Most guys around the ‘fire love Westerns.
We’ve been down this road several times, I know, but just for the sake of argument, I’ll post this 11 minute video.

I don’t know who their critics are, but a couple of these aren’t even Westerns. I’ve seen all these but one, and several of their picks I won’t bother to watch again.
Thoughts?
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Appaloosa was great. True Grit qualifies. Both versions. The Good, Bad, and Ugly is up there.

Yeah, in my view, a Western has to take place pre-1900.

What about Open Range?

Surprised they included The Rider on that list, on account of how it used actual South Dakota Rez residents that movie was almost a documentary.

Another great one.

Tombstone.

Hostiles.

3:10 to Yuma.

The Big Country
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Comancheros
They Died with Their Boots On
Gunfight at The OK Corral
Hombre
Lawman
The Professionals
Last Train from Gun Hill
The Violent Men
Fastest Gun Alive
The Alamo
Warlock
The War Wagon

Lonesome Dove......Shane

This would be a loooong western, Lonesome Dove

Anything with Lee Van Cleef in it.....

The original “Monte Walsh” with Lee Marvin is one of the greats and of course “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” is probably one of the best and least recognized.

Lonesome Dove and Unforgiven

Pretty good choices in that video.

Boy howdy.

No mention of the Magnificent Seven.

Sheesh!!

Hold into the console teevee

Love the original Lonesome Dove miniseries. "I hate rude behavior in a man. Won't tolerate it."

Anyone of them with Gene Wilder and Clevon Little in it.

That would be the three Eastwood Spaghetti Westerns.

Another good Spaghetti Western, despite not having either Eastwood or VanCleef was Once Upon A Time In The West.

How could I forget Unforgiven. Another one that's up there.

Blazing Saddles
The Frisco Kid

He's also a henchman in Liberty Valance and High Noon. (And a gambler in a pretty great Twilight Zone western episode with Lee Marvin.)

Three Mules for Sister Sara.

not sure how Once Upon a Time in the West didn't make that list.

I'll watch any western with Jimmy Stewart, Gary Cooper, Clint Eastwood, John Wayne, Henry Fonda or Randolph Scott.

Those are stop what you are doing, tolerate commercial westerns for me.

If you don't need cattle in a movie for it to be a western, then how about Master and Commander. It's a story in the western....hemisphere?

We really need a sarcasm emoji.
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Lee Van Cleef appeared in all kinds of westerns as a supporting actor. He was one of the bad guys in High Noon. With that look on his face he made a great bad guy.
And High Noon is not on my list of great westerns. I could not believe that the entire town would go chicken.

Mrs. Doubtfire

Big Jake is a good one.

My Name Is Nobody

Yep. VanCleef was a very convincing villain in High Noon. Incidentally, he was also in more than one episode of The Rifleman.

So you're not actually a Van Cleef fan?

Cooper's character made some big mistakes. When he was in the church, he should have told that fat guy to shut up, and shamed the men in the congregation into joining him, but he basically made zero effort to do so.

Never much liked Henry Fonda or any of his sorry kids. There were many great westerns and John Wayne was in most of them. Robert Duvall, Sam Elliott, Jimmy Stewart, Clint Eastwood, lee Van Cleef, Maureen O'Hara, James Garner and many more. Supporting actors make up a great part of any western because the main characters can't do it all. Jack Elam, John McIntire and his wife Jeanette Nolan, Walter Brennan, Harry Carey, Lee Marvin, Strother Martin, Paul Fix, Slim Pickens, Harry Morgan, Arthur Hunnicutt, Ward Bond, Dan Duryea, Ben Johnson to just scratch the surface.

who I can't watch in a Western is Audie Murphy. Nothing against the guy , I know he is a real American hero, but can't watch any of his movies.

I suppose you could call “ How The West Was Won” a Western. It’s more of a documentary but very good nevertheless.

Toombstone and 3:10 To Yuma. Pale Rider, Josey, Lonesome Dove.

Unfortunately our cable plays Toombstone 3-4x a week for some reason. It’s lost its shine for me now.

Yep. How could we forget Outlaw Josey Wales?

Movies that complete the Western bill without the need for more:


Kung-Fu the pilot

Lonesome Dove series

Original 3:10 to Yuma

Outlaw Josey Wales

The new Magnificent Seven

Tombstone

Few Dollars More

Open Range

Tom Horn

"gentlemen" I submit the Cullpepper cattle company, Red river , All the pretty horses, and theres others out there not mentioned daily that are more better than good,, just because yall have the faithfull dozen or so usual westerns ready for any cowboy movie thread reply doesnt mean that that there arent as good an better in the hole,, The cowboys, the rounders, Hombre, Hostiles, open range,Appalousa, all great flicks,

Unforgiven, Open Range, Broken Trail, and Silverado are modern western classics.

The hateful eight and Bone tomohawk.

Culpepper is great but never seems to get much attention.

I'm scarred from watching Bone Tomahawk.

I'll never watch that movie again.

Metacritic obviously needed to check these boxes to get an A from their film noir professor, I am surprised Brokeback Mounting wasn't in there!

Lots of good choices already mentioned. One I didn't see listed is "Ulzana's Raid". For some reason I had missed it, and saw it for the first time last night. Burt Lancaster turns in an exceptional role as an army scout.

Across the Wide Missouri, The Misfits. Dont know if these were mentioned. Both are good filcks.

Badlands and Traded are a couple of good westerns. The three burials of Melquiaqdes Estrada is not only good but different. I have a few more in my collection that I think were released for DVD only and never made the big screen. Too bad as they're pretty darn good.
Paul B.

I am also partial to Quigley, even though it would be classified as a different sort of western. Tom Selleck can look the part without even trying hard.

The original Monte Walsh, and for a laugh The Cheyenne Social Club

Missouri Breaks
Rancho Deluxe
Easy Rider

Cowboys with Glen Ford,Angel and the bad man, the Missing,The hard men,Hombre,Broken lance, Bite the Bullitt, Jr Bonner, Tom Horn, lots of gooderns out there,,Gunsmoke,have gun will travel,

Shane, One Eyed Jacks, The Appaloosa, and don't forget ....

Whispering Smith.

L.W.

I like the final shootout scene. "I said I had no use for a Colt, not that I couldn't shoot one."

There are so many good westerns it would be hard to mention them all... The Shootist was pretty good and one of John Wayne's last roles, The Revenant was great and the production values and cinematography was incredible... Sons of Katie Elder was also a good one, but I could go on all day. I love Westerns- new and old for the most part but some of the older ones seem pretty dated due to the production techniques and lousy cinematography compared to newer films...

War Wagon
Dancing with Wolves
Silverado is a favorite
All of Clint Eastwood's spaghetti westerns..
Sabata
3:10 to Yuma

Yeah, the Shootist definitely deserves honorable mention. One of my favorites.

Rio Bravo
The Searchers

The Searchers
Tombstone
Big Jake
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Shane
Lonesome Dove
The Outlaw Josey Wales

Westerns are my favorite, especially with Clint. I'd say my #1 Clint move is "For a Few Dollars More."

Surprised nobody has mentioned Young Guns. I know its a newer western, but it really was a good movie.

Young guns? Lmfao

A lot of great westerns mentioned. I've always liked Will Penny and J.W. Coop.

Cat Ballou - Lee Marvin won an Oscar for his role.

Will Penny was something different. A big star, Charleton Heston, plays an old cowboy, just about washed up. He falls in with a beautiful widow who is holed up for the winter at a cabin Will is supposed to be guarding. Charleton takes out the bad guys, and they were really bad, including Bruce Dern one of the great bad guys, Charleton takes them out and then, of course, the beautiful widow wants to marry him. Looks like his golden chance. And he turns her down. This is one where, they didn't ride off into the sunset together.

Although not what I consider “perfect” Westerns, I absolutely love Young Guns and Young Guns II.

When I was a kid, I knew an old time horse trader from Hico, TX that knew “Brushy Bill Roberts”.

He said he was full of schitt.

Bone Tomahawk should have gotten an Academy Award for the best way to split a human for a feast.

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I like all those other than The Searchers. I found it mostly boring.

I like the ones I watch to have at least a semblance of authenticity to them. I have never been able to stomach any of the spaghetti westerns.


My favorites, not in any particular order - with comments

Appaloosa - a darned good one, it didn't drift too far from the book but I wish that they had put just a few more backgound details in it.

The Rounders - a great western, I have known characters like those two all my life, well played.

Tombstone - Kurt Russel and Val Kilmer made it a very believeable and enjoyable movie.

The Big Country - Entertaining, all of the characters were very well played especially the one played by Burl Ives.

True Grit - the John Wayne version was entertaining but the Jeff Bridges version caught the feel of the book and the era.

The Searchers - great acting and scenery, a little hokey at times but still the best acting job John Wayne ever did.

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - great movie, great acting by everyone in it.

Will Penny - another under rated movie, probably a little too true to life for most folks.

Open Range - probably the best movie Costner made, especially the gunfight at the end.

Lonesome Dove - the movie was better than the book, a rare occurance.

Monte Walsh - Jack Palance & Lee Marvin version - another great movie.

Tom Horn - slow but good.

Ulzanas Raid - great movie, one of the best Burt Lancaster ever did.

Red River - John Wayne as a very dark character - excellent.

The Gray Fox - about the last train robbery - interesting story and the star is Richard Farnsworth likely hard to find but it is worth it.

drover

ride the high country is one of the best and pretty much anything with glen ford .....the searchers....alot of people like it ....I cant stand to watch it.....bob

Buck and the preacher, silverado

Hang 'Em High was pretty good.

Previous posts mention almost all of my top 10 except my favorite John Wayne movie, El Dorado. Another good western that might not make the Top 10 but would be in my Top 20 is Hang 'em High.

Sorry there was no mention of Winchester '73 with James Stewart or She Wore a Yellow Ribbon with John Wayne.

The Naked Spur
3:10 to Yuma
McKenna's Gold, (just for Julie Newmar)

+1

The tension oozes out of the screen.

Winchester '73. The Comanche chief who was shot down, while charging the cavalry camp, was Rock Hudson.

The Oxbow Incident

Winchester 73 with Stewart was so full of stupidity I couldn't tolerate it. Couldn't get past the halfway mark.

I've never been able to like Quigly as much as others.

The whole crazy Cora bit - stupid. Boring. Caricature

Though it is slightly "pre-western", I have to throw Jeremiah Johnson in the ring for consideration.

Since you brought it up, you need to check the song my buddy and Nashville song writer did for Willie Nelson. Wynn came and played at my birthday party this summer. He said he “retired” this song.

Laugh and enjoy!

Hope somebody mentioned Stagecoach. The movie that established John Wayne as a serious actor.

The Crazy Cora is too stupid to be believed. Roy! STFU!

Also it is hard to believe that a guy is going to sail across the Pacific in the belief that he will be paid big bucks to shoot wild dogs. The entire plot is BS.
But Tom Selleck did look realistic as a badass cowboy.

Most of the above and Lawman, with Burt Lancaster. 'Sketti westerns are ok, mostly for giving Clint a career, but the sound effects drive me nuts watching them. Buddy of mine used to call them "ricochet westerns". Have CDs of those, plus Josey Wales, Pale Rider, Joe Kidd and a few other Eastwood oaters. There ain't a John Ford/John Wayne flick I can't watch, especially their Cavalry Trilogy.

I have a three CD set of Selleck westerns at the cabin:Monte Walsh, Crossfire Trail and Last Stand at Sabre River. Also Quigley, but haven't watched it lately. A forty episode set of CDs, mostly Wayne's old B westerns prior to Stagecoach,

Open Range and Broken Trail. Watch them often, no longer get broadcast TV signal up there..

The Shootist and the second True Grit are two of my favorites.

Appaloosa starts at 7:00 (central time) on INSP, channel 364 on Directv.

Matt has to clear Miss Kitty of attempted murder first.

There are many good westerns although a lot of us like the same ones there seems to be a different one on everyone list.

To me, The Shootist was John Wayne's best western - JMO, and I still truly believe that Val Kilmer was robbed of an Oscar for his role as Doc Holiday.

Oh yeah

That scene always makes me think how much fun it would be, having Curly firing buckshot mere inches from my right arm, while banging away with the M92 up there?

