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[Alcoremortis]

Eh, I guess I'd say True Grit, if I had to pick.

 

[Whooter]

Are we answering personally or objectively?

If personally, I would say Fast & Furious 5&6 or Avengers.

Wrong kind of "Western Film."

It's not the best, but Open Range is a great western that a lot of people probably haven't seen.

Yes!

 

[SPACECADET]

if you're asking my opinion?

though your best bet is probably something by leone or corbucci.

 

[Big-E]

Am I the only one that thinks A Few Dollars more is better than the other two movies in the trilogy?

 

[Screaming Meat]

High Noon
Rio Bravo
The Searchers
The Shootist
The Dollars Trilogy
Fistful of Dynamite
Once Upon A Time In The West
The Wild Bunch
High Plains Drifter
Unforgiven
Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia
Dead Man
No Country For Old Men
Way of the Gun
Casino (arguably)
Deadwood

Am I the only one that thinks A Few Dollars more is better than the other two movies in the trilogy?

Nope. That's my favourite film of all time. Gian Maria Volente is terrifying in that movie.

 

[curlyfriski]

The Searchers
Johnny Guitar
My Darling Clementine
Ride the High Country
Rio Bravo

Best Western not set in the West: Yojimbo

 

[RumblePuff]

The good, the bad and the ugly for me. Although I did really enjoy django unchained a lot. Best of the modern westerns for me.

 

[Screaming Meat]

Johnny Guitar
My Darling Clementine

Best Western not set in the West: Yojimbo

Good ones.

Although, Sanjuro has the Best Western style showdown that isn't set in The West.

 

[Moff]

Once upon a time in the west is an incredible piece of art

 

[Divius]

Good Bad Ugly for me. Love it.

The performances, the cinematograohy, the music oh my.

 

[Sword Familiar]

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

This one wins it for me.

 

[GhostWriter24]

This is the finest Western ever made. Those of you who do not agree are peasants.

 

[soepje]

How haven't more people said Once Upon a Time in the West?! Masterpiece.

I... don't think i've seen it :$

and if you're looking for a TV show, Deadwood is amazing.

I agree. Great series.

 

[teruterubozu]

What is Gaf's obsession with "best ever"? Why so objective?

 

[nacimento]

This. Movie perfection. Best music score in any movie, as well.

 

[Wilbur]

The Assassination of Jesse James and Once Upon A Time In The West

 

[xbhaskarx]

The Assassination of Jesse James
No Country for Old Men
True Grit (Coen brothers version)
Dead Man


Yojimbo
The Good The Bad and The Ugly
Once Upon A Time In The West

 

[Kabuki Waq]

Unforgiven. The last 15 minutes still make me cheer and give me chills.

 

[SquiddyCracker]

That kung-fu western with will smith and jackie chan.

 

[DiscoJer]

The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly. I'd actually say it's the best film ever made, period.

Once Upon a Time in the West is excellent, and in some ways a mirror image of The Good the Bad and the Ugly. Instead of the main character being the good guy, it's the bad guy (Henry Fonda). Charles Bronson rarely does much except occasionally kill people and saying a few cool lines, sort of filling the Lee Van Cleef role.

But the third role, you has Jason Robards. He just seems miscast as a gunfighter, much less as a bandit leader. Eli Wallach, though was absolutely brilliant as Tuco.

 

[Screaming Meat]

But the third role, you has Jason Robards. He just seems miscast as a gunfighter, much less as a bandit leader. Eli Wallach, though was absolutely brilliant as Tuco.

Nah, he's meant to be a romanticised kind of bandit leader stereotype, as opposed to Wallach's grungier take. It becomes more apparent as the movie goes on. He also has one of the best lines in the movie:

"You know, Jill, you remind me of my mother. She was the biggest whore in Alameda and the finest woman that ever lived. Whoever my father was, for an hour or for a month - he must have been a happy man."

 

[Wilbur]

I wasn't that big a fan of Unforgiven, but that might be because I don't think Eastwood is the strongest actor and he didn't have others around better or directors like Leone; it was him and Morgan Freeman (who I really dislike) a lot of the time.

That scene with Hackman and Richard Harris was absolutely brilliant though. Wish I was watching that film.

 

[Fjordson]

1. The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
2. Once Upon a Time in the West
3. The Searchers

<3 Leone. Not a fan of all of Ford's work, but The Searchers is great.

