What is your top 5 westerns of all time???
Mine would be:
1) The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
2) Once Upon A Time In The West
3) The Unforgiven/Open Range
4) The Quick And The Dead
5) Wyatt Earp
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Out of all these posts I only saw my favorite listed once:
1 The Ox Bow Incident
2 The Trasure of the Sierra Madre
3 Jeremiah Johnson
4 How the West Was Won
5 Lonesome Dove
#1 The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
#2 Once Upon A Time In The West
#3 For A Few Dollars More
#4 Duck, You Sucker!
#5 A Fistfull of Dollars
My Current Top 11
Unforgiven (1992) (A perfect Western, IMO. "'You have insulted the honor of this beautiful woman, Corcoran,' said The Duck.")
The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah's masterpiece. Believable, realistic characters. "Let's go.")
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (Classic. Just overlook that Good & Ugly manage to stumble upon a huge Civil War battle over a bridge without hearing a single peep)
High Plains Drifter (Watch the un-cut version, not the edited-for-TV version; uncut version is even meaner)
Outlaw Josey Wales ("Buzzards gotta eat, same as worms.")
Joe Kidd (flawed ending, but great characters)
Ride the High Country (Very underrated. Peckipah bridged Golden Era Westerns to Modern Westerns with this one. Introduced me to the great Randolph Scott. Lots of great character actors in this one. Check out Edgar Buchanan's Justice of the Peace.)
Shane (True classic. Palance at his menacing best. "Shane! Come back!")
Once Upon A Time in the West ("Looks like we're shy one horse." "You brought two too many.")
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid (Appreciate it now, hated it in 1969 -- Raindrops?? Like: shoot-outs in which they actually re-load! Dislike: the same sound effect is used for every shot fired)
The Magnificent Seven {actually, The Magnificent Four (Yul, McQueen, Coburn & Bronson) & The Mediocre Three (bland Brad Dexter & the very annoying, overacting duo Vaughn & Horst, who nearly single-handedly ruined it for me. Eli Wallach has best performance IMO. Great score!}
Honorable Mention: Red River, Dead Man, The Big Country, The Unforgiven (1960), Jeremiah Johnson, Open Range, Ride Lonesome, Naked Spur, Stagecoach (1939, not the remake)
By the way, some keep listing "THE Unforgiven" (1960) when they probably mean "Unforgiven" (1992). Here's imdb's link to "The Unforgiven": http://imdb.com/title/tt0054428/ It's a pretty good Western in its own right, released in 1960 and starring Burt Lancaster & Audrey Hepburn, with Audie Murphy in the only role I've ever enjoyed him in.
Hey does "Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia" count?
That wasn't a western in the cowboy-hats-and-boot-strapping-spurs tradition of a western, but it had western tendencies and it had Warren Oates AND it was Sam Peckinpah made and branded product!
This movie rocked it!
the long riders is an awesome western, check it out if you havent' already.
"it would be a privlege if you walked out of here with me."
"i know it would"
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Reality check for drystyx (means the same as deadwood, which I've commented on elsewhere on this board): I believe all of the ones you mention have already been mentioned so far, so they must among the worst Westerns you've ever seen. Which way are you going here? Were you dropped as a child? Are you over-medicated?
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1. The Man who Shot Liberty Valence
2. Red River
3. For a Few Dollar More
4. The Shootest
5. Josey Wales
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1.The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (66)
2.Yojimbo (61)
3.The Searchers (56)
4.Once Upon a Time in the West (68)
5.Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (69)
6.The Wild Bunch (69)
7.High Noon (52)
8.Unforgiven (92)
9.3:10 to Yuma (07)
10.The Ox-Bow Incident (43)
If Dances with Wolves and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre are considered Westerns, then why the *beep* not Yojimbo.
1) Lonesome Dove
2) The Outlaw Josey Wales
3) Open Range
4) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
5) The Magnificent Seven
My picks are ones I truly enjoy and if they happen to be authentic that's frosting on the cake. A good story line and good acting/directing make the movie. As a example, The Magnificent Seven sure aint authentic but it's a great story and holds your interest.
1. Once Upon a Time in West
2. The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
3. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (if it counts as a western)
4. The Great Silence
5. For a Few Dollars More
1. Red River
2. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
3. Tombstone
4. Open Range
5. Silverado
1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
2. For a Few Dollars More
3. A Fistful of Dollars
4. Once Upon a Time in the West
5. Unforgiven
1. Lonesome Dove
2. Silverado
3. Young Guns
4. Young Guns II
5. Quigley Down Under
5 of my Favorites There's just too many too list.
1. Django
2. The Good the bad and the ugly
3. For a few Dollars More
4. Once upon a time in the west
5. High Plains Drifter
Those are just 5 of my favorites. Theres too many to list and its even more difficult to rate them.
Jon Cimone
1. Dances With Wolves
2. Open Range
3. Wyatt Earp
4. Silverado
5. True Grit
1. One-Eyed Jacks
2. Tombstone
3. Treasure of the Sierra Madre
4. The Shootist
5. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
6. High Noon
7. Shane
8. Quigley down under
9. The Good the Bad the Ugly
10. Outlaw Josey Wales
Winchester 73 and Red River