What's Your Favorite Western?

[Guest WrestlingDeacon]

I rarely see westerns mentioned here on the boards and they are a favorite genre of mine. The Searchers is my all-time favorite film and John Wayne truly is one of my favorite all time stars. I figured if you guys like anything it would be the Clint Eastwood man with no name flicks. Pale Rider whips more ass than any other movie ever. It's just a tight, eerie thriller that really expands and plays with some western conventions after the genre was thought long dead.

 

Just some intitial thoughts. Talk about any western movies or actors you'd like.

[Guest IDrinkRatsMilk]

I like El Topo personally. Halucinogenic spaghetti western, you can't go wrong.

 

Back to the Future III was pretty good too.

[Guest razazteca]

1. Unforgiven

2. Tombstone

3. Young Guns

4. Quigly Down Under

[Guest El Satanico]

I haven't seen many westerns. I was neveer a big fan so didn't bother with them. But now that I've seen The Good, The Bad and The Ugly I'll probably try watching the other Clint Eastwood westerns now.

 

I don't think i can get into John Wayne or the other older westerns.

[Guest Mik at Cornell]

Shanghai Noon. If I have to be serious...I will go with the Searchers. I had to write a paper on it while I was in Australia.

[Guest Edwin MacPhisto]

I think High Noon takes it for me. Gary Cooper = maximum pimp.

 

I also love Kurosawa's Yojimbo, and I do tend to count it as part of the genre.

[Guest bps "The Truth" 21]

Unforgiven

[Guest kkktookmybabyaway]

I haven't seen that many westerens, and my vote goes to Unforgiven...

[Guest godthedog]

'the man who shot liberty valance'.

[cawthon777 0]

Not huge on westerns but Eastwood always kept my interest in 'The Man with No Name' roles.

[Guest redbaron51]

Unforgiven

Tombstone

The Good The Bad and the Ugly...

 

 

I can't stand John Wayne

[Guest Madmartigan21]

Silverado

[Guest Vern Gagne]

High Noon

[Guest Brush with Greatness]

Unforgiven

Magnifecent Seven

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

[Guest Youth N Asia]

I like a lot of the ones mentioned, but here's a couple that no one's said yet.

 

The Red Headed Stranger

Barbarosa

They Call Me Trinity

They Still Call Me Trinity

My Name is Nobody

 

The first two are Willie Nelson movies, both are pretty cool. and the Trinity movies are comedy/westerns, they're pretty good.

[Guest Mad Dog]

Unforgiven and Tombstone

[Guest Flyboy]

1. Tombstone

2. Young Guns II

3. Young Guns

4. Unforgiven

[Guest DrTom]

Tombstone

Unforgiven

The Magnificent Seven

Silverado

The Outlaw Josey Wales

Any of the Eastwood "man with no name" series

[LaParkaYourCar 0]

Tombstone

Unforgiven

The Cowboys (the only John Wayne movie I like)

 

Other than that I'm not really into westerns.

[Guest Anorak]

The Wild Bunch

[Guest TheZsaszHorsemen]

THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY.

 

The only Western to combine the gritty realism of UNFORGIVEN with the pop mythology of HIGH NOON.

 

 

Soundtrack kicks ass too.

[Guest LooseCannon]

Westerns aren't really my genre, but I like:

 

The Wild Bunch

The Searchers

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Unforgiven

[Guest Ravenbomb]

Tombstone

Magnifecent Seven

Ghost Town

[Guest cabbageboy]

No one has mentioned Red River or Ride the High Country? Bah.

[Guest Crazy Dan]

I loved The Wild Bunch... has one of the best Western shootouts in the end.

[Guest ArkhamGlobe]

I love Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns, and in particular Once Upon a Time in the West, where, to me at least, his operatics reach their zenith to create one of my favourite films of all time.

 

I'll do a brief top five as well:

 

1. Once Upon the Time in the West

2. Rio Bravo

3. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

4. Unforgiven

5. The Outlaw Josey Wales

[Guest Luke Cage]

High Noon

The Searchers

Tombstone

Buck And The Preacher

[Guest Crucifixio Jones]

Dr. Tom pretty much stole my list except he left off The Wild Bunch and I'm not as big a mark for Tombstone as everyone else. I don't really like the movie and Val Kilmer is the only reason to even give it a chance.

[Guest converge241]

GB & UGLY

high plains drifter

tombstone