Best Western
 

This ain't about a hotel.

I've been on a western movie kick and have watched about 20 in the past couple of months including the Dollars trilogy, Django, High Noon, and Rio Bravo.

What are yr faves?

I love High Noon and Django (as you can tell by my avatar)

Westworld (cheating I know)
Dead Man

Firefly and Serenity (don't let the spaceships fool you)!



wooohooo!! 1,000 posts of TOTAL TRASH. I'm on a roll.

I can't see a lot because video stores don't have them here... It sucks

Just watched Westworld last week. I loved it - especially because I think Yul is awesome.

I haven't seen Dead Man in a long time. I like pretty much every scene with Lance Henrikson.

:) That's a fun show - but it doesn't really satisfy my western crave.

I think this is generally the standard that all others are compared to.

Then there's this, the modern western that all westerns are compared to.

Isn't there a new version of this movie?

I need to see the Wild Bunch - I never seen any Pekinpah - just the Monty Python parody. I'll get that for the weekend.

Wow, yeah, its one of my favorite films, also about "High Noon", during the AFI's 100 greatest films, they said "High Noon" is the most watched film at White House movie night. Both Bushes and Clinton consider it one of thier favorite films.

"Once Upon A Time In The West" - Sergio Leone's greatest film, in my opinion.

Django

Ignore all the 'sequels' (even the official one), but the original is fantastic.

Westworld use to scare the shit out of me as a kid. Nice call.

Forty Guns - Sam Fuller
Barbara Stanwyck is amazing in it.

I still insist that Firefly is a "western" at heart, but other than that it's not something that I ever really got into.

all of the Leone films were great, but the rest of the genre really never appealed to me. I think it's from spending so much of my life in Texas / Oklahoma.

I get a western flick driving down the freeway.

High Noon and the Wild Bunch are going to have to make my netflix queue now. I'm going to trust "y'alls" opinions and give it another chance.

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Cool movie. Iggy Pop plays a great homo.

Django for me too! It has a unique mood, set in that muddy, windy town. And the final shoot-out is great too.

Django Kill! If You Live, Shoot! (though not an official sequal; they just called it that to get attention...) is good, and bizarre. The opening scenes are as good as Django's. Alex Cox used to always namedrop it on that BBC2 show.

Also, I like another Western with 'Django' in the title which is shown on the Movies For Men channel in the UK, where Django comes back as a ghost. I think it must have influenced Clint to make High Plains Drifter.

Away from Django, etc, and the obvious Leone ones, I like McCabe and Mrs Miller.

How about "Django The Bastard" - directed by Sergio Garrone, who later went on to direct the notorious "SS Experiment Camp".

Some favourites:

The Searchers
Red River
Bad Day at Black Rock (sort of a western, but great nonetheless)
Shane
High Plains Drifter

Awesome! Of those I've only seen High Plains Drifter and Shane.

I also recommend the sort of western - Treasure of Sierra Madre.

I own Once Upon a Time in the West. -great one-

my favorite westerns are

The Good The Bad & The Ugly


Unforgiven


High plains Drifter

Ride the High Country
Bend of the River

The Searchers - The greatest Western of them all.

The Terror Of Tiny Town

The Searchers is my dad's favorite movie ever....I'm not a huge western fan, but yeah, it's pretty good.

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gotta love owen wilson and jackie chan...its such an odd matching that its so funny..hey guys......hey.......dont you reckon.........

The best western ever is obviously Blazing Saddles:p

seven samurai

The Unforgiven.
Clint eastwood is still the best at the art of Western filmaking. And he's still looking great for being an old man.

I was so young and naive then...

I think that I'm quitting when I get to 11,980.

The best western I've ever seen is ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST.

But El Topo is my favorite movie of all time, usually (it shifts between that, Hana-Bi, Taxi Driver, and Eureka [2000] depending on my mood), and it's an acid western of the highest order. I am really interested in the so-called "acid western" genre, as they are usually not strictly westerns but have similiar vibes and the same kind of look to them. Films like LONG LIVE DEATH and I WILL WALK LIKE A CRAZY HORSE are surreal movies that reference Westerns but are really in a weird class of their own.

Can't go wrong with any of the Eastwood westerns, really.

I also really like HELLBENDERS and CUTTHROATS 9 quite a bit.

I am thinking of one day directing a claymation avant-Western.

Bah, you Americans and your weird allegiance to Italian westerns.

I mean look at this picture. How fucking perfect is that? The one thing you do better than any country in the world, and you look to Italy. Italy! For Westerns!!!!!

All of Clint's spaghetti westerns, and some other of Clint's of that era, like erm, The Outlaw Josey Wales and that.

Westerns before that were cheaply made and show it. Nowadays all the big budget movies are all basically B-movies, but with pretty explosions.

three amigos

westerns are my favorite genre.
i have seen nearly 30 in the last year.
once upon a time in the west
the wild bunch
high noon
high plains drifter
great silence
django
and many more are all amazing.

i am writing a seminar paper that is mostly about OUAITW
todayu i emailed someone at morricone's site asking about score's and she said that there are no authorized scores by him. so that sucks cause regardless of the paper, it would be really cool to analyze some of his tripier scores

I've noticed that no-one's mentioned Calamity Jane or Paint your Wagon yet. C'mon though, I know you're all indie kids, but Doris Day!

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