What's your favorite Western?

[Trey of Diamonds]

I'm very fond of Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns with the Man With No Name trilogy being my favorite. I think these are my favorite because I love the music from Ennio Morricone like the Fistful of Dollars theme. But I also really like Silverado and the Outlaw Josey Wales.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

My favourite has to be Unforgiven, but High Noon is right up there, too.

 

[3.14]

wild wild west
Wild Wild West (1999)

 

[Charity]

Young guns
Wyatt Earp
Open Range
Tombstone* (my favorite of all)

 

[kai]

tombstone! the only western i ever really liked

 

[Storm]

Paint Your Wagon.

If I have to pick a (mostly) serious one, Little Big Man.

 

[Buttercup]

Tombstone
any of the old Clint Eastwood movies
John Wayne - The Cowboys

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Unforgiven is ultimate western and pretty much definitively concluded the genre. It's a bit dark, but one of the few movies that can be considered masterpieces. It is especially good when watched in the context of Clint Eastwood's earlier westerns.

 

[Trey of Diamonds]

Unforgiven is ultimate western and pretty much definitively concluded the genre. It's a bit dark, but one of the few movies that can be considered masterpieces. It is especially good when watched in the context of Clint Eastwood's earlier westerns.

Really? I thought it was an excellent movie but hardly definitive. I thought Silverado was more definitive although they took it to the extreme, so much so that it was almost a parody. Why do you feel that the Unforgiven is definitive?

 

[Mister_T]

The Outlaw Josey Wales and Tombstone.

 

[Apex]

Serenity... (Ok it's not a western in the traditional sense, but it is in more of a modern interpretation)

 

[Quagmire]

I agree with almost everybody else's pics in this thread, and I'll add;

Hombre---with Paul Newman.

The Magnificent Seven---Yule Brenner, Charles Bronson, Steve McQueen, Eli Walleck, ...

 

[Nepenthe]

The Wild Bunch
Peckinpah's masterpiece imo. Savagely violent, unsavory, even unlikeable, protagonists; amazing editing (including slo-mo techniques that would become a staple in action films decades later); great screenplay and the 1st film to use the actual sound effects a specific gun makes when firing. it's all in the details....

Ugly, fascinating, gritty and brutal, The Wild bunch is not only my favorite Western, but one of my top 100 films or so.

 

[Nepenthe]

Paint Your Wagon.

If I have to pick a (mostly) serious one, Little Big Man.

Damn... Little Big Man is way up there too. Dick Smith's makeup effects are still astounding.

 

[gnomon]

Sergio Leone's films, Unforgiven, The Magnificent Seven, The Wild Bunch, Serenity (yes, it counts)

Also,
The Proposition
Seraphim Falls(not really a Western)

 

[Quagmire]

The Wild Bunch
Peckinpah's masterpiece imo. Savagely violent, unsavory, even unlikeable, protagonists; amazing editing (including slo-mo techniques that would become a staple in action films decades later); great screenplay and the 1st film to use the actual sound effects a specific gun makes when firing. it's all in the details....

Ugly, fascinating, gritty and brutal, The Wild bunch is not only my favorite Western, but one of my top 100 films or so.

Absolutely. :yes:
In the same vein (that is; the end of the gunfighter era) I would add;

Shane---Alan Ladd

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.---Paul Newman, Robert Redford

 

[Storm]

If Serenity counts, it totally goes on my list!

 

[Quagmire]

Oh yeah, how could we forget?--

Blazing Saddles--Cleavon Little, Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder

 

[Trey of Diamonds]

The Wild Bunch

Spectacular choice!

 

[cardero]

There was one movie that really made me feel that I was part of that era and that was Once Upon A TIme In The West with Charles Bronson and Henry Fonda.

If you have never seen a cowboy roping a dinosaur, I would recommend Jim O’ Connelly and Ray Harryhausen’s Valley Of Gwangi.

I also enjoyed Sam Pekinpah's Ride THe High Country .