What are your favorite Westerns? I'm spending a tired afternoon watching Lonesome Dove.

It's wonderful. As many times as I've seen it, I'm impressed that it holds my attention for hours. Both Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones have something that I find remarkably attractive (in a purely fantasy kind of way). I've never been a rabid Western fan; I tend to like the Indian-centric ones. But this is just good storytelling.

Like Dirty Harry, but a Western.

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Best Western ever, as far as I'm concerned. Although I do love "Lonesome Dove," particularly Robert Duvall's shoot-out with the Bad Guys on the Llano Estacado.....

In my opinion, that book is the best piece of historical fiction in the 20th century. As far as the movie goes, often movies never compare to the book-- but, that was some of the finest casting I have ever seen. It's outstanding!

btw-- I have met:

Sunset Carson
Lash LaRue
Jennifer Holt
Clayton Moore.

;)

Love westerns!

I also recommend "Unforgiven". Eastwood's final western is a classic parable on the consequences of violence, with one of the characters expressing genuine remorse over killing someone who wasn't even a sympathetic character. Eastwood's character only acted violent when extremely drunk - and had experienced years of sobriety and peaceful redemption before he temporarily reverted to his violent past ways. You can find yourself torn between wanting him to get revenge, and at the same time, recognizing the futility and immorality of his actions.

Great script, wonderful casting, beautiful photography and superb direction.

on this thread. ;)

Got some Jack and firewood for the evening; hope you are having a good one!

Doesn't want them bad enough. ;-)

It made you think.

Great book, great movie, excellent casting!! I usually like the book much more than the movie- but both of these are some of my very favorites!!!!I love me some Jones & Duvall, oh, yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'd forgotten that Capt. Call could make me burst into tears with just one word. "Augustus." Jones must have a thing for hauling people back to be buried. He did The Three Burials of Melquaides Estrada too. Another pretty cool movie.

even his old "B" westerns. I really grew up watching westerns on tv.

The Searchers, John Ford, 1956

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Searchers_%28film%29

The Misfits, John Huston, 1961

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Misfits_%28film%29

Movie = Cheyenne Social Club

TV = Brisco County

The climatic scene with Richard Mulligan as Custer is classic.

I used to love it. I used to go all snake-eyed on my kids when they were little.

Great story,characters,beautiful scenery and of course music by Ennio Morricone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s0-wbXC3pQ


The final scene (major spoiler)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ4bNTU965E&feature=related

"Endeavor to persevere." I LOVE that line.

"Buzzards got to eat, same as worms."

My favorite book, and on-screen Western.

2005. Australian. Starring Guy Pearce, written by Nick Cave.

A weird one is Dirty Little Billy (1972) with the genius trickster Michael J. Pollard.

Jeremiah Johnson; One-eyed Jacks; True Grit; The Outlaw Josy Wales. On edit: Lonely Are the Brave.

I don't have that basic affection for Westerns that will make me want to seek out anything with horses (possibly because I was born in the late '70s, after the heyday of the modern Western).

I tend to like atypical/postmodern Westerns, like The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.

The "Man With No Name" films are endless fun.

I don't like goofy, unrealistic popcorn B Westerns, but, strangely, I do like goofy, unrealistic popcorn A Westerns like Rio Bravo and Silverado.

I also like cynical/fantastical '70s Westerns like Little Big Man and The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean.

Deadwood is my favorite TV Western.

Jeremiah Johnson is a favorite of mine, because it convincingly asserts that there is beauty and nobility in hacking a modest life out of an unforgiving wilderness, an idea that's totally foreign to me.

Michael Mann's Last of the Mohicans is very compelling, and I'm intrigued by its roots in a sort of ur-Western style.

...and a slew of Spaghetti Westerns.

not the recent remake. I think the real one had Glenn Ford.

Followed by The Wild Bunch and My Darling Clementine.

It's amazingly historically inaccurate, but it's a damn good movie.

The Shootist, and a bunch that have already been mentioned...

You might also like Legends of the Fall - not exactly a western but close.

and concur with the Outlaw Josie Wales

Rio Bravo (1959)
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
The Wild Bunch (1968)
Lonesome Dove (1989)
Unforgiven (1992)

The Cowboys.

The "Republic" speech from "The Alamo" -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mCj0P9cc_Y -- yeah, it's hokey. It's also pretty cool.

I think that's my fave at the moment.