JCC The Western Movie

Best westerns ever:

High Noon
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Once Upon A Time in the West
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

And yours?

 

The Searchers
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence
McClintock
Rio Bravo
High Noon
edit: Yes, Blazing Saddles definitely.



...I can't think of any more at moment but I do have a list somewhere.

Since this is brought up, I guess people are saying the superhero movies of today are like the Westerns of old...this I disagree with.

 

I'd add "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon". For me, it's the best of Ford's Cavalry Trilogy, with one of John Wayne's best performances. Also, "Support Your Local Sheriff!". Not as funny as "Blazing Saddles", but a really funny Western spoof.
Another good one is "Bite the Bullet", a Western set during the Theodore Roosevelt presidency, when the Old West was already becoming a distant memory. Features some fine acting and cinematography, with a memorable ending.

 

For a Few Dollars More
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Red River
The Searchers
High Noon
Rio Bravo
The Wild Bunch
Duck, You Sucker
Once Upon a Time in the West
High Plains Drifter
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

 

Why the omission of A Fistful of Dollars, @Adam of Nuchtern?

 

Mostly the ones of Sergio Leone, but I have to admit that Kurosawa was right when he complained about the fact that For a fistful of dollars was a soft reboot of Yojimbo .
Probably The Bad The Good and the Ugly is my favorite.

 

Fistful is really good, but it's hindered by the fact that Leone was still clearly finding his legs.

 

And both borrowed from Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest.

 

The Shootist
The Cheyenne Social Club
Shane
War Wagon
Lonesome Dove
Dances With Wolves
City Slickers
Rustlers' Rhapsody
My Name is Nobody
Rooster Cogburn (John Wayne)

 

Stage Coach
High Noon
Good, The Bad, The Ugly
For A Few Dollars More
Django Unchained
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Jeremiah Johnson
Dances with Wolves
Unforgiven
The Mask of Zorro
Dead Man
MacCabe and Mrs. Miller
True Grit (2010)
3:10 To Yuma
The Searchers
No Country For Old Men

 

Once Upon a Time in the West
My Name is Nobody
Dead Man
High Plains Drifter
The Proposition
Meek's Cutoff
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Bend of the River

 

Thread over.

 

My top ten:

There Will Be Blood
The Searchers
Shane
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Tombstone
3:10 to Yuma
Django Unchained
Slow West
Lonesome Dove

 

Ones I like that haven't been mentioned, in alphabetical order:

Django
Django, Kill!
If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death
Sabata
The Great Silence

 

I forgot High Noon and Unforgiven. Add those to my list.

 

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Warlock
For a Few Dollars More
A Fistful of Dollars
Rio Bravo
El Dorado

Once Upon a Time in the West I love for the cinematography and some of the music, but I don't like the dialogue much, and some of the characters, so my feelings are mixed.

The Magnificent Seven is great, but it pales next to 7 Samurai.

 

Probably goes without saying, but a lot of old westerns come with asterixes next to them re: how they treat native peoples. The Searchers is pretty blatantly racist, for example. But has some of the best cinematography of the genre.

 

Tombstone
Unforgiven
The Shootist
Draw!

 

Jeez, I forgot that too. And you’re right. I liked it a lot. I’m also a sucker for shots of people running their hands over wheat fields, so they got me there.

 

Man, reading through this thread and I feel the urge for another big binge of Westerns coming on soon. Maybe after I get the current film noir mode that I've been in with my recent watches out of my system.

High Noon especially sounds really good right about now...