Your favorite westerns.

[Knightfall]

I also enjoyed The Quick and the Dead (with Sharon Stone), and Maverick (with Mel Gibson). While definitely not classics, they still entertained me more than I thought they would.

I like both of those choices, although I must admit I prefer Maverick. That's just a great all-around fun flick.

I'd have voted for Unforgiven, but I've never seen it all the way through and uneditted.

KF72

 

[Knightfall]

Young Guns

Ditto. The second one isn't as good.

Plus, while it isn't a "true westen", I like the movie Wild Wild West. It's so much fun.

Hmm, Wild Wild West D20, that would be cool.

 

[Threedub]

I like most every film mentioned (and own a bunch), but I haven't seen one of my favorites, "The Longriders". It's a much slower film, which turns some people off, but I enjoyed the character interaction and, of course, the bank shootout. It's like the Wild Bunch on slowmo.

I also loved and was sickened by Blood Meridian, by Cormac McCarthy. This is the most violent and disturbing books I've ever read. I also like his Texas/Mexico trilogy The Crossing, All the Pretty Horses, and Fire on the Plains. However, that's Cormac's best, his earlier novels are more like a student learning his craft than a pro, and they left me flat.

 

[Urizen]

Unforgiven (One of my favorite movies of all time)
Pale Rider
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The First Young Guns
Missing (with Kate Blanchet in it)-- It's a different kind of western flick, but definately cool.
True Grit
Dances with wolves
Tombstone (I'm your huckleberry)


These are on the fringe, but may fit:
Cold Mountain
The Last samurai

 

[wingsandsword]

I grew up watching westerns with my grandpa, he was part of that generation that just couldn't get enough of them. Every saturday when I was a kid it would be hours of Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Branded and Have Gun Will Travel. Not a lot of movies, but I do recall he really loved McLintock!, and it certainly was a memorable film.

I didn't really see western movies until I got to college. One history professor who taught American history made a big point of asking the class to see movies on a certain list of westerns he thought had some merit. One really stuck with me.

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance it's the only real "old time" western I can really just completely get into. It turned every cliche I expected from old westerns on their side, and James Stewart's character was an actual character in a Western I could identify with, the kind of person I could see myself being back in that time.

In terms of more modern-day westerns, I like to watch Maverick, not exactly serious, but it's fun and enjoyable.

 

[Warrior Poet]

I also like his Texas/Mexico trilogy The Crossing, All the Pretty Horses, The and Fire on the Plains.

Cities of the Plain

All the Pretty Horses is first, The Crossing second, Cities of the Plain third.

Warrior Poet

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

I don't recall the name of it, but it had Gene Wilder and Harrison Ford. Wilder is an Orthodox Jew that Ford (a cowboy) is escorting to hiis family across the wilderness. It's fun.

 

[JEL]

I don't recall the name of it, but it had Gene Wilder and Harrison Ford. Wilder is an Orthodox Jew that Ford (a cowboy) is escorting to hiis family across the wilderness. It's fun.

Frisco Kid is the name of that one. Not bad, but kind of predictable.

Most all my favorites have already been mentioned:

The Searchers
Magnificent Seven
High Noon
The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance
The Cavalry Trilogy
Once Upon a Time In the West
Big Jake
Rio Lobo
El Darado
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Pale Rider

 

[danbuter]

How could everyone forget "The Villain", starring Kirk Douglas and Arnold Schwarzenegger? One of the funniest movies I've ever seen.

Also:
Pale Rider
Once Upon a Time in the West
Unforgiven
Silverado
The Shootist
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

 

[warlord]

A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi: 'Cause you know Han and Chewie belong in the Wild West. Besides those I gotta say Butch and Sundance.