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The Villain _ Shoots Nervous Elk In The Jewels _ Nervous Elk |
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Shane for the Win.
Honorable mention goes to Bone Tomahawk as the most fucked-up dark western ever. |
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Quoted: Change my mind. https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5F1XfDRPLuc/WDO1ELd-3wI/AAAAAAAAJ78/-bUadZDTEAc6g1PKhbBNUwxtJZH22LelgCLcB/s1600/Dorado%2B03.jpg View Quote I'd appreciate it. |
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Quoted: It didn't take long for a person that doesn't understand the difference between a movie and miniseries to show up. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Anyone who says anything other than Lonesome Dove is wrong, and should be ashamed of themselves. Just go with it. |
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Quoted: Change my mind. https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5F1XfDRPLuc/WDO1ELd-3wI/AAAAAAAAJ78/-bUadZDTEAc6g1PKhbBNUwxtJZH22LelgCLcB/s1600/Dorado%2B03.jpg View Quote |
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Quoted: https://cdn.britannica.com/32/178732-050-D6630B34/John-Travolta-Urban-Cowboy-James-Bridges.jpg View Quote Overhyped for no reason. That movie suuuucked. |
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Quoted: https://gifsec.com/wp-content/uploads/GIF/2014/04/disappointed-gif_1.gif?gs=a%20Regarding%20the%20Warriors,%20the%20game%20that%20Rockstar%20made%20of%20that%20movie%20was%20extremely%20well%20done. If you are going to post the best western film, and it stars John Wayne, it better be The Searchers Unforgiven is a pretty damned good, non John Wayne western. However, Once Upon A Time In The West is the best because it was written by three great filmmakers (Argento, Bertolucci and Leone) that inserted a ton of homages to the most noteworthy westerns in cinematic history. What a great entrance for Bronson https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/CVtIZDnbV6t4Fee8FD9_ITAitLuam3y2Yg1Aluskr-ACFoKn2DQiqX8Ke0eHED2avEdXL7k-7YbhpHKk2xtl4_94iKN7Yq9fBT_o52lUGmmZ9X-akvLNvJefoHdCCKf_HbwTHK0LNVvQKXC1xE5PvLQgHQxHPXiyAA6XxX3hO0On-1AaBiE Couple that with Morricone's score, complete with an experimental diegetic sound orchestration for the opening scene and awesome intertwining of each character's leitmotif at the showdown between Harmonica and Frank, it's incredible. Not to mention Henry Fucking Fonda as one bad motherfucker. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/w_zAWrGPk_DKDsOCfrCvrffvxhasbNxpShwLbZRzV8NEL74LuhUGj64lBDcF_GKJqOIcxY8K2Go01xMj2_0ydkNi97unNQHWswHqHNyKzM7qgb5aaXs6 Oh, I almost forgot Claudia Cardinale https://i.pinimg.com/236x/34/ed/4c/34ed4cc23fd659e93213574fdacdf905--claudia-cardinale-movie-characters.jpg View Quote Epic Fucking Movie. One of my all time favorites. I did a presentation on this flick in a high school film class. |
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Once Upon a Time in the West is grossly overrated. It would have been far better if edited down to half the length. No, I'm not a Michael Bay fan with a short attention span.
The Searchers is also overrated. Jeffrey Hunter's acting was atrocious. Top Westerns: The Outlaw Josey Wales Unforgiven Open Range The Professionals (Like OUATITW, it has Claudia Cardinale, but with better acting and no over-long shots of the characters' eyes.) The Wild Bunch The Magnificent Seven Pale Rider Also, Clint Eastwood or Lee Marvin > John Wayne. |
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Duke movies, off the top of my head:
Sons of Katie Elder Big Jake The Shootist True Grit Others, off the top of my head: Tombstone Young Guns Lonesome Dove Appaloosa Movies that I'm not sure if they're considered western movies or not, but are fantastic: Jeremiah Johnson The Mountain Men |
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‘Hostiles’ hasn’t been listed yet and is very well done for a modern western.
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I vote for Unforgiven. I also like Rio Bravo, the Gunfighter, High Noon, and several others though.
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Shane is #1 by a large margin; no contest.
Little Big Man... #1b. ETA: Jeremiah Johnson #1c. Stagecoach... what a movie; solid #2. The Big Trail... young John Wayne; #2b. The Westerner; High Noon; My Darling Clementine; The Good The Bad And The Ugly; Outlaw Josie Wales; ...all good... |
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Quoted: Quoted: ‘Hostiles’ hasn’t been listed yet and is very well done for a modern western. Definitely. Great ending. I only watched it because it was in the Netflix movie thread. It’s a tragedy that it is such an unknown movie. The acting is top notch and whoever wrote the script was as balanced as you can be in modern Hollywood. It correctly portrays that both sides did ugly things. Unrelated, as another top western if it qualifies, was the TV series ‘Hell On Wheels’. |
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I'm going to go watch The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance to wash the taste of this thread out of my mouth.
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The Tom Selleck ones he did with TNT are very good too.
Last Stand at Saber River Crossfire Trail Monte Walsh |
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Too many Hollywood clichés. Too much artificial, unnatural Hollywood lighting. I liked John Wayne, but James Caan was an untalented dick.
Thin plot, overacted. Change MY mind. |
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Quoted: I only watched it because it was in the Netflix movie thread. It’s a tragedy that it is such an unknown movie. The acting is top notch and whoever wrote the script was as balanced as you can be in modern Hollywood. It correctly portrays that both sides did ugly things. Unrelated, as another top western if it qualifies, was the TV series ‘Hell On Wheels’. View Quote Phenomenal acting by Bale and Pike. The agony Pike showed in “that scene” was very authentic It really got me in the feels. |
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Lonesome Dove in the best western......but not the best western movie (obviously)
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The SEarchers and the Man who shot liberty Valence for you old school types and Open Range and Lonesome Dove for the new kids.
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My favorite JW movie is McClintock.
Other favorite westerns are: Unfrogiven Outlaw Josey Wales The Good, The Bad and the Ugly Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid The Wild Bunch Tombstone The Quick and the Dead Open Range Lonesome Dove was a great mini series. HONORABLE MENTION: Ride The High Country -with Randolph Scott and Joel MCrea. It was Randolph Scott's last movie; he retired immediately there after and drove home to North Carolina. Joel McCrea only made a few more. |
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Quoted: Overhyped for no reason. That movie suuuucked. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Overhyped for no reason. That movie suuuucked. It was a girl movie. |
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Shoot Maverick was a better movie hands down than The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance was a crap movie.
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Quoted: Duke movies, off the top of my head: Sons of Katie Elder Big Jake The Shootist True Grit Others, off the top of my head: Tombstone Young Guns Lonesome Dove Appaloosa Movies that I'm not sure if they're considered western movies or not, but are fantastic: Jeremiah Johnson The Mountain Men View Quote The new version True Grit is better than old version. And it was pretty good. |
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Can't believe this one hasn't been mentioned yet, starring a real American hero. A classic western.
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