Posted on 12/29/2004 3:00:15 PM PST by pissant
Top 10 Best Westerns of All Time:
1. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - Sergio Leone's quintessential Western epic made Clint Eastwood the torchbearer in the genre and cemented Lee Van Cleef as one of the greatest movie villains of all time.
2. Shane - The archetypal Western plotline of the stranger who befriends a family and saves them from evil set the tone for all that swam in it’s wake, including The Unforgiven, the most blatant (and best) Shane knockoff.
3. High Noon - A case study in movie making, High Noon is among the first films to take place in real time.
4. The Wild Bunch - Sam Peckinpah's ultra-violent epic still packs quite a punch.
5. High Plains Drifter - The most badass revenge flick ever made. Clint's The Man With No Name could kick Dirty Harry's ass.
6. The Unforgiven - There would be no Unforgiven without Shane.
7. Outlaw Josey Wales - Practically a remake of High Plains Drifter but with more backstory, sub-plots and fully developed characters. You can still feel the sting of that darned whip!
8. Treasure of the Sierra Madre - A later-era Western to be sure, but a terrific character study in greed and trust, and a fine example of why we are still talking about Bogart to this day. The man oozes star power.
9. A Fistful of Dollars - The beginning of Sergio and Clint's Dollars series, this is the best of the bunch.
10. Once Upon a Time in the West - Henry Fonda and Charles Bronson lead this all-star cast. Never in cinematic history has a harmonica been the source of so much tension.
Do ya'll agree or disagree?
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Tombstone.
Blazing Saddles
Seattle a hellhole? There are worse places, I would think. Though, like in NY, you're surrounded by liberals.
Never really thought of The Wild Bunch as a western. It's kind of cult violence movie.
Bunch? There were only two, the other being For a Few Dollars More.
In no particular order:
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Silverado
Stagecoach
A Man Called Horse
Open Range
Tombstone
The Magnificent Seven
I must make myself stop.
Dan
Lived in Brooklyn with a Republican congressman (Vito Fosella). NYC is nowhere near as bad as Seattle, although it is still pretty bad politically (many worship at Hillary's feet). Seattle is just boring with awful food outside of Salmon.
Ooh...I loved "The Magnificent Seven"!
I just noticed where the article came from. :)
Where are the John Ford films?
The Culpepper Cattle Company
How could one not love it? Just a great movie!
How about Silverado, though? Really fine modern western.
Dan
"Tombstone"
Ouch. Decent as recent westerns go, but all time fav??
"Bunch? There were only two, the other being For a Few Dollars More"
I won't accuse the author of being a rocket scientist.
I actually haven't seen that one. Who's in it?
Trouble with my movie knowledge is that it pretty much includes all the classics from the late fifties back and a few ones from the nineties or so forwards...I'm missing a lot!
Leaves much to look forward to, I suppose!
OK, just to be a smart aleck...
"Evil Roy Slade"!
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