early gimmicks. kind of racist, john wayne is a hack, but hell if you didnt have this you wouldnt have terminator. real good poo poo dollars trilogy: utterly indispensable. i like a few dollars more best (objectively wrong opinion) but it and the good the bad and the ugly are absolutely godlike. also definitely watch yojimbo before a fistful of dollars once upon a time in the west: the other incredible leone western. absolutely fuckin majestic, super cool the wild bunch: closest we're ever going to get to a blood meridian movie. the ending is still jaw-dropping power of the dog: best original western made in the last 25 years. jesse plemons rules, cumberbatch is actually a fuckin good actor true grit (remake): coen brothers. incredible. unforgiven: really fuckin good, says the quiet part of most westerns loud
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The True Grit remake is really loving good. The original is pretty decent, but it's an example of when the remake outshines the original.
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herculon posted:The True Grit remake is really loving good. The original is pretty decent, but it's an example of when the remake outshines the original. absolutely. originals just a good john wayne flick, remake is vastly better
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The original 1960 Magnificent Seven is probably my favorite. It’s an official licensed remake of Seven Samurai so there’s plenty of fun action scenes, a really great cast led by Yul Brynner, and lots of iconic lines and moments. I still regularly think about the Mexican village elder’s parable about a drunk who stumbled off the roof of a tall building and was heard by the people inside saying “so far, so good” every time he passed a window on the way down. For a more recent one I really liked Ti West’s In a Valley of Violence with Ethan Hawke and John Travolta, I never really hear it get talked about and had never heard of it until I happened to stumble on it while scrolling mindlessly through Netflix one day but it’s a cool little revenge tale, one of those movies that feels like it stripped the genre down to just its essentials and is better for it, just pure distilled western revenge drama centered around a handful of actors putting in killer performances.
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good hotel chain, mayble slightly overpriced but they are everywhere.
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I missed symbolics post
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STONE COLD 64 posted:I missed symbolics post 
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Fungah! posted:
I share this opinion, a few dollars more gets the scale of the conflict just right, and putting Eastwood and van cleef on the same team is very satisfying
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The Frisco Kid isn't a masterpiece of cinema or anything but I think it's a really fun movie. Features Gene Wilder as a rabbi who teams up with lovable rascal cowboy Harrison Ford. Nobody seems to know about this movie so I've made it my mission to tell people
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more of a comfort inn main myself edit: gently caress
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trying to jack off posted:more of a comfort inn main myself You might like Australia, staring Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman
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There’s also Quigley Down Under which is solid and has Alan Rickman as a cool sneering villain
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herculon posted:You might like Australia, staring Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman you cant trick me into watching a baz luhrmann film
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I don't have much to recommend that hasn't been mentioned already, but definitely watch: Old Henry - a chamber play by the standards of most westerns, but great shootouts Deadwood - obviously The Good, the Bad, and the Weird - Korean western set in Japanese-occupied Manchuria that can't quite decide if it's a parody or a tribute
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oh drat, also, better than all three of those: The Proposition, an Australian movie where the colonial police take youngest of three outlaw brothers hostage to force the middle brother to kill the oldest. It's got Guy Pearce, Emily Watson, John Hurt, and Mr French from The Departed
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brisco county junior is much better show than any description of it implies it will be imo
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Mekchu posted:brisco county junior is much better show than any description of it implies it will be imo yeah shame it only got one season
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Not a bad opening theme song too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--2FWpjxhnE
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Bone Tomahawk is a pretty wild recent western movie that really sticks out in my mind
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budd dwyer thought posted:I don't have much to recommend that hasn't been mentioned already, but definitely watch: The good the bad the weird kicks rear end! One of the best action movies of the 00s
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budd dwyer thought posted:The Good, the Bad, and the Weird - Korean western set in Japanese-occupied Manchuria that can't quite decide if it's a parody or a tribute if you don't watch it, at least watch this scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1fa0jmHDpY Mekchu fucked around with this message at 15:19 on Oct 11, 2023 |
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Duck, You Sucker! Aka Fistful of Dynamite is a personal fav of mine. Also love Django
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MacheteZombie posted:Also love Django 
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Criterion Channel added The Quick and the Dead. Not based on the Louis L’Amour novel. Definitely worth a watch if you haven’t seen it. Sam Raimi really went overboard on the Sam Raimi style with this film.
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herculon posted:Criterion Channel added The Quick and the Dead. Not based on the Louis L’Amour novel. Definitely worth a watch if you haven’t seen it. Sam Raimi really went overboard on the Sam Raimi style with this film. Sharon stone has the coolest jacket in that movie.
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Quick and the Dead is godamn awesome
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MacheteZombie posted:Duck, You Sucker! Aka Fistful of Dynamite is a personal fav of mine. Also love Django django is incredibly win. also one of the fake sequels, django kill… if you live, shoot! is really good too. the price of power is a kind of good one. it’s a western take on the kennedy assassination, where it’s ostensibly about the assassination of president james garfield but it’s very very clearly about jfk. it’s both a lot of fun and interminably boring after the first hour
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For a good recent Western check out The Old Way. It came out this year and it stars Nicolas Cage in a Western take on a Lone Wolf and Cub style story. It also features an interesting twist in that Nicolas Cage and his daughter are autistic.
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The Wild Bunch, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, El Dorado, Stagecoach, Fistful of Dollars, The Shootist, The Professionals, Sabata, True Grit (either version).
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I have a soft spot for Rancho Notorious, lots of Freudian overtones.
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bumping due to annoying my wife whistling my rifle my pony and me constantly after buying a japanese release of the album from the best western imo: rio bravo
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you hear the king krule cover? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0oRyb9NPm8
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Lester posted:you hear the king krule cover? no. that sax is sick though ty
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Jenny Agutter posted:I share this opinion, a few dollars more gets the scale of the conflict just right, and putting Eastwood and van cleef on the same team is very satisfying Gian Maria Volonte is loving amazing as Indio and you've got Klaus Kinski as a gunslinger as well, it's such a great goddamn movie and my favorite of the trilogy as well.
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