Westerns Appreciation
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[Feb 2,2011 11:18am - FuckIsMySignature ""]
Starting to delve into this genre of movie making. Been mostly watching 90's stuff but starting to make my way back through the catalog.
Favs so far:
Tombstone
the Quick and the Dead
Unforgiven
More Recent:
True Grit (remake)
3:10 to Yuma
Deadwood (tv)
Recommend me the best John Wayne and Clint Eastwood flicks.
[Feb 2,2011 11:19am - SkinSandwich ""]
I watched the True Grit original the other night. It was good, but I was fucked up at the time. Maybe it wasn't good.
[Feb 2,2011 11:20am - FuckIsMySignature ""]
is Back to the Future III considered a western?
[Feb 2,2011 12:11pm - arilliusbm ""]
apreeshed. if you dont have the channel, get encore westerns. they play classics all day.
[Feb 2,2011 12:15pm - Pires ""]
i can't get into westerns at all...
[Feb 2,2011 12:19pm - FuckIsMySignature ""]
arilliusbm said:apreeshed. if you dont have the channel, get encore westerns. they play classics all day.
i do actually. been watching that an AMC alot lately. wish both had movies on demand.
[Feb 2,2011 12:24pm - Mutis ""]
Firefly.
[Feb 2,2011 1:03pm - Gregblessedoffalichabod ""]
High Plains Drifter
Django
Unforgiven
Have not seen True Grit yet.
Firefly rules. One of the greatest Sci Fi shows ever with heavy Western influence.
[Feb 2,2011 2:42pm - Mutis ""]
Needs moar spaghetti.
[Feb 2,2011 3:35pm - Headbanging Man ""]
Mutis said:Needs moar spaghetti.
Frealz
[Feb 2,2011 7:03pm - TheRidersofDoom ""]
Star wars
but seriously, the whole poncho man trilogy with a fistful of dollars at the top
I like the spaghetti westerns the best, filmed in spain with american actors by Italian directors.
I really want to see seraphim falls though, a fairly new one staring pierce brosnan.
Django Suriyaki was pretty good, a japanese remake of django by the same director who did ichi the killer.
[Feb 2,2011 7:56pm - Headbanging Man ""]
I've barely scratched the surface of US Westerns, but some that I've seen that rule are:
The Wild Bunch (S. Peckinpah)
Rio Bravo (H. Hawks)
Winchester '73 (A. Mann)
3:10 To Yuma (1957) (D. Daves)
Two Mules For Sister Sara (D. Siegel)
I've seen dozens and dozens of Spaghetti Westerns though, some of my faves:
Django (S. Corbucci)
Once Upon A Time In The West (S. Leone)
The Great Silence (S. Corbucci)
Django Kill... If You Live Shoot! (G. Questi)
A Bullet For The General (D. Damiani)
For A Few Dollars More (S. Leone)
Death Rides A Horse (G. Petroni)
Keoma (E.G. Castellari)
A Fistful Of Dollars (S. Leone)
The Strangers Gundown (aka Django The Bastard) (S. Garrone)
Cut-Throats Nine (Paella rather than Spaghetti, but close enough) (J.L.R. Marchent)
The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly (S. Leone)
The Mercenary (S. Corbucci)
Massacre Time (L. Fulci)
The Price Of Power (T. Valerii)
Navajo Joe (S. Corbucci)
The Forgotten Pistolero (F. Baldi)
The Big Gundown (S. Sollima)
The Hellbenders (S. Corbucci)
Companeros (S. Corbucci)
I am with Alex Cox; Sergio Corbucci was easily as important a filmmaker as Sergio Leone, he just had a stream of shitty luck in getting some of his real masterpieces distributed.
[Feb 2,2011 8:04pm - DomesticTerror ""]
Eastwood:
A fistful of Dollars (a western remake of Akira Kurosawa's "Yojimbo" also highly recommended)
For A few Dollars More
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Outlaw Josey Wales
High Plains Drifter (the absolute best)
Pale Rider
others:
Once Upon a Time in the West (Charles Bronson, story by Dario Argento)
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Bob Dylan co-starred and composed the score)
[Feb 2,2011 9:19pm - sethrich ""]
I don't have a lot to contribute other than what's already been mentioned, but I also like Young Guns (Estevez, Sheen, Sutherland, etc).
I have a lot of Westerns to watch now thanks to this thread.
[Feb 2,2011 11:43pm - bitch_please ""]
High Plains Drifter & Pale Rider: backed.
[Feb 3,2011 9:23am - The_Rooster ""]
DomesticTerror said:Eastwood:
A fistful of Dollars (a western remake of Akira Kurosawa's "Yojimbo" also highly recommended)
For A few Dollars More
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Outlaw Josey Wales
High Plains Drifter (the absolute best)
Pale Rider
Yup... also...
Hang Em High
Unforgiven
both essential.
edit: you've already seen Unforgiven. Last scene in that is one of the best ever.