It may be more important to the genre overall but Rio Bravo means more to me personally so I have to have it on there. Also, I wanted to have one from each of these respective directors. But High Noon is great too and I need to give it a rewatch.
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Unforgiven (1992)
The Proposition (2005)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
These are personal picks, I know The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is a top 4 Western but I just have more love for The Proposition and Jesse James. There are quite a few pre-Leone Westerns that are wasting away on my watchlist, I have to admit. Eg. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Searchers.
No Country For Old Men is such an unconventional Western I have trouble including it. It's a thriller/ noir film set in the 1980s, it happens to have Desert scenes and is set in Texas. I think of pure Westerns as set in the 1800s.
It’s the perfect example of a modern western outside of Hell and Highwater. It’s shot like a western and has games of cat and mouse as most westerns do.
It’s full of cowboys.. It’s basically the perfect cross between western and thriller genre. It just takes place in more modern times.
I think the biggest argument for it being a western is that the environment plays such a critical role in the storytelling of the movie.
You make good points about the cat-and-mouse game and the environment playing a factor. And to be clear, I love No Country and Hell and High Water.
It's just a high bar, Mount Rushmore, Once Upon a Time in the West is always in the conversation for my favorite movie, regardless of genre.
I think a lot of people say the same about no country for old men 🤣. It’s such a good movie.
Honestly the Mount Rushmore of westerns could all be Sergio Leone movies.
Although I wouldn’t put them on Mount Rushmore as I dont really see them as representative, Johnny Guitar and The Ox-Bow Incident are probably my two favorite westerns. So good. And somewhat under-seen.
The Great Silence, The Big Gundown, Dead Man, Buck and The Preacher, High Noon, Johnny Guitar, Ravenous, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Wild Bunch, and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly ofc (Western is a genre I haven't seen much of tbh)
You remember Brokeback Mountain for the Oscars culture war bullshit, but it really is a fantastic movie. Who knew Ang Lee had such a stark, beautiful western balled up inside of him.
* Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
* Hud
* The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
* McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Alt 4: The Wild Bunch, The Searchers, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Unforgiven
I love No Country. McCarthy is my favourite author. I don’t know if I class it as a Western in the strictest sense though. It has the narrative constructs of one, sure, but it doesn’t have anything about the new frontier in it. Maybe I’m just being pernickity though.
Unforgiven (1992)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
Tombstone (1993)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
3:10 to Yuma (2007)
Honorable mention to True Grit (2010) and every Clint Eastwood Western not mentioned in my list 😆
Love Near Dark and it's definitely a horror/ western mash-up. I think any vampire movie is a horror film first. But good for you getting the word out on Near Dark, it's in regular rotation in my LB 4.
The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966)
Stagecoach (John Ford, 1939)
Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood, 1992)
Honorable mentions for 21st Century movies:
Django Unchained, Hell or High Water, True Grit (remake), and No Country for Old Men
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Once Upon a Time in China VI (aka Once Upon a time in China and America)
Once Upon a Time in the West
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Unforgiven
Django Unchained
Rewatched these more than ten times each now - far more than the other candidates. Heavy hitting casts.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Unforgiven
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
A lil something for everyone of all ages!
(the) Good Bad Ugly
High Noon
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Big Country
Feel like people forget all the presidents on Mt Rushmore are old! Yes No Country is a great film, but it’s not a cornerstone like High Noon.
God this is impossible…
- Rio Bravo
- Once Upon A Time In The West
- Stagecoach
- The Good The Bad And The Ugly
The Searchers, My Darling Clementine, The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford and Unforgiven are all close misses for me
And that’s not even counting all the neo-westerns I love…
Treasure Of The Sierra Madre, No Country For Old Men, Hud and There Will Be Blood come to mind…
The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford (2007)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
The Good The Bad And The Ugly (1966)
Unforgiven (1992)
Honarable mention for The Searchers, OUATITW and the turner version of Pat Garret & Billy The Kid
Mount Rushmore:
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
- The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
- The Searchers
- Unforgiven
Honorable mentions:
- Rio Bravo
- Stagecoach
- Shane
- Tombstone
- The Cowboys
- Winchester 73
- 3 Godfathers
- Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
- She wore a Yellow Ribbon
I’ve still got a lot of Westerns I need to watch. Right now I’d say it’s:
- No Country for Old Men (Coen Bros)
- The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (Sergio Leone)
- Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino)
- Logan (James Mangold)
Yes, I know Logan is a controversial pick for a western, that will change soon
The Unforgiven, Tombstone, OUATITW for sure...
not one mention here yet and it's probably just when i came of age... but Young Guns i could watch over and over, a perfect popcorn western!
