jbow


My two favorites right now are
 
Open Range
 
and
 
Silverado.
 
Kevin Costner is in both and both he and Bob Duvall are outstanding in Open Range. My favorite character in Silverado is Kevin Kline. I've seen others I liked and I like most any movies, western or not, set in the 18th or 19th century.
Cowboys and Aliens... not so much.
The remake of True Grit was really good, IMO. 3:10 to Yuma was OK.. not great.
 
I like no BS characters like Capt. Woodrow Call in Lonesome Dove and Charley Waite (Costner) in Open Range.
 
Any suggestions?? What to watch...???
 
Julien

In Silverado, I love John Cleese' entrance,  "Wots all this then?"

'Scuse me while I whip this out.

Blazing Saddles

More beans, anyone?

" The Wild Bunch."  The movie about the end of the old west that ended westerns for a good while.  Peckenpaw at his best.

"Unforgiven."  The best clint western ever.

"The Searchers."  John Wayne makes one bad ass bad ass.  Ford at his best.

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Deadwood and Justified

 
I need to watch Deadwood, I watched a couple of episodes back when but it was too much for wifey so I never watched it. We LOVE Justified, Elmore Leonard is awesome. You know he is "hands on" with Justified.
 
I am watching Sam Peckinpah's first movie, Ride the High Country right now. Sam was a great... his movie The Wild Bunch is another great one and I need to get it... I also realized today that I don't think I ever saw his movie Pat Garret and Billy the Kid with Kris Kristofferson, Bob Dylan, and most of the great western movie character actors, I need to see it. I used to play and sing "Knocking on Heaven's Door" I don't know how or why I missed the movie... I was probably more interested in smoking something.. at the time.
 

Wyatt Earp with Costner
Lonesome Dove - Duvall
Open Range - Both of them
Dance with Wolves - Costner
True Grit - Duke
Appaloosa -Ed Harris
She wore a yellow ribbon - Duke
How the west was won - A little goofy but visually true.
Streets of Laredo - Totally goofy but I always watch it

 
Good list. I like the remake of True Grit too and most everything that Costner has done. If you read, you should read Louis L'Amour's book 'How the west was won' and his Sacketts books are REALLY good, especially the first four books. Heck all L'Amour books are good.
 
J

Hmmm....does Jeremiah Johnson fit in this mix of suggestions? Carry on....

Hi,

Just thought of another movie ...
POSSE -- Mario Van Peebles directed it in 1993 and it was one of those things that is hard to watch, but likely very true to its character and form. Very historical.

I'm watching "El Topo" again and will see what I think this time around ... never seen that thing in its entirety. Also would like to find his other film.
 
Of course, we can always add fake westerns, like "Zachariah".

In Silverado, I love John Cleese' entrance, "Wots all this then?"

 

 
@ Bubba, "The sheriff's a 'BONG'" funny movie...
 
@ AT... yep, I've only seen Unforgiven once so I will watch for it, and I really want to see The Wild Bunch. It has been so long that I don't remember it well. I wonder if Warren Oates was in every Peckinpah movie... he was in the first one and certainly in the majority of them.
 
Now I want to see "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia" too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPaUPU9xdgM They say that everyone involved knew that Oates was playing Sam Peckinpah in the movie but Sam didn't realize it until near the end of production. It is a bit of an 'underground movie'. Sam made it in Mexico with a free rein and it pretty much sums up his struggle with living and self destruction.
 
 

Hi,

Sam's film making and in the end violent stuff, was not so much about the western, as it was about his own view of things ... and he had the same issue with producers and film studios.  I do think that "Wild Bunch" is the best of them all, though the other films have their own bits and pieces that make it attractive. The only one I prefer not to talk about or watch, is "Straw Dogs", which to me is more about taking it all too far, than anything else ... and by that time, I did not think that Sam was with it anymore.

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid is an interesting movie ... and I think, a joke ... and not supposed to be taken seriously ... can't tell ... but it was nice, if not weird. At the time, the studio made a lot of bruhaha about the music for the film, and of course having Kristofferson and Dylan in there. Not sure the movie is better with them, or not important without them ... and I never could decide if the film was worth it or not.

jbow

 
.... only one that I know of ... was in many of his movies ....
 

 
"hey george ... I got his boots ... george look ... I got his boots! ... "
 
Strother Martin