Great Modern Westerns?


Of the color age

Deadwood
The Unforgiven
Mag 7 1960
Tombstone
Dances with Wolves
Open Range
Wyatt Earp
Young Guns
Silverado
Any old Clint Eastwood films(with the exception of Two Mules for Sister Sarah).
Lone Ranger with Johnny Depp (Just Kidding)

I'm not a John Wayne fan, but I can understand his appeal.

This was not a great one. This was like Long Riders. Cast of recognizable faces, but completely forgettable.



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The long riders was excellent

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By the way you forgot 3:10 to Yuma. Very good remake just like The Magnificent Seven(2016)

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Hated it.

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Awwh poor baby

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Not really, I figure its babies (young or old) that like a lot of the films I hate.

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Rustler's Rhapsody which was a send up of singing westerns like Roy Rodgers and Gene Autry made. Tom Beranger traveled the west with a wardrobe filled with fancy shirts, pants and boots.

They had a Smiley Burnette look alike as a side kick. He got drunk in a saloon and messed up an insult to a gunslinger getting it backwards. He ended up saying "Yes, I've got a match. Your a$$ and my face" instead of "my a$$ and your face."




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I got a laugh out of some of that on youtube.

Of course I forgot Blazing Saddles.

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The Yuma remake was ridiculous. Was laughing my socks off near the end it was that bad.

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Its still a western if its dated prior to the civil war. But this isnt a typical western its more a throwback to spaghetti westerns.

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Anything that Clint Eastwood made. Tombstone was fantastic. So was Silverado. The reconstructed version of Heaven's Gate (turned out this movie, which had been awful after being hacked to death by the studio, was actually a great film when you see the cut the director had intended.....Criterion put it back together.)

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Good to know. The Professional(1966) is one of my all-time favorites.

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The Professionals****

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Yes....that is an excellent movie. I haven't seen it in probably 30+ years, though. I just took at peek at it's page. I didn't realize that it were directed by the vastly underrated Richard Brooks, who directed films such as In Cold Blood, $ , Elmer Gantry, and Looking For Mr. Goodbar.....as well as writing the screenplays of all of these films. He was able to effortlessly and effectively move from genre to genre with apparent ease.

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Yes and also the very underrated " bite the bullet"

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Yes and also the very underrated " bite the bullet"

BITE THE BULLET is great, another one from Richard Brooks, who wrote and directed THE PROFESSIONALS.

"I speak Spanish to God, French to women, English to men, and Japanese to my horse."

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I loved Bite The Bullet. Unfortunately for Brooks, the movie was a big budget film that did very poorly at the box office. It got "discovered" later when it did the rounds on HBO and regular TV runs. Such a good movie that was hamstrung by a poor advertising campaign.

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Silverado was great

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Bone Tomahawk

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More of a horror movie than western but very well done

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The Revenant is classified as a western; I'm surprised no one mentioned it. Yeah it took liberties with the story (let's be honest, even the original legend prob took ample liberties with the story) but it was still a decent film, cartoon bear or not. I also didn't see anyone mention The Assassination of Jesse James... or True Grit (2010 version). One of my personal faves of the genre is Hidalgo. I don't care how many times I see that film I always love it. Also was always a fan of Quigley (sp?) Down Under. Also does Lonesome Dove count? I know it's a mini-series but I always enjoyed that.



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Jessie James was a fantastic movie.

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Tombstone
Dances with Wolves
Open Range

For sure.

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Lonesome Dove.

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