 

[Kadayi]

Once Upon a Time in the West

Great direction
Great music
Great story line
Dat opening
Dem eyes

and Claudia Cardinale was mighty fine

Frank: Morton once told me I could never be like him. Now I understand why. Wouldn't have bothered him, knowing you were around somewhere alive.
Harmonica: So, you found out you're not a businessman after all.
Frank: Just a man.
Harmonica: An ancient race. Other Mortons will be along, and they'll kill it off.
Frank: The future don't matter to us. Nothing matters now - not the land, not the money, not the woman. I came here to see you. 'Cause I know that now, you'll tell me what you're after.
Harmonica: ...Only at the point of dyin'.

 

[Blink Me]

Once Upon A Time In the West is my favourite. Fonda was amazing in it and the music was fantastic. I love the rest of Sergio Leone's Westerns as well including A Fistful of Dynamite if that counts. Eastwoods Westerns which he directed are usually amazing as well.

 

[paile]

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

 

[Kingbrave]

Pretty much any with Clint Eastwood.
The Magnificent Seven (Seven Samurai is awesome too!(
Once upon a Time in the West
True Grit (both)
Shane
Tombstone
Assassination of Jesse James
3:10 to Yuma

Guess I need to replay Red Dead now, thanks GAF...

 

[Gordon Shumway]

 

[verbum]

The five westerns I usually watch once a year:

Silverado- A misfit bunch of friends come together to right the injustices which exist in a small town

Missing- In 1885 New Mexico, a frontier medicine woman forms an uneasy alliance with her estranged father when her daughter is kidnapped by an Apache brujo.

Lonesome Dove- a miniseries but great.

All The Pretty Horses- Two Texas cowboys head to Mexico in search of work, but soon find themselves in trouble with the law after one of them falls in love with a wealthy rancher's daughter

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada- Ranch hand Pete Perkins looks to fulfill the promise to his recently deceased best friend by burying him in his hometown in Mexico.

 

[Mistel]

Keoma is a good western so is once upon a time in the west.

 

[djplaeskool]

My favorite has always been The Outlaw Josey Wales.

 

[CreeperBlocks]

 

[Zvonimir Boban]

]

We have a winner. That opening scene is just so, SO good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_tt83itYA8

Cinematic perfection.

 

[whatsinaname]

These two for me.

 

[Aaron89]

Rio Bravo
Unforgiven
Hombre
The Wild Bunch
Tombstone
3:10 to Yuma
Open Range

 

[Mistel]

Is another good one.

 

[dapperbandit]

Open Range is pretty darn good actually, though I'm not an enormous fan of Kevin Costner

3:10 to Yuma is good as well.

I really liked the True Grit remake.

Modern Westerns are actually quite good.

 

[WorriedCitizen]

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

because it's not just the best western but one of the best films ever overall.

The Outlaw Josey Wales is the only other western that i gave a 10/10.

 

[kmax]

My man.

 

[UberTag]

I''m re-watching The Good, The Bad and the Ugly next week.
I voted for Once Upon a Time in the West but got overruled.

 

[Parch]

Old style? The Searchers.
Spaghetti? The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly.
More modern? Unforgiven.

I can agree with this. True Grit deserves praise too.
John Wayne had a bunch of movies that were mediocre, but man, that was one cool guy.

 

[bionic77]

You need to watch The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - today.

You have to watch all 3 of them.

It's pretty hard to pick between any of them for me.

 

[kingofrod]

Not the best ever but Appaloosa is pretty fantastic. Even Renee Zelwegger gets less annoying the more you watch it. But Viggo manning the 8-gauge in those super tall boots is still about as awesome as it gets.

 

[Mistel]

Once upon a time in the West whilst being, a good film also has Claudia Cardinale who is incredibly sexy in the film.

 

[bobbyrawlins]

Another vote for The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

 

[Vyroxis]

Man with No Name trilogy. (I count it as one, because fuck you.)

3:10 to Yuma, Unforgiven, and the original True Grit round out my list of Westerns everyone must watch.

 

[ScOULaris]

Gonna have to go with Unforgiven. It's such a great deconstruction and reexamination of so many western tropes, and Eastwood was arguably at his very best in this movie. Gene Hackman really knocked it out of the park with his turn as a ruthless sheriff too.

 

[Cdammen]

How the West Was Won (1962)

Three-strip ultra-wide Cinerama baby! IMAX is puny

The Blu-ray is marveolous. Wider, bigger, better, screens and projection is what the cinemas should be aiming for, not shitty 3D.

 

[Grady Durden]

No one has mentioned Tombstone?

 

[not psycho]

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly because of Tuco.

Once Upon a Time in the West is a close second.