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[Do Better]

You tell em I'm comin and hell's comin with me

 

[vagabondarts]

Unforgiven, But i do have a soft spot for the quick and the dead as well.

Dem zooms

Yes. I've seen it so many times it's lost its impact a bit but I love it.

 

[Armoured Priest]

Rio Bravo's probably my favorite.

I also really like:
El Dorado
Silverado
Pale Rider
and, yeah, An American Tale: Fievel Goes West was a surprising good animated treatment.

Spoiler

Not a movie, but as evidenced by my avatar, my favorite animated show growing up was "The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers"...a space western.

 

[MetroidPrimeRib]

Does No Country For Old Men count as a Western

The Good, the Bad, and the Weird is good too

 

[Snowman Prophet of Doom]

Stagecoach and Shane, brothers. Stagecoach and Shane.

 

[Snake]

Right now it's Red River.

 

[Sir Alemeth]

 

[Loxley]

It's one of my favorite films of all time, I consider it something of a flawed masterpiece. It's a very depressing-but-beautiful movie that had a huge impact on me after the first time I watched it way back in 2007.

The film's score on its own, however, is utterly flawless.

IT'S

SO.

FUCKING.

GOOD.

 

[Blader]

Man, I really love BttF but I disliked part 3 so much as a kid that it actually put me off westerns for years.

 

[levious]

My personal favorite of his would probably be High Plains Drifter. The whole film feels like The Man With No Name through the lens of a revenge ghost story. Such a great, haunting, and sometimes darkly funny film.

"You're gonna look real silly with that knife sticking out of your ass" is probably one of my favorite scenes in westerns.

 

[ChubbyHuggs]

There it is. That's my vote.

 

[Robot Carnival]

I like them slow, so...

High Noon
True Grit (remake)
3:10 to Yuma (remake)
Rango

 

[jacksnap]

I like them slow, so...

High Noon
True Grit (remake)
3:10 to Yuma (remake)
Rango

Rango was definitely one of my favorite animated films from the last several years.

 

[kruis]

I don't know if "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" counts as a western. If it doesn't, then I pick "Dances with Wolves". I also want to recommend a modern western: "The Homesman" which came out last year. It should have been an Oscar contender IMO. Incredible acting by Swank and Jones. And what an unusual story.

 

[Currygan]

Unforgiven is the best western of all time.

Now, if you were going to ask what's the best non-Leone spaghetti western, I'd put up Sergio Sollima's The Big Gundown and Sergio Corbucci's The Great Silence.

these are good ones too. Another spaghetti that gets supremely overlooked is Tepepa. Tomas Milian as a crazy Mexican bandit in one of his most visceral parts is a total riot to watch

 

[PepsimanVsJoe]

I don't know if "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" counts as a western. If it doesn't, then I pick "Dances with Wolves". I also want to recommend a modern western: "The Homesman" which came out last year. It should have been an Oscar contender IMO. Incredible acting by Swank and Jones. And what an unusual story.

Available on Netflix so I'll definitely watch this next.

Just saw High Noon and it's excellent. Not a single wasted minute, impeccably-scored and acted, just phenomenal.

Some of my other favorites:

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
The Wild Bunch
Tombstone

 

[cj_iwakura]

Always Tombstone.

 

[Premium Quality]

I'm still sticking with Unforgiven, but I'm surprised no one has brought up The Three Amigos after that one thread several days back.

 

[Baroni9]

The Shooting

 

[Jeffolation]

The Gunfighter and The Westerner are up there. So are the Anthony Mann and Jimmy Stewart collaborations. Man of the West is pretty awesome too.

 

[shintoki]

If No Country for Old Men counts, hands down the greatest Western.

Outside of that, while most are listed. I really enjoyed Appaloosa. Could have shaved the runtime down. Bu Mortensen, Harris, Irons, and Henriksen in a western.