Westerns

What are your five favorite westerns?

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

The Gunfighter
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Tin Star
Dead Man
Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
The Shootist
Support Your Local Sheriff
Bad Day At Black Rock

Not much of a fan of Weterns, but I do find them enjoyable occasionally. I think The Good, The Bad & The Ugly is outstanding.

Not a fan of the genre.

Two off the top of my head that I enjoyed-

Meek’s Cutoff
Butch Cassidy…

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Searchers
High Noon (is this a western?)
The Proposition
Unforgiven

I’m not really a fan of westerns. These are probably the only ones I’ve seen that I’ve enjoyed.

The Wild Bunch
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
Rio Bravo
Pat Garret & Billy The Kid
Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid

I consider High Noon a western Santino

McCabe & Mrs. Miller
The Wild Bunch
Blazing Saddles
Cheyenne Autumn
How the West Was Won (I have a thing for Cinerama)

boetticher’s seven men from now
wyler’s the westerner
hawks’ red river
ford’s the man who shot liberty valance
altman’s mccabe & mrs miller

1) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
2) The Searchers
3) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
4) Unforgiven
5) McCabe and Mrs. Miller
6) Rio Bravo
7) Once Upon a Time in the West
8) The Wild Bunch
9) Red River
10) Johnny Guitar

Blazing Saddles would be near the top if I counted it as a Western.

A spoof of Westerns still counts as a Western.

One of my favourite genres:
My Darling Clementine (1946) – John Ford
The Wild Bunch – Sam Peckinpah
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) – John Huston
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) – Robert Altman
Rio Bravo (1959) – Howard Hawks
Winchester ’73 (1950) – Anthony Mann

The greatest Western of all time is The Wild Bunch.

y’all need to watch some boetticher

i like how the first 3 people to post then state they aren’t fans of westerns

and i can’t say why exactly but i don’t consider treasure of the sierra madre a western.

nor bring me the head of alfredo garcia (which i prefer to the wild bunch)

k sorry, i’m out :P

“i like how the first 3 people to post then state they aren’t fans of westerns”

haha – but we are fans of telling people we hate westerns!

I didn’t think Treasure of the Sierra Madre was a western either. If it is, I’d add that film to my list.

When I took a film class in college they were using Stagecoach as the example of a great western. Which kept me turned off of westerns for years.

IMDB lists Madre as an action adventure. And you know IMDB knows everything.

A couple that haven’t been mentioned:

The Misfits (‘61)
Fort Apache (’48)

The Misfits is really good and unusual, it’s so interesting for so many reasons.

The first being Marilyn Monroe in Western gear.

Westerns have grown on me, though I still don’t necessarily really enjoy the genre, but most I did like were mentioned here.

But, speaking of films that we don’t think are westerns but we still consider them as so : When I was a kid I thought Old Yeller was a western, so I still view it as one hahaha.

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Once Upon a Time In The West
A Fistful of Dollars
For a Few Dollars More
Yeah, i’m a Sergio Leone fan. Duck, You Sucker is great also, but it’s a different type of western.

The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
The Proposition
True Grit (The Cohen Brothers one)

Extraordinary Westerns

Top 10:

The Ox-Bow Incident (Wellman)
My Darling Clementine (Ford)
Meek’s Cutoff (Reichardt)
The Proposition (Hillcoat)
Ride the High Country (Peckinpah)
Ride Lonesome (Boetticher)
The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah)
Dead Man (Jarmusch)
The Misfits (Huston)
Cat Ballou (Silverstein)

My favorite genre, which is saying a lot since I also adore film noir.

Oh, I thought I was gonna hate once upon a time but I loved it. Thought fistful was good. Just got few dollars more in the mail.

Do people make westerns now or do they make neo-westerns?

Does wearing a brimmed hat in the country constitute a western? Or is it a certain time and place?

Why do people hate westerns so much? It is not as if the genre is one homogeneous unit of style or ideas. Not liking Mann has nothing to do with liking Ford and liking Ford has nothing to do with not liking Peckinpah or Hawks or De Toth or Boettiecher or Tourneur, etc.

Since many of the problems people have with westerns—like misogyny, racism, violence,nationalism, sentimentality, sexism, etc—are apparent in a lot of movies from the 1920’s-1950’s when he genre was at its peak, what is it specifically that makes people hate westerns more than other genres? Do they not like rimmed hats and spurs? Is the aversion part of their own feeling cultural superiority? Is it just a simple misconception? Do the people who say they hate westerns actually watch the good ones? Are the aforementioned ‘problems’ just more apparent in westerns? Or are there other valid reasons? And I am referring to the hatred of westerns here, not just a simple disinterest.

My faves:

1. Heaven’s Gate

-My Darling Clementine
-The Searchers
-The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
-Rio Bravo
-El Dorado
-Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
-Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
-Unforgiven
-The Outlaw Josey Wales
-Run of the Arrow
-The Lusty Men
-Johnny Guitar
-The Tall T
-The Wild Bunch
-Stagecoach
-She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
-The Man from Laramie
-Vampires

Rio Bravo is my favourite by quite a bit. I’ve only maybe seen 30 or 40 or so films that could be called westerns though.

My Top 20 would probably look like this:

1. Rio Bravo (Hawks)
2. Unforgiven (Eastwood)
3. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Dominik)
4. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Peckinpah)
5. The Searchers (Ford)
6. Red River (Hawks)
7. Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone)
8. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Ford)
9. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Altman)
10. Ride Lonesome (Boetticher)
11. The Man From Laramie (Mann)
12. The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah)
13. Tombstone (Cosmatos)
14. Johnny Guitar (Ray)
15. The Outlaw Josey Wales (Eastwood)
16. Ride the High Country (Peckinpah)
17. Bend of the River (Mann)
18. Seven Men From Now (Boetticher)
19. Stagecoach (Ford)
20. High Plains Drifter (Eastwood)

i love westerns! lots of great lists here, but one that i don’t think anyone has mentioned yet is the hired hand.