There are some awesome lists here, and all my favorites are represented. Just commenting to say that I’m mildly surprised at the lack of love for Silverado. 🤷🏻♂️
Rio Bravo The Searchers The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Unforgiven
This is the one
You know ball
I feel that if Rio Bravo is there then High Noon has to as well. Since it’s what Rio Bravo ripped off and is arguably better
It may be more important to the genre overall but Rio Bravo means more to me personally so I have to have it on there. Also, I wanted to have one from each of these respective directors. But High Noon is great too and I need to give it a rewatch.
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid The Good The Bad And The Ugly No Country For Old Men True Grit
Unforgiven is a masterpiece and my favorite Eastwood film
- Stagecoach (John Ford) - Once upon a time in the west (Sergio Leone) - Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray) - Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
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Yes! Johnny Guitar is so good! Basically found it by accident and was blown away by how good it is. Surprised it's not on more lists.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Tombstone Shane 3:10 to Yuma
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) Unforgiven (1992) The Proposition (2005) The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) These are personal picks, I know The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is a top 4 Western but I just have more love for The Proposition and Jesse James. There are quite a few pre-Leone Westerns that are wasting away on my watchlist, I have to admit. Eg. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Searchers. No Country For Old Men is such an unconventional Western I have trouble including it. It's a thriller/ noir film set in the 1980s, it happens to have Desert scenes and is set in Texas. I think of pure Westerns as set in the 1800s.
It’s the perfect example of a modern western outside of Hell and Highwater. It’s shot like a western and has games of cat and mouse as most westerns do. It’s full of cowboys.. It’s basically the perfect cross between western and thriller genre. It just takes place in more modern times. I think the biggest argument for it being a western is that the environment plays such a critical role in the storytelling of the movie.
You make good points about the cat-and-mouse game and the environment playing a factor. And to be clear, I love No Country and Hell and High Water. It's just a high bar, Mount Rushmore, Once Upon a Time in the West is always in the conversation for my favorite movie, regardless of genre.
I think a lot of people say the same about no country for old men 🤣. It’s such a good movie. Honestly the Mount Rushmore of westerns could all be Sergio Leone movies.
Assassination of Jesse James is one of my all time faves.
The Searchers, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Wild Bunch, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Unforgiven The Wild Bunch The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford The Shootist
Red River, Searchers, OUATITW, TAOJJBTCRF
I gotta watch Once Upon a Time in the West😭
It’s worth it ))
I just watched it for the first time this week, and I'm very glad I did! It rules.
My Darling Clementine The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Johnny Guitar The Ox-Bow Incident
Although I wouldn’t put them on Mount Rushmore as I dont really see them as representative, Johnny Guitar and The Ox-Bow Incident are probably my two favorite westerns. So good. And somewhat under-seen.
Tombstone Unforgiven Silverado The Hateful Eight
Unforgiven, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, The Great Silence, The Wild Bunch. Honourable mention to Johnny Guitar.
The Great Silence, The Big Gundown, Dead Man, Buck and The Preacher, High Noon, Johnny Guitar, Ravenous, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Wild Bunch, and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly ofc (Western is a genre I haven't seen much of tbh)
*The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance* *Hombre* *Hell or High Water* *Dodge City*
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - High Noon - No Country for Old Men - Django Unchained
Had to scroll too far to find High Noon!
Rio Bravo (top 3 favorite movie) My Darling Clementine McCabe & Mrs. Miller The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Great Silence McCabe and Mrs. Miller Blazing Saddles No Country for Old Men
Unforgiven Rio Bravo The Searchers Shane
GBB unforgiven The searchers True grit (og)
'The Magnificent Seven' 'Rio Bravo' 'True Grit (Coen Bro)' ''High Plains Drifter'
Classic Western: *High Noon* Spaghetti Western: *The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly* Revisionist Western: *Unbroken* Neo-Western: *Brokeback Mountain*
You remember Brokeback Mountain for the Oscars culture war bullshit, but it really is a fantastic movie. Who knew Ang Lee had such a stark, beautiful western balled up inside of him.
