Top 10 Westerns

[Speyer]

What are your favorite Western Movies or Books?

Movies:

1. Once Upon a Time in the West
2. The Searchers
3. Lone Star
4. The Great Silence
5. The Good The Bad and the Ugly
6. No Country for Old Men
7. The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance
8. Rio Bravo
9. Unforgiven
10. The Big Gundown

Books:

1. Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West
2. The Crossing
3. Butchers Crossing
4. Lonesome Dove
5. All The Pretty Horses
6. Comanche Moon
7. 3:10 to Yuma
8. The Time It Never Rained
9. Winnetou 3
10. Raiders of the Purple Sage

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[Jumptheshark]

I think we need to separate them into eras


before 1970 and after 1970

love you got Lonesome Dove--great movie and tv mini series

 

[Speyer]

There are also quite a few subgenres you could separate them into like classic westerns, neo westerns, spaghetti westerns, acid westerns etc. wich seemed to much of a hussle for me personally. Would be intersting to see such more detailed lists if anybody is interested.

 

[Chili]

Random order

Once Upon a time in the West-Leone masterpiece
Treasure of the Sierra Madre-Badges? Badges? We don't need no steenkin' badges!
Wild Bunch-Holden & the boys in Mexico
Magnificent Seven (John Sturges)-great score, great action
My Name is Nobody-The old gunfighter wants to hang 'em up, then he meets Nobody
Good, The Bad The Ugly-iconic, another masterful score from Morricone
Stagecoach (John Ford)-The movie that made John Wayne a big star
Outlaw Josey Wales-Dying ain't much of a livin' boy.
Duck You Sucker-Another Leone/Morricone gem
The Hired Hand- Slow paced, interesting tale

 

[plank]

Movies:

1. Blazing Saddles
2. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
3. No Country for Old Men
4. Lonely are the Brave
5. The Misfits
6. The Ballad of Cable Hogue
7. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
8. Rancho Deluxe
9. The Magnificent Seven
10. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

 

[BigBadBruins7708]

In no particular order, though my top 3 is Good, Bad, Ugly, Tombstone and No Country for Old Men

Good, Bad, Ugly
Tombstone
Once Upon a Time
No Country for Old Men (coen brothers)
True Grit (coens again)
Hateful 8
Unforgiven
The Searchers
Shane
Young Guns

 

[x Tame Impala]

The Man who Shot Liberty Valence was always my dad's favorite. To this day he says Lee Marvin was the most badass bad guy in a movie ever

 

[Babe Ruth]

The Outlaw Josey Wales

(funny Western) Three Amigos

 

[kihei]

This is hard.

Classic

The Searchers
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
3:10 to Yuma (the 1956 original)
High Noon
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Stagecoach
My Darling Clementine
Red River
Shane
Ride the High Country

Modern

McCabe and Mrs. Miller
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Unforgiven
The Wild Bunch
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Proposition (Australian)
The Magnificent Seven
3:10 to Yuma (the 2007 remake)
A Fistful of Dollars

Top Ten (combined lists)

McCabe and Mrs Miller
The Searchers
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
3:10 to Yuma (the 1956 original)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
High Noon
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Unforgiven
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Wild Bunch

 

[Neutrinos]

Surprised these haven't been mentioned yet:

Dances With Wolves
The Quick And The Dead

 

[Eisen]

They call me Trinity
Trinity is still my name
My name is Nobody
Man of the East
Django (66)
A fistful of Dollars
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
High Noon
The Shootist
The Wild Bunch

 

[frisco]

In no order:
Will Penny
Magnificent Seven (original North American)
Major Dundee
Nevada Smith
Tombstone
The Wild Bunch
Once Upon A Time In The West
Lone Star
Tom Horn
The Big Country

My Best-Carey

 

[KingBran]

Tombstone
Rio Bravo
Blazing Saddles


Top 3 in no order.

 

[William H Bonney]

Surprised to not see The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford named yet.

 

[Jumptheshark]

no love for "she wore a yellow ribbon"

 

[kihei]

no love for "she wore a yellow ribbon"

Sure, It just loses out in a numbers game.

 

[NyQuil]

My favorite Western novel is definitely Old Custer by Eli Cash.

Well everyone knows Custer died at Little Big Horn. What this book presupposes is, maybe he didn't?

An excerpt:

 

[NyQuil]

Before Silverado Westerns were dead.

Terribly underrated film.

I also kind of liked Quigley Down Under with Tom Selleck and Alan Rickman.

 

[Osprey]

These aren't necessarily the best, but are the 10 that I'm probably the most fond of:

The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Pale Rider
The Magnificent Seven
The Wild Bunch
High Noon
Unforgiven
Broken Arrow
Three Amigos!
Support Your Local Sheriff!

 

[Spring in Fialta]

All these titles do is make me daydream about what a great director could do with Blood Meridian. God, that would make a fantastic movie.

 

[tacogeoff]

Tombstone
Magnificent 7 (latest remake)
Unforgiven
Hostiles
Posse
Wyatt earp (94)
3:10 to Yuma (07)
Young guns 88

I'm sure I forgot a few.

Never really got into the classics movies. Probably shoud at some point.

Favorite western series:
Deadwood
Godless
Hell on wheels


Favorite books:

Louis L'Amour is the only author I read as a teenager and I think I read every darn book I could get ahold of at the library. Honestly never tried another writer in that genre since.

 

[the paisanos guy]

Surprised to not see The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford named yet.

Unbelievably underrated movie.

Favorite western series:
Deadwood
Godless
Hell on wheels

If you weren't aware, HBO recently released a Deadwood movie that takes place a few years after the series. It's a great watch and pretty much all the actors came back for it.

 

[montreal]

I haven't seen a lot of the older westerns but these would be my favorites,

Tombstone
Pale Rider
Unforgiven
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Dances With Wolves
The Alamo
Wyatt Earp
Bone Tomahawk
Open Range
The Quick and the Dead

tv series -
Firefly
Deadwood
Hell on Wheels

comedy -
Blazing Saddles
The Three Amigos
A Million Ways to Die in the West

 

[Blender]

No particular order.

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Once Upon a Time in the West
Duck, You Sucker!
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Tombstone
Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Butcher Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Unforgiven
For a Few Dollars More
High Noon

 

[johnjm22]

I don't have a top 10 list, but The Proposition (2005) is a great film. It's not often talked about, but it's one of my favorite "Westerns". Really brutal. Great acting.

Slow West and Bone Tomahawk are two recent Westerns that I also enjoyed. Maybe not top 10 worthy, but very solid.