I love westerns

[Sevenyars]

I cannot get enough of western type movies. I would say that my time frame would be mid 1700's like "last of the Mohicans" and "drums along the mohawk" I'll even through in mel gibson's " the patriot". Up until about 1910-1920 with movies like "little big man" , Judge Roy bean"," legends of the fall "and I'll even throw in "Sgt York"

I love all of Eastwoods, some more than others
The outlaw Josie Wales
Two mules for sister sarah
are probsbly my favorites.

Anybody else a western fan

[Sct Ptersns Twn]

no.......

But, I have in the past stayed up and watched Legends of the Fall and wept like a bitch (having kids will do that to ya).


.....in addition, The Last of the Mohicans has one of the best endings ever.

That being said, I guess I'll agree with ya.

[Ballbuster1]

Love the western. From older to newer most are fine by me.

[Turfmower]

Encore Western Channel 24 hour westerns. When i don't like anything that is on that where I end up stopping.

[BalloonKnotB]

Only recently (in the last two years) took the dive into classic Westerns.

Eastwood can do almost no wrong with everything from "Fistfull of Dollars" (Brilliant Sergio Leone directing) to "High Plains Drifter" (Cool story, Mono lake is an almost surreal location) to "The Unfogiven" (like a send off of his Man-With_no_name character).

Barely scratched th surface with John Wayne Westerns with "The Searchers".

And "Silverado" was good for an 80's Western movie.

There are TONS I still want to check out. Any recommendations?

[LiddyRules]

My favorite Western period is 1885 from January 1 to September 9.

[Hudson]

Westerns..1700's? mmmmkay.:idontknow:idontknow

[kloraferm]

I really enjoy a good western now and then, whether its one of the oldies or something more recent like Unforgiven or Tombstone

[Sevenyars]

Westerns..1700's? mmmmkay.:idontknow:idontknow


The middle to late 1700's were filled with Indian wars. The flintlock rifle was invented in 1680.
Go watch movies like rogers rangers, drums along the mohawk, last of the mohicans, the fighting Kentukians.
Those were all staged in the late 1700's.

[Sevenyars]

There are TONS I still want to check out. Any recommendations?



There are alot. Some of my favorites

Life an times of Judge Roy Bean
Little big man
Outlaw Josie Wales
two mules for sister sara
The Westener
Rooster Cogburn
true grit
Sons of katie elder
Support y0our local sheriff
Duel at diablo

[WhiskeyWhispers]

Two must see westerns:

Once Upon A Time In The West (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064116/) (Directed By Sergio Leone, who did most of the old Eastwood "spaghetti" westerns.)

The Wild Bunch (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065214/) (Bloody Sam Peckinpah)

Another more recent, kind of laid back western I really liked was Open Range (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0316356/), with Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall. The ending is one of my favorite shoot outs that I can remember.

[Hudson]

The middle to late 1700's were filled with Indian wars. The flintlock rifle was invented in 1680.
Go watch movies like rogers rangers, drums along the mohawk, last of the mohicans, the fighting Kentukians.
Those were all staged in the late 1700's.Technically those are Pioneer films, not westerns. Westerns had Cowboys.

[DocSavage]

I might as well mention "The Seven Samurai" given the liberal rules on this thread.
THEN watch "The Magnificent Seven."

Makes for a good evening!

[Hudson]

I might as well mention "The Seven Samurai" given the liberal rules on this thread.
THEN watch "The Magnificent Seven."

Makes for a good evening! Agreed, then add Star Wars.


Love the John Wayne westerns..
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
The Shootist
Son's of Katie Elder
The Cowboys..
True Grit
Rooster Cogburn


Eastwood..
Hang Em High
The Good The Bad And the Ugly
Fist Full of Dollars and the other Man with No Name Films (think there were 3 total)
Unforgiven

Liked Silverado, both 310 to Yuma's, A Man Called Horse films.

Oh and the Classic
Terror of/at Tiny Town

[Sevenyars]

Agreed, then add Star Wars.




Oh and the Classic
Terror of/at Tiny Town


Star wars happened way before the 1700's

Me and my daughter watched terror of tiny town a couple of weeks ago. We were cracking up at how high the steps and swinging doors were. They had to get on all fours like babies to get up the steps.

[mascan42]

I'm a big fan of the late 50s - 60's westerns. Magnificent Seven, Rio Bravo, Wild Bunch, and all of Leone's movies are on my DVD shelf.

[Bobobie]

The only Westerns I can stomach are spaghetti westerns with Eastwood and Terrance Howard. I like realistic portrayals of the old west like the Deadwood series.

[sd187]

Only recently (in the last two years) took the dive into classic Westerns.

Eastwood can do almost no wrong with everything from "Fistfull of Dollars" (Brilliant Sergio Leone directing) to "High Plains Drifter" (Cool story, Mono lake is an almost surreal location) to "The Unfogiven" (like a send off of his Man-With_no_name character).

Barely scratched th surface with John Wayne Westerns with "The Searchers".

And "Silverado" was good for an 80's Western movie.

There are TONS I still want to check out. Any recommendations?

The man who shot liberty vallance is my favorite.
the naked spur, heaven's gate, winchester 73, fort apache, the ox-bow incident, shane, she wore a yellow ribbon are some very good ones.

[wes mantooth]

I enjoy the Eastwood westerns but I've also enjoyed some recent ones like the remake of "3:10 to Yuma" and the newly released "Appaloosa".

[Sanchez]

List of the best.

Fistfull of dollars
For a few dollars more
Good bad and ugly
Once upon a time in the west
Light the fuse...Sartana is coming.
Fistfull of dynamite/ Duck you sucker!
The Big Gundown (best western film score)
The Great Silence
Django
Chato
Sabato 2
Magnificent 7
Django...kills (has gay cowboys...hilarious)
Ace high
Death rides a horse
Face to Face
Kill them all ...come back alone.
The specialist.
The stranger and the Gunfighter (AKA Shawbrows kung fu meets spaghagetti)
Rio Bravo
She Wore a yellow Ribbon
High Noon
Tombstone (horrible.... but great)
Wild bunch
both 3:10's
Deadwood (tv series) (AKA Sanfrancisco Cocksucker!!)
Zorro
Lone Ranger serials


Great loosly based westerns
-800 bullets (really fantastic)
-Sukiyaki Django Western (tarantino cameo)
-Paint your Wagon (clint eastwood, lee marvin musical)
-Escape from NY
-Westworld
-Desperado (my fav western)

From,
Sanchez
:icon_evil
ooooh it's dirty

[BeerBelly]

mine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM7GSi7ZuIc

[BrianFromIowa]

Appaloosa was a great movie. If you read the book first it becomes an even better movie.
One of the best adaptations ever. Ed Harris nailed it.

[DJ Evel Ed]

Any "Best Of' list without a Randolph Scott Western is not a true list. I own all but 2 of Scott's Westerns. I actually had to order about 10 of them from a bootlegger in Australia because they're not available here. I dont have a favorite Randolph Scott Western because as soon as I like one more than another, the Western Channel plays it over & over. A safe bet would be "Ride The High Country" or "Shoot Out At Medicine Bend" w/ James Garner. Also Sugarfoot and anything with Gabby Hayes.

Glen Ford had great Westerns too. I always watch the Violent Men even after seeing it 20x.
Gary Coopers westerns are all good too.
John Wayne's efforts are always good, even those old Zane Gray Theatres.
Any Clint Eastwood movie is good especially the Sergio Leone's.
Any movie where Lee Van Cleef gets killed.
Any movie where Lee Van Cleef lives.
Jim Brown made a few good ones but stay away from Mario Van Peebles westerns.
Burt Reynolds made a few great ones like "Navajo Joe" and "100 Rifles"
I just watched Bob Hope in Alias Jesse James...pretty funny
Lash LaRue and Fuzzy Jones are on sometimes, they're OK

Walter Brennan played the best Judge Roy Bean BTW...

