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3:10 to Yuma. The remake is very good too as far as recent hollywood westerns go. Obviously the best ones have already been mentioned.
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The Great Silence is essential viewing. I think it's the best of Corbucci's westerns. Great snowy setting plus Klaus Kinski as the villain puts it into my top 5.
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The best western is actually El Topo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjKcuh8pZtE
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Aug 15, 2015 18:57
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Pablo Bluth posted:High Plains Drifter has already been name-checked so I'm going to be the terrible person who suggests The Quick and The Dead because Sharon Stone as a cowgirl... At least you specified which Quick and the Dead. And you know what? Yes, Heaven's Gate is a nonsensical pile with Christopher Walken as a cowboy and Jack McCoy as a crazy racist, but god drat if it isn't a gorgeously shot pile.
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Aug 15, 2015 21:08
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Two more of my favorites not mentioned yet. Visual evidence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TArcc_WduhE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9-KV9N8bkY
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MonsieurChoc posted:The best western is actually El Topo. Is this being counted as a Western? Because if so yeah this movie owns.
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El Topo is a martial arts movie, in my opinion.
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"To date" is an interesting way to frame a genre that barely exists anymore. It seems the allure of romanticizing the frontier has waned as it becomes a more distant history. Picking one feels weirdly wrong, because I think the more you see, the more they inform and improve one another. I'm not sure there's one that I'd point to as the signature type, except maybe Stagecoach. I've seen close to 100 Westerns, which is really not all that many in the big scheme of it, and these are the big ones for me, presented without rank in chronological order: Destry Rides Again (1939) Stagecoach (1939) The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) High Noon (1952) Shane (1953) Johnny Guitar (1954) The Searchers (1956) Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) Hud (1963) For a Few Dollars More (1965) The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) Once upon a Time in the West (1968) Dead Man (1995) The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005) It's kind of interesting laying it out like this and trying to figure out what it says about my taste. I think the dynamic that morality plays in the stories is primarily what makes Westerns so riveting for me. Heroics in the west are never clean; the gunfighter sacrifices his soul and murders so that others may try to live their lives in peace. Whether the film is cynical or idealistic in tone, it's generally got that same focus. My later picks are certainly distant subversions of that idea. While Dead Man is mainly a methodical exploration of transcendentalism, it's still all rooted in the surface plot of William Blake's killing for survival. Three Burials spins it even wilder with what I can only think to describe as a splash of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, but remains a tale of a man enacting his idea of frontier justice and honor. I'll stop talking for now but obviously there's a lifetime's worth to say about Westerns.
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Zogo posted:Two more of my favorites not mentioned yet. Best western based on an old-English folktale ever.
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Mechafunkzilla posted:It's okay, Pale Rider is also really loving good and worth mentioning. No ghosts in it though. Clint Eastwood is a ghost in Pale Rider.
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Ensign_Ricky posted:And you know what? In some ways it's very very stupid, but dammit, I can't help but love Tombstone. Kurt Russel and Val Kilmer being awesome, Sam Elliot doing his Sam Elliot thing all over the place, Charlton loving Heston out of goddamn nowhere, and Billy Zane being a ridiculous fop of an actor. How can you not love this movie??? Don't forget Powers loving Boothe. My favorite Western of the last decade is probably Appaloosa.
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Mad Max Fury Road is a good western. It's certainly got the horsepower.
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I'm going to cheat and include a TV show and say Deadwood is at least top five.
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Open Range's finale is one of the best in the genre for my money. It's a solid movie, but that last gunfight is a real standout.
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TheJoker138 posted:I'm going to cheat and include a TV show and say Deadwood is at least top five. Fair enough, The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. is one of the most enjoyable shows to watch, and it's one season just meant that it ended on a ludicrously high note. 
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Judakel posted:High Noon is really Hitchcock in a Western setting, but I absolutely love how well the film slowly escalates tension. None of Sergio's goofy Westerns have ever impacted me as much as High Noon. Glad to see this was posted so early because it was to be mine. --- Have we decided that No Country for Old Men isn't a Western because it has trucks instead of horses? Haven't noticed it mentioned, but it definitely should be, provided our definition of Western extends beyond the 1800s.
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I'm going to go against the grain and say that Lemonade Joe is my favorite Western.
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Rango is definitely a good and unconventional Western.
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Surprised there's no mention of CineD favorite Django Kill! If You Live, Shoot! yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPqXVCPS6Ls I once screened The Great Silence for a group of people, and most of them said they would've preferred the alternate edited ending where the frozen sheriff shows up. I was pretty bemused about that.
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TheJoker138 posted:I'm going to cheat and include a TV show and say Deadwood is at least top five. I love this show to death but the lack of an ending because of cancellation kills me every time.
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DarkSol posted:I'm going to go against the grain and say that Lemonade Joe is my favorite Western. Is that the sickly Czech western parody?
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Is that the sickly Czech western parody? If by "sickly", you mean "awesome", then yes.
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Aug 16, 2015 18:13
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I just mean the look of the movie. It is awesome.
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I've always had a soft spot for the Trinity movies and My Name is Nobody. That's mostly due to my love of Terence Hill though.
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I don't date westerns, I just gently caress them and then never call them.
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Rio Bravo is good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uuAjwvtxEM
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Skeezy posted:I love this show to death but the lack of an ending because of cancellation kills me every time. Hopefully the movie happens.
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I have to admit, even though I think Unforgiven is exceptional, I've never really managed to get into westerns more than the superficial must-sees. I did love The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, though. It was slow, but beautiful. It's a shame it didn't perform well in the theaters, but that didn't exactly come as a surprise.
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It was briefly mentioned earlier but I've always enjoyed watching El Dorado. I personally think Mitchum outshines Wayne and James Caan is pretty great in it as well. It's pretty much a remake of Rio Bravo, but I like it more than Rio Bravo. It's also been mentioned, but I always liked The Wild Bunch as a nice end cap to the western era.
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The obvious pick is City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold But really, I would have a hard time picking a favorite, westerns have so much variation and there are so many good ones. High Noon and The Searchers are two that stick out to me. Myabe because I re-watched it recently, but I found The Shooting interesting. But it's a western in the same sense that Apocalypse Now is a war movie. Dr.Caligari fucked around with this message at 19:15 on Aug 17, 2015 |
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AFewBricksShy posted:It was briefly mentioned earlier but I've always enjoyed watching El Dorado. I personally think Mitchum outshines Wayne and James Caan is pretty great in it as well. It's pretty much a remake of Rio Bravo, but I like it more than Rio Bravo. Robert Mitchum is a much better belligerant drunk than Dean Martin.
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For unconventional Westerns, I liked Meek's Cutoff a lot. Very stark depiction of the wagon-train era.
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It's not necessarily my favorite but City Slickers is often overlooked because it's set in modern times.
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If City Slickers is a western, then 3 Amigos is a better western.
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Drifter posted:If City Slickers is a western, then 3 Amigos is a better western. Not arguing this.
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the best western film is Drive
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DolphinCop posted:the best western film is Drive I like Taxi Driver myself.
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Or a History of Violence.
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This thread made me look up more recent westerns and I ended up with the trailer for Colin Farrell's magnum opus, American Outlaws. Does movie-voice-trailer guy even still exist? Or was he completely replaced by Inception BWOMs?
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Unforgiven is so, so good.
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