General Favorite western?

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scourge

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Shane. Don't think it's the best western out there but my grandpa and I watched it several times when I was a kid so there's sentimental value.
 

MountainMedic

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Shane. Don't think it's the best western out there but my grandpa and I watched it several times when I was a kid so there's sentimental value.
The sound, when proper, was kind of groundbreaking.
Theaters would constantly adjust certain scenes because they didn't understand what the movie was trying to do.
 

kvr28

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Shane. Don't think it's the best western out there but my grandpa and I watched it several times when I was a kid so there's sentimental value.
I feel the same way about the sackett books my father introduced me to
 

sparkuri

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Good bad ugly
Magnificent 7
They call me Trinity
 

Rambo John J

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That is a hard question
I fancy probably 40 westerns on a high level
I watch a couple a week and some are old, rough, forgotten.

So many sub genres, I could go on for days picking my "favorite"

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That movie ^^^ kicks ass
Almost pushes out of the western timeline but I love it
Cast and characters are amazing
Unpolished gem
 

2oldguy

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Good bad ugly
Bone tomahawk
Unforgiven
All the rest of the Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns and anything with John Wayne
 

CasketCaseZombie

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Hard to call a favorite so I’ll do top 5 in chrono order:
The Searchers
The Magnificent Seven (original)
The Professionals
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Unforgiven

This could easily be a really long list, since the majority of my all-time favorite movies are from this genre.
 

CasketCaseZombie

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I feel the same way about the sackett books my father introduced me to
I also picked those up from my Pop, but over a decade after I picked up a L’Amour novel called La Jornada he left lying on the table by his chair after he finished it. I was 10 at the time. I still have it. First “adult” novel I ever read.
 

VFR

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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Open Range is a real close second place though.

My favorite classic old timey western would be The Searchers.

And new age western would be Wind River.
 

Hauler

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Yeah I know it's just Rio Bravo again. But it's my favorite.

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Sip on some bourbon, turn off your brain and just watch John Wayne, Robert Mitchum and a super young James Caan cook.
 
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Revenant

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The Wild Bunch
Lonesome Dove (movie to me, damnit)
Unforgiven
Once Upon a Time in the West

to name a few...
 

MountainMedic

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A comment on another thread reminded me of this movie that I never watched. Any good?


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OwvqKwTKmE
Honest assessment is that it's just a time killer. Not horrible exactly, just meh. It's like they couldn't ever figure out what the relationship was supposed to be which led to a pretty disjointed narrative.

There isn't a single scene that I can recall, and I watched it 6 days ago.