What Is the best Western movie

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

That you have seen?

Mine Good Bad Ugly/The Great Silence

 

[Poetic Chaos]

The Quick and the Dead

 

[Motown Marvel]

good, bad, and the ugly. no contest.

 

[HR-PUFF&STUFF]

good, bad, and the ugly. its the godfather of westerns.

 

[Cain]

For a Few Dollars More >>> The Good, the Bad and the Ugly t:

But to me the best western of all time is still The Wild Bunch the final shootout is a masterpiece.

 

[Warhammer]

I'd throw in Unforgiven or High Noon.

 

[mcentepede]

High Noon is at the top. Unforgiven with Eastwood was last great western. And generally anything by Randolf Scott is considered your great stereotypical western. That is cowboyz vs. Indians, Chinese railroad workers, fat lazy cowardly sheriff, young hotshot gunslinger, and ugly guys with beards like Al-Qaida.

 

[DACMAN]

Maverick. Hands down.

 

[dsfjr1190]

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Blazing Saddles

 

[TruerToTheCore]

The Quick and the Dead

That's the only one you know, isn't it?!

1. Good Bad Ugly
2. The Great Silence
3. The Wild Bunch
4. Unforgiven
5. Mercenario

 

[nite-owl]

1. Once Upom a Time in The West
2. The Dollars Trilogy
3. Unforgiven
4. Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
5. Rio Bravo
6. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
7. The Proposition

 

[Frank Noir]

I love the Eastwood westerns, almost all of them. The new 3:10 to Yuma is certainly in my top 3, maybe even number 1.

 

[Immortalfire]

Tombstone. End of story.

 

[Evil Twin]

The Searchers.

Really, I can't believe it took so long to list that one. Probably John Wayne's best performance and one where he deconstructs his persona to hint at some underlying ugliness (and goodness).

 

[Kent]

Once Upon a Time in the West. [/thread]

 

[BLACKVULCAN]

good, bad, and the ugly. its the godfather of westerns.

100% agree!!

Blazing Saddles

yeah. I'll give you that as #2. Haha!

 

[November Rain]

the quick and the dead

 

[Carmine Falcone]

good, bad, and the ugly. no contest.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

1. Good Bad Ugly

They said it.

 

[xwolverine2]

definatly the dollars trilogy....

 

[DACMAN]

I take it all of you guys have never seen Maverick then.

 

[signalman]

My Top 5 Westerns.


1) The Big Country.
2) Magnificent Seven.
3) The Seachers.
4) Rio Bravo.
5) Once Upon in the West.

 

[Laderlappen]

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, & Once Upon in the West aretwo of my fav films of all time. The Searchers is also a fantastic western. The Assassination of Jesse James that was made last year is the best western since Unforgiven, which also is a great western.

 

[DACrowe]

I love Leone as much as the next person, but this is ignoring too many of the classics:

-The Searchers
-Shane
-Red River
-Fort Apache
-She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
-The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
-Stagecoach
-High Noon
-The Magnificent Seven
-The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
-Once Upon a Time in the West
-The Wild Bunch
-Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
-Unforgiven
-Dances with Wolves
-3:10 to Yuma (the remake)
-The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

All great westerns off the top of my head. I don't have a favorite. I do just wish people didn't think the genre began with Leone, though.

 

[DACrowe]

AFI did the "10 top 10" a few weeks ago. I thought their "Court Drama," "Sci-fi" and "Gangster" lists were nearly perfect, though they really messed up fantasy and animation. Anyway here was the American Film Institute's selection of the ten best westerns of all time:

1. The Searchers
2. High Noon
3. Shane
4. Unforgiven
5. Red River
6. The Wild Bunch
7. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
8. McCabe and Mrs. Miller (really surprising choice and intriguing, enough I like it)
9. Stagecoach
10. Cat Ballou

The only one that I really disagreed with is Cat Ballou. I wonder since Leone's movies were technically Italian that they were not allowed to be ranked. High Noon also should've been at the bottom of the 10, not near the top.

 

[Carmine Falcone]

I'm like some Spaghetti westerns, but specifically those 60's 70's American Westerns. Clint Eastwood was king of the genre then. Also, Same Peckinpah made two of the best westerns around (Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid, The Wild Bunch)

I still have a ****load of westerns that I want to see. Among them are those 50's westerns. To see if I like 'em or not. Anybody got any specific recommendations?