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Top 5/Favourite Westerns
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The era of westerns had ended by my time (I'm 55) but there's some great modern ones - The English, Godless, Deadwood, the Yellowstone prequels and Bass Reece spin off1
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Do you remember the video shop?Baldybonce said:
No but they used to have Debbie does Dallas which could be a western i suppose.Gribbo said:Anyone heard of a film called the Apple Dumpling Gang? Remember me and my brother used to walk up the Standard and rent it out D and G Video shop up there, years ago0 -
Think so but long time since i lived near the Standard,Gribbo said:
Do you remember the video shop?Baldybonce said:
No but they used to have Debbie does Dallas which could be a western i suppose.Gribbo said:Anyone heard of a film called the Apple Dumpling Gang? Remember me and my brother used to walk up the Standard and rent it out D and G Video shop up there, years ago0 -
Yeah I'm going back probably 35 years. It was opposite The Standard pub, near Sun Ya restaurant. Used to be up there all the time. It was the nearest one to Charlton at the time lolBaldybonce said:
Think so but long time since i lived near the Standard,Gribbo said:
Do you remember the video shop?Baldybonce said:
No but they used to have Debbie does Dallas which could be a western i suppose.Gribbo said:Anyone heard of a film called the Apple Dumpling Gang? Remember me and my brother used to walk up the Standard and rent it out D and G Video shop up there, years ago0 -
He wrote it with Richard Pryor and it definitely sent up racists as idiots... But you wouldn't show up racism in a comedy now I doubt. Or punch a horse.Six-a-bag-of-nuts said:
When I saw it I thought it was a brilliant satire and one of the funniest films ever made.McBobbin said:Thought I'd see Blazing Saddles get more love. That's a top 5 of all time for me!
When I came to watch it much later with my children I found myself verbalising all sorts of caveats before they watched it.
If I ever have grandchildren of an age to watch it, I'll swerve it because I'd be embarrassed if they thought grandad thinks it would be okay.
Make of that what you will, I don't really want to get involved in a wider discussion.
Interestingly Mel Brooks has described it as "an anti-racist film", but I bet nobody shows it anymore
Edit: I completely know what you mean though1 -
Any western with Clint Eastwood in0
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I enjoyed The Homesman, although not a cheerful film. Bone Tomahawk was a bit too gratuitous for me.Six-a-bag-of-nuts said:
I am going to give that one a go at the weekend.Garrymanilow said:Another one I've thought of that I don't think I've seen mentioned is The Homesman. It's a real bummer but a great film
I have been trying to ctach up with some of the new millenium westerns recently, as I had become a bit stuck in the Eastwood era. (I admit one of the faults of my ageing self is becoming set in my ways and resistent to new stuff)
I have seen and enjoyed Bone Tomahawk, Hostiles, Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight and a few others.1 -
Just see one about 11 cowboys getting bushwacked by a Greek pose0
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Love westerns, can’t get enough of em.No particular order, these spring to mind.The searchers
Stagecoach
High Noon
The Good The Bad & The Ugly
Dual at Diablo0 -
I'll check it out, thanksPeterGage said:
Given the era you are looking at, you might like to watch "Son of the Morning Star", which follows the parallel lives of George Armstrong Custer and Crazy Horse and finishing just after the Battle of the Little Big Horn. It can be seen on YouTube.Six-a-bag-of-nuts said:
I am going to give that one a go at the weekend.Garrymanilow said:Another one I've thought of that I don't think I've seen mentioned is The Homesman. It's a real bummer but a great film
I have been trying to ctach up with some of the new millenium westerns recently, as I had become a bit stuck in the Eastwood era. (I admit one of the faults of my ageing self is becoming set in my ways and resistent to new stuff)
I have seen and enjoyed Bone Tomahawk, Hostiles, Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight and a few others.0 - Sponsored links:
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Tough to limit it to 5 so I'll cheat a bit. I won't include Fistful of Dollars/ For a Few Dollars More/The Good, The Bad and The Ugly as they go without saying and take up 3 spaces!
