Yes, it's a beautiful looking picture in hi def!afgavinstan wrote:The Searchers Blu-Ray is a masterpiece.
ShabbyMcCrabby wrote:Yes Mugs! Lay it on me, my body is ready!
Great list. I am also a big fan of Tombstone and Wyatt Earp. Both really good. Wyatt Earp has really grown a good rep in the years that followed it. It wasn't reviewed terribly well I don't think at the time.davyK wrote:My favourites in no order: Good, Bad & Ugly (of course) Once Upon a Time in the West (Bronson, Fonda, Robards and the exquisite looking Claudia Cardinale). Leon and Morricone masterpiece. The Searchers Wayne couldn't act for toffee but he was born to play this role. And what scenery and scope. Unforgiven Don't think Eastwood has ever played a badder bastard than he does in this. Shane - old gunslinger pic starring Alan Ladd and a superb young Jack Palance who is like a serpent. Some of the best tense squaring off scenes ever played in an old saloon and on streets of mud. Superb. There's a slight fly in the ointment because of a child actor but it doesn't pull it down. Treasure of the Sierra Madre great prospecting flick with the "we don't need no badges" scene. Has a downbeat ending, Bogart is great and so is the support including a brilliant character turn from Walter Huston (father of John). Tombstone and Wyatt Earp same story released within a few months. Both are excellent takes and equally entertaining.
Damn, this should have definitely made my list. Superb picture.GooberTheHat wrote:Great thread, I love Westerns. I'll try contribute more when I have time, but in the meantime, check out Open Range. That's a great modern Western.
I think you're right. Hell of a movie! Back when Depp did quality pictures.Coopers Green wrote:All joking aside, for a Modern Western check out Dead Man. Jim Jarmusch directs Johnny Depp in black and white with a soundtrack by Neil Young. I could be remembering it completely wrong, but I think Young recorded the soundtrack in one take, while watching the final cut.
I'm dying to see the movie. Didn't know it was a novel. Cheers.yourfavouriteuncle wrote:I have no idea how the movie turned out but you should definitely read The Brothers Sisters, Muggins. It’s written in a very contemporary style by Patrick DeWitt but is still a kinda full on semi traditional western. It’s brilliant and I think you’d love it.
I have Young Guns bought. It is on my film pile of shame. In a Western mode again so will try and watch it this week!RedDave2 wrote:The lack of young guns in this thread makes me fear for the species.
Great list. High Noon is an all timer.hylian_elf wrote:Some of my favourites off the top of my head: Once Upon A Time In The West - possibly my favourite western Red River High Noon The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance A Fistful of Dollars and the two sequels (FAFDM and TGTBATU) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
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