If we can count Quigley the best Aussie settlement period movie is the Proposition. Another is the Tracker. Both with Ray Winstone.

Expanding it to British colonial could take us to Zulu

I don't believe I've ever seen Stagecoach, but plan to now.

LOL

That Slim Whitman on the reins or Gabby Hayes?

No dry West shoot-out, at high noon.

Sorry, Walter Brennan and John Wayne fans...




However, plenty of backdrop and realism in this one:

Young guns I & II not not bad. I like Whaytt Earpp a bit better than Tombstone , Frank & Jesse kicks ass , bit of family & local history ..

Monte Walsh...............either version.

The Wild Bunch

Tombstone

Lonesome Dove

MM

Along with the many good ones already mentioned I'd add:

"Valdez is Coming"


https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x37rrcf

Neither... it's the not-too-slim Andy Devine.

I may be the only one on Earth, but I can't stand "Lonesome Dove". I have TRIED to watch it, but it is positively dreadful.

I don't think "Tombstone" is actually that great a movie in itself. It's the characters and actors that make the movie. It wouldn't be worth much if it starred anyone other than Val Kilmer and Kurt Russell. People don't really remember the movie... they remember the characters and their iconic dialogue.

I'm watching Hang 'Em High right now.

Are you sure?

I never watched lonesome dove

But I’ve seen every episode of Squidbillies and Aqua Teen Hunger Force

Ya got me!

star wars ?

A Big Hand for the Little Lady. Not just a great western but one of the best movies you will ever see.

I also liked the adaptions of Louis L'Amour's novels with Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott:

The Sacketts
The Shadow Riders
Last Stand at Saber River
Crossfire Trail
The Quick and the Dead (not the goofy version with Sharon Stone and Gene Hackman)
Conagher

Some are "made for TV" movies, but still entertaining.

That was pretty good, Hatari! How in the heck do you sing with a dip?

There is something about a Western where all the equines are Paso Fino or Andalusian or some Spanish /Arabian breed that cracks me up!

High Plains Drifter - Open Range - Broken Trail - Unforgiven - Tombstone

Last of the Mohicans wasn't bad. Also bone Tomahawk, which was on the other night.

High Plains Drifter was like a cross between an episode of The Twilight Zone and a Spaghetti Western. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

not alone.... I have tried to watch it also never could make it through.....bob

It was straight out of The Twilight Zone as Clint Eastwood played a ghost.

+1 on the Gray Fox

There are two types of Westerns, ones with John Wayne and ones without John Wayne. I enjoy the John Wayne Westerns with Ben Johnson and Harry Carrie Jr. you can bet on excellent horsemanship and teamsters.

Many many excellent Westerns without John Wayne.

West World
Back to the future III
The Burowers
Cowboys and Aliens
No Country for Old Men

Not "perfect" but worth watching

"There is something about a Western where all the equines are Paso Fino or Andalusian or some Spanish /Arabian breed that cracks me up!"

Unwritten rule for oaters: The poorer the cast, plot and the script are, the finer the horses must be.

Support Your Local Sheriff

That is actually an excellent Western. A bit comical, but good.

Centennial.

Two modern Westerners that are pretty darn good:

Wind River
Hell or High Water

Following a year that has seen him play a truffle forager in Pig, a version of himself in the upcoming The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent and — almost — Joe Exotic in a now-shelved drama based on hit doc series Tiger King, Nicolas Cage has signed up for something completely different.

The Hollywood Reporter has learned that the prolific star is to play the lead in The Old Way, marking — incredibly — his first-ever Western.

The film — heading to the film market in Toronto, where Capstone is handling international sales — sees Cage play Colton Briggs, a former gunslinger who now runs a general store and lives quietly with his family. But when a gang of outlaws murders his wife in cold blood, Briggs returns home to find his world burning. He unearths his sidearm and saddles up with an unlikely partner: his 12-year-old daughter.

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movie executive "didn't they make that movie already? its called The Outlaw Josey Wales"

Nick Cage - "no, its totally different, I kill guys with my 12 year old daughter!"

btw, Nick Cage as Joe Exotic is must see TV

Dances with wolves!