Do you guys like these types of movies? I don’t like many of them but I love
“My Name Is Nobody” and “The Good, The Bad, And the Ugly”. Most of the other westerns I’ve seen I didn’t really care about. I just got “They call Me Trinity” from Netflix so I’m gonna watch that which is why I made this thread.
Discuss
I saw a Clint Eastwood film once called A Fist Full Of Dollars. It was alright I guess. I only watched it cuz it was based on a good movie though.
Clint Eastwood Vs. Akira Kurasawa… hmmmmmm…
It’s all about “The Outlaw Josey Wales”.
Now…spit.
I got my western fix from TBS Superstation when I was younger. Lots of The Duke in there, dunno if I saw much else. I liked 'em, but…
I was also exposed to “easterns”, aka samurai movies. Now they’re all I watch. The older the better.
Sure, guys in The West were tough, but they didn’t have the conviction to kill themselves if they did something dishonorable. Now that’s tough!
Here’s a few of my all-time favs!
“Tombstone” (Kurt Russel, Val Kilmer (Awesome portrayal of Doc Holiday!)
“Treasure of the Siera Madre”
“Unforgiven”
“Red River”
“The Searchers”
“High Noon”
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance kid"
“Rio Bravo”
“3:10 to Yuma” (2007)
I went to old Tombstone once…I was in second grade, so I don’t really remember much, but I think it was really cool.
Probably the best western ever made
The only good western was Back To The Future III
Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch.
The very best westerns have a mythic status. They tell of a Golden Age when America as it ought to be was still a possibility, when men were men and women were grateful for it. The “wild west” is America’s “age of heroes”, and comparable to the Saxon and Norse legends, or the ancient Greek myths.
High Plains Drifter is a complex film in which Clint Eastwood plays a “good guy” who is also a psychological bully and a rapist, and who may or may not be supernatural in origin. It’s an amazing film.
Then some westerns are just tosh. Like most artistic genres, 90% is rubbish.
Years ago, when my job was very different, I used to read a western novel a day at my desk. J T Edson is a writer from the east midlands of England who wrote amazingly well researched and enjoyable codswallop with tiles like “Masters of Triggernometry”. Everyone should read one of his books before they die (laughing).
Tombstone is a great film but i personally favor Unforgiven. Any Clint Eastwood western is worth watching, too hard to pick a favorite.
Blazing Saddles defines western.
jack-y, is that signature really appropriate in this forum? Would you shout it out in a room full of strangers?
3:10 to yuma was amazing i agree
When I see the poster for The 3.10 To Yuma, I’m reminded of the opening ten minutes of Once Upon A Time In The West.
Which, let’s be honest, is a great sequence.
So right!! So right!!
The top western of all time is “The Seven Samurai”
Watch it BEFORE you watch “The Magnificent Seven”. It’s the same movie but it’s better in Japanese.
and then…
High Plains Drifter
Way Out West (Laurel and Hardy)
And all the stuff folks have said before me.
Just like Letters From Iwo Jima