Thread: Last movie you saw - and rate it

Originally Posted by MOtorboat

I lied. There Will Be Blood.

Top 5 westerns (Mo’s definition):
1. There Will Be Blood
2. Unforgiven
3. Tombstone
4. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
5. Jeremiah Johnson

Top 5 “westerns” (Abe’s definition)
1. There Will Be Blood
2. Django Unchained
3. Hell or High Water
4. Star Wars IV
5. No Country For Old Men
(There’s only one western on this list.)

For the record, a western must take place in the Americas or it's not a western IMO.

So while A New Hope is the only Star Wars movie I like, and part of that is because it very much uses the archetypes of westerns, I would not consider it western enough to be a western. Whereas Django includes a battle between the old frontier and the new frontier not necessarily in the "old west", but in old west times and includes every other aspect of a western film in the process. So it meets enough of the criteria.

Originally Posted by aberdien

For the record, a western must take place in the Americas or it's not a western IMO.

So while A New Hope is the only Star Wars movie I like, and part of that is because it very much uses the archetypes of westerns, I would not consider it western enough to be a western. Whereas Django includes a battle between the old frontier and the new frontier not necessarily in the "old west", but in old west times and includes every other aspect of a western film in the process. So it meets enough of the criteria.

Hahaha.

Originally Posted by MOtorboat

So they’re all just really Samurai movies?

Aren't we all just really Samurai movies?

http://www.westernfilms.com/japanese-films.php

The Man With No Name trilogy is flat great.

I am no expert on Western movies, but some that I really liked were:

Tombstone
Unforgiven
Shane
True Grit
3:10 to Yuma
Silverado
Rio Bravo (John Wayne had a bunch of other good ones as well)
Clint Eastwood had a bunch that all seemed the same, but were all good.

Originally Posted by aberdien

I would like to know if you've seen the following westerns and I will state my case for giving them a chance/second chance:

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) - The second belle of the ball of westerns...it also includes John Wayne, but it has Jimmy Stewart in it too. It's a little different than The Searchers in that it's told in a flashback and deals more with the lawman telling about how he killed an outlaw once and how it has affected him. It's hard to beat.

Fistful of Dollars (1964); The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (1966) - This is basically Tarantino before Tarantino existed.

The Wild Bunch (1969) - The American West is ending. The outlaws are aging. They know they won't survive in the new frontier and they want to go on one final debauched run in Mexico. It's violent, unsympathetic, and morally dubious.

I have saw these - didn't rate them

But...willing to give the Clint movies another go

Originally Posted by Timmy!

I mean, he's wrong, but that's a solid list.

Yea, way wrong but at least he gave it effort.

Fast and the Furious was a great western, so was Finding Nemo.

Originally Posted by Northman

Fast and the Furious was a great western, so was Finding Nemo.

Originally Posted by aberdien

Westerns are basically Samurai movies fine tuned for an American audience.

See: Clint Eastwood's first movie as a leading man, A Fistful of Dollars, which is a remake of Akira Kurosawa's samurai movie Yojimbo made 3 years earlier.

Clint was in some fantastic spaghetti westerns. They were well ahead of their time.

Someone tell Dave that if something is filmed west of the continental divide or if someone wears a cowboy hat that doesn’t make it a western.

These are some of my favorite westerns. I left out my very favorite Galaxy Quest though.

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Tombstone
Young Guns
Young Guns 2
Pale Rider
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Unforgiven
Dead Man
3:10 to Yuma (Remake)
The Quick and the Dead (Remake)
Silverado
A Fistful of Dollars
High Plains Drifter
For a Few Dollars More

My favorite Western is Infinity Wars.

My favorite Western is Blazing Saddles.

A distant 2-5

Tombstone
Young Guns
For a Few Dollars More
The Villain

I haven't seen many westerns by the way.

Originally Posted by King87

My favorite Western is Infinity Wars.

Originally Posted by aberdien

I want to salute King’s post, but I don’t want anyone misconstruing that I think Infinity Wars is really good.

King, I salute you for the troll.