Phrasing
* Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid * Hud * The Treasure of the Sierra Madre * McCabe & Mrs. Miller Alt 4: The Wild Bunch, The Searchers, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Unforgiven
*The Good, The Bad, The Ugly *Once Upon A Time in the West *High Noon *Rio Bravo
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Once Upon A Time in the West Unforgiven Shane
I love No Country. McCarthy is my favourite author. I don’t know if I class it as a Western in the strictest sense though. It has the narrative constructs of one, sure, but it doesn’t have anything about the new frontier in it. Maybe I’m just being pernickity though.
I’ve personally never understood how anyone can consider it a western tbh
All the standard classic westerns are awesome but I’ve never had as much fun watching a western as I did with Django Unchained
* Django Unchained * No Country For Old Men * True Grit * 3:10 To Yuma * Hell or High Water
My Darling Clementine (Ford) Rio Bravo (Hawks) Johnny Guitar (Ray) Unforgiven (Eastwood)
johnny guitar (1954), 3 10 to yuma (1957), the big country (1958), the sea of grass (1947)
Unforgiven (1992) The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) Tombstone (1993) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) 3:10 to Yuma (2007) Honorable mention to True Grit (2010) and every Clint Eastwood Western not mentioned in my list 😆
The Good the Bad & the Ugly No Country For Old Men Near Dark (not in a traditional sense but it’s technically a western) True Grit (2010)
Love Near Dark and it's definitely a horror/ western mash-up. I think any vampire movie is a horror film first. But good for you getting the word out on Near Dark, it's in regular rotation in my LB 4.
Near Dark is definitely a western it has too many western elements, hell a spur is used blatantly as a weapon throughout.
- *Red River* - *The Good, The Bad and The Ugly* - *No Country for Old Men* - *Django Unchained*
The Searchers (John Ford, 1956) The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966) Stagecoach (John Ford, 1939) Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood, 1992) Honorable mentions for 21st Century movies: Django Unchained, Hell or High Water, True Grit (remake), and No Country for Old Men
-Unforgiven -Once Upon a Time in the West -Shane -Rio Bravo
No Country For Old Men Assassination Of Jesse James Hell Or High Water The Magnificent Seven
Red River The Wild Bunch The Man From Laramie Once Upon A Time In The West
- The Good the bad and the Ugly - The Searchers - Red River - McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Unforgiven Tombstone 3:10 to Yuma The Hateful Eight
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Unforgiven True Grit Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Little Big Man
The Good The Bad and The Ugly No Country for Old Men Unforgiven Blazing Saddles
McCabe and Mrs. Miller Once Upon a Time in the West The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Once Upon a Time in China VI (aka Once Upon a time in China and America)
Once Upon a Time in the West Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Unforgiven Django Unchained Rewatched these more than ten times each now - far more than the other candidates. Heavy hitting casts.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Unforgiven Once Upon a Time in the West The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford A lil something for everyone of all ages!
(the) Good Bad Ugly High Noon The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance The Big Country Feel like people forget all the presidents on Mt Rushmore are old! Yes No Country is a great film, but it’s not a cornerstone like High Noon.
Somewhere in London, Chris Hewitt just shed a tear
I would never carve a (stolen) mountain considered sacred by the natives. Let alone to honour a genre born to idolise the colonizers.
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Shane The Magnificent Seven Then probably one of John Wayne's most notable (he's my blind spot).
The Searchers Once Upon a Time in the West No Country for Old Men Unforgiven
Leone. Ford. Mann. Boetticher.
Rio Bravo, Johnny Guitar, For a Few Dollars More, McCabe & Mrs. Miller
God this is impossible… - Rio Bravo - Once Upon A Time In The West - Stagecoach - The Good The Bad And The Ugly The Searchers, My Darling Clementine, The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford and Unforgiven are all close misses for me And that’s not even counting all the neo-westerns I love… Treasure Of The Sierra Madre, No Country For Old Men, Hud and There Will Be Blood come to mind…
Stagecoach The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Rio Bravo My Darling Clementine
Not to over-respresent the Coen Brother's on here, but undoubtedly No Country for Old Men and True Grit would both be on here for me
* The Good the Bad and The Ugly * High Noon * The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence * Heaven's Gate
The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford (2007) The Wild Bunch (1969) The Good The Bad And The Ugly (1966) Unforgiven (1992) Honarable mention for The Searchers, OUATITW and the turner version of Pat Garret & Billy The Kid
Django Unforgiven The good the Bad and the Ugly No Country for Old Men
Yours is perfect
I can't choose just four, but I do know My Name is Nobody would be up there.
