Top 5 Westerns
What are the top 5 Westerns of all Time?
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1. The Searchers
2. Unforgiven 3. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 4. Red River 5. High Noon |
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1. Once Upon A Time in the West 1968 - Sergio Leone 2. Unforgiven 1992 - Clint Eastwood 3. The Wild Bunch 1969 - Sam Peckinpah 4. Little Big Man 1970 - Arthur Penn 5. McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1971 - Robert Altman . |
1. once upon a time in the west
2. high noon 3. the wild bunch 4. unforgiven 5. one eyed jacks |
1. Red River
2. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 3. Tombstone 4. Unforgiven 5. The Gunfighter |
Unforgiven is the best western of all time. Does Deadwood count?? That shows beter than most of the westerns out there.
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i'd just say that For a Few Dollars More should be on there, other than that, i'm not much of a western fan, but that should be on the top 5
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Originally Posted by Holden Pike
1. Once Upon A Time in the West (1968 - Leone)
2. Unforgiven (1992 - Eastwood) 3. The Wild Bunch (1969 - Peckinpah) 4. Little Big Man (1970 - Arthur Penn) 5. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971 - Robert Altman) the biggest problem for me was that the first western i watched was once upon a time in the west and since then there has never been anything to match it, especially attempting to compare it to the rest of sergio leones work |
Yup
I'm not much of a western fan, nor was I born in the time when they were popular but I'd definitely recommend Tombstone as one of the greats. I don't have the expertise of western films but I do know that was just a great movie, a little long but a great great movie and should be in the top five. The good the bad and the ugly was also great. I also liked the quick and the dead. I'm not saying the quick and the dead is one of the best, all I'm saying is I enjoyed it and I'm pretty critical about movies. Tell ya the truth, I don't know what the hell I'm trying to say, ha ha ha. I think I should checkout some westerns. :)
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Nope
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Actually, I've seen lots and lots of Westerns, and Tombstone is just plain and simple a steaming piece of *****...Western or otherwise. It's an embarrassingly awful hack job, the only minor highlight being Val Kilmer's anachronistic oddball performance from the planet Mars, which is totally incongruous with the hamfisted goings on and feels like it belongs in another movie but is at least amusing. Tombstone is a Western for folks who don't know or like Westerns. Anyone who really enjoys it (or the two Young Guns flicks or American Outlaws or Texas Rangers or even Raimi's The Quick & the Dead) really shouldn't ever watch a real Western. Ever. When I see Tombstone in the Westerns section of a video store, I feel the same way I do when I see frippin' Kenny G in the Jazz section of a music store: it just plain don't belong. Not that I have any strong feelings on the subject. . |
Originally Posted by Holden Pike
1. Once Upon A Time in the West (1968 - Leone)
2. Unforgiven (1992 - Eastwood) 3. The Wild Bunch (1969 - Peckinpah) 4. Little Big Man (1970 - Arthur Penn) 5. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971 - Robert Altman) |
[quote=Holden Pike]
Tombstone is a Western for folks who don't know or like Westerns. Anyone who really enjoys it (or the two Young Guns flicks or American Outlaws or Texas Rangers or Raimi's The Quick & the Dead) really shouldn't ever watch a real Western. Ever. [quote] I like the Young Gun movies. :( However your right Holden, I do not consider Young Guns to be a western, rather an action flick based from that period but not a definement of it. I'm not an overly western movie fan, which just gives credence to your argument there Holden, but I do like some. Here's my top five. I've not seen too many westerns so under no curcumstances will it be applicable as a list of the greatest western movies ever, only my particular taste of the ones I haveseen. Pale Rider Unforgiven The Magnificent Seven The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Dances With Wolves Generic I know, and a couple not quite apt for the medium but I like them regardless. I have not seen the following movies already mentioned, which is why my list is missing some popular choices by those more expertised in the genre. The Wild Bunch Once Upon A Time In The West High Noon Little Big Man McCabe and Mrs. Miller Red River The Gunfighter One Eyed Jacks The Searchers The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance It's quite possible I may have seen one or to of these but that is now lost in the recesses of mind. I would love to see most of them if I could though. |
I love 'The Wild Bunch' and 'Once Upon a Time in The West' (which is rapidly rising on my list of favorites). I've never seen McCabe and Mrs. Miller (can't await to see it). But, Little Big Man a better Western than all John Ford's classics (Searchers, Red River, Liberty Valance, Fort Apache)? I liked Little Big Man but I didn't think it was in same class with Fords' (I also liked Yellow Ribbon and Rio Grande better). |
Originally Posted by Holden Pike
1. Once Upon A Time in the West (1968 - Leone)
2. Unforgiven (1992 - Eastwood) 3. The Wild Bunch (1969 - Peckinpah) 4. Little Big Man (1970 - Arthur Penn) 5. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971 - Robert Altman) As for me, yes westerns are my favorite genre, though I love traditional westerns and revisionist almost equally, I tend to side with the traditional horse operas cause they started it all, and often times all the themes that run in the revisionist westerns are also present in the oldies but are more subdued and hidden. Anyway here's my list of the best 10 westerns ever. 1. Shane 1953 dir. George Stevens 2. The Searchers 1956 dir. John Ford 3. Red River 1948 dir. Howard Hawks 4. Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 dir. Sergio Leone 5. The Wild Bunch 1969 dir. Sam Peckinpah 6. McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1972 dir. Robert Altman 7. Stagecoach 1939 dir. John Ford 8. The Magnificent Seven 1960 dir. John Sturges 9. The Gunfighter 1950 dir. Henry King 10. Unforgiven 1992 dir. Clint Eastwood[/quote] For my money Shane is the best western ever, because thematically it is everything a western should be and to me represents the entire genre perfectly. When I think of westerns I think of Shane as the textbook example. The beautiful landscapes, the boy/man hero worshiping, the myth of the gunfighter, bar fights, and unspoken messages, but perhaps what sets Shane apart most of all is the lonliness and isolation of the hero in the film. I don't care what anyone says, and I'll argue it to my grave, but it's the best and I don't think it would be possible to make a better one. There's so many underlying values and conflicts in the movie it'd make your head spin to try to examine them all. Not to mention it has the single greatest fight in history. http://www.theyshootpictures.com/shane.jpg |
I agree that fight scene of Alan Ladd and Jack Palance is best one on one gunfight scene ever.
