Do you like Westerns?

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Permalink Reply by Stanley Kubrick on September 16, 2009 at 3:42pm

And I forgot Once Upon A Time In the West which is at number 3.5 above ! (classic epic stuff)

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Permalink Reply by Boatloads1017 on September 16, 2009 at 3:43pm

I haven't seen a lot of westerns, but the one's I have I liked.

3:10 to Yuma (Remake, and parts of the original, which I need to finish)
Sukiyaki Western Django (don't know if this counts)

Really, as long as the film itself is good, the genre isn't what's important for me.

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Permalink Reply by Thunder Horse on September 16, 2009 at 4:16pm

The Magnificent Seven
Tombstone

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Permalink Reply by FaceTheWheel on September 16, 2009 at 5:28pm

The Magnificent Seven, don't know how I forgot that one. It's a great movie.

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Permalink Reply by JonPim on September 17, 2009 at 2:30am

I can't say that I've seen six that I can remember, but 3:10 to Yuma kicked ass and that's all I have to say....about that.

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Permalink Reply by AcE! on September 17, 2009 at 8:30am

There's something about westerns that has always bored me. Unforgiven is the only western I was genuinely interested in while watching.

I watch A Fistful Dollars and thought it dragged, then I watched Yojimbo and loved it. I guess it's just the setting, not the stories themselves.

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Permalink Reply by I.Koval on September 17, 2009 at 11:53am

or, on a serious note.....a forgotten classic but so very worth digging around for weeks to find:

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Permalink Reply by Gift of the Magi on September 17, 2009 at 4:23pm

AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OH MY GOD!!! KILL IT, KILL IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Permalink Reply by Trane90 on September 17, 2009 at 12:39pm

Yes, I started watching them with my father as a kid (most of them were Sergio Leone's movies), and still I enjoy them.

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Permalink Reply by Gift of the Magi on September 17, 2009 at 4:30pm

Not a favorite genre of mine, but here are a few gems (IMHO) to try out.

Quigly Down Under: Yes yes yes, I know. Cheesy-assed title and plot. Standard skilled gunman saves natives from evil rancher. However, the character development was decent and the characters themselves enjoyable. Also rare (except The Rifleman) to see a hero that's focus was basically a sniper, not a pistoleer. Tom Selleck is not normally an actor I think with great chops in the field, but he looked quite natural in his role.

True Grit: Rooster fuckin' Cogburn. Check this little piece of dialogue
Ned Pepper: I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man.
Rooster Cogburn: Fill your hands, you son of a bitch.
The lines in True Grit are most of the fun. They sing like an Aaron Sorkin script. The characters are realistic and fun to watch. No wonder they want to remake this.

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Permalink Reply by FaceTheWheel on September 17, 2009 at 5:49pm

Quigley Down Under is one of those movies that comes on TV and you think, "I'll just watch it for a bit then go do what I have to do..." and then you see the credits roll.

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Permalink Reply by aharshDM on September 17, 2009 at 4:56pm

I'm not very big into Westerns, but if it has Leone or Eastwood's name on it, I'll watch it. I also recently discovered Lonesome Dove.

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