My all time favorite is The Magnificent Seven, with a great cast and a great musical score. I remember seeing it for the first time at the drive in with my family and a huge bag of Mom's popcorn. It's a remake of The Seven Samurai, which I saw much later, in college. Also a very fine movie.
The Last of the Mohicans with Daniel Day Lewis also gets my highest praise.
Deadwood, the HBO series, was awesome.
I loved the original Lonesome Dove series, with Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones
I like both versions of True Grit....different eras, though
My favorite western star is John Wayne. Memorable roles in Stagecoach, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and The Searchers, but he was in a lot of fine westerns.
A guilty pleasure is the Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns. They haven't held up over time, but at the time they came out they rocked.
“It's nice sometimes to open up the heart a little and let some hurt come in. It proves you're still alive.”
The Outlow Josey Wales
Unforgiven
Young Guns
Big Jake
Tombstone. Val Kilmer was perfect as Doc Holliday
There is one more that I am really trying to remember. I've been wanting to watch it again, but I can't remember the name. I am hoping someone will post a name of a movie here that I recognize as it.
Butch Cassidy and the sundance kid, just way cool, when it came out i was in boot camp and watched it with my wife when i came home. Who are those guys.
love both versions of True Grit
love the original Lonesome Dove series
1. High Plains Drifter
2. Hang em high
3. The Good the bad and the ugly
1) The Missing with Tommy Lee Jones and Cate Blanchet. While at times I felt like I was watching a made-for-t.v.-western, it nevertheless combined several elements to make for a very good character driven western, even if Westerns aren't to your taste.
2) Tombstone. Not quite the perfect Western, but the next best thing. How not with a top actor like Kurt Russell backed by Sam Elliot and Val Kilmer with the last in an iconic role that was probably his most prolific.
3) It has yet to appear in theaters, and while not a Leonardo D. fan by any stretch, The Revenant looks promising. If the rest of the film is as good as the cinematography is in the previews, this may be one of the better films in years, by any standard or genre.
Unforgiven
3:10 to Yuma
A Fistful of Dollars
For a Few Dollars More
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Dances with Wolves
How the West Was Won
The Searchers...Little Big Man...Nevada Smith...The Outlaw Josie Wales...Jeremiah Johnson...The Ox Bow Incident...Firecreek...The Quick And The Dead(HBO made for tv version with Sam Elliot)...Shane...Trinity Is Still My Name...They Call Me Trinity
1. Tombstone--any movie with Dana Delaney in it-wins for me ****************************
2. How the West was Won
3. The City of Gold--Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels
4. Clint Eastwood "Spaghetti Westerns"
5. Nevada Smith
6. TV mini series--Lonesome Dove and Centennial
Open Range is one of the best I've seen, with possible the best shootout in cinema history at the end.
High Noon
Pale Rider
Dances With Wolves
My Dad must have every John Wayne film ever made still on video so westerns were part of my unbringing! Most of the ones I've enjoyed are already chosen but I also liked
The Sons of Katie Elder
The Comancheros
The War Wagon
Im not a big western movie fan, but I do have my favorites ?
1. Dances With Wolves - I could watch it over and over again
2. Young Guns
3. Silverado
4. Tombstone
5. The Long Riders
List of older movies:
1. A Fist Full of Dollars
2. Two Mules for Sister Sarah
3. Unforgiven
4. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
5. The Outlaw Josey Wales
Ok, I guess I do like westerns after all, lol! Who else here remembers "Alias Smith and Jones?" Do you recall their gangs name?? ?
Ok, I guess I do like westerns...anyone else remember
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As subjective as it is, here's my list...
(Honorable Mention) The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly (Gotta put Clint on this list somewhere!)
(10) Blazing Saddles (Perhaps Mel Brook's best comedy)
(9)True Grit (Probably the Duke's Second best performance)
(8)Cat Ballou ( Lee Marvin at his absolute Best! What else can you say)
(7)Silverado (As finely crafted a western spectacle as you can find)
(6)The Professionals (Lee Marvin as a good guy)
(5)Shane (What Top western list would be complete without it. A classic!)
(4)The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (As great an assembled cast as you will ever find!)
(3)The Magnificent Seven ((Steve McQueen, Yul Brynner, Charles Bronson, et al. A magnificent cast!)
(2) Stagecoach (John Wayne's finest performance!)
(1)High Noon (The quintessential struggle between love and duty. By far the greatest western ever!)
Tombstone
McClintock
Rio Grande
3:10 to Yuma ( the original )
The Wild Bunch.
The Magnificent Seven.
The Outlaw Josey Wale.
The Searchers.
Lonesome dove (the best cowboy movie ever)
Rio Bravo
Quick and he Dead (Louis Lamar version, it's cheesy but it has Sam Elliot)
Rooster Cogburn and the Lady
Support Your Local Sheriff. James Garner
They Call Me Trinity: Bid Spencer/Terrance Hill
Tombstone, nuff said
The Searchers
The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
The Wild Bunch
The Shootist
Mountain Men
Little Big Man
Open Range
and a TV series: Lonesome Dove - The Outlaw Years series. The first season of this TV show was shit, but the 2nd season was dark and brooding, and I like it.
Lonesome Dove
Mclintock
Young Guns
The Quick And The Dead
Rio Bravo
My favorite of all time is Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
The searchers
Little Big Man
The Good Bad and Ugly
Cat Balliou
McLintock
True Grit
Unforgiven
High Plains Drifter
Rio Diablo
High Noon
Mclintock - I've watched a dozen times (maybe more). A perfect John Wayne movie.
Rio Bravo - Another Wayne classic.
Magnificent Seven - Great Cowboy story
Stagecoach -
Silverado -
Maybe the best 'Western' was the mini-series Lonesome Dove. It stayed true to the book (which was great) and the casting was totally inspired.
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
The War Wagon
Man Without A Star
Mclintock
Quiet Man
True Grit
Sons of Katie Elder
