Top 20 Favorite Western Movies.

[Fanticon]

oh man I can't think of 20...how bout 10 or so?...
1. Outlaw Josey Whales
2. Tombstone
3. Unforgiven
4. Fist Full of Dollars
5. Last Man Standing
6. Wyatt Earp
7. The Last Outlaw
8. Desparado
9. High Planes Drifter
10. Once Upon A Time In Mexico

 

[Carmine Falcone]

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is the ultimate western. And probably the most badass movie ever.
I love every Eastwood western I've seen. The man is just perfect for the genre. The Outlaw Josey Wales, Unforgiven, High plains Drifter, For a few Dollars More, A Fistful of Dollars are all great.
His best western as a director is either Unforgiven of The Outlaw Josey Wales.

 

[Maxwinner]

1. Once Upon A Time In The West
2. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
3. Fistful of Dynamite
4. Django
5. For A Few Dollars More
6. A Fistful Of Dollars
7. Rio Bravo
8. My Name Is Nobody
9. High Noon
10. Duel in The Sun
11. Red Sun
12. Desperado
13. El Mariachi
14. Once Upon A Time In Mexico
15. The Searchers
16. Unforgiven
17. The Magnificent Seven
18. Death Rides A Horse
19. The Mercenary
20. Day Of Anger

 

[Carmine Falcone]

1. Once Upon A Time In The West

Too bad that is what most people think. I think OUATITW is utterly boring. Ofcourse it has fantastic music and direction and a nice opening scene, but the rest is so...uninteresting. And I didn't care for any of the characters. Look at The Good the bad and The Ugly; the music, the acting, the story, the characters, the locations everything is perfect as it can be.

It's not that I don't understand that people like OUATITW, I mean it's by the best Western director who ever lived. But it isn't for me.

 

[Mentok]

1- The Proposition - Amazing film. Its more Leone than an actual Leone film.
2- A fustful of Dollars - Clint owns.
3- Red Sun - Samuari Western... Needs to be more of them.
4- The Good the Bad and the Ugly - Amazing.
5- For a few Dollars More - Clint owns once again.
6-The singer, not the song - Not a very good film... Its just one of those ones I really enjoy.
7- Tombstone
8- Unforgiven
9- Last Man Standing - Bruce kills everyone... That means its a classic.
10-The Magnificient Seven

 

[Cracker Jack]

1 Pale Rider
2 Unforgiven.
3 Blazing Saddles
4 High Plains Drifter.
5 The Magnificent Seven
6 The Outlaw Josey Wales
7 True Grit.
8 The Cowboys
9 The Sons of Katie Elder
10 The Searchers
11 Silverado.
12 Dances with Wolves
13 High Plains Drifter.
14 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
15 Tombstone
16 The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
17 Rooster Coghburn
18 The Shootist
19 Glory
20 Red River

 

[SolidSnakeMGS]

I like El Dorado, because Mitchum is in it, though.

Me too, but its a remake of Rio Bravo, which IMO is a much better movie. John Wayne plays the SAME character. Same director as well (Howard Hawks).

Mitchum does rule. There isn't one single leading man in present times that has his toughness or physical presence.

 

[Movies205]

I love westerns but I don't have that many favorites, but I do have 3...

1. Once Upon Time in the West
2. Wild Bunch
3. True Grit

 

[FOG3]

I havent seen a whole lot of the American stuff.. so most of these are gonna be spaghetti style...

Death Rides a Horse - the REAL Kill Bill (and my fav western)
Four of the Apocalypse
Companeros
For a Few Dollars More
Unforgiven
Once Upon a Time In The West
The Good The Bad & The Ugly
DJANGO
Keoma
Forty Guns

was never into John Wayne, or Tombstone. I do love this Star Trek episode though called "Spectre of the Gun", It was one of the only vhs tapes I had when I was little. This alien basically sends the crew into a fake universe that forces them to fight Doc Holiday and co. at the OK Corral. Pretty awesome..

 

[The Question]

I'm kind of odd in terms of how I like Westerns, because I love the aesthetics (Wide open spaces, sandy streets, shootouts, train robberies) and find it to be an extremely cinematic genre, but the stories and the moral viewpoints of the films have never appealed to me. The morality tale aspect of the Western, despite the fact that it's often a very FUN morality tale, is something that seems inherently black and white, and therefore inherently uninteresting.

I still love the look of the pictures though.

Some westerns are morally black and white, but others aren't. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is a good example of one that's morally complex.



Also, does it havev to be a straight western, or can it be a film with western themes and archtypes but in a different setting? If not, I'm going with Butch and Sundance and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance as my two favorites.

 

[Maxwinner]

the best Western director who ever lived.

 

[SolidSnakeMGS]

Too bad that is what most people think. I think OUATITW is utterly boring. Ofcourse it has fantastic music and direction and a nice opening scene, but the rest is so...uninteresting. And I didn't care for any of the characters. Look at The Good the bad and The Ugly; the music, the acting, the story, the characters, the locations everything is perfect as it can be.

That's what I thought about Once Upon a Time in America.

 

[Maxwinner]

That's what I thought about Once Upon a Time in America.

both OUaTiA and OUaTitW are on my top 10!

I love long movies, I could watch a 7 hour movie and not get bored

 

[FOG3]

Even Sleep or Empire?

 

[Maxwinner]

Don't know if I've seen em'. So.... I don't know.

 

[mister Lennon]

I love westerns. Here is my top:

The good, the bad, the ugly
Unforgiven
Shane
The searchers
Rio bravo
Once upon a time in the west
The magnificent seven
the wild bunch
for a few dollars more
a fitsfull of dollars
The man who shot liberty vallance
the stagecoatch
dancing with wolves
gunshoot at the ok corrall
high noon
red river
johnny guitar
butch cassiddy and the sundance kid
my darling clementine

 

[BloodyWolverine]

Some westerns are morally black and white, but others aren't. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is a good example of one that's morally complex.



Also, does it havev to be a straight western, or can it be a film with western themes and archtypes but in a different setting? If not, I'm going with Butch and Sundance and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance as my two favorites.

Well technically The Missing one of my faves is not exactly a western but it takes place in those times. This missing is a mystery set in the period of time. Hidalgo is another example for it has the feel of a western in the begining but it is really more about horses. So yes a any western feel to a film can be excepted. Or a film that may take place during the western days.

 

[Carmine Falcone]

I watched the Wild Bunch tonight (for the second time)

It is a great movie.

 

[ToddIsDead]

I really haven't seen many westerns, but I always liked True Grit.

 

[Carmine Falcone]

That's what I thought about Once Upon a Time in America.

Indeed. So did I. Quite a dissapointment.

I even thought DeNiro's performance was underwhelming.