Wild Bunch has my favorite Western gun battle scene. |
In no particular order...
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly 1966 - Sergio Leone The Wild Bunch 1969 - Sam Peckinpah Once Upon A Time in The West 1968 - Sergio Leone Unforgiven 1992 - Clint Eastwood Rio Bravo 1959 - Howard Hawks |
I love the western genre.
Let me start off with the American Film Institute's westerns in the Top 100 all time (please understand these are American-made films): High Noon - #33 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - #50 Stagecoach - #63 Shane - #69 Dances with Wolves - #75 The Wild Bunch - #80 The Searchers - #96 Unforgiven - #98 Here is IMDb.com's westerns in the Top 250 User Ratings: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - #21 Once Upon a Time in the West - #33 High Noon - #85 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - #112 The Searchers - #125 Unforgiven - #128 The Wild Bunch - #144 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Stagecoach Rio Bravo - #227 Red River - #233 Interestingly, Shane has a User Rating of 7.8 out of 10, which is high enough to be included in the Top 250, but it's not listed. Also, Dances With Wolves has a User Rating of 7.7, which is the same as films #231 through #250, but it's not on the list either. Films mentioned in other posts that are not on AFI or IMDb.com's lists include the following: For a Few Dollars More - 7.9, but not listed in top 250 (?) Little Big Man - 7.7 McCabe and Mrs. Miller - 7.5 The Magnificent Seven - 7.8, but not listed in top 250 (?) The Gunfighter - 7.6 Tombstone - 7.4 Young Guns 6.4 - Sequel - 5.8 The Quick and the Dead - 6.0 One-Eyed Jacks - 7.1 Pale Rider - 6.9 Fort Apache - 7.6 My Top 5 Favorite Westerns: Dances With Wolves Once Upon a Time in the West Unforgiven Shane Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Notables: Fistful of Dollars For a Few Dollars More Red River High Noon My Darling Clementine The Big Country Little Big Man High Plains Drifter Haven't seen yet that was mentioned: McCabe and Mrs. Miller The Gunfighter Fort Apache Although these probably wouldn't make anyone's top 5, here are some westerns I'd like to see that haven't been mentioned: The Ox-Box Incident Destry Rides Again Duel in the Sun Bad Day at Black Rock Bend of the River 3:10 to Yuma Rio Grande The Good Guys and the Bad Guys Ride the High Country Comancheros How the West Was Won The Shooting My Name is Nobody Jeremiah Johnson Silverado Missouri Breaks Quigley Down Under The Man from Snowy River |
Originally Posted by Mark
The Ox-Box Incident
Destry Rides Again Duel in the Sun Bad Day at Black Rock Bend of the River 3:10 to Yuma Rio Grande The Good Guys and the Bad Guys Ride the High Country Comancheros How the West Was Won The Shooting My Name is Nobody Jeremiah Johnson Silverado Missouri Breaks Quigley Down Under The Man from Snowy River Hombre (1967) starring Paul Newman and Richard Boone should definitely be on your to-see list as well, and another oft-forgotten great modern Western is Lonely Are the Brave (1962) with Kirk Douglas and Walter Matthau. Budd Boetticher has a group of stark and psychological Westerns including The Tall T, Ride Lonesome, Decision at Sundown and Seven Men From Now (all starring Randolph Scott), and Anthony Mann has a bunch of offbeat good ones to seek out too, including The Man From Laramie, The Naked Spur, Bend in the River, The Far Country and Winchester '73 (all starring Jimmy Stewart in non-comedic mode) and The Tin Star with Hank Fonda & Tony Perkins. |
Just 5?!
01 Once Upon A Time In The West
02 Unforgiven 03 The Wild Bunch 04 The Good, The Bad & The Ugly 05 Keoma 07 Companeros 08 Great Silence 09 Boot Hill 10 Valdez Is Coming (subject to change)
Originally Posted by Holden Pike
I feel the same way I do when I see frippin' Kenny G in the Jazz section of a music store: it just plain don't belong..
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Originally Posted by uconjack
I agree that fight scene of Alan Ladd and Jack Palance is best one on one gunfight scene ever.
Wild Bunch has my favorite Western gun battle scene. |
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