Suggest me a western or two

[thespyisdead]

Hey there Escapist! This is not your typical "suggest" thread, where you give someone animes to watch, this thread is all about giving me westerns to watch.

besides "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly"(which i have not seen) i know not any western that are out there and worth watching, so if you could kindly suggest something after this to watch, i would be grateful

 

[GonvilleBromhead]

All three of the Dollar's trilogy of Spaghetti Western's are pretty good (Fistful of Dollars; For a Few Dollars More; and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly)

 

[Jonluw]

The complete series of Bonanza.

[sub]Oh gods, the nostalgia. It's too much.[/sub]​

Sunday mornings, man. Sunday mornings.

 

[Rawne1980]

Tombstone, Unforgiven, Young Guns, True Grit, Bad Girls, Sons of Katie Elder, Calamity Jane, Westworld (not technically a western but still) there are tons of good westerns but a lot of them seem to elude my memory at the moment.

 

[Private Custard]

I'll second Tombstone, Val Kilmer was awesome!

 

[Queen Michael]

Wild Wild Wehahahahahaha no, seriously, My Name Is Nobody is pretty good, or so I'm told.

And since it didn't say "suggest me a western film or two" I'm also going to recommend the Border trilogy by Cormac McCarthy (First part's "All the Pretty Horses," second part's "The Crossing," and the third part's "Cities of the Plain"). As a whole that trilogy is the best thing he's written, but the best single book he's written, western or otherwise, is "Blood Meridian." But if you don't speak Spanish you won't understand about a fourth of all the dialogue in the books, so I'd recommend Outer Dark if that's the case. Same genre, same writer, and without all the Spanish dialogue as far as I can remember. A couple of lines at most.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Blazing Saddles puts all these movies to Shame. Also, Rango makes for a damn good acid western.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Unforgiven, as mentioned.

Erm...Outland? That's High Noon, but in space.

The Proposition is pretty good, it's a western set in the Australian outback...very bleak though.

Slaughter Trail isn't bad and has lots of singing, so if you're into that.

 

[Nerexor]

There's a very good one called "They Call Me Trinity" which is a lot of fun. Also Blazing Saddles has the fastest gunfights ever. And is hilarious.

And has nobody mentioned Firefly yet? It's a western in SPACE! With awesome music and characters and Whedon directing it.

Pale Rider -> Small mining village is being harassed by THE MAN. A wild Clint Eastwood appears! And he's a priest?

The Magnificent Seven -> Seven gunmen team up to protect a small village from rampaging bandits. Pretty much a direct rip of Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, but it's a very good film.

A Fistful of Dollars -> A lone gunslinger (Clint Eastwood) sees opportunity in playing two rival criminal families against each other in an otherwise dead end town. For the original version of the story, see Yojimbo by Akira Kurosawa.

For a Few Dollars More -> Two badass bounty hunters (Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef) butt heads over the rights to take out a gang of murderous bank robbers.

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly -> I'm not even going to try and sum up this epicness. If you haven't seen it, watch it.

The Good, The Bad, and The Weird -> A korean homage to the Sergio Leone western. The story of two outlaws and a bounty hunter in 1940s Manchuria and their rivalry to possess a treasure map while being pursued by the Japanese army and Chinese bandits. This movie is AWESOME and has some really cool gunfights.

Unforgiven -> When two visitors to a brothel take a knife to one of the girls, the word is put out that good money will paid for the deaths of the offenders. The local sherriff is having none of it though, and goes to extremes to stop anyone from trying to collect the bounty.

Sabata -> Lee van Cleef being awesome for 90 minutes. That's basically all you need to know about this film.

That's all I've got for now.

EDIT:

Since someone mentioned books, "Shane" by Jack Schaefer is excellent. It also has an oscar winning movie adaptation, but I find the book to be superior by a wide margin. Mostly because the kid's voice in the movie is beyond annoying.

 

[Susan Arendt]

Tombstone, Silverado, the Cohen Bros. version of True Grit, 3:10 to Yuma. Erm, the Russell Crowe version, specifically.

 

[the December King]

To me, 'Unforgiven' might be the best of the lot, but I enjoyed all of the Spaghetti westerns, too. And I liked 'The Magnificent Seven'.

There was a certain ammount of light- hearted fun to 'The Quick And The Dead' as well.

'The Outlaw Josey Wales', too. 'Like The Good The Bad and The Ugly', they are westerns that deal with the west in the same way that some of the best war movies are only using the genre as a backdrop to their more personal and compelling narrative arcs.

I do feel like I'm forgetting something...

 

[Fappy]

Spaghetti Westerns! Anything with Clint Eastwood is #1.

 

[Derelict Frog]

"The Outlaw Josey Wales" is one of my favourite films of all time.

"Pale Rider" is also fantastic.

"High Plains Drifter" too. You can tell I'm an Eastwood fan

I also love "The Searchers" and "The Wild Bunch"

 

[FolkLikePanda]

Blazing Saddles
Fistful Of Dollars
For A Few Dollars More
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
Unforgiven
High Plains Drifter
Magnificent Seven
Hang 'Em High
True Grit (John Wayne one)
Once Upon A Time In The West
Tombstone
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid

 

[busterkeatonrules]

I don't usually care for westerns, but I recently watched Breakheart Pass starring Charles Bronson, and found it to be a blast.

Bronson has gotten himself arrested for cheating at poker, and is being transported on a train carrying vital medicines bound for an epidemic-ridden outpost in a desolate, isolated location. People on the train are turning up dead, and because Bronson has some medical experience, he is trusted to help investigate.

The movie is based on a novel by Alistair MacLean, more famous for his intense WW2 thrillers. Think Murder on the Orient Express meets the Western genre. And Charles Bronson. MUCH more awesome than it sounds.

And it has Charles Bronson in it. Yeah.

 

[smearyllama]

I saw Two Mules For Sister Sarah just the other day, and that is, of course, a Western. It's a little less gunslingers'n'showdowns than a lot of others, but it's still quite good. Two Mules is more of a buddy movie, but if you replaced the sassy black guy with a nun, and the white straight man with Clint Eastwood. It's also one of the few movies I've ever gotten my mom to watch with me, since it's an old favorite of hers. If that's not a good recommendation, I don't know what is.

 

[Swyftstar]

Silverado
Unforgiven
The Quick and the Dead

 

[jthm]

Once Upon a Time in the West

Stands as one of the best films ever made, to say nothing of Westerns. Quick and the Dead was good, Fistful of Dollars, Good the Bad and the Ugly, For a Few Dollars More. All good choices.

 

[pandorum]

Did not see it on here but Appaloosa is a good but underrated movie.

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[Xaryn Mar]

I will always recommend "Once Upon a Time in the West" and the rest of Sergio Leones westerns.