Film General : Top 12 Westerns? Minor edit.

El Dorado isn't a direct remake, but it is awfully similar. So is the later (and much worse) Rio Lobo. I like El Dorado a lot myself but it doesn't quite compare with the earlier film, despite the presence of Robert Mitchum.

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Yeah, that's what I read. Rio Bravo does sound great, so I put it in my DVD queue. I wish Netflix streamed more westerns.

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A Leone fan, I see. Wild Bunch is awesome, too.

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Not for my tastes.

Which are the two you added?

Mine:

El Dorado
Open Range
Josey Wales
Magnificent Seven
True Grit
The Shootist
Good Bad The Ugly
Rio Lobo
Last Train from Gun Hill

Here's my full list:

http://www.imdb.com/list/ls071805155/

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The miniseries Hatfields & McCoys and Tin Man.

The original Magnificent Seven is pretty good, but I wasn't a giant fan. The remake looks great, though.

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The Wild Bunch

Once Upon a Time in the West

My Darling Clementine

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Rio Bravo

Stagecoach (1939)

Ride the High Country

The Searchers

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

Duck, You Sucker

Dead Man

The Professionals


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Good stuff! Wild Bunch seems to be quite popular, which I understand completely. Good Bad Ugly is awesome, too, of course.

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The Western has never really been my favorite genre, but here's a top 10.

1. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
2. Dead Man (1995)
3. Johnny Guitar (1954)
4. The Proposition (2005)
5. Lonesome Dove (1989)
6. Dances with Wolves (1990)
7. High Noon (1952)
8. 3:10 to Yuma (1957)
9. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
10. Unforgiven (1992)





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Your #1 and #2 are two of my favorites, too. Dead Man is a different western, but I've always dug it.

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1. Shane
2. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
3. The Sting
4. Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid
5. Rio Bravo
6. Rio Grande
7. Outlaw Josie Wales
8. The Searchers
9. The Treasure of Sierra Madre
10 Blazing Saddles
11. The Grapes of Wrath
12. My Darling Clementine

Lot of them need a rewatch.

My main issue with Shane is the kid, but the rest is spectacular. Good stuff.

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1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
2. Once upon a time in the west
3. Django Unchained
4. Unforgiven
5. The Wild Bunch
6. The Hateful Eight
7. True Grit
8. For a Fistful of Dollars
9. High Noon
10. Django (1966)
11. For a Few dollars more
12. Appaloosa


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The only one I haven't seen is Hateful Eight, but I dig the others, though #7, #8, and #9 aren't really favorites. They're good, but not great. I dig the rest, though.

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1. The Ox-Bow Incident
2. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
3. True Grit (2010)
4. Django Unchained
5. The Revenant
6. The Searchers
7. Rio Bravo
8. High Noon
9. Tombstone
10. The Hateful Eight
11. Unforgiven
12. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

A fine list, to be sure. Your #10 and #12 look great. Got to get to them soon.

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Apart from a couple of films, you seem to be concentrating the love around certain styles,periods, performers, and filmmakers, and ignoring how expansive the genre has been. There are so many kinds of westerns (westerns about pioneers, traders, traitors, cowboys, cowboys and indians, good guys and bad guys, buddies, loners, bravery and cowardice, schemers, moralists, and even existentialists, the struggles of settlers in the wild west, etc, and they are all very different depending on when they were made.

As much as I liked the genre growing up, I was never a John Wayne or Jimmy Stewart fan, so that wipes out quite a few considered classics for me, and while I liked Clint a lot more, I would probably just take one of the ones you have listed.

I was always drawn to the story of a man trying to stand up for what is right, or at least defend what is his, and perhaps the first real standout for me was High Noon (unless Treasure of Sierra Madre counts as a Western) , and my favourite western is a revisionist and also poetic take on it: McCabe And Mrs. Miller.

If there is a period of westerns I like best, I would probably say those made in the early 70's, which accounts for a handful of my favourites (Jeremiah Johnson, Little Big Man, The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid, Pat Garret & Billy The Kid, etc.).

Of the ones you have tabbed, I love Jarmush's deconstructionist Dead Man, and also The Assassination Of Jesse James.My least favourite of yours are Django Unchained and the Hatfield's & McCoy's (In fact, I gave up on both).

Many of those I loved as a kid (The Magnificent Seven, The Gunfight At The OK Coral, How The West Was Won, etc., ) have paled for me as an adult, but I still like Gregory Peck (maybe The Gunfighter) as a Western lead I also still have a soft spot for Brando, and One Eyed Jacks.

There are also more great films that may or may not be considered Westerns, like The Misfits, Hud, or more recently, The Proposition.

I'm unfamiliar with some of those, but we do share some favorites. I'm seeing a lot of lists with Good Bad Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, and Wild Bunch. I dig those, too.

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Out of 528 seen:

1. The Hired Hand (1971)
2. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
3. Hombre (1967)
4. C'era una volta il West (1968)
5. The Wild Bunch (1969)
6. Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
7. The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
8. Bad Company (1972)
9. The Shooting (1966)
10. Une corde un Colt (1969)
11. Man of the West (1958)
12. Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)


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01. Once Upon A Time In The West
02. The Good The Bad And The Ugly
03. 3:10 To Yuma (1957 Van Heflin version)
04. Red River
05. For A Few Dollars More
06. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
07. Blazing Saddles
08. The Hateful Eight
09. The Magnificent Seven (1960)
10. El Dorado

Another list with El Dorado. Cool. I've only seen the redo of 3:10 to Yuma, which I did enjoy. The '57 version looks good, too.

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Mine:
For a few Dollars more (Leone)
Unforgiven (Eastwood)
No country for Old men (Coen Brothers)
The assassination of Jesse James by Coward Robert Ford (Dominik)
The good the bad and the ugly (Leone)
Shane (George Stevens)
The man who shot Liberty Valance (Ford)
The Wild bunch (Peckinpah)
A Fistful of Dollars (Leone)
High Noon (Zinnemann)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Once upon a time in the west (Leone)
HM's: Brokeback Mountain, Outlaw Josey Wales and Patt Garett and Billy The Kid.

Seriously though I love the genre so much I was tempted to cheat and post my complete top 20 but decided to play by the rules.

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Nice list. I love it, too. It's what I've been watching the past few days.

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