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GENERAL TOPICS => Books & Movies => Topic started by: flatapple on October 26, 2014, 04:33:06 PM
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I may be beating a dead horse...please list your favorite 10 western movies! I'll start, in no special order:
Lonesome Dove
El Dorado
Open Range
Tombstone
Unforgiven
The Professionals
High Noon
Tom Horn
The Ox Bow Incident
The Shootist
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flatapple,
In my honest opinion, that is a very good start.
My best,
Blair
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I am going to have to put a little thought into this one ....
to start ....
Outlaw Josey Wales
Valdez is coming
Open Range
Man who shot Liberty Valance
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Gosh, this will be hard...
El Dorado
Rio Lobo
Rio Bravo
True Grit(old one)
Dark Command
Pale Rider
High Plains Drifter
Angle and the Badman
My name is Nobody
Boot's Hill.
No particular order, and subject to change at any moment. ::)
--TK
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I’ve struggled with this one a little bit. I like a lot of movies for different reasons. I decided to approach this by thinking of the westerns that I can watch repeatedly without getting too tired of them. As above, these are only in the order that they came to mind.
El Dorado
Stagecoach
Conagher
The Sacketts
Winchester ‘73
Seven Men from Now
Tombstone
Open Range
True Grit (both)
Valdez is Coming
There are others too, but those are the first ten (eleven?) that came to mind.
CC Griff
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I barely posted that and I think I'd make some substitutions. It's kind of maddening.
CC Griff
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True Grit (Coen Bros.)
Appaloosa
The Proposition (Austrailian, really, but same flavor so I list it)
Unforgiven
The Outlaw Josie Wales
Open Range
Broken Trail
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
The Jack Bull (The first half of this movie might better be put near the bottom of my favorite top 20 list, but when John Goodman enters, his role and acting catapult this film onto my top10 list.)
Depending on my mood, "Once Upon A Time In The West", 'The Shootist," or "The Cowboys," could very easily sneak onto the list and replace something. Very hard for me to not have 13 top ten movies. Never claimed I could count...
I've never heard of "Valdez Is Coming." I'll have to look for it.
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Valdez is coming ..... Burt Lancaster plays a Mexican scout ....
I may get flack for that one ... But I liked it ... Great scenery and I love his character
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In no particular order
Bite the Bullet
The Professionals
True Grit-the original
Outlaw Jose Wales
For a Few Dollars More
Magnificent Seven (it is my ring tone!)
Rio Lobo (it makes me comfortable)
Rio Bravo
The Undefeated (If I can find the time, I'm going to sit down and write the social history of bourbon. )
Hombre
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Here are my top ten for today:
Appaloosa
The Cowboys
True Grit (both)
Unforgiven
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Open Range
High Noon
The Quick and the Dead (Sam Elliot)
Monte Walsh (Tom Selleck)
The Last of the Dogmen
Tomorrow I will have a different list!
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All great lists...
I would add
Quigley
Avenging Angel
Crossfire Trail
Missouri Breaks
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No particular order
Longriders
Lonesome Dove
Tombstone (mainly for the Doc Holiday character)
The Shootist
The Sacketts
Outlaw Jose Wales
True Grit (both)
Monte Walsh
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
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Unforgiven - It's a masterpiece
The Big Country - An incomparable character study
Tombstone - Again mostly for the Doc portrayal
Open Range - Perfect
Lonesome Dove - It's a mixed bag but still rates top ten
Dances With Wolves - My favorite movie period
Silverado - The soundtrack alone is a treasure
Magnificent Seven - The Western by which all others are measured
Appaloosa - Oh man I wish they'd do a sequel!
Nevada Smith - All except for the prison/swamp scenes
Someone really should make a television miniseries out of Harry Combs' excellent novel: Brules which is the best Western ever written.
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What a tough thing. It's like asking which is your favourite child.......but here goes.
1. True Grit ( Coen Brothers because it creates a world of men long gone).
2. Big Country ( Because it kinda pokes the cowboy legend but re-enforces the legend).
3. The Wild Bunch ( Character and Action.....in bucket loads)
4. Winchester 73 ( a western that believes in itself 100%)
5. High Noon ( a man alone )
6. Unforgiven ( Clint Eastwood at his vengeful best)
7. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance ( here's the good guys, here's the bad guys, John Ford shows you how to sort them)
8. Stagecoach
9. Hombre ( quick fire gunplay at its best )
10. My Darling Clemintine ( Henry Fonda at his skinny best )
There are others but as someone once said There are no bad westerns, there are good westerns, there are great westerns and there are westerns. I thank you.
