The greatest Western ever made?

my favorite western is Once Upon a Time in the West

Best western ever made? I'm thinking about Stagecoach or Rio Bravo or Unforgiven. also The Good The Bad and The Ugly and The Wild Bunch are brilliant

We're closing in on the 60th anniversary and The Searchers is still being discussed every day. That is what makes a first tier film.

it is, by far.

maybe the best american film of all time.



"It doesnt matter what Bram Stoker has told you... dead people don't come back from their graves"

...but in actual fact, and by the smartest film critics, like Roger Ebert, or Leonard Maltin, and filmmakers, like, say, Scorsese, is "The Searchers" or "High Noon"

I know for absolute certainty "Citizen Kane" is the all-time greatest film ever made...

I would not say it is the greatest but it is in many people's top 5.

The Magnificent Seven would have to be up there wouldn't it?

I don't think that there is one "best" western. Film makers, critics, and viewers lump all movies set in "the west" as westerns. But they span the full range of themes, character motivations, time periods, styles, and side plots as all other movies. There are western film noir movies, western revenge movies (The Searchers), western war movies, western love stories, so on, and so forth. How can this wide variety of movies be compared to each other to select 'one' best?

I don't think there is one best movie, either. There are many great movies, many more good movies, even more mediocre movies, almost as many weak movies, many poor movies, and even some incredibly bad movies. Enjoy what you like.

I definitely think that "The Searchers" is a great movie. I bet you can watch it three to five times and still be working on understanding everything in it. The plot is a lot deeper and more complicated than it looks at first.

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