I plan on watching as many as I can over the summer. Where to start? And which ones hold up as the best?
Westerns
Once Upon A Time in The West
Unforgiven
True Grit (2010)
3:10 to Yuma (2007)
John Ford, Sergio Leone, Howard Hawks, Anthony Mann, Clint Eastwood, all have directed great westerns.
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The dollars trilogy. Or if you want, watch Yojimbo first, because A Fistful of Dollars unintentionally ripped it off, but are still both entertaining movies.
I'd also recommend watching Seven Samurai first, then The Magnificent Seven.
Little Big Man is an underrated western because it stars Dustin Hoffman but it’s great, better than Dances With Wolves and basically the same shit.
Rio Bravo
Stagecoach
The Searchers
High Noon
The Shootist. John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart acting their asses off late in their careers.
True Grit (2010)
3:10 to Yuma (2007)
Pleb. Watch the original 1968 and 1957 versions.
Silverado
Open Range
Dances With Wolves
anything with Kevin Costner, really. 'The Magnificent Seven', the original one.
For shows watch Deadwood and American Primevil.
Bump
Marion was right. High Noon sucks dick.
I recommend you watch The Specialists. It's an Italian joint.
Tombstone
Be sure to watch
The Searchers
Outlaw Josey Wales
Tombstone
Bone Tomahawk
True Grit (2010)
Total shit compared to the original, and I'm a big fan of the Coens and Jeff Bridges.
They Call Me Trinity
The Wild Bunch (essential)
The Good The Bad The Weird
The Rifleman
The Wild Bunch (essential)
Was hoping someone would say it
Anthony Mann
His Jimmy Stewart westerns were first class.
unintentionally
I've never seen it confirmed but I always figured the "P U T A" meme with Riley Stearns/Ewan McGregor and MEW was started because of the "PUTA!!!!" scene in Wild Bunch with Angel seeing his old love whoring about with the dictator guy, you know what I'm saying? Has to be.
I recently watched the Wild Bunch again for the first time in maybe twenty years and it blew me away all over again. All the performances are great, even fairly minor characters like Mapache's lieutenants. The line readings and inserted reaction shots are superb. I don't know the meme.
I can hear this.
The meme is that Mary Elizabeth Winstead cucked and divorced her basedboy husband of like 15 years with Ewan McGregor (a married man with two daughters no less, hoMEWrecker) after co-starring with him in the series Fargo.
Anon Babble made up a bunch of fake instagram posts and shit where they depict Riley Stearns as this badass out for revenge (there's even a thread with some of it right now ) and every time MEW is posted someone will inevitably reply "PUTA!!!" which I assume HAS to have been inspired by the scene with Angel I mentioned.
But anyway
He gave his word to a railroad.
It's his WORD!
That ain't what counts! It's who you give it TO!
So fucking cool. I always thought the shotgun reload from Arnie in T2 was original.
The lever action he has is a specially modified lever action allowing it to specifically do that shit.
I saw a lot of old westerns on Roku's "live TV" channels. Rifleman especially. It's a pretty good old series that always has some wholesome father son lesson by the end. It's kino. Chuck Connors is pretty based as a leading man and he's been good in other roles.
El Topo
I watched El Topo with a friend at the age of like 19 and we couldn't stop riffing off each other that it must be "John Lennon's favorite movie"
I knew it was modified. There's a story about how Arnold almost broke his thumb trying to pull that move. Iirc he tried to do the trick with a regular shotgun, or something like that.
The best western ever made is Open Range
unintentionally
whoops i "accidentally" copied this, sometimes even shot for shot
Nigga listed 3 of the worst westerns ever. Nigger kill yourself poser.
group of merry men rob from the rich to give to the poor
muh sacred yamato-damashii OC
For me it's Lightning Jack.
The Good
The Bad
and
The Ugly
Anon Babble
never watching films
Name a more iconic duo
Should I watch them in that order?
It's one movie so no order
anon are you some kind of comedian
Batman & Robin, gay buttfuck buddies
There's your iconic duo
Yojimbo was ripped from Hammett’s Red Harvest, maybe Leone was simply adapting the book? Or maybe nobody gives a shit?
You've literally never seen Yojimbo or Fistful have you
Nope not those but saw "A fistfull of dollars" it was some karate movie right out of bizzaroworld.
karate movie
fistful of dollars
Anon Babble does NOT watch films
I call them movies.
The last time that I went to a so called "film" was some fellini shit movie that friends and I went to under duress and fell asleep to.
Here's the secret Cannes doesn't want you to know
Movies, films, talkies, flicks, kinos, etc, are all the same word to describe the same thing
I suspect that they're all doing lines of cocaine behind the scenes.
For me, it's High Plains Drifter (1973)
I went on a western kick a while back
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Unforgiven and both True Grits
The Searchers
Silverado
Tombstone
and the TV show Deadwood I enjoyed the most
also the Clint Eastwood trilogy is great of course
The Unforgiven
They're so goofy and animated that it has to be lines of cocaine
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Your momma's a bot, now suck it up!
We have this exact same thread every few weeks, and the same recs are always given every time. There are only so many good westerns, and the rest nobody watches or bothers to rec.
make a chart
make two
I just watched Forsaken with Kiefer and Donald Sutherland. Good shit.
we can make it through categories pick three or four movies for each
the US-Calvary ones
the Wyatt Earp; Jesse James; Billy the Kid ones
the Noir-ish westerns
the Ranchers vs Cattle Drivers
the Singing Cowboy ones
the Spaghetti
the revisionist ones
the violent ones
etc