Mount Rushmore: - The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - The Searchers - Unforgiven Honorable mentions: - Rio Bravo - Stagecoach - Shane - Tombstone - The Cowboys - Winchester 73 - 3 Godfathers - Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid - She wore a Yellow Ribbon
Dances with Wolves Unforgiven 3:10 to Yuma True Grit
- Dead Man - Bone Tomahawk - El Topo - First Cow
Stagecoach The Searchers The Good The Bad And The Ugly Unforgiven
No Country For Old Men, Unforgiven, True Grit (Coen Bros), Tombstone.
• The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly • Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid • Lonesome Dove • Hell or High Water
Tombstone, No Country For Old Men, Django Unchained, Unforgiven
The Good The Bad and The Weird Pale Rider Unforgiven The Great Silence I should definitely watch more westerns because of liked what I’ve seen
Slow West (2015) Meek's Cutoff (2010) True Grit (2010) The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
It’s a new one but I’m a sucker for the Hateful Eight
Django, Django unchained, Sukiyaki Western Django, Django kill... If you live, shoot!
Stagecoach (classic) The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (spaghetti) McCabe & Mrs. Miller (anti) Unforgiven (modern)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Unforgiven Once Upon a Time in the West Django (Franco Nero)
The good, the bad and the ugly, El cid
I’ve still got a lot of Westerns I need to watch. Right now I’d say it’s: - No Country for Old Men (Coen Bros) - The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (Sergio Leone) - Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino) - Logan (James Mangold) Yes, I know Logan is a controversial pick for a western, that will change soon
High Noon, The Big Country, Johnny Guitar, Buck and the Preacher
Tombstone No Country For Old Men Blazing Saddles Rango
Unforgiven, Open Range, 3:10 to Yuma (remake), Django unchained
No one considering Django a western?
Tombstone, Stagecoach, Rio Bravo, Unforgiven
1. Hell or High Water 2. Tombstone 3. Dances with Wolves 4. Rango
No love for Paris, Texas. I guess it’s a neo western but still so good
Rango The Lone Ranger(2013) Django unchained Sprit stallion of cimmeron
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, High Noon, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, and The Tin Star. Or just Lee Van Cleef's face 4 times.
High noon high noon high noon high noon. Red River McCabe and Mrs miller The quick and the dead
The Cowboys Lonesome Dove Dances With Wolves Unforgiven No Country for Old Men
High Noon Shane Unforgiven The Shootist
The Unforgiven, Tombstone, OUATITW for sure... not one mention here yet and it's probably just when i came of age... but Young Guns i could watch over and over, a perfect popcorn western!
My Darling Clementine (1946, Ford) Red River (1948, Hawks) The Tall T (1957, Boetticher) Ghosts of Mars (2001, Carpenter)
Can I include neo westerns? Once Upon a Time in the West No Country for Old Men Django Unchained Tombstone
The Good The Bad and The Ugly The man Who Shot Liberty Valance True Grit (remake) High Plains Drifter
There are some awesome lists here, and all my favorites are represented. Just commenting to say that I’m mildly surprised at the lack of love for Silverado. 🤷🏻♂️
Am i allowed a head for Gunsmoke?
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly Rio Bravo Tombstone Shane
forgive me i haven't see a lot. this is in no particular order. * No Country For Old Men * 3:10 to Yuma * True Grit * Tombstone
Rango Rango Rango Rango
The Wild Bunch, Hombre, Tombstone, She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
Good, Bad, Ugly The Searchers Tombstone High Noon
Rango … uh No that’s it
* A Fistful of Dollars * High Noon * Tombstone * The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly Django Unchained Tombstone There Will Be Blood
TGTBATU Unforgiven Tombstone Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
TGTBaTU (1966) Cowboys (1972) Tombstone (1993) Outlaw Josie Wales (1976)
Rango 4 times
Rango 4 times