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The Outlaw Josey Wales
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The Outlaw Josey Wales
Shane
Tombstone
Best Western Movie?
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The "best" is probably Unforgiven, but my favorite is Tombstone. The best Western of all time though is all 6+ hours of Lonesome Dove.
I'll second Lonesome Dove as the best, IMO, although technically a miniseries. Also best western book as well.
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Tombstone. Great movie. Great pizza. What else do you need?
Watched Josey Wales last night. That is one movie that I will stop and watch whenever I come across it.
I remember seeing a movie with the chick in Bob's naughty porn star thread while staying at a Best Western not too long ago but I don't remember the name of it. Great movie though.
Well ain't you a cowardly SOB, you just shot an unarmed man!
Well he should have armed himself, he's gonna decorate his saloon with my friend
It was a bad joke on my part. I meant a literal tombstone, as in a gravestone. As in, not wanting to be dead.
I thought that might be what you had meant after I responded. I'll chalk it up to being late when that joke was made. Ha!
My top 10, in order
The Wild Bunch
Unforgiven
Rio Bravo
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
Once Upon a Time In The West
High Plains Drifter
3:10 To Yuma (2007 remake)
The Magnificent Seven (Original)
*Tombstone
* I prefer to watch by fast forwarding past each and every scene that features Dana Delaney. Her and the lovey-dovey stuff with Wyatt Earp pert near ruin what is otherwise a fine western movie.
The Wild Bunch
Unforgiven
Rio Bravo
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
Once Upon a Time In The West
High Plains Drifter
3:10 To Yuma (2007 remake)
The Magnificent Seven (Original)
*Tombstone
* I prefer to watch by fast forwarding past each and every scene that features Dana Delaney. Her and the lovey-dovey stuff with Wyatt Earp pert near ruin what is otherwise a fine western movie.
How about a few nods to John Wayne who made a multi-decade career in the genre?
The Searchers
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Fort Apache
Red River
The Searchers
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Fort Apache
Red River
John Wayne made a bunch of good Westerns.
Loved True Grit. Just can't put his work on the best of the genre list.
No mention of Silverado? Thought that was damn good.
Really, how can anyone go with anything other than High Plains Drifter? (or another spaghetti western......they was the bomb)
The Searchers has a slow pace and so it's not to everyone's taste. The main character is also an unlikable bigot. However, it makes the top 10 of almost every legitimate Western list. These lists have it at either #1 or #2.
http://www.afi.com/10top10/category.aspx?cat=3
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-e...ern-movies-of-all-time-westerns-a7309956.html
http://www.businessinsider.com/11-best-westerns-of-all-time-ranked-2016-9/#2-the-searchers-1956-10
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Apologies to the Duke, but Clint made the best movies. I probably go with The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly but I'm a huge fan of Unforgiven and Josey Wales as well.
There have been quite a few really good Westerns made in the past ~10 years too. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, No Country For Old Men. I wouldn't put it on a top-10 list or anything but Meek's Cutoff was very good.
There have been quite a few really good Westerns made in the past ~10 years too. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, No Country For Old Men. I wouldn't put it on a top-10 list or anything but Meek's Cutoff was very good.
Like your list and agree with the Dana Delaney stuff in Tombstone. I would Open Range to that list.