What is the worst western movie that you've ever seen?

[Bugscuffle]

I was watching the Encore West channel the other day and they played what was definitely the worst western that I have ever had to endure. I only wish that I could remember the name of it, but it was a spaghetti western, complete with the dubbed in dialog and starring Giovanni Nevahurdahim, and Marinara Gotsumbiguns or some other never heard of thems. Anyway, it got me to thinking what IS the worst western movie of all time?

[Fingers McGee]

White Comanche - William Shatner plays a cowboy and his indian twin brother

[Stillwater]

I didn't know a bad western movie was ever made...    I just thought some western movies were better than others...! 

Bill

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Stillwater,

That's exactly what I was going to say....  Bad Western...is there such a thing?


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[Coal Creek Griff]

Stillwater:

Exactly.  I read that to my family and they all laughed, as if that wasn't a serious comment.

CC Griff

[Fingers McGee]

Stillwater,

That's exactly what I was going to say....  Bad Western...is there such a thing?


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Yes, there is.  If you haven't seen one yet; you just haven't been looking.

[Durango Flinthart]

The Oater that falls to the bottom of my list is "The Return of Josey Wales" starring Michael Parks as Josey. I know that there are other "Horse Operas" that have the aroma of pasture puddin' but I expected more from a movie based on the Clint Eastwood classic.

Watch your topknot

[Stillwater]

Yes, there is.  If you haven't seen one yet; you just haven't been looking.

You don't understand what I said...!

Bill

[Mossyrock]

Yes...the worst Western ever made was "Lust in the Dust" starring Tab Hunter and a 300+ pound transvestite named "Divine".

[Bugscuffle]

Realy???!! William Shatner? Oh, Encore West, please spare me from that one.
Well now, the movie "Adios Sabata", where Yul Brynner plays Sabata was pretty bad too, but I'm not quite sure of which was worse, Yul Bryner or the silly costume he wore.

[Delmonico]

I'd rate Dances With Wolves pretty high up on the bad western movies list.  Can't stand Costner, or the way the movie perverts history as bad as any B movie of the 40's.  The liberal feel good western.

[Forty Rod]

Started to watch one...something about roses...staring a trio of African-American chicks...and threw in the towel less than ten minutes in.

The Wild Wild West movie runs it a close second and then Lust In The Dust.

Shalako was great book and a terrible movie.

[wildman1]

Dances with Wolves. WM

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Stillwater,

That's exactly what I was going to say....  Bad Western...is there such a thing?


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there like pizza's.

Like some pizza's I won't be having seconds on, there's too many westerns I won't watch again.

[Mogorilla]

I know I am warped, but I lmao while watching lust in the dust.  It was not done by John Waters, but had his scent.  Now, I have not returned to it in many many years. 

[Bonnie_blue1861]

The Oater that falls to the bottom of my list is "The Return of Josey Wales" starring Michael Parks as Josey. I know that there are other "Horse Operas" that have the aroma of pasture puddin' but I expected more from a movie based on the Clint Eastwood classic.

Watch your topknot

I've prided myself on watching Josey Wales...well... way, way too many times but I must admit I never even knew that there was a movie called "The Return of Josey Wales".

Now that I just found out a "sequel" exists, I'm tempted to watch it... but fear that doing so, may be a bad idea... if its as bad a you say. Its hard to believe any sequel without Eastwood as Josey could work...after all, no one can spit plug on a dog or the bodies of dead scoundrels like Eastwood could, in the original.

I guess for that reason alone "The Return of Josey Wales" falls into this discussion category.

As a side not for those of you that don't have it..having the Encore Western Chanel is a wonderful thing.

[Shotgun Franklin]

'Texas Rangers', it was supposed to be based on McNelly's Rangers. Historically it stank to High Heaven.

[PJ Hardtack]

I'm curious about the slagging of "Dances With Wolves" and the comment that it is the "liberal's western". I thought it refreshing to get the viewpoint from the other side, unlike the "only good Injun is a dead one" we came to expect in most.

The slaughter of the buffalo was a travesty, hardly a high water mark in western history. The destruction of a way of life that had existed for milennia was a form of genocide, no less reprehensible than the Nazi Holocaust or the Balkans "ethnic cleansing" in that it was government sponsored and endorsed.
It is a fact that the US Army lived in fear of Indian attacks' often holing up in their forts hardly daring to forage for firewood. It took overwhelming miitary action to defeat them during the 'Indian Wars' despite the loss of their mobile food supply - the buffalo. Treaties were meaningless as they were never made in good faith.
Tribes were relocated at the point of a bayonet, shot down on the merest pretext. This theme is also brought out in the movie "Legends of the Fall" with Anthony Hopkins.

As for sheer cinematic beauty and musical score, DWW has to be one of the best. Right from the get-go, with Costner riding 'Cisco' in front of the Rebel lines hoping to get shot. His interaction with the Indians he met makes me wonder what I would have done in the same situation - cringed in fear like the soldiers who had preceeded him or take the bold step of initiating contact through the saving of the white captive.
Compared to the premise of so many other fanciful western movies, this one had drama, pathos, empathy and a deep philosophic theme throughout.

I'm not a bleeding heart liberal by any stretch, even referred to as a white red neck by some for my dislike of current Indian politics, but I recognize history unapologetically - good or bad.

Just another opinion ... ;>)

[Stillwater]

This theme is also brought out in the movie "Legends of the Fall" with Anthony Hopkins.

Do you really believe political or social data shown in entertainment movies to be correct?

Bill

[Forty Rod]

I'm curious about the slagging of "Dances With Wolves" and the comment that it is the "liberal's western". I thought it refreshing to get the viewpoint from the other side, unlike the "only good Injun is a dead one" we came to expect in most.

The slaughter of the buffalo was a travesty, hardly a high water mark in western history. The destruction of a way of life that had existed for milennia was a form of genocide, no less reprehensible than the Nazi Holocaust or the Balkans "ethnic cleansing" in that it was government sponsored and endorsed.
It is a fact that the US Army lived in fear of Indian attacks' often holing up in their forts hardly daring to forage for firewood. It took overwhelming miitary action to defeat them during the 'Indian Wars' despite the loss of their mobile food supply - the buffalo. Treaties were meaningless as they were never made in good faith.
Tribes were relocated at the point of a bayonet, shot down on the merest pretext. This theme is also brought out in the movie "Legends of the Fall" with Anthony Hopkins.

As for sheer cinematic beauty and musical score, DWW has to be one of the best. Right from the get-go, with Costner riding 'Cisco' in front of the Rebel lines hoping to get shot. His interaction with the Indians he met makes me wonder what I would have done in the same situation - cringed in fear like the soldiers who had preceeded him or take the bold step of initiating contact through the saving of the white captive.
Compared to the premise of so many other fanciful western movies, this one had drama, pathos, empathy and a deep philosophic theme throughout.

I'm not a bleeding heart liberal by any stretch, even referred to as a white red neck by some for my dislike of current Indian politics, but I recognize history unapologetically - good or bad.

Just another opinion ... ;>)

DWW would have been a good movie (Not a great movie, but much better) if they had found ANYONE but Costner to play that part.  Same with Silverado.