1. Little Big Man Unforgiven Silverado Dances With Wolves Paint Your Wagon Lonesome Dove - yeah, a series, but too good to ignore Pale Rider The Outlaw Josie Wales Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Jeremiah Johnson The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Once upon a time in the West The Magnificent Seven True Grit The Cowboys Shane Stagecoach Rio Bravo High Planes Drifter Fistful of Dollars No one likes Jeremiah Johnson?
El Dorado - John Wayne, James Caan, Robert Mitchum, and Ed Asner. Great and classic Western storyline. Characters that actually have flaws (drunk sheriff, partially disabled hero, someone who is not a good shot in a main role). This is by far my favorite western (not taking into account Rio Bravo, which is a very similar movie, though missing some of the better aspects of El Dorado, like the aging and wounded heroes).
Antisonic: I doubt "Wild, Wild West" would break into the Top 100 Westerns on most people's charts let alone the Top Ten or Top Twenty. No plot, no acting, too much schmaltz -- need I go on? However, favorites are favorites, so who am I to say?
Is HPD the one I was trying to think of earlier, where Clint comes back from the dead to take revenge on a town? ANd I am ashamed that I forgot Jeremiah Johnson, which was the movie that 1st gave us a glimps of the real depths which lay beneath Redford's pretty boy surface, and he has now become one of my favorite directors.
Originally posted by MacBeth Is HPD the one I was trying to think of earlier, where Clint comes back from the dead to take revenge on a town? Yeah...he takes a whippin' and keeps on tick'n... They paint the town red. That one? ANd I am ashamed that I forgot Jeremiah Johnson, which was the movie that 1st gave us a glimps of the real depths which lay beneath Redford's pretty boy surface, and he has now become one of my favorite directors. I was suprised that everyone forgot Jeremiah. Kinda from the Josey Wales ilk. Redford was quite good. Which movies did you like that he directed? BTW, good thread MacBeth. Is helpful for those of us building a DVD collection.
A) Yeah, the red painted town, and the flashbacks to the guy getting beat to death. B) Ordinary People, Horse Whisperer, Quiz Show, etc... ...but far and away my favorite is A River Runs Through It, which IMO is one of the best films made in the past 20 years.
I agree totally. It's the best movie I have seen in a long long time. Jeremiah Johnson was one of the ones I couldn't remember. Top 10 western movie for sure. Thanks Cohen
I have to say one thing about Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid. The chemistry was great, and it was well acted. But the music in it was so absolutely horrible that I couldn't include it on my top ten list. The bad 70's whitebread sounding scat-like thing that reminded me of the Mainstreet Singers(from A Mighty Wind) trying to scat could almost bring me to violence. There are other examples of horrible music in that film too, but that song is the absolute worst.
I've never had a problem with that song. It was the one where the people are singing ba doop dooo badaap baaadooopidoop badoopidoopidopidoopidoo.
A River Runs Through It!?! That adaptation was created by studio producers to be an entertaining and touching date movie... And it was by no means anywhere near the top 100 films of the last 20 years. When we are talking the last twenty years, PT Anderson and Wes Anderson occupy most of the top ten. The scene complexities in ARRTI do not come close to touching something like Goodfellas or Reservoir Dogs. ARRTI's appeal rests solely on its story which is better in book form.