Hell I even like Roy Rogers & Gene Autry.
Then you have Bat Masterson & Maverick which are back on the air, as is Big Valley. (Linda Evans WOO WOO WOO!)

Westerns Fuckin RULE!!!!!

[Edit] I liked Appaloosa too. Ed Harris understands Westerns.

Back To The Future lll too. I like when he punches out Biff into a pile of shit.

Also Terence Hill's Trinity series especially "My Name Is Nobody"

[BrianFromIowa]

anyone here seen that western with Johnny Depp? I think it was called Dead Man or maybe Dead Men? Something like that.

If you have see it, is it any good?

Agree that 3:10 to yuma was a great remake.

[Sevenyars]

Gary Coopers westerns are all good too.

Walter Brennan played the best Judge Roy Bean BTW...


Westerns Fuckin RULE!!!!!



I already mentioned " the westener" It's one of my favorites
But a young victoria principle makes the life and times of judge roy bean a better movie.

[BusyChild04]

John Wayne's "The Alamo" is my favorite. Not sure if it's considered a full on western. Deffinetely not historically accurate by any means, but good movie. Long one, too.

[Wrecktum]

Any thing with Clint Eastwood in it..

[Sevenyars]

I just watched a Henry Fonda movie called "welcome to Hard times"
It was really odd. The bad guy had this weird way of opening whisky bottles.

[sd187]

There are alot. Some of my favorites

Life an times of Judge Roy Bean
Little big man
Outlaw Josie Wales
two mules for sister sara
The Westener
Rooster Cogburn
true grit
Sons of katie elder
Support y0our local sheriff
Duel at diablo

Just saw Judge Bean. Really good. I couldn't believe Paul Newman was hitting and screaming at that bear. Victoria Principal was fucking hot a million years ago.

[NotSoFast]

"Westerns" are set in the "west"-ern part of the US. Movies like The Patriot and other 1700's movies are set along the eastern seaboard states/colonies.

[Sevenyars]

Just saw Judge Bean. Really good. I couldn't believe Paul Newman was hitting and screaming at that bear. Victoria Principal was fucking hot a million years ago.


finally someone watched it

[Hudson]

I saw possibly the worst one last night.."The Sundance Woman"..presumbly about The Sundance Kid's wife/Woman..Aweful Production value..one scene she and this guy are in the dunes..you can clearly see that the guy is wearing an old school pair of nike running shoes.
I have seen one of the A Man Called Horse movies..It was pretty good..I believe it was the last one.
And Judge Roy Bean is great!

[FAngel]

Unforgiven is my favorite film ever made.

High Noon remains a classic.

Also, The Proposition is a great fucking movie. It's a western with an Australian setting, and much grittier and more realistic than what a Western usually is.

And, of course, the Deadwood series.

[Hudson]

Also, The Proposition is a great fucking movie. It's a western with an Australian setting, and much grittier and more realistic than what a Western usually is.

Quigley Down Under was pretty good..a little campy..but good.

[Sevenyars]

Just got done watching "Glory" I forgot how good that movie was.

[Sevenyars]

"Westerns" are set in the "west"-ern part of the US. Movies like The Patriot and other 1700's movies are set along the eastern seaboard states/colonies.

So by that logic what do you call movies like " the good the bad and the ugly" or outlaw Josey wales" ? Southerns, since most of the action in those movies happen in the south.

[Bobobie]

I saw possibly the worst one last night.."The Sundance Woman"..presumbly about The Sundance Kid's wife/Woman..Aweful Production value..one scene she and this guy are in the dunes..you can clearly see that the guy is wearing an old school pair of nike running shoes.




Eizabeth Montgomery made a similar Made-For-TV movie called Mrs. Sundance. I don't remember if it was a good movie, only that she always gave my 12 year old penis a stiffy.

[lockjaaaaww]

Not a fan of westerns love the good the bad and the ugly, and like unforgiven though.