Classics:The Magnificent Seven
The Big Country
Rio Bravo
High Noon
The Searchers
Modern:
Unforgiven
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Tombstone
True Grit (2010)
Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
Under-rated Honourable Mentions,
Silverado
The Sisters Brothers
They Call Me Trinity
3:10 to Yuma (original or remake)
Dead Man
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Worst one was comfortably, one I saw on TCM a couple of yrs ago called The Hired Gun. An example of a western just being churned out. Truly bad.0
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Legend of the Golden Gun is a masterclass in how not to make a western0
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The Outlaw Josey Wales (Are you gonna pull those pistols or whistle Dixie?)
The Good The Bad And The Ugly (There are two kinds of people in this world, those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig.)
Once Upon A Time In The West (You brought two too many)
High Noon (tick, tick, tick, then the train whistling)
The Searchers (That'll be the day)2 -
Unforgiven
The Great Silence
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
Outlaw Josey Wales
The original Django0 -
High Noon, The searchers, True Grit,
High Plane Drifter, unforgiven.
A bit of a cheat here's like both versions of True Grit.0 -
I actually prefer the remake of True Grit .msomerton said:High Noon, The searchers, True Grit,
High Plane Drifter, unforgiven.
A bit of a cheat here's like both versions of True Grit.1 -
Searching through my video library I noted three other stars who made great Westerns.
James Stewart linked up with Director Anthony Mann to make a series of hard hitting Westerns during the 1950s (Winchester 73 and Bend in the River being two of them).
Charlton Heston was the flawed hero in Major Dundee in the mid 1960s (Sam Peckinpah's much cut but interesting study of command).
Burt Lancaster made two splendid Westerns at the end of the 60s: Valdez Is Coming and Ulzana's Raid.
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Nor even glowering lawmen in clichéd headgearBedsaddick said:
Yes it is . Not all westerns involve cowboys and horses
Six-a-bag-of-nuts said:Hell or High Water is not a Western ffs0 -
Really enjoyed the book sisters brothers. The film was good but I'm glad I read the book first.Missed It said:Tough to limit it to 5 so I'll cheat a bit. I won't include Fistful of Dollars/ For a Few Dollars More/The Good, The Bad and The Ugly as they go without saying and take up 3 spaces!
Classics:The Magnificent Seven
The Big Country
Rio Bravo
High Noon
The Searchers
Modern:
Unforgiven
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Tombstone
True Grit (2010)
Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
Under-rated Honourable Mentions,
Silverado
The Sisters Brothers
They Call Me Trinity
3:10 to Yuma (original or remake)
Dead Man
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Missouri Breaks - with Marlon Brando?Karim_myBagheri said:i remember watching a western set in the rockies i believe as there was snow, had Jack Nicholson as co star. they were camped out in a cabin and were being chased. saw it once many years ago but cant seem to find it in his filmography.0 -
Heaven’s Gate - one of the best films ever made and possibly the greatest Western. Needs to be seen on the big screen and director’s cut version
Valdez is coming - Burt Lancaster
Ulzana’s Raid - Burt again
The Cowboys - Duke and Bruce Dern
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid - Peckinpah and a Dylan soundtrack1 -
Watched this the other night...pretty good....Day of Anger - Wikipedia0
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Would like to add High Plains Drifter. Just watched it again after years, and think it's a great film3
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No mentions of The Alamo?1
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They are doing a season at the BFI in February and March called Black Rodeo. Westerns with black actors playing lead roles, some ones I've not heard of on there.1
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is another great Western2
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So many great Westerns. For the me the quintessential Western is The Big Country. Has everything you want from the genre and epic in scale.
Might be sacrilegious to say it on a thread like this but....I can't stand John Wayne. Awful, one dimensional actor with a very punchable face.1 -
We have a TV channel here in Portugal that for months has been showing nothing but westerns, I have been watching at least 3 or 4 a week and loving getting back in to the old wild west films.
Just about every film mentioned already has been on recently.0 -
Totally agree - not a Western - but his performance in ‘The Green Berets’ is shockingly badMaking_all_the_noise said:So many great Westerns. For the me the quintessential Western is The Big Country. Has everything you want from the genre and epic in scale.
Might be sacrilegious to say it on a thread like this but....I can't stand John Wayne. Awful, one dimensional actor with a very punchable face.0
