What are the best Western movies?

[Jim14510]

Eastwood is the GOAT as a western movie actor for me.

Val Kilmer, Kurt Russell, Sam Elliot I'm the next tier.

 

[huskermack]

High Plains Drifter
You’re going to look awfully silly with that knife stuck up your ass.

 

[Tonkasker]

A lot of good ones mentioned but Once upon a time in the West is another great one

 

[LoudHogRider]

Anything late at night on GRIT TV. I've watched a metric shyte ton of old westerns on there, mostly cast with actors whose names few on this board would recognize.

 

[Cash68847]

Val Kilmer, Kurt Russell, Sam Elliot I'm the next tier.

I loved Val Kilmer in Tombstone.

 

[Blbmeb]

1. Young Guns
2. Tombstone

 

[doublewing]

No country for old men

The Western I'm awaiting a film adaptation for is "Blood Meridian" which is by the same writer that created No Country for Old Men.

Blood Meridian may be best as a mini series since it is a sprawling epic but it is one of the best books I've ever read. Read it every few years.

 

[Adolph Coors]

lonesome dove

 

[Tell_Sackett]

The Outlaw Josey Wales... Everyone else is fighting for second place.

 

[TreedHusker]

Recent - Wind River

 

[LoudHogRider]

The Outlaw Josey Wales... Everyone else is fighting for second place.

It and Unforgiven are peak Clint. Love them both, but for different reasons.

 

[Snockered69]

Hostiles- 2017

 

[LoudHogRider]

Anything late at night on GRIT TV. I've watched a metric shyte ton of old westerns on there, mostly cast with actors whose names few on this board would recognize.

I'm quoting myself to expand on some of these classic western actors. For you "less seasoned" folks on the board, these cats helped make Hollywood and "the movies" in general.

Marion Mitchell Morrison - Most know him as John Wayne
Randolph Scott - WWI veteran whose career spanned 5 decades
Gary Cooper - classic leading man
Robert Taylor - another great leading man
James Coburn - couldn't sing a lick in "Paint Your Wagon" with Clint Eastwood and Shirley Maclaine, but his characters were just that: characters
Gene Autrey - the original singing cowboy
Burt Lancaster - talented actor
Hugh O'Brian - fun fact: met him while serving as a chauffer for the "Freedom Train" when it came to Omaha in 1976. HS DECA project. No shit.
Jason Robards - booze got him at the end, but he was in a lot of great old westerns
Dale Robertson - "The Tales of Wells Fargo" leading man
Yul Brynner - more westerns than other genres, but mainly remembered for "The King and I". Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera ...
Lee Van Cleef - born to be "the bad guy", he had an amazing career until cancer took him. Fucking cigarettes,
Glenn Ford - another WWII vet that went on to have a great career in films
Gregory Peck - most know him from "To Kill a Mockingbird", but he was in a lot of westerns
Roy Rogers & his wife, Dale Evans - fun fact: my first dog was the grandson of Bullet, RR's on-screen dog
Audie Murphy - more than the most decorated WWII hero and owner of the Los Angeles Angels
Walter Brennan - rarely a leading man, but always an interesting screen presence
Forrest Tucker - like Walter Brennan above, rarely a leading man and usually in a US Army Calvary uniform, but he was in a ton of movies
Ben Johnson - you'll know him the second you see him
Jack Elam - made that wonky eye famous
Rory Calhoun - another B&W movie star
Eli Wallach - interesting career, but he's in a lot more old westerns than you think he would be
Charles Bronson - yes, he got his start in westerns
Jimmy Stewart - always one of the good guys
Omaha's own Henry Fonda - rarely played a good guy, but man he had presence on the screen. Steely blue eyes and a penchant for evil.

Anyways, by now you get the idea. Tons of great actors that either got their start in westerns or were made famous by the genre. And we haven't even touched on some of the famous women that appears in those shows (e.g. Claudia Cardinale ...).

 

[Alcaus]

The Missing is one I haven’t seen listed yet. Tommy Lee Jones is great. Ron Howard flick.

 

[tman87]

Tombstone is of course great. Definitely one of the GOATS.

The good the bad and the ugly - I mean, hard to beat that one. The other spaghetti westerns with Eastwood are also excellent.

Silverado (80's) is really good.

Unforgiven of course

3:10 to Yuma was very good.

Django is great - hard to not watch it if it is on.

Eastwood has so many 70's era great westerns, it's hard to remember them all. High Plains Drifter. The Outlaw Josey Wales. And a bunch more.

I know I am forgetting some that deserve a mention here.

EDIT: Young Guns needs a mention. Also Paint Your Wagon with Clint and Lee Marvin is excellent. Can't beat the song they play when the movie ends.

 

[Buddyboo]

1. What do you think are the best Western movies of all time?

2. What are the best recent Westerns (last 20 years) you've seen?

Shane
Tombstone
Young Guns

 

[Turn Down for What]

Million ways to die in the west

 

[Blbmeb]

Anything with James Arness.

 

[Kaladin]

Old Henry is a pretty good recent one.

Just watched this a week ago, great movie

 

[Kaladin]

I’m watching High Noon right now