Top 3 Westerns

Clint Eastwood.

ReshoeUSAF said:

Lonesome Dove

The Outlaw Josie Wales

Two Mules for Sister Sara

even though my name is John Wayne I'm more of a Clint Eastwood fan.

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John Wayne did cowboy good, Eastwood did it better,. In Waynes time things were black and white. Eastwood brought shades of gray.

The Searchers
The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Come on, I can't be the only Quigly fan...

I see a lot of spaghetti western fans, so I thought I'd pass this along:

http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Essential_Top_20_Films

I'm working my way through that top 20 list right now. Some are a bit hard to find in good shape.

I'm not much into Westerns, but I liked "Unforgiven".

Lots of love for Unforgiven. It's a great film. Probably in my top five Westerns.

I've revised my top three based on this thread:
Once Upon a Time in the West
High Noon (stunned by this title not appearing on lists in this thread)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (really one of my top films regardless of genre)

Pale Rider
OJW
Tombstone

acesn8s said:

Come on, I can't be the only Quigly fan...

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But ... that's not a "western" ... that's a "down-under-n"

Magnificent Seven
True Grit (original slightly over remake)
For a Few Dollars More (or TGTBATU)

Big Jake
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Pale Rider

I once took two weeks of vacation just to stay home and watch ten days of The Duke!

tvad said:

Lots of love for Unforgiven. It's a great film. Probably in my top five Westerns.

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I think what I like about it is you remember the cowboy Eastwood was when younger, now he is a broken down pig farmer that can't hit a tin can or even get on his horse. We then get to see the transition back to him being a force to be reckoned with again.

oc_in_fw said:

I think what I like about it is you remember the cowboy Eastwood was when younger, now he is a broken down pig farmer that can't hit a tin can or even get on his horse. We then get to see the transition back to him being a force to be reckoned with again.

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Absolutely. Every great story (film) takes us on a journey; one that hopefully also teaches us something. It's this reason that I include High Noon among my top three Westerns.

jamesspo said:

I see a lot of spaghetti western fans, so I thought I'd pass this along:

http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Essential_Top_20_Films

I'm working my way through that top 20 list right now. Some are a bit hard to find in good shape.

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Thanks..for the list..!

The good the bad and the ugly
A fistful of dollars
For a few dollars more.

oc_in_fw said:

I think what I like about it is you remember the cowboy Eastwood was when younger, now he is a broken down pig farmer that can't hit a tin can or even get on his horse. We then get to see the transition back to him being a force to be reckoned with again.

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Plus some incredible lines.

It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. Take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have.

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That's right. I've killed women and children. I've killed just about everything that walks or crawled at one time or another. And I'm here to kill you, Little Bill, for what you did to Ned.

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I thought Cowboys vs Aliens was pretty good.

Doc4 said:

But ... that's not a "western" ... that's a "down-under-n"

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I always saw it as a movie starring a Shiloh Sharps Buffalo rifle, with Selleck and Rickman as supporting actors.

The Outlaw Josey Wales
True Grit
The Cowboys

I found this interview with Clint Eastwood about Duke pretty interesting! It illustrates the difference in how they played their cowboys.

http://youtu.be/h_ncnL0iejo