I grew up watching westerns/ My folks were both avid John Wayne fans, while I like Clint Eastwood.

What would you pick as the best Westerns?
I liked
Ox Bow Incident
Outlaw Josie Wales
Hang Em High
Good Bad and the Ugly

I love Clint. Less is more...

My absolute favorite is The Good the Bad and the Ugly. Music, story and the actors.

I don't really know why, but I really liked Silverado. Probably because of a fond memory of my dad taking me to it. He generally hated movies after the western era was finished in Hollywood. It was the first movie he'd seen in a theater in years.

I did like Unforgiven a lot. Seemed like some really good realism added to the genre.

Unforgiven was VERY good. I liked it much much better than Pale Rider. I thought that one was stupid.

Pale Rider moved slow, it was an original story though, particularly for Clint. That weird love triangle with the family that took him in was pretty far out for the day.

I particularly like the way the father(of that family) was played. I forget the actor's name.

I should watch it again now. I got so lost and confused with the story. I might understand it a bit better now. I was told there was a sub-story (ghost, death rides a pale horse, etc) to it that went over my head the first time.

Clint Eastwood is awesome, in westerns, not a dirty harry fan.
I like how he's always beatin' on women and rapin' em till they like it, don't you orleander?

Was pale rider the one where he was called "preacher"? If it is that one was good, I also like the one where he paints the town red, and unforgiven was good. My favourite clint eastwood movie is probably beguiled, does it count as a western? It's set during the civil war, I spose it isn't really a western but it's great.

High Noon

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

The Shootist

Virginia City

The Magnificent Seven

Once Upon a Time in the West

Dances with Wolves

The Misfits

How the West Was Won

Death Rides a Horse

The Quick and the Dead

Blazing Saddles

High Noon

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

The Shootist

Virginia City

The Magnificent Seven

Once Upon a Time in the West

Dances with Wolves

The Misfits

How the West Was Won

Death Rides a Horse

The Quick and the Dead

Blazing Saddles

The Shootist?? BARF! That has to be because it was Wayne's last and he <GASP> died in it.
Once Upon a Time in the West was good as well. :thumbsup:
What about The Sons of Katie Elder?

One that sticks in my mind was Jan Michael Vincent in a horse race across a dessert and he rode the horse so hard it died. I don't know the name of it, but that part stuck in my head as a kid.

"McCabe and Mrs Miller" should be in this list.

"Treasure of the Sierra Madre".

Good Westerns need excellent musical soundtracks, usually. Some other genres don't seem to - Minority Report, Bourne Identity, the good version of Sense and Sensibility, Castaway.

How about movies that are hidden Westerns - they seem to be set in other locations, have other superficial features, but the bottom line is that they are Westerns. The original "Seven Samurai". "The Mission".

Oh. I thought you were talking about the hotel (http://www.bestwestern.com/?IATA=00158210&camp_id=google_corpsum05&kwd=best_western).

Oops.

~String

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Magnificent Seven
Dances with Wolves
Blazing Saddles

All good.

Ballad of Cable Hogue was great

Quigley Down Under

A Fistful of Dollars

Shane

High Plains Drifter

Cat Ballou

Westworld

The Life and Times Of Judge Roy Bean

The Horse Soldiers

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

My Name Is Nobody

Springfield Rifle

Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

The Alamo

The Good the Bad and the Ugly I think is the gold standard. However my favorite line from a Western comes from Val Kilmer in "Tombstone": "L'ill be yer huckleberry" (translation: If your are need of someone to fight, I would gladly oblige you.) I've always wanted to use that in RL sometime.

.... "L'ill be yer huckleberry" (translation: If your are need of someone to fight, I would gladly oblige you.) I've always wanted to use that in RL sometime.

I think if you say that to a guy he's gonna think your asking to be a bottom. :bugeye: Hopefully he's seen the movie

the good bad and ugly

a fistful of dollars

for a few dollars more

high noon

and that movie with Emilio about billy the kid

ho, and tombstone.