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