Top 5 westerns

[Deleted member 38069]

Most of of the users on this thread count like you’re counting your Buck or Bulls’s tines! It’s top 5 not 6

 

[44hunter45]

Evil Roy Slade
Zechariah (1972 drugged out rock opera western) - It's right up there with Zardoz and A Knight's Tale
Cat Ballou 1965
Paint Your Wagon
McKenna's gold. (Julie Newman nekkid,even just a side flash, was a big deal in 1969)

 

[2rocky]

Best Western short- All Gold Canyon from Buster Scruggs. The movie as a whole wasn't overly memorable for me, but that story is so great. Incredible scenery and Tom Waits killed it.

This was a Jack london Story. you literally can read along with the scenes...

All Gold Canyon by Jack London

 

[shrapnel]

Shrapnel - my guess is you haven't watched Django.

I will put it on my to do list. But if it has people older than 35 and weighing more than 140 pounds, it is already suspect as to it's accuracy in western culture...

 

[geetar]

3. Apparently I'm like the only one that really enjoys exceptional horsemanship.

The fact that Tommy Lee Jones didn’t use a stunt man for that scene on that Kiowa mare ( the hell bitch as the book called it ) in the breaking pen is really impressive to me. He really knows his stuff with horses.

 

[The Hedgehog]

I will put it on my to do list. But if it has people older than 35 and weighing more than 140 pounds, it is already suspect as to it's accuracy in western culture...

Please report back.

 

[CPAjeff]

1. Lonesome Dove
2. Tombstone
3. The Cowboys
4. Dances with Wolves (not sure it qualifies as a western . . .)
5. Jeremiah Johnson

 

[geetar]

Hold up I can't believe I forgot...8 seconds

More of a documentary but more western than quite a few mentioned here.

Dang good movie. This is in my opinion the best rodeo cowboy song ever from the sound track.

 

[LWC55]

One of like 4 or 5 movies I ever bought the actual DVD. Never gets old.

 

[Jape]

1. Big Jake - watched it every year with my dad and grandpa before my grandpa passed

2. Jeremiah Johnson - that last scene gets me every time

3. Magnificent Seven - what a cast

4. For a Few Dollars More - The way the last duel puts all the plot pieces together is magical

5. Rio Bravo

Honorable mention: Man from Snowy River

 

[Harri Cane]

Here goes and in no particular order
The Searchers
The Reverent
Tom Horn
Unforgiven
Hondo

 

[44hunter45]

No love for The Missouri Breaks ?

For a great early Nicholson, try The Shooting (1966)

 

[Irrelevant]

The fact that Tommy Lee Jones didn’t use a stunt man for that scene on that Kiowa mare ( the hell bitch as the book called it ) in the breaking pen is really impressive to me. He really knows his stuff with horses.

Sure.

But...

And Tom Burlinson^ had never ridden a horse before this movie but did the majority of the on horse action shots, including some on the famous downhill plunge clips (though not all of them).

 

[44hunter45]

Sure.

But...
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And Tom Burlinson^ had never ridden a horse before this movie but did the majority of the on horse action shots, including some on the famous downhill plunge clips (though not all of them).

Do they still do the Omak race?

 

[Irrelevant]

Do they still do the Omak race?

Sure do, but my guess is that it's days are numbered

 

[shrapnel]

Please report back.

I watched “Driving Miss Daisy” tonight and there was a great one liner;

“I taught some of the stupidest children God ever put on the face of this earth, and all of them could read well enough to find a name on a tombstone.”

 

[Harri Cane]

Guess I should add these 2 for the scenery if nothing else.
A river runs thru it
Legends of the fall

 

[The Hedgehog]

I watched “Driving Miss Daisy” tonight and there was a great one liner;

“I taught some of the stupidest children God ever put on the face of this earth, and all of them could read well enough to find a name on a tombstone.”

I’d cite a Django one liner, but the hunttalk chapter of the NAACP would step in and moderate.

 

[Nick87]

I’d cite a Django one liner, but the hunttalk chapter of the NAACP would step in and moderate.

In the big house?!

 

[88man]

Another favorite

I will be hunting with Col. Thomas this year.