What's Your Favorite Western?

[Carolyn Marie]

I don't think this topic has come up before. Yes, I do and always have loved western movies. There is just something about them that stirs my imagination and longing for adventure and wide open spaces. The true American adventure story.

My top three, in no particular order, are:

Lonesome Dove (yes, it was a television miniseries, but so what? It's probably one of the greatest westerns ever made)

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

The Searchers

I could easily name another half dozen, but lets see what you all come up with. Yeeee haaaa!

Carolyn Marie

[JenniferB]

The Outlaw Josey Wales

Any episode of the Wild Wild West

Jenny

[Guest Robin Winter]

Cowboys and Aliens ! lol

The remake of True Grit was really good.

My all time favorite though are the Terrence Hill movies, especially "My name is Nobody".

[MaryEllen]

My favorites are Quigley Down Under and the Outlaw Josey Wales

MaryEllen

[Guest CLAIRE100]

My favorites are The Good ,The Bad, and Ugly, Silverado, and Chisum with John Wayne.

[Guest Lacey Lynne]

Outlaw Josey Wales and, indeed, ANY Clint Eastwood western from back in The Day and most especially "the nameless stranger" spaghetti westerns!

Who is your favorite western movie badbutt villain dude? Mine is Lee van Cleef!

As teens, we brandished and smoked Marsh-Wheeling stogies in honor of Clint!

Lacey Lynne

[Carolyn Marie]

Who is your favorite western movie badbutt villain dude? Mine is Lee van Cleef!

Lacey Lynne

Lee Marvin from "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance." He was one bad hombre.

Carolyn Marie

[Guest Risu]

The Duchess and the Dirt Water Fox.

The Outlaw Josie Wales.

And probably True Grit/ The True Grit remake.

Interesting question Carolyn

[Guest Lacey Lynne]

Who is your favorite western movie badbutt villain dude? Mine is Lee van Cleef!

Lacey Lynne

Lee Marvin from "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance." He was one bad hombre.

Carolyn Marie

Did you say Lee Marvin?

Carolyn Girl, Lacey's time machine is taking her back to ... 1967!!!

LEE MARVIN ...Ernest Bornine ... Charles Bronson ... John Cassavetes ... Jim Brown !!!

Lee was The Main Mammajamma of that badbutted crew, as you will recall, oh, aging one.

Jim Friggin' Brown !!!

Lacey remembers watchin him play football watching games on TV with the old man ