High Plains Drifter. Revenge with a cherry on the top.
The Good The Bad and the Ugly. Best Morricone score, best finale.
The Wild Bunch. Old guys going out in style. With added slo-mo.
Once Upon a Time in the West. Even Bronson couldn't ruin it.
Shenendoah/How the West Was Won/ Gunfight at the Ok Corral/ The Big Country/ Winchester 73. It's hard to believe that Shenendoah was contemporary with the Leone movies (1965). It has far more in common with the 50s style "good men and true" stoic heroism.
**********SPOILER ALERT************** Open Range harks back to those 50s movies, when overly bloody revenge was prone to censorship, and it doesn't suffer for it in the slightest. It could easily make it to the matinee slot on weekend afternoon tv. No doubt there's some who'll fault it for not being violent or fast enough, but it's a film about people and their relationship to the land, with a decent enough resolution by flying lead. The inaccuracy of the old weapons is quite nicely shown when the whole town shoots the bad guys from about thirty feet away, but still take about twenty shots to drop them. It's a decent stab at the genre. Duvall is awesome as always, nonchalantly pottering around while gutshot, just like Slim Pickens in his prime.
1) The Good, The Bad and The Ugly or Once Upon a Time in the West... i cant decide 3) For a Few Dollars More 4) Lonesome Dove (if it counts) 5) Rio Bravo
"So, pretty please, with sugar on top, clean the fu*king car."
1. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 2. The Good, The Bad and the Ugly 3. Tombstone 4. Rio Bravo 5. For a Few Dollars More 6. The Wild Bunch 7. Red River 8. The Searchers 9. Once Upon a Time in the West 10. Open Range
1. Lonesome Dove 2. Open Range 3. Tombstone (although it's reallly cloase btw. 2&3) 4. Streets of Laredo (George Carlin in a Western? Brilliant!) 5. Dead Man's Walk
1. Tombstone 2. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 3. Unforgiven 4. Silverado 5. Once Upon a Time in the West
I love all of the big classic Westerns like The Searchers, Stagecoach, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, High Noon, The Wild Bunch, Rio Bravo, The Magnificent Seven, How the West Was Won, The Big Country, Shane, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and El Dorado.
I can't believe that I don't have a Howard Hawks or John Ford directed Western, or a Western starring John Wayne in my top 5. But those five happen to be my favorites of all-time so far.
I still haven't seen The Outlaw Josey Wales or Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid.
1) Unforgiven 2) The Good The Bad and The Ugly 3) Open Range 4) The Shootist 5) Wyatt Earp 6) The Outlaw Josey Wales 7) High Plains Drifter 8) Silverado 9) The Cowboys 10) Shane 11) Pale Rider 12) Lonesome Dove--- Mainly because of Robert Duvall 13) McLintock! - good movie not a great western 14) Dances With Wolves - never concidered it a western really
westerns need to keep being made and make them raw.. not dirty soap opras like Deadwood.. just because they say *beep* every 2sec's dosent make it great.
I Can't believe how many people put Tombstone on there list-- it was very MTV western... big stars pretty colors-- and a bubble gum version of Wyatt Earp
People need to get off of Costner. Some idiot compared his perfomance in (range / earp / silverado) as all the same character, that is just retarted.
It may not be considered a 'Western' in the 'classic' sense,...but as it does take place in the 'Old West' I define it as a Western. Anyone with half a brain would call it so,...and I outta' know,...cause I only have half a brain! HA!
In Order of Best of Ones I have SEEN;.....
The Wild Bunch Rio Bravo Tombstone Stagecoach Culpepper Cattle Co.
2nd best;...hehehe,...(see,...when ya' only got half-a-brain,...U can get away with this kinda' sh_t!)
Fort Apache The Shootist Gunfight at the O.K. Corral Duel at Diablo Rio Conchos
3rd Place Runner Up's
Dances With Chicken Wolves She Wore A Yellow Ribbon & Pink Panties The Magnificent 7,..6,..5,..4,..3,..2,..1! Ghanja With The Wind Butch Cassidy & The Dancing Gay Son Two Mules For Sister Sarah & A Dog For Uncle Zed Wyatt Burp Blazing Saddles High at Noon and Passed Out for Dinner A Fistful of Sand Dollars How The West Was Raped Soldier Blue & Tippy Too Buns of the Fagnificent 7 Little Big Man, Giant Stinky Pussy The Cowboy's Are Cummin' El Gato,...El Puto,...El Culo Texas Across The River, Cuz We Be In Mexico Rio Lobo El Cabasa El Dorado Doo Doo 100 Rifles & 3 Fags Rio Grande Mucho Titas The Professional's and One Black Dude!
Oh? Like you took a poll? Kiss my ass you freak! It's punks like you that shouldn't have access to the Internet. I am an American, and we have a little thing called 'Freedom of Speech' Obviously something your dumb ass is not aware of!
AHA! Now I see,...your sorry ass has only been on IMDb for about a week. You obviously are trying to be funny and are no way as funny as me and others, so blow whatever it is stuffed up your ass OUT and quit trying to tell people what to do PUNK! You wouldn't know a good movie if it bit you in the ASS! Wonder Woman? You're one sick little prick asswipe!
Seems like most of you never new a western existed before 1990. Here is a clue..YES THEY DO!!!!
Shane Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid The Wild Rovers True Grit The Missing High Plains Drifter Treasure Of Sierra Madre Blazing Saddles McCabe And Mrs. Miller High Noon Cat Ballou Silverado
In any order.
By Grapthar's Hammer, by the Suns of Warvan, you shall be avenged!
I'm only 38 and didn't start going to the movies a lot until I was in my teens and could take myself. The single greatest movie going experience of my life was seeing a grainy, scratchy copy of Shane on the big screen during a cowboy film festival. I was so enthralled I didn't even touch my popcorn.
Now if someone would just screen The Searchers in a theater my life would be complete.