Best "modern" western

[PJ Hardtack]

Last night the movie "All The Pretty Horses" was on the tube. Gotta be one of the best of the 'modern' westerns ever!

It's got everything -  adventure, love, lust, gun play and oh, a lot of pretty horses. Superb characterizations by top notch actors.

[nagantino]

Modern Westerns don't have the elements needed to be called Westerns. Difficult one. Hud was good, Ranchero Deluxe, The Last Picture Show maybe, Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia. The Wild Bunch was set in 1916 I think. The Misfits with Marilyn Munroe and Clark Gable. None of these fit easily into the Western category but have a nice feel of the west.

[Major 2]

Lonely Are the Brave, held your interest , grit , a bit of humor, some good cast.



In Pursuit of Honor is another

[Mogorilla]

Last of the Dogmen, It had elements of old and new.

[Major 2]

I agree , when it came out it didn't do well and theaters pulled it after short week or so run

I like it though

[nagantino]

Lonely are the Brave was a great movie.........what about The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

[Good Troy]

How about "No Country for Old Men"?  Modern Western??

[PJ Hardtack]

Like Ian Tyson said in his song - "Magpie" .....

"As long as you fly,
the west ain't never gonna die."

[Mean Bob Mean]

How about "No Country for Old Men"?  Modern Western??

Yes and a great film.

[nagantino]

I wanted to throw in No country for Old Men but thought it was tooooo far out, but a super movie, white socks, cowboy boots, white hats, real bad guys, real good guys, gun play and superb character representation. Aqua, Aqua......."..

[Grenadier]

Longmire

[The Elderly Kid]

Not merely modern but sci-fi, "Battle Beyond the Stars" was a remake of "The Magnificent Seven," down to Robert Vaughan repeating his role. Of course, M7 was itself a remake of a samurai film of the same name. A great story can have all sorts of adaptations.  The lamented one-season sf program "Firefly" was for all practical purposes a western set in space.

[Coal Creek Griff]

"The Magnificent Seven" was a remake of Akira Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai", an excellent, groundbreaking film. A number of common aspects of film originated in that movie.  There are other well known westerns that were also based on Japanese movies.  They seem to translate well.

CC Griff

[Shawnee McGrutt]

How about "Bad Day at Black Rock"? 

[PJ Hardtack]

We're forgetting the obvious one - "The Wild Bunch"!

[PJ Hardtack]

Recently watched "The Great Train Chase" with Fess Parker and a host of western actors you'd recognize, like Slim Pickens Harry Carrie.

Worth watching for the countryside and the two steam locomotives.

[Mean Bob Mean]

We're forgetting the obvious one - "The Wild Bunch"!

Great film but less modern in terms of manufacture I would say.  Modern Western for me would be starting with Unforgiven to about now or be a western in terms of its content and portrayals but be temporally modern.  Just my personal ideation.

[Mogorilla]

Well, in rereading this, I cannot believe no one has mentioned Firefly.  It is science fiction, so it is so modern it hasn't happened yet.     

Truly some Bèn tiānshēng de yī duī ròu at FOX network should be tossed out an air hatch for messing it up the way they did.  We are doing a weekly lunch time viewing of the episodes here at work for young nerds not yet versed in the verse. 

[Stillwater]

How about "No Country for Old Men"?  Modern Western??

I didn't like the ending of "No Country for Old Men". The bad guy got away...!

Bill

[The Elderly Kid]

Anton Chigurh is like the Judge in "Blood Meridian," an all but unstoppable force of pure evil. You can't just kill something like that.