Watched this, Slow West and 3:10 to Yuma and fell in love with the genre. Do we have a definitive western list tv?
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Watched this, Slow West and 3:10 to Yuma and fell in love with the genre. Do we have a definitive western list tv?
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theres like 5+ different western subgenres that are all totally different
might as well just start with Clint’s old kinos
High Plains Drifter is my fave of ‘em
For sure there is one. Is Western the genre that is the most consistent in delivering good movies? Or did I just not watch all the shit ones?
yes, back when Hollywood was based
when stories were about real people and had soul
Westerns had a lot of trash but it made a lot of gold by the end of its lifetime.
you probably don't even really need river just non-beach/cliff coastline
not even really that much trash, genre stuff is easier to manage
yes, they are technically singing cowboys.
You should watch 'The Proposition' if you want a western with a difference.
It's ok. You only like it because it makes you feel like a patrician.
I like it because it's raw and unflinching.
yeah we had a few lists in other threads
watch these to get started
the good the bad and the ugly
the searchers
how the west was won
magnificent seven
there's at least 50 must see westerns, which I dont want to type out right now
westerns are indeed the best genre
frick off with this, the film is shit, stop recommending it
aussies have no clue what kino is
>unforgiven
You started with the best. It's all downhill from here.
unforgiven is weak
nobody wants to see old man former cowboy
josey wales is 1000x better
Hostiles (2017) with Rosamund Pike and Christian Bale
Westerns are fricking shit, man. It's just a bunch of Manly Badass Hero tropes ad nauseum. I love the setting but that shit is gay af. Bone Tomahawk was cool.
Leave this thread fricking zoomer scum, go watch Euphoria or whatever the frick it is you people watch
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. It's mandatory.
The Good, the bad and the ugly
For a few dollars more
Once upon a time in the west
>Once upon a time in the west
It's objectively his best. But just like with T1: knowing it is the best doesn't help you preferring a lesser movie.
Also, 'Terminator' would have been a better title for the movie. Because they're factory made. Calling it 'The Terminator', implies its a special robot, defeating the movies entire story. The only reason why it is special is because it got randomly selected to go through time. It was special because circumstances happened to it. Not because it was unique. Calling it 'The Terminator' means it's about a single one.
A million ways to die in the west
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singing_cowboy
Have you watched "Deadwood" yet wienersucker?
I’ve seen Deadwood and loved it. Quite enjoying Yellowstone as well.
The Good the Bad and the Ugly is my favorite so far but I watched it a long time ago
There's a million.
As far as Clint goes, the Dollars trilogy is top-tier. Outlaw Josey Wales.
John Wayne's films can be kind of cheesy, but some essentials are: The Searchers, Rio Lobo and Rio Bravo (essentially the same movie, but each good in its own right), True Grit, Rooster Cogburn, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence (great performance by Jimmy Stewart), and The Shootist.
Shootist is particularly good, as it's Wayne's last western, and one of his last films.
Understand that the Western was king of the cinema from some of the first motion pictures all the way into the early 60s. There was a slight dip in popularity during WWII and right after when everybody was making WWII movies, but after that, Westerns came right back to the top.
But then in the late 60s and going into the 70s, westerns gave way to cop movies. Think Dirty Harry and the like. They even tried to make a movie where John Wayne was like old school Marshal on a horse trying to chase down some cowpoke hiding out in the big city. Didn't do so well. Cahill US Marshal, I think. Early 70s. I'm pretty sure Simpsons spoofed it at some point.
More zoomers should watch westerns. It'll teach you what it means to be a man, instead of watching ethnic horrors and shit trying to convince you to fall in love with trannies and shit.
jimmy stewarts got a lot of greats but they tend to be more nerdy or comic, he's not a serious tough man like they liked in the white hats.
>destry rides again
>rare breed
>winchester 73
>shenandoah
and everyone comes together in the shootist its really an end of an era sendoff kinda film.
>Shootist is particularly good, as it's Wayne's last western, and one of his last films
Definitely one of his best, not a big Wayne fan due to the local stations over playing him when I was growing up, but this was top notch.
Shane deserves a watch, it's a classic. Once upon a time was good but a hard watch for me, not sure if it was the pacing or just.my general dislike of the Fonda clan. The story itself was good though.
It's a genre Id like to see a return to in general.
>Shootist is particularly good, as it's Wayne's last western, and one of his last films.
pretty sad too because he was dealing with cancer irl
originally I felt that way
but he's tough in bend of the river, naked spur and broken arrow
Watch the Sergio Leone stuff for one.
Thoughts on Hondo?
Andrew Klavan of the Daily Wire who wrote the novel Clint Eastwood's True Crime was based on said it's one of the greatest movies ever made.
Tombstone
Once Upon a Time In The West
Fistful of Dollars
For a Few Dollars More
Good the Bad and the Ugly
Day of Anger
Sabata
The Proposition
True Grit
Bone Tomahawk
Django
The Great Silence
Some of my favorates:
The Great Silence (I think the best western made)
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Searchers
The Assassination of Jesse James by Coward Robert Ford
Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
Maverick (Gibson is great in this)
maverick is way better if you ever watched the old TV series, they'd swap main characters out to another of the maverick family every season or two and they'd have adventures.
