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Jeriamiah Johnson, Lonesome Dove
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Old guy, old guns.
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The Reader's Digest Version
The Picks
10 - The Searchers
9 - Shane
8 - Unforgiven
7 - Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
6 - High Noon/Rio Bravo
5 - The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
4 - McCabe and Mrs. Miller
3 - Once Upon a Time in the West
2 - Sukiyaki Western Django
1 - Star Wars (yup, Star Wars)
Have seen 10-3 and 1, will have to watch Sukiyaki to make up my own mind. Whataloadofchit.
Dyin' ain't much of a livin' boy - Josey Wales
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Hope “Rango” got at least an honorable mention. Cracked me up.
What fresh Hell is this?
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The Wild Bunch needs to be top 3 for sure.
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Jeriamiah Johnson, Lonesome Dove Oh you beat me to those, two of the best. Also the Balled of Buster Scruggs, Hell or High Water and The English are all good.
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So what makes a good or great Western?
A great movie of any genre has to start with a good story well told about interesting people. What makes a Western different?
I tried to watch Sukiyaki Western Django last night but couldn't get through 15 minutes of it, it was just stupid, over the top one dimensional Superman Gunslinger facing other one dimensional characters with everybody being uber cool, funky dirty bad guys.
Even though a lot of Westerns, especially Clint Eastwood movies, feature the Invincible Gunslinger protaganist, Unforgiven is a good story about characters with some nuance, so is Outlaw Josey Wales. The characters go through some kind of arc or personal journey and come out the other side changed. The Man With No Name movies feature a bunch of mostly one dimensional characters but Sergio Leone's directing and Enrico Morricone's music lift them well above the others.
The Searchers is a good movie about people. Tombstone was good mostly because of the acting. Tom Horn was a great movie IMO, it was a good story well told with good acting about a multi-faceted character.
The worst Westerns IMO are just "John Wick in the 1870's".
A Top Ten or Greatest list of anything is almost impossible to make and particularly impossible to have people agree on. Take 100 guys and have them choose the prettiest woman, the best beer, the greatest car or truck and you'll get 100 different answers. If you like it, you like it - that's the best criterion.
Gunnery, gunnery, gunnery.
Hit the target, all else is twaddle!
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Not in order:
High Noon
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Jeremiah Johnson
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
The Wild Bunch
A Fistful of Dollars
Once Upon a Time in the West
Winchester '73
The Searchers
My favorites that probably crack the top 20 but not the top 10:
My Darling Clementine
For a Few Dollars More
The Ox-Bow Incident
El Dorado
The Magnificent Seven
Vera Cruz
Man in the Wilderness
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Started off okay and then just got stupid. This
A true friend is someone who reaches for your
hand but touches your heart !!!
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What…. no “Brokeback Mountain” fans?
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Silverado
Open Range decent for newer
Tombstone
Conagher
Old Henry pretty good for new stuff too Old Henry is outstanding IMO.
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Where is Outlaw Josie Wales?
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Dances with Wolves not mentioned, & sometimes if it's mentioned it gets a lot of flak. I just don't get it.
And,,,,,,,, Quigley is not mentioned. Not a western? or other?
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Not sure if dances with wolves or last of the mohicans falls into category but top notch and the revenant? Dances is good. Mohicans is an eastern!🤪
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Where is Outlaw Josie Wales? Best movie of all time, IMHO.
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I know we need more, what ever happened to them?
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My list would include a lot of John Wayne movies. Selleck’s Quigley was good. Just about everything Jack Elam and Struther Martin were in was good. There’s a lot more than ten but Henry Fonda was a piss poor actor in my opinion.
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