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The best and worst western movies:

Post by Redthies » Thu Dec 13, 2018 12:02 am

As the thread title says, which are your votes for best and worst duster of all times? Feel free to do a top/bottom 3 if you can’t name just one!

Best:

1. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
2. Fistful of Dollars
3. Unforgiven

Honerable mention to Blazing Saddles!

Worst:

1. Hickok
2. Hickok
3. Hickok
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Re: The best and worst western movies:

Post by Redthies » Thu Dec 13, 2018 12:04 am

PS: I’m currently suffering through Hickok and so bored I started this thread instead of watching! And yes Mags, I have a lever action on the coffee table! ;)
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Re: The best and worst western movies:

Post by JEBar » Thu Dec 13, 2018 12:15 am

BEST :
1 most any picture staring the Duke and/or Clint
2 most any with picture with Tom Selleck and/or Sam Elliott .... example The Sacketts
3 Lonesome Dove

WORST :
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Re: The best and worst western movies:

Post by Ojaileveraction » Thu Dec 13, 2018 12:57 am

Top Three
No particular order.
The Searchers
Seven Way To Sundown
A Fist Full of a Few Good Dollars Bad and Ugly, Not one movie but a Trilogy

Worst Movie, Flaming Star
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Re: The best and worst western movies:

Post by Henry88 » Thu Dec 13, 2018 1:08 am

the man who shot liberty valance
the magnificent seven
butch cassidy and the sundance kid

Can't really think of a bad one........Did Bill Shatner make a Western?
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Re: The best and worst western movies:

Post by ChefDuane » Thu Dec 13, 2018 1:38 am

Best: (not necessarily in this order other than The Searchers being #1 for me)
The Searchers
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Unforgiven
Open Range
The Magnificent 7
How the West was Won

Worst:
The Villian (comedy with Kirk Douglas as 'Cactus Jack' and Arnold Swarzenegger as 'Handsome Stranger')
The Terror of Tiny Town
The Wild Wild West movie 1999 (Kenneth Branagh as Loveless and Will Smith as Jim West - a REAL stinker)
The Quick and The Dead (Sharon Stone as a gunslinger filmed in some weird yellow/brown haze )
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter (never seen it, I just like the title!)
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Re: The best and worst western movies:

Post by Mistered » Thu Dec 13, 2018 8:18 am

Maybe I am overthinking it but maybe the 'worst' should be limited to westerns that were intended to be Realistically scripted as opposed to comedic - as the comedy westerns are in a class of their own.

With regard to 'best' I'll have to give that some thought as a few already mentioned by others are on my list - as well as some of the worst!

I will however add as one of the best was a made for tv mini series titled 'Broken Trail' with Robert Duval and Thomas Haynes Church. This was incredibly well directed and patterned in the style of a 'big screen' movie as opposed to tv.
It was very realistic in props and dress for the script time period (1898) and the human interest and emotion of the cast was very moving - especially the final scenes. I highly recommend it for any fan of 'serious' westerns.
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Re: The best and worst western movies:

Post by CT_Shooter » Thu Dec 13, 2018 8:28 am

Best of the best
1. Once Upon a Time in the West
2. The Searchers
3. How the West Was Won
4. Red River
5. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
6. Quigley, Down Under
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Re: The best and worst western movies:

Post by The Wiz » Thu Dec 13, 2018 10:10 am

I am going with some earlier westerns just to give some balance.

Shane ( Jack Palance, oh my! )
High Noon
Stage Coach

Favorite " modern" western: Ballad o f
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Re: The best and worst western movies:

Post by The Wiz » Thu Dec 13, 2018 10:13 am

opps: Ballad of Josey Wales ( horse back gun play! )
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