>Maverick (Gibson is great in this)
Probably, the only movie ever where I saw a steamboat being used with a watermill at the back, or whatever you call it. IIrc they were specifically designed to get through shallow waters. Louisiana or something. It seems like a forgotten thing, just like hoverboats.
idk i only ever saw riverboat casinos and they are just barges with decorations
Maybe they were designed to evade the law. Although I can't see gambling being illegal during that era. I could just wiki it. My point was that it looks like a great setting to shoot a movie on. Boat, era and environment. But this is the only movie I can recollect that did it.
tombstone is terrible but hilarious and fun, 90s had some gonzo ass westerns
they were designed way after the wildwest era, i dunno if any riverboat had that shit for reals it seems dumb.
>The Mississippi
That's what it was. They should make a movie about this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultana_(steamboat)
>They should make a movie about this.
they can't because there's no steamboats anymore and it would be near impossible to get shots of the river without modern shit creeping into every shot
>hey can't because there's no steamboats anymore
Cameron literally rebuilt the titanic. I think they can give us a steamboat or two.
>I think they can give us a steamboat or two.
hollywood only funds cg shit now
titanic was made pre-world collapse
>Cameron
Him, Nolan and Tarantino doesn't count because studios will let them shoot anything they want.
>let them shoot anything they want.
nah
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cameron's_unrealized_projects
they almost didn't let him do titanic cause 'raise the titanic' bombed
>Unfortunately the script got leaked online before the film could enter production and the project was abandoned.
Based saboteur lmao
>James Cameron revealed in a recent interview with The New York Times that he shut down 20th Century Fox executives when they tried to battle him over a key sequence in “Avatar.” Cameron rejected the studio’s notes to make the film shorter and to trim the movie’s flying sequences by telling executives that he directed “Titanic” and thus paid for a large portion of the 20th Century Fox studio lot.
>“I think I felt, at the time, that we clashed over certain things,” Cameron said. “For example, the studio felt that the film should be shorter and that there was too much flying around on the ikran — what the humans call the banshees. Well, it turns out that’s what the audience loved the most, in terms of our exit polling and data gathering. And that’s a place where I just drew a line in the sand and said, ‘You know what? I made ‘Titanic.’ This building that we’re meeting in right now, this new half-billion dollar complex on your lot? ‘Titanic’ paid for that, so I get to do this.’”
I have to agree with fox on this one
>‘You know what? I made ‘Titanic.’ This building that we’re meeting in right now, this new half-billion dollar complex on your lot? ‘Titanic’ paid for that, so I get to do this.’”
Fricking based. Hadn't heard that one.
>let him
he probably got stash of pirate gold and shit saved up for a rainy day
The Wild Bunch
War Wagon
Young Guns
Dances with Wolves
From hell to Texas
The law and jake wade
Shane
Drum beat
Vera Cruz (my personal fav)
Bandidos (1967)
From noon till three
Support your local sheriff (than sequel gunfighter)
Garden of evil
The sheepman
Companeros
A minute to pray, a second to die
The sartana series
Run for cover
The violent men
Saddle in the wind
The last hunt
Recently saw Lonesome Dove and it's pretty comfy (it's 4 90-minute episodes).
WAAAAAAAAATER MOCCASINNNNNNNNS!
The Wild bunch
Rancho notorious
Duel in the sun
The Misfits
>Duel in the sun
Better known as Lust in the dust
don't sleep on western tv
>wanted dead or alive
>have gun will travel
also there's mccloud
oh yeah my grandparents always watch the virginian. it's a really good show. the episodes are 90 minutes each too
PALADIN PALADIN WHERE DO YOU ROAM?
who else hyped for kevin costner doing a epic western next year?
it's called HORIZON
https://collider.com/kevin-costner-new-western-movie-horizon/
costner is kino
I’m trying so hard to love Yellowstone but for fricks sake it feels like end season Sons of Anarchy tier bullshittery at times. Is it worth sticking with?
I haven't seen yellowstone yet
westerns set in modern day just aren't the same
open range was fantastic, kevin costner is pure kino when he gets his way
give costner a baseball or a horse and he's set for kino
I know BvS isn’t looked at too fondly but his speech about the drowning horses to Clark is probably my favorite scene in any superhero movie ever. Him as Pa Kent was immaculate.
tombstone is good
He's good with that director I also liked night passage with Audie Murphy (american hero)
high noon.
DUCK YOU SUCKER
ACE HIGH
MY NAME IS NOBODY
DEATH RIDES A HORSE
KENT KINO ROLLINS
LONESOME DOVE
Lonesome Dove was comfy western. Aside from the vipers, that wasn't comfy at all.
EVIL ROY SLADE starring gomez addams
THEY CALL ME TRINITY
BULLET FOR THE GENERAL
THE BIG COUNTRY