[wyattj]

Stayed up to watch Appaloosa last night, or however it is spelled. Ed Harris and Viggo are great actors. The action was fantastic, the story building until Renne Zewelleger showed up. Not only is she ugly, her shrunked up face is hideous, no body, and she SUCKS the fat one as a actress. God did she screw up a great potential of a movie.

Why Kenny Chennsey decided he had to write songs about her and then marry her is beyond me. She is a talentless piece of meat.

I'm still pissed she ruined this movie. And Ed Harris directed it, so I want to kick him in the nuts as well. I want me 2.5 hours back.

[Sevenyars]

Stayed up to watch Appaloosa last night, or however it is spelled. Ed Harris and Viggo are great actors. The action was fantastic, the story building until Renne Zewelleger showed up. Not only is she ugly, her shrunked up face is hideous, no body, and she SUCKS the fat one as a actress. God did she screw up a great potential of a movie.

Why Kenny Chennsey decided he had to write songs about her and then marry her is beyond me. She is a talentless piece of meat.

I'm still pissed she ruined this movie. And Ed Harris directed it, so I want to kick him in the nuts as well. I want me 2.5 hours back.

Just watched it, you could not have hit it anymore on the head. She sucked, I thought for sure she was going to get killed. No such luck.


For any Judge Roy Bean fan , try buffalo Bill and the indians. It's on right now. It's really good.

[DJ Evel Ed]

I'm working on some new Spaghetti Western DVD's. WIlliam SHatner made one called "The White Commanche" and if you're a Shatner fan it's a must see! The movie sucks but it's great to see SHatner play 2 opposite roles. One as a cowboy and the other as a drug crazed Apache. The apache Shatner had the same haircut as the cowboy? At one point he tells his brother "You would be faster if you didn't take Peyote" This movie would be real funny on peyote.

Minnesota Clay is a great spaghetti western too. Love the realistic ending. More westerns should end like this one.

"The Fighting Fists OF Shanghai Joe" is a SW combining Kung Fu and cowboys. Shanghai Joe is racially insulted throughout the entire movie and he beats the shit out of everyone eventually. Fucking great western! Great soundtrack too. Must see!

I still havent started the Django series but those are always good. I have a set from Blue-Underground.com. They threw the Django name around alot on supposedly bad projects, but what the "experts" say is a bad western may not be what I would call bad.

If you like the SW genre I would suggest the 20 movie pack with Lee Van Queef on the cover. Its from MillCreekEnt.com.

Another is from St Clair Vision. 13 hours - 9 movies - 3 DVD's. It includes Grand Duel, This Man Cant Die, It Can Be Done Amigo, Minnesota Clay, Death Rides A Horse, Hellbenders, White Commanche etc...

Why does the Western Channel show the same Randolph Scott movies over & over & over. Show Caribou Trail, or Westbound, or Sugarfoot, Walking Hills, Shoutout At Medicine Bend, ANYTHING. Why do they always show Tall T & Buchanan Rides Alone!!!! I love them but its like listening to commercial radio where they play the same song over & over.

[lockjaaaaww]

Not a fan of westerns but was just watching a great one...Unforgiven.

[DJ Evel Ed]

Yeah the Eastwood version of Unforgiven is great. The Bert Lancaster version is OK but not as good as Clints. He's bad ass in this one. Mean as a snake!

"When I walk out this door, if anyone takes a shot as me, Im gonna kill him, burn down his house, kill his family, and shoot his dog" Classic Clint!!!!

[Stormrider666]

Stayed up to watch Appaloosa last night, or however it is spelled. Ed Harris and Viggo are great actors. The action was fantastic, the story building until Renne Zewelleger showed up. Not only is she ugly, her shrunked up face is hideous, no body, and she SUCKS the fat one as a actress. God did she screw up a great potential of a movie.

Why Kenny Chennsey decided he had to write songs about her and then marry her is beyond me. She is a talentless piece of meat.

I'm still pissed she ruined this movie. And Ed Harris directed it, so I want to kick him in the nuts as well. I want me 2.5 hours back.

Man I wish I had read this post before I tried to watch this movie. It would have saved me from wasting 1 hour of my life.