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emdawgz1
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| Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 10:19 pm Post subject: Whats your Favorite Western. |
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I was discussing this with a customer at my barber shop. What is your favorite western.
None of the new stuff, i.e. unforgiven, pale rider . Has to be made before 1980. Preferably earlier still.
Mine comes down to 2 movies...
"The man who shot Liberty Valance" John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Lee Marvin and John Ford in one film! w/ a small part to Lee Van Cleef.
4 1/2 dawgz out of 5!
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"A few dollars more" Eastwood, Van Cleef and Sergio Leone Classic
4 1/2 Dawgz!!!
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garyfritz
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I've never been a huge fan of Westerns. But I did enjoy "Silverado" (though it came out in 1985). Only Western I ever paid to see more than once. Haven't seen it since it was in the theaters -- I should rent it sometime.
Of course, "Rustler's Rhapsody" is fun too... 
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Buono, il brutto, il cattivo., Il (1966) - highest rated Western at IMDB (9)
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WTS
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Any of Clints dusters would be a good pick.
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jkruger
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How about "The Law West of the Pecos - Judge Roy Bean: The Westerner"
Walter Brennan and Gary Cooper. Classic!
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jask
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| beun wrote: | | Once Upon a Time in the West, the best by far |
Another vote, nothing comes close to being this good.
otherwise,I would probably vote for the seven Samurai....the western that wasn't a western 
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emdawgz1
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| jask wrote: | | beun wrote: | | Once Upon a Time in the West, the best by far |
Another vote, nothing comes close to being this good.
otherwise,I would probably vote for the seven Samurai....the western that wasn't a western |
The seven samurai was a western....Far Far West.
And the us version "The Magnificent Seven" is a great film. Kurosawa was better.
Also, would you consider "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" a western?
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emdawgz1
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Unforgiven is DQ'ed . Pre 1980 Classic Westerns only. 
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Magnificent Seven or Liberty Valance are probably my favorites. Almost all the Eastwood films were great, too. The Searchers for beautiful imagery, too.
Speaking of beautiful imagery, I haven't seen it yet, but I'm really looking forward to watching How The West Was Won on BD. The Cinerama "Smilevision" thing while a little gimmicky, could be pretty fun if you sit close enough to the screen. Might have to move my chair up for that one. 
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emdawgz1
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| ecrabb wrote: |
Speaking of beautiful imagery, I haven't seen it yet, but I'm really looking forward to watching How The West Was Won on BD. The Cinerama "Smilevision" thing while a little gimmicky, could be pretty fun if you sit close enough to the screen. Might have to move my chair up for that one.
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I think its a great film but the versions i have seen have the plate lines from the "Cinerama" process used in filming. They claim that this has been removed by the restoration process.
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly for long cinematic movie. I'd love to see that in Blu-ray.
Rio Bravo if you like the Duke, was a good one.
All Clint's spaghetti westerns are good though. A fist full of dollars, a few dollars more, pale rider, hang em high... All really good.
The Outlaw Josey Wales. Chief Dan George was really good in that one. Some really good moments/ one liners.
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| Mr. Green wrote: |
The Outlaw Josey Wales. Chief Dan George was really good in that one. Some really good moments/ one liners. |
That one was on ion TV tonight..
Don't know if it is my all time favorite... But damn straight it had some good lines...
Josey: You be Ten Bears?
Ten Bears: I am Ten Bears.
Josey: (spits tobacco) I'm Josey Wales.
Ten Bears: I have heard. You're the Gray Rider. You would not make peace with the Blue Coats. You may go in peace.
Josey: I reckon not. Got nowhere to go.
Ten Bears: Then you will die.
Josey: I came here to die with you. Or live with you. Dying ain't so hard for men like you and me, it's living that's hard; when all you ever cared about has been butchered or raped. Governments don't live together, people live together. With governments you don't always get a fair word or a fair fight. Well I've come here to give you either one, or get either one from you. I came here like this so you'll know my word of death is true. And that my word of life is then true. The bear lives here, the wolf, the antelope, the Comanche. And so will we. Now, we'll only hunt what we need to live on, same as the Comanche does. And every spring when the grass turns green and the Comanche moves north, he can rest here in peace, butcher some of our cattle and jerk beef for the journey. The sign of the Comanche, that will be on our lodge. That's my word of life.
Ten Bears: And your word of death?
Josey: It's here in my pistols, there in your rifles. I'm here for either one.
Ten Bears: These things you say we will have, we already have.
Josey: That's true. I ain't promising you nothing extra. I'm just giving you life and you're giving me life. And I'm saying that men can live together without butchering one another.
Ten Bears: It's sad that governments are chiefed by the double-tongues. There is iron in your word of death for all Comanche to see. And so there is iron in your words of life. No signed paper can hold the iron, it must come from men. The words of Ten Bears carries the same iron of life and death. It is good that warriors such as we meet in the struggle of life... or death. It shall be life.
Yeah, well, I always heard there were three kinds of suns in Kansas, sunshine, sunflowers, and sons-of-bitches.
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You mean NO ONE has mentioned "SHANE" yet? 
That's my all time favorite. I'm a huge DUKE fan too....but nothing can touch Ladd & Palance in this one.
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