General Favorite western?
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Both good in their own way, not sure they belong on a greats list. I know some people absolutely love the remake
Speaking of remakes
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To this day it's still Tombstone but 3:10 to Yuma (both versions) and all of Clint's from the 60s to unforgiven are great. I even like some dumb comedy westerns like maverick and lesser known ones like the Cherokee kid or lightning jack, definitely not great but worth a watch for something different.
If you love The Duke, this is his true classic. I didn't get it as a kid, he wasn't even killing Indians or punching fools, wasn't even yelling at Dean Martin.. didn't make sense. This was a pretty mature movie and, imo, possibly his best work. He acting his ass off, not just being the stereotype that made him famous.
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Well that explains it, it's 3:10 to yuma, I'd be surprised if I ever post on a western thread again
I’ll always love the original, despite the fact that they obviously didn’t think the audience would get the subtle humor of Portis’ novel and turned it into a broad comedy.
The remake is good, but I didn’t like the casting of Matt Damon as LaBoeuf or how the character was portrayed as kind of dull. Hailee Steinfeld was both cuter and more age appropriate for Mattie than Kim Darby in the original.
Rewatched the Good, the bad and the ugly last night, still holds up. Just a perfect soundtrack
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Trinity Is Still My Name (1971)* HD.* Terence Hill, Bud Spencer
Bambino tries to teach his brother Trinity how to become an outlaw, but the two wind up saving a pioneer family and breaking up an arms ring instead.
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So many greats on this list but my choice is:
"Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid" (1969)w/ Paul Newman and Robert Redford
Just a GREAT movie, action, comedy, romance, and ultimately tragedy. One of my dads (RIP) favs! Roger Ebert (RIP) in one of his rants, noted that if this movie was made today, the studio would insist that both leads survive so they could produce a sequel! Indeed!
"Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid" (1969)w/ Paul Newman and Robert Redford
Just a GREAT movie, action, comedy, romance, and ultimately tragedy. One of my dads (RIP) favs! Roger Ebert (RIP) in one of his rants, noted that if this movie was made today, the studio would insist that both leads survive so they could produce a sequel! Indeed!
That one is great
Butch lived though
Saw him in Blackthorn (2011)
Looks interesting
Will check it out
My dad was a big fan of Zane Grey as well, I have never read them, I think I need to.
We had “The Zane Grey Library” that was hard bound editions of all of his novels. They’re early 1900s and kind of wordy compared to later authors, but some of them are pretty good. “Riders of the Purple Sage” is a classic and “The Lone Star Ranger” is good but kind of weird. The publisher actually took two of his novels that he had submitted and mashed them together into a single book. Some yard back some publisher actually split them back apart and reprinted them as the two separate books they were intended to be.