bada wrote:Has anyone ever seen the 70mm print of The Big Trail (1930)? It's one of the most amazingly shot films I've ever seen. I only saw that print once in the 90s on AMC back when all that channel ever showed was old westerns with no commercials. I miss that. It was on again a few months back on TCM but it must have been the 35mm version cause it didn't look the same. I just remember the redwood trees looking so huge and detailed it really was something.
1. Unforgiven
2. Tombstone
3. Rio Bravo
4. The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
5. The Searchers
6. Shane
7. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
8. The Outlaw Josey Wales
9. The Big Country
10. Stagecoach
11. High Noon
12. Once Upon A Time In The West
13. My Darling Clementine
14. For A Few Dollars More
15. Johnny Guitar
Good (or better) 21st century westerns (not ranked):
Django Unchained
The Hateful Eight
The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs
True Grit
3:10 To Yuma
The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
Open Range
Hostiles
The Salvation
The Revenant
The Homesman
Appaloosa
The Magnificent Seven
Slow West
The Power Of The Dog
News Of The World
Seraphim Falls
Tv movies:
Deadwood
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
Comedy Westerns:
Shanghai Noon
The Sisters Brothers
Horror/Adventure Westerns:
Bone Tomahawk
Modern Westerns (sometimes disputed if they count as westerns, for others not):
No Country For Old Men
Hell Or High Water
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Wind River
Brokeback Mountain
Located in Australia «Westerns»:
The Proposition
The Nightingale
The Searchers
Ride the High Country
Red River
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
If The Misfits counts (it probably doesn't since it's set in (then) contemporary times) that is my fifth pick, otherwise I might go with The Violent Men. Probably not a great movie but one of those that I can turn on and watch anytime and enjoy it.
The Misfits is considered a modern western. But I agree that it is a bit difficult to place those movies in with the traditional westerns. Same goes for Australian Westerns, Sci-fi/Horror Westerns, Cartoon Westerns, Osterns (set in Russia).
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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tragabigzanda wrote:Blood Meridian is a book and it’s the best piece of Western media I’ve ever consumed
who among us isn't at least a little sweet on toadvine
Jorge wrote:I remember I was in Miami when it happened. I was posting from the balcony of my apartment overlooking the beach. And I was having an argument with Adamdude.
