The Good, The Bad, and The Official Western Thread

[gwynplaine]

Fargo, Lebowski and a couple other ones are pretty well written, entertaining movies. But I also see what you mean in some other ones that are more cryptic. But to each their own.
Anyway back to Westerns: I really love Unforgiven, but I think I kinda prefer Peckinpah's Ride the High Country which touches on the same kind of themes.

 

[Superhero 101]

I just saw Unforgiven since everyone i knew said it was a must see Western film but i found the movie okay i think people were really hyping it up I think my Favorite Western film is the new 3:10 to Yuma and The Good the Bad and The Ugly

 

[TheBat812]

I just saw Unforgiven since everyone i knew said it was a must see Western film but i found the movie okay i think people were really hyping it up I think my Favorite Western film is the new 3:10 to Yuma and The Good the Bad and The Ugly

Unforgiven is great, mainly because it explores something most Westerns don't, but I agree, it's a tad overrated. I'd say my favorite two Westerns are "Good, Bad, and the Ugly" and "Once Upon a Time in the West." The new versions of "3:10 to Yuma" and "True Grit" are also pretty great, I love that blend of modern cinema and western settings. Very realistic feeling. Spaghetti Westerns are great in their own way, but not nearly as 'real' feeling. That new "Hell on Wheels" show is pretty great at it too.

 

[moviedoors]

I think Unforgiven deserves all the hype it gets. It was the Western we needed, a top to bottom subversion of what we thought westerns were "supposed" to be. I think it's one of the most intelligent and sad movies about the cycle of violence that I've seen.

 

[gwynplaine]

Unforgiven is awesome period. (And I love how it's dedicated to Sergio Leone and Don Siegel.)

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

Man, Unforgiven is the ****ing ****.

 

[gwynplaine]

Man, Unforgiven is the ****ing ****.

Quoted For Truth.

 

[Oddzball]

Northwestern Mounted Police. Cooper at his finest.

 

[Superhero 101]

Bought
3:10 to Yuma (2007)for $4.75 at Target the other day

 

[Matt Mortem]

I got The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More on Blu Ray for Christmas. I loves me some Spaghetti Westerns.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Just watched Blackthorn. Really, really great character study western. Sam Shepard is brilliant as an aging Butch Cassidy, and Eduardo Noriega, Stephen Rea and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Ser Jaime Lannister) shine in smaller roles. It's a tad slow but never dull, and the cinematography is stunning. Definitely check it out. 9/10

 

[gwynplaine]

Northwestern Mounted Police. Cooper at his finest.

Just watched Blackthorn. Really, really great character study western. Sam Shepard is brilliant as an aging Butch Cassidy, and Eduardo Noriega, Stephen Rea and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Ser Jaime Lannister) shine in smaller roles. It's a tad slow but never dull, and the cinematography is stunning. Definitely check it out. 9/10

Those sound pretty cool. Thanks for the info, I will be checking them out.

 

[CrimsonMist]

Been a while since I popped in here. But I finally saw Peckinpah's Ride The High Country(got it for Christmas). Thought it was fantastic. I know Gwynplaine ranks it higher than the Wild Bunch, but I don't know lol. I watched em back to back and The Wild Bunch spoke to me more. Still gotta see The Ballad of Cable Hogue though.

and the other night, I watched Walter Hill's Wild Bill and I thought it was pretty damn good, too.

 

[Eddie Dean]

Ride the High Country is really good. It kinda feels like a cross between True Grit and The Wild Bunch. Joel McCrea and Willliam Holden's performances in both are very similar, even the end of High Country feels like a trial run for The Wild Bunch.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Any of you guys fans of Hell on Wheels? Loved the show since the first episode, but damn, it hit a whole new level this week.

 

[Matt Mortem]

Just watched A Fistful of Dollars tonight. Clint Eastwood is so BADASS

 

[Superhero 101]

Yes he is he needs to do another western film

 

[Rowsdower!]

Just watched A Fistful of Dollars tonight. Clint Eastwood is so BADASS

Best Western film EVER, in my opinion.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Best Western film EVER, in my opinion.

You mispelled Once Upon a Time in the West.

 

[KnightInBlack]

Heck yeah, Unforgiven is a classic!

 

[The Morningstar]

I just don't appreciate films where the filmmakers basically want the audience to write the movie for them(via all manner of guesses as to what it means without anything of a definitive story coming from the creators). The "we'll throw a bunch of crap on the screen and you guess what it all means" movie is one of the worst kinds of chicanery, IMO. No one's paying me to write their movies for them. I paid them to entertain me for 2 hrs with a story set to moving pictures a.k.a. a movie.

I'm not a big fan of obscurantism.

You're not a fan of spoon feeding, as your hate for TDK suggests. But you also hate it when the film makers let the audience think about things for themselves?

No Country is a masterpiece.

Though I think my favourite Coen Brothers movie is O Brother, Where art Thou.

 

[gwynplaine]

Been a while since I popped in here. But I finally saw Peckinpah's Ride The High Country(got it for Christmas). Thought it was fantastic. I know Gwynplaine ranks it higher than the Wild Bunch, but I don't know lol. I watched em back to back and The Wild Bunch spoke to me more. Still gotta see The Ballad of Cable Hogue though.

and the other night, I watched Walter Hill's Wild Bill and I thought it was pretty damn good, too.

Of course I also love The Wild Bunch, it's just that maybe I find Ride the High Country somehow more moving. But you really can't go wrong with any of them and I'm glad you liked it. Another "end of an era" Western I really like is The Shootist, directed by one of my favorite directors Don Siegel. I think it's John Wayne's last role and he is also pretty moving in it, specially knowing that he had cancer, like his character in the film.

You mispelled Once Upon a Time in the West.

Hey Parker Wayne, you need to watch My Name Is Nobody, it's the best Leone Western you've never seen. OK, not technically a Leone movie, but he wrote and produced it and his imprint is all over the film.
It stars Henry Fonda and Terence Hill and even though it might not exactly be in the same league as OUATITW (very few movies are, right?), it's still a great Western and I highly recommend it.

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

The quick and the dead is a worefully under-rated movie.

 

[Eddie Dean]

I love the sunlight coming out of the hole in Keith David's head.

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

At the end when Gene Hackman gets shot in the eye, he doesn't just fall down, he does a cartwheel in air haha.