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Good Western Movies
EvilMuffin
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My girlfriend recently watched 3 10 to Yuma, then I showed her Wyatt Earp and Tombstone, she seems to be addicted to westerns now and wants to watch more, but I have no idea what to go get. Could you all help recommend a good list of old western movies for us to watch together?
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Others that come quickly to mind:
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
The Outlaw Josie Wales (both Eastwood classics)
The Magnificent 7 (cheesy, but still a cool tribute to 7 Samurai)
Also second'd.
After you've seen a few of the older Clint Eastwood westerns, Unforgiven makes an interesting flic. It's a lot heavier and darker than most westerns, and it's actually been described as an "anti-western" for it's negative depiction of violence and the way it purposefully deviates from standard cliches of the genre.
Yes, this is probably the best western I've seen.
And someone's going to throw this in there so I might as well...Young Guns?
Written by Nick Cave, it's a gritty, violent story. One of my favourite films of 2006.
I haven't seen it yet, but The Assassination of Jesse James looks like it should be pretty good.
Limed for truth.
Man with no names movies are good. They are:
"A Fistful of Dollars"
"For a Few Dollars More"
"The Good the Bad and the Ugly"
If you want to add something lighter and not exactly a true western, Shanghai Noon is a fun an somewhat under-rated western starring Owen Wilson and Jackie Chan.
Maverick, with Mel Gibson is pretty watchable.
Don't show her Wild Wild West until you want to break up.
It was well shot, and acted. But my god, was it long. Like Return of the King long. It's got a pretty slow, relaxed pace. Not action packed by any means. At the end I was literally shouting at the TV for it be over already. Overall I'd say I liked it. But Brad Pitt is still Brad Pitt, not Jesse James. Casey Affleck was pretty good in it.
True Grit
Already mentioned stuff, but so awesome that I'm gonna repeat it:
The Proposition
Unforgiven
Deadwood
The Outlaw Josie Wales
Definitely. And it's not cheesy, it's awesome, with a great cast.
Rio Bravo
My Darling Clementine
Dead Man x a billion
The Searchers - An Indian hating ex-Confederate soldier (Wayne) finds his brother's family slaughtered by Commanches and his niece kidnapped. He searches for the girl with a part-Indian nephew. This one is very dark.
The War Wagon - John Wayne gets out of prison to find his ranch and gold have been stolen. He joins forces with the man who shot him while capturing him (Kirk Douglas) to steal the money back from the titular armored "War Wagon"
The Shootist - John Wayne's final movie which he plays an dying ex-gunfighter looking to go out in the most spectacular way possible. Has a lot of parallels with Wayne's actual life...he was dying of cancer as the film was made and he was an aging actor looking to go out with a bang.
Stagecoach - The action and drama between a motley crew of 8 from all different backgrounds escorting a stagecoach through hostile Indian territory.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - Bogey searching for gold among the bandits of Mexico in the early 1900s.
Duck! You Sucker (AKA A Fist Full of Dynamite, AKA Once Upon a Time in the Revolution) - a post-Man With No Name picture from Sergio Leone without Eastwood. Mexican banditos recruit an Irish explosives expert on the run from the British government to rob a bank.
Two Mules For Sister Sara - Clint Eastwood rescues a nun (Shirley Maclaine) from several cowboys and they work together in planning to capture a French fort.
I'll also second Unforgiven, Road to Rio Bravo, and the Fistful of Dollars trilogy of movies.
Like someone else mention, a bit slow. And it suffers from the whole "Okay..it's ending..no WAIT, there's more."
You definately have to get her to see the Sergio Leone movies, as they pretty much defined westerns for a good while. Proposition is great too.
And Training Day is totally a western, only set in the present.
Be forewarned though, it was made in an age before everything had to be politically-correct, but Mel Brooks' sense of humor about it is spot-on.
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I agree though.
You can't go wrong with most of the other movies mentioned here.
This is what I was about to recommend, even though it's not a movie. Cannot recommend it enough, such a good show.
Bale's and Crow's performances were both excellent, it was the story/script that just wasn't up to muster.
EDIT: The guy who played Crow's henchman was good too.
It had three seasons, and I thought that was how it was planned.
It did have 3 seasons, but there was more story that they wanted to tell since there was talk about a movie or miniseries (that has since pretty much fallen through) at the time the announcement that S3 would be the last came out.
I'm not a huge western fan but I've seen a good chunk of what's been recommended in this thread and would agree completely with all of them.
And- I can't believe this thread has totten to two pages without a mention of Silverado. C'mon, people- it's the movie that brought westerns back!
El Topo - weird but a great spaghetti western in it's own right
The Great Silence - violent and stars klaus kinski what more do you need