favourite westerns

[Forsberg]

Once Upon A Time in the West or The Wild Bunch for me, but I'm not the biggest Western fan tbh

 

[Jim Comic]

there was a great western tv series in the late 70's/early 80's called 'how the west was won' (unrelated to the 1950's movie of the same name i think), would love to get it on dvd

 

[Superior]

High Noon

Quality.

 

[PigCapitalist]

Quality.

legend

 

[Persephone]

True Grit & its sequel Rooster Cogburn

 

[azfad]

john ford's 'the man who shot liberty valance'.

this list is much too recent for my taste - most of the movies are homages to the golden era of western movies rather than the thing itself. but i suppose no-one gives a shit about 'johnny guitar' here anyway

 

[Superior]

legend

Thanks!

John Wayne hated this movie. Rio Bravo was his reaction against it. Marion didn't see anything wrong with McCarthyism and blacklisting people.

 

[Dances With Pigeons]

High Noon is class alright. As is The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. I'm a big fan of A Fistful of Dollars too.

To mix it up, Yojimbo is ace (samurai film that A Fistful of Dollars was based on).
The Proposition is brillunt. Australian western, still counts.

 

[Jim Comic]

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Centennial-The-Complete-Series/9502

 

[mr m]

Just finished watching Deadwood and can't recommend it highly enough. Incredible acting, dark plot and really rich language riddled with profanity. Ian Mcshane is incredible in it. Even Wu whos English vocabulary is limited to 'cocksucka', 'Swedgin' and 'San Francisco' still cracked me up and Eb Farnam comes out with some crazy, demented monologues while also doing a passable impression of a human Gollum.

Pity there's only 3 series in it.