I'd make a poll but there aren't enough options...here's my top 10 in no certain order: The Wild Bunch Tombstone Unforgiven No Country For Old Men The Searchers Silverado Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Pale Rider Django Unchained Outlaw Josey Wales and True Grit, pick which one. I could list 20 more, what did I forget? What do yall like?
LOL. In all seriousness I thought 3:10 to Yuma was pretty good. I haven’t seen the 1957 version so no comment on that. True Grit was great. As much as I like John Wayne the Jeff Bridges version was well done. I also like El Dorado but idk that it deserves to be on the list.
To add some more titles to the list ... The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) My Darling Clementine (1946) Shane (1953) Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) The Big Country (1958) The Magnificent Seven (1960) Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973) (the 60-70s Sergio Leone movies) A Fistful of Dollars For a Few Dollars More The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Once Upon a Time in the West Duck, You Sucker! (the 70s 'Trinity' series) They Call Me Trinit Trinity Is Still My Name My Name Is Nobody
Tough one. The two that jump to mind are Tombstone and No Country. Kurt Russel should have gotten an Academy Award for Tombstone. The Sergio Leone Westerns are some of the films that ushered in modern filmmaking IMO, and are sublime in their own way. For some reason they were always on very late at night when I was a kid and up sick. Not a big fan of early 1960s and earlier ‘stand around and talk for 20 minutes’ movies so older westerns don’t appeal to me.
I know it's not exactly an American thing to say, but I've never cared for John Wayne or most of the old school westerns. But as for my favorites, I will echo Tombstone (probably my favorite). Followed closely behind that is the True Grit remake, Unforgiven, No Country and Django Unchained. I know a picture and Cowboys and Aliens was posted in jest above, but that movie is actually not bad. I feel like John Favreau took something that should have been beyond ridiculous and made pretty entertaining. Plus Olivia Wilde.
The Leone movies are among my favorites of all time. Also love The Outlaw Josey Wales. Eastwood is my favorite actor, no question.
The Man who shot Liberty Valance- Great cast. Lee Marvin was awesome in this. Once upon a time in the West- Great cast. Henry Fonda, of all people, was pure evil in this movie.
