Your Top 10 Westerns
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Topic: Your Top 10 Westerns
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Subject: Your Top 10 Westerns
Date Posted: October 20 2022 at 09:12
There are no less than eight Clint Eastwood movies amongst my Top 10 Westerns and the one thing I'll always remember about Clint is you should never ever make fun of his mule.  My Top 10 Westerns (in chronological order)  1960: The Magnificent Seven - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MZY_0tYmrs" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MZY_0tYmrs 1964: A Fistful of Dollars - 1965: For a Few Dollars More - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIqLodn26CI" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIqLodn26CI 1966: The Good, the Bad & Ugly - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oCdwxmeM2A" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oCdwxmeM2A 1968: Hang 'em High 1968: Once Upon a Time in the West 1972: Joe Kidd 1973: High Plains Drifter - 1976: The Outlaw Josey Wales 1992: Unforgiven |
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Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: October 20 2022 at 09:55
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I don't have time to do a top ten at the moment, but, frankly, any list which does not include either Shane or The Searchers cannot possibly be a serious list. ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: October 20 2022 at 09:58
I've never seen Shane or The Searchers. I don't generally watch films that are older than I am.
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lazland wrote:Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: October 20 2022 at 10:12
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no Dance with Wolves ??  I'd put Pale Rider above Unforgiven. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: geekfreak
Date Posted: October 20 2022 at 10:38
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: October 20 2022 at 10:44
Thanks for giving me the inspiration for this Top 10 list.
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Posted By: Argo2112
Date Posted: October 20 2022 at 10:51
In No particular order:
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Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: October 20 2022 at 12:05
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Hi, Never really was a "Western" fan, me not having been born in America and seen so much of that time being romanticized into carboard and satire. I tend to enjoy the difficult films that many like/don'tlike because they are so different from the mold, and they show a side that many did not like about the great American "heroes" as so many of these films tend to make them. I like, for example, things like HEAVEN'S GATE, even though it is not quite a western, but shows the Westernized mentality of the rich folks that stole all the land in America. I could even deal with THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY, since it kinda was a serious setup and story, that was actually telling you that the Italian spaghetti westerns were crap, although fun to watch at the drive in during the days when you were on a drink or doobie and was more impressed with the girl that you were with the movie! Of all the "westerns" there is only one for me that matters. THE WILD BUNCH ... it is much more than a movie and you know that you are getting a sight of real characters instead of cardboard mannequins. One other film that stands out for me ... THE POSSE ... but I'm not sure that it will be appreciated for the excellent directing and cast in it! I have had thoughts that the film is "too black" for most viewers to appreciate ... so what? It's a great film! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: October 20 2022 at 17:03
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The Outlaw Josey Wales is my favorite. I'm also fond of (in no particular order): Tombstone Little Big Man True Grit (2010) Unforgiven Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid The Magnificent Seven High Plains Drifter Pale Rider The Horse Whisperer Jeremiah Johnson The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford The Cowboys Once Upon a Time in the West A Man Called Horse Ride with the Devil Slow West Dances with Wolves ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: October 21 2022 at 02:49
my not serious list  Unforgiven The Good the Bad and The Ugly A Fistful of Dollars For A Few Dollars More The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs Dances With Wolves Bone Tomahawk No Country For Old Men The Revenant Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid The Assassination Of Jess James by the Coward Robert Ford The Alamo (John Wayne version) 3.10 To Yuma (Christian Bale version) |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: October 21 2022 at 06:25
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The Searchers The Magnificent Seven The Outlaw Josey Wales Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid Blazing Saddles High Noon The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance The Wild Bunch Tombstone Unforgiven
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: October 21 2022 at 06:29
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^ I wish I'd included Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid in my list too, but I'd have to make it a Top 11 to do that.
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Posted By: jamesbaldwin
Date Posted: October 22 2022 at 13:25
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My dear friends, where is "The Wild Bunch"???? ** In Italy this western inspired the name of the most famous rock magazine: "Il Mucchio Selvaggio" A great, great masterpiece! ** except dwill
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: October 22 2022 at 14:44
Mosh mentioned The Wild Bunch too.
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Posted By: jamesbaldwin
Date Posted: October 22 2022 at 15:29
Mosh. I agree with you. The Wild Bunch is much more than a movie, it is a vision of life! As far as Spaghetti Westerns are concerned, as an Italian I think this: They are commercial art films. They exploit emphatic, rhetorical scenes, they create characters, myths. Leone combines technique and artistry with a "low" style (a mix that Tarantino equaled only in his maturity, not in his early films), resulting in a winking, self-indulgent film that tends to overdo it. I like those films, I can't deny it, but it's a smug pleasure, cunningly achieved by clever use of the tricks of the trade. I do not consider them up to the standard of the best westerns, like The Wild Bunch, or The Outlaw Josey Wales. I grew up, like many Italians, seeing since childhood the two comic offspring of the Spaghetti Western: They Called Him Trinity /And They Kept Calling Him Trinity, starring Terence Hill and Bud Spencer, aliases of two Italian actors, director E. B. Clucher, where E stands for Enzo and B for Barboni: Enzo Barboni, not E. B. Clucher! ------------- Amos Goldberg (professor of Genocide Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem): Yes, it's genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion. |
Posted By: jamesbaldwin
Date Posted: October 22 2022 at 17:19
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My father loved this western comedy (maybe because of Ursula Andress?) ------------- Amos Goldberg (professor of Genocide Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem): Yes, it's genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion. |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: October 22 2022 at 17:20
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In no particular order.... Little Big Man A Man Called Horse The Good, The Bad and the Ugly The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Unforgiven Tombstone Blazing Saddles Fort Apache Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid The Revenant ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: jamesbaldwin
Date Posted: October 22 2022 at 17:30
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Podium: 1) The Wild Bunch 2) The Outlaw Josey Wales 3) Jeremiah Johnson ---- 4) Dances with Wolves 5) The magnificent seven 6) Unforgiven 7) The Good, The Bad and the Ugly 8) Django Unchained 9) Stagecoach 10)A man callad horse
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Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: October 22 2022 at 19:54
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A couple of comedies were mentioned so I thought I'd add another. Best western no, but an entertaining movie, "Cat Ballou". Lee Marvin won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Also, this was the last film that Nat King Cole worked in, as he died of cancer before this film was released. |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: October 22 2022 at 22:47
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I love Westerns, even had comic books as a youngster like Rawhide Kid, Kid Colt etc. A couple of Westerns made me happy in the mid 00's though, scratched that itch. Seraphim Falls from 2006 and 3:10 To Yuma the following year. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: October 23 2022 at 10:23
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Back in the 1970s in the UK I seem to remember that there were a hell of a lot of westerns on the tv….many with Mr. Wayne… The Magnificent Seven is undoubtedly my favourite High Noon was great Shane was pretty good I can’t really remember remember how good a life of them were I’ve never seen The Unforgiven…. ------------- Heaven is waiting but waiting is Hell |
Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: October 23 2022 at 15:17
You must see Unforgiven - it is Clint's finest Western, imho. He brought the rights to it many years before making it, because he knew it would be perfect for him as an aging hero. It is a fine allegory about the decline of Hollywood Westerns before it strongly reasserts itself. ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: October 24 2022 at 03:12
| I forgot to include The Hateful 8 in my list, I actually prefer this to Django Unchained as far as Tarentino is concerned. |