Top 5 westerns

[geetar]

If you haven’t seen it check out Comanche Moon. The actors aren’t as famous as Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones but they sure did a good job portraying the younger McRae and Call during their rangering days. Also Val Kilmer is their superior in the movie.

 

[Nick87]

Totally spaced adding Long Riders.

Ooohhh good one, gonna have to watch that been a long time.

 

[noharleyyet]

If you can count No Country for Old Men as a western, that's likely #1. Wind River also a good one.

Wind River was very good for Marlin levers.

 

[MThuntr]

Classics in no particular order:
Magnificent 7
Good, Bad, and Ugly
Outlaw Josey Wales
Lonesome Dove
Tombstone


Modern Westerners (both remakes or close enough for interpretation):
True Grit
Hell or High Water
Django Unchained
Wind River
The Hateful Eight
There Will Be Blood
Hostiles
3:10 to Yuma
Ballad of Buster Scruggs

 

[LuketheDog]

1. True Grit (the good one)
2. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
3. Open Range
4. Silverado
5. The Cowboys

...I like most of the other ones too

 

[shrapnel]

One likely not seen but a 20th century western “Comes A Horseman” with James Caan and Jane Fonda. If you can get past your hatred of Fonda, the movie is fantastic. One stunt man was killed filming it and they leave that scene in the movie…

 

[Sam Colt]

 

[Cogreeny]

1. The outlaw Josey wales
2. Unforgiven
3. Open range
4. Lonesome dove
5. 3:10 to Yuma

 

[BigHornRam]

1. Once upon a time in the west
2. Outlaw Josey Wales
3. Pale Rider
4. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
5. North to Alaska

 

[Chad Gus]

Six pages and no mention of this masterpiece, shame, really.

 

[hank4elk]

How the west was won.

 

[Kentucky Jack]

Are my kids (both under 10) the only ones who know who Terence Hill and Bud Spencer are? Now I've gotta go watch My name is nobody. Might just have to watch both Trinity movies too! Gladly I've got all 3 movies on DVD.

 

[NR_Hunter]

Unforgiven - some dark themes most westerns don't really get into
Quigley Down Under - it's a cute movie
Tombstone - one of the most famous gunfights in american history
Wind River - because I felt like putting a new age one on the list
Pale Rider - I needed to pick a 5th one







I hate to tell you all this, but all of John Wayne's movies were kind of wack.

 

[Nameless Range]

Classics in no particular order:
Magnificent 7
Good, Bad, and Ugly
Outlaw Josey Wales
Lonesome Dove
Tombstone


Modern Westerners (both remakes or close enough for interpretation):
True Grit
Hell or High Water
Django Unchained
Wind River
The Hateful Eight
There Will Be Blood
Hostiles
3:10 to Yuma
Ballad of Buster Scruggs

I forgot about the Ballad of Buster Scruggs. Though it is kind of numerous movies in one, that might make my list.

I think the moral of the story of everyone's lists is that Tombstone rules.

 

[LWC55]

Lonesome Dove
Tombstone
Outlaw Josey Wales
Young Guns
Open Range

 

[noharleyyet]

I forgot about the Ballad of Buster Scruggs. Though it is kind of numerous movies in one, that might make my list.

I think the moral of the story of everyone's lists is that Tombstone rules.

Coen Bros are good at their craft.

 

[TOGIE]

i'm glad 3:10 to Yuma and No Country for Old Men eventually got mentioned by a few folks

just because it occurred in a different time period doesn't make it not a western - No Country for Old Men is both a deeply steeped western and undoubtedly one of the finest films and book adaptations ever produced.

3:10 to Yuma is just a quality movie in a classic western setting that really makes its mark because of it's A list actors.

I don't know if want to call Dances with Wolves a Western. But it is also one of the finest films ever produced.

 

[Treeshark]

I hate to tell you all this, but all of John Wayne's movies were kind of wack.

To each there own as art is subjective, but I tend to agree.

 

[Wind Gypsy]

While it's not mentioned as much as Tombstone, i'm a big fan of Wyatt Earp with Costner.

In no order, I like: Unforgiven, Tombstone, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid, 3:10 to Yuma, Jeremiah Johnson.

Really need to watch the outlaw josey wales, never seen it.

 

[elkduds]

Hud, a 1963 adaptation of McMurtry's Horseman, Pass By, is a winner in the artsy fartsy category....aka a worthwhile mention.

Edward Abbey's 2nd novel, The Brave Cowboy, became Kirk Douglas' personal favorite of all his movies.