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It is hard to choose. My criteria is how entertaining is it from start to finish? How many times can I watch it without becoming bored? I rank historical accuracy under these other elements.
1.) The Good the Bad and the Ugly (The script alone holds it together especially Tuco's lines, big surprise. Even though it's wildly historically inaccurate it is entertaining as hell)
2.) Tombstone (Great script and a pretty good attempt to be historically accurate while not losing entertainment value or pace)
3.)The Cowboys (Bruce Dern... you love to hate him!)
4.)The Outlaw Josey Wales
5.)The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
6.) High Noon (A realistic comment on human nature.)
7.) Hombre (Love that sarcastic Richard Boone)
8.) Ulzana's Raid (A realistic, non-nonjudgmental look at the real brutality of Indian warfare and the differences between the viewpoints and thought processes of Whites and Apaches)
9.) The Searchers
10.) Big Country
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I beg everyone's pardon............how did I forget it......The Searchers. John Ford creating a visual legend. I'm Irish so I've no dog in this fight but he created a big chunk of what an American is,and where America came from. The landscape, the visceral fear of the Commanche, the heroism, the killing, all caught in 119 minutes.
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True Grit (Coen Bro.s)- I thought the acting was considerably better than the original. I also liked the attention to detail with the firearms, and most importantly for me, it stuck to the spirit of the book much better.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly- It's a classic, and anyone who says that final standoff isn't iconic is a lier.
Appaloosa- Well done movie, great guns, and it follows the book about as well as a film can. Whats not to like?
Lonesome Dove
Tombstone
The Proposition
Deadwood (series)- did an excellent job of showing the birth and rise of a frontier boomtown. I thought the acting was great, and the sets were superbly done. Once you realize why they use the language they did, it just works.
Lonesome Dove- it's just a classic, pure and simple.
Hell on Wheels- Currently my favorite show on Television. Not the most historically accurate, but sometimes it's okay to sacrifice a bit of accuracy in return for a good show, and the acting is great.
Open Range
As a side note, watched Tommy Lee Jones's 'The Homesman' the other day. I think it'd be a 'you like it or hate it' kind of film, but I thought it was very well done. Just my 2 cents.
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Your side note on The Homesman was good. I've never heard that expression ".Homesman". The attention to period detail was admirable and the lonely madness that the Prairie induced was well caught. The premise was unusual and captivating also. I believed it, but the last 45 minutes were ill judged I thought. Tommy Lee Jones is heading towards a great movie based on the Western some day. Give us another real soon.
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Ditto on Deadwood...
I left it off my list as it was a series....though I did include Lonesome Dove which is the same.
There is awesome character development through the series, and the extremes of each character are revealed...you see the compasion of a ruthless man in Al Swearengen, and the regret of a gunslinger in Wild Bill just to name a couple, but Gerald McRaney, as George Hurst, has only one side, and one goal. It isn't something for the kids to watch, since the f-bomb being dropped more than once a minute.
I have the complete series of Deadwood on DVD. I've watched it at least twice entirely...it is time for another round.
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Here's my top ten, or so:
Tombstone
The Searchers
True Grit (both)
Lonesome Dove
Deadwood
Open Range
Shane
Big Country
Unforgiven and The Unforgiven
Silverado
Magnificent Seven
Ten just leaves to many good ones out.
Appaloosa-the guns were not loud enough
The Westerner
The Outlaw Josey Wales-Joe Kidd-Hang 'em High
The Naked Spur- almost any Jimmy Stewart western
Seven Men from Now
One Eyed Jacks-the only film Marlon Brando directed. "You scum suckin' pig." I've only seen it once and that was when it came out in 1961, but I remember that line.
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I forgot my absolute favorite, though I'm not sure if it counts. But being as it was what got me into Westerns and Western firearms, it certainly deserves an honorable mention. 'Red Dead Redemption,' by Rockstar Games. Trailer is right below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gBctl1h_2o
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I guess I could list 10 very easily.
However, 2 I like a lot are the "Revengers" and the "Garden of Evil", both rate pretty high on my list.
My best,
Blair
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Blair:
I hadn't heard of either of those movies. Are these the two?
Revengers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow5dKMEN-44 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow5dKMEN-44)
Garden of Evil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7E_bir0_Lk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7E_bir0_Lk)
I didn't watch all of the videos, but it looks like the whole movie is there. I guess I know what I'm doing this weekend.
CC Griff
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CCG,
Yes, these both look like they are the right movies.
My best,
Blair