Maybe it is because of the times I grew up in but I love a good cowboy movie. There is just something about that time that grabs me.
In particular as a kid I loved Indians. Always wanted them to win. Bows were way cooler than guns.
So I will list some of my favorites:
No particular order just favorites.
1. High Noon with Gary Cooper. One of the first to step away from cliche and try to tell a real story. Great acting, great song. Won academy award for best actor.
2. Unforgiven. Clint Eastwood not only a great western star but a terrific director. Great story. Terrific acting.
3. Tombstone. The story has been told many times in film. The battle of OK Coral. But this movie is just great as western. Some of scenes are so cool. Val Kilmer as Doc Holiday was outstanding.
4. Lonesome Dove really a mini series. This movie got to me. A story of true friendship. Great characters who are developed through the story. A classic. I don't watch movies multiple times but this one I do. Augustus McCray one of all time favorite characters.
5. The Man with No Name. Clint Eastwood character in the spaghetti westerns. Fistful of Dollars, For an Few Dollars More, and The Good, The Bad and the Ugly.
6. Open Range. Robert Duvall is just a great actor. Good ending gun fight.
7. Dances with Wolves. Entertaining movie. Beautifully filmed.
8. Revenant. Not a western in the classic sense. But a terrific movie. First movie I have seen where the natural sounds are part of the movie. Very little dialogue. Just a intense film of revenge.
9. The Searchers. Had to put a John Wayne movie in there. I probably saw every one. But this was a little different he was not just the good guy.
10. Wild Bill. Not a big commercial success but I liked it. Jeff Bridges was really good as Wild Bill Hickok.
There are others but these ten came first to mind.
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"First down inside the 10. A score here will put us in the Super Bowl. Cooper is far to the left as Njoku settles into the slot. Moore is flanked out wide to the right. Chubb and Ford are split in the backfield as Watson takes the snap ... Here we go."
"First down inside the 10. A score here will put us in the Super Bowl. Cooper is far to the left as Njoku settles into the slot. Moore is flanked out wide to the right. Chubb and Ford are split in the backfield as Watson takes the snap ... Here we go."
I thought Lonesome Dove was a great miniseries, and I also liked The Sacketts with Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott. Among others already mentioned, some of my favorite westerns were Pale Rider, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Shootist, The Quick and the Dead, and Young Guns.
Agree with "Unforgiven" and someone else who mentioned "The Outlaw Josey Wales".
- "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" - "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada" - "Ravenous" (different than "Revenant") - "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" - "Rio Bravo"
The Revenant was really a unique movie. Major props to the director. The way it was filmed like with "go pros".
The way natural sounds were incorporated into the sound track.
What the lead character went through was real. Amazing.
I found myself cringing a lot in that movie. I have seen Grizzly bears in the wild. It would be anyone's worst nightmare to be attacked. The way they filmed it was very real looking.
I'm also a big fan of Westerns not just movies but the old T.V. shows. Some of my favorites are Gunsmoke, Rawhide, Bonanza, The Rifleman and Wanted Dead or Alive to name a few. Big fan of John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Chuck Connors James Arness, Clint Walker and others to many to name. Great old shows!!
Homewood, I watched all of those as a kid and would even add a few Big Valley, Lone Ranger, Daniel Boone, and Wagon Train. My dad loved westerns so we watched a lot of them back when there were only 4 channels in central Ohio.
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Red River - (John Wayne/Montgomery Clift) The Searchers - (Wayne/Jeffrey Hunter) The Good,the Bad,and the Ugly - (Eastwood/Lee Van Cleef/Eli Wallach) The Outlaw Josey Wales - (Eastwood) The Man who shot Liberty Valance - (Wayne/James Stewart) The Magnificent Seven - (Yul Brynner/Steve McQueen/Eli Wallach) My Darling Clementine - (Henry Fonda/Victor Mature/Walter Brennen) Winchester '73 - (Stewart/Dan Duryea) McLintock - (Wayne/Maureen O'Hara) High Plains Drifter - (Eastwood) Stage Coach - (Wayne)
I typically watch or read for intellectual purposes. However, there are times when I watch or read just to be entertained. The Western Movie genre probably fits more into the latter rather than the former. Thus, some movies I liked:
--The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly. "A buzzard has to eat as same as a worm." LOL
--Unforgiven: I liked this because it made you think rather than react.
--Dances with Wolves: I always supported Native Americans and their way of life.
--The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: A classic tale of good vs evil.
Btw---------as others have mentioned, I thought Lonesome Dove was awesome, but I considered it a TV series. Robert Duvall is one of the greatest actors ever, in my opinion.
"Monte Walsh" with Lee Marvin and Jack Palance was good story of the dying west and a new age. Two older cowboys with little work to be had trying to get by.
Some great scenes in this movie. The best bronco busting scene of all times for one.
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