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[TV] Your favourite Western films and tv series
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Barham's tash
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Can I be bold enough to throw in No Country for Old Men as a modern example?
And if you haven’t suggest you read the book if you love the film as it’s bound to lead you through the other Cormac McCarthy westerns.
Fantastic.
And if you haven’t suggest you read the book if you love the film as it’s bound to lead you through the other Cormac McCarthy westerns.
Fantastic.
110% with you.
Pint of Ale and a Burger
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Anything with John Wayne especially,.
Man who shot liberty valance,
True grit,
Rio bravo,
The shootist which is magnificent homage to his previous films before.
Anything with Clint Eastwood including his modern classic unforgiven.a simalar swansong to John Wayne's shootist.
Magnificent seven is also good.its excellent in its own right but also interesting comparing to seven samurai.
TV show is kung-fu .I loved that as a kid.
Blazing saddles and Shanghai noon are good comedy westerns.
Modern efforts which I really like are,
Cowboys and aliens,
Hateful eight,
The revenent.
Thankfully there is a huge amount of quality westerns from the 50s,60s,70s I will happily watch any of them
Man who shot liberty valance,
True grit,
Rio bravo,
The shootist which is magnificent homage to his previous films before.
Anything with Clint Eastwood including his modern classic unforgiven.a simalar swansong to John Wayne's shootist.
Magnificent seven is also good.its excellent in its own right but also interesting comparing to seven samurai.
TV show is kung-fu .I loved that as a kid.
Blazing saddles and Shanghai noon are good comedy westerns.
Modern efforts which I really like are,
Cowboys and aliens,
Hateful eight,
The revenent.
Thankfully there is a huge amount of quality westerns from the 50s,60s,70s I will happily watch any of them
Dr Bandler
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The Outlaw Josey Wales and Pale Rider. I can watch them over and over again (and do).
studio150
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Films
The Searchers
Shane
Red River
The Magnificent Seven
Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
Rio Bravo
Winchester '73
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Pale Rider
Unforgiven
The Good The Bad and The Ugly
Plus virtually any other western which stars John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Randolph Scott or James Stewart
TV Series
The High Chaparral
Alias Smith and Jones
Deadwood
The Searchers
Shane
Red River
The Magnificent Seven
Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
Rio Bravo
Winchester '73
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Pale Rider
Unforgiven
The Good The Bad and The Ugly
Plus virtually any other western which stars John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Randolph Scott or James Stewart
TV Series
The High Chaparral
Alias Smith and Jones
Deadwood
METALMICKY
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- Jan 30, 2004
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Not my favourite genre but a few gems out there :
The Magnificent Seven
Blazing Saddles
All the spaghetti westerns and pretty much any one starring Clint Eastwood.
TV series :
The High Chaparral
Alias Smith and Jones
The Virginian
Special mention for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Not just a great film but Metallica's intro music!
The Magnificent Seven
Blazing Saddles
All the spaghetti westerns and pretty much any one starring Clint Eastwood.
TV series :
The High Chaparral
Alias Smith and Jones
The Virginian
Special mention for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Not just a great film but Metallica's intro music!
Many I like have already been mentioned so I'll add a couple which haven't.
Both of them are quite quirky and offbeat but are nonetheless very good westerns:
The first is Dead Man starring Johnny Depp and featuring an unlikely appearance by Iggy Pop playing a frontier transvestite. Also has an atmospheric soundtrack by Neil Young..
*https://youtu.be/nn2nQMfLqwg
The second is "Little Big Man" starring Dustin Hoffman. Although the film is semi comedic it deals with serious issues and gives an authentic and not widely known insight into some aspects of Native American culture such as transgenderism which was both recognised and accepted by some Native American tribes..
https://youtu.be/7K4l5ZZe4-k
It appears that both my picks feature some form of transgenderism, more by accident than design. Not sure what that says about me.
Both of them are quite quirky and offbeat but are nonetheless very good westerns:
The first is Dead Man starring Johnny Depp and featuring an unlikely appearance by Iggy Pop playing a frontier transvestite. Also has an atmospheric soundtrack by Neil Young..
*https://youtu.be/nn2nQMfLqwg
The second is "Little Big Man" starring Dustin Hoffman. Although the film is semi comedic it deals with serious issues and gives an authentic and not widely known insight into some aspects of Native American culture such as transgenderism which was both recognised and accepted by some Native American tribes..
https://youtu.be/7K4l5ZZe4-k
It appears that both my picks feature some form of transgenderism, more by accident than design. Not sure what that says about me.
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Shooting Star
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High Noon and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance are among my favourites.
(p.s. I'm 28 but an old codger at heart!)
(p.s. I'm 28 but an old codger at heart!)
jakarta
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Amazed it took until now to be mentioned, a very classy film with Clint not afraid of being upstaged by Gene Hackman...
jakarta
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You Sir, have very similar taste to me!
I'm also very fond of the Shootist, Wayne's final film and it is elegiac as you say. It is a film about time moving on and the finality of Wayne's professional life (as a Gunman in the story but as an Actor in real life). The kick in the Story is that J.B.Books (Wayne's character) is dying of cancer and so was Wayne at the time. Can recommend it even if you don't like Westerns. He got an Oscar in 1969 for True Grit but this is a far better performance. Allegedly Don Siegel, the Director of The Shootist was quoted as saying "The Son of a Bitch has finally learned to Act!"
Best TV Western Show is probably Deadwood?
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Weststander
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All the Clint Eastwood westerns.
Shane
Once Upon A Time In The West
The Magnificent Seven
TV series - Kung Fu (with David Carradine). I was too young for Raw Hide, which is loved by my older brothers.
TV series - as a 70's kid, Champion The Wonder Horse.
Shane
Once Upon A Time In The West
The Magnificent Seven
TV series - Kung Fu (with David Carradine). I was too young for Raw Hide, which is loved by my older brothers.
TV series - as a 70's kid, Champion The Wonder Horse.
KZNSeagull
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Yup, those plus High Plains Drifter
Lower West Stander
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Very similar to me. Lee van Cleef is the best baddie in the world. Ever.
Did quite like McCloud as well.
Does that count?
IMHO this is almost up there with Blazing Saddles as one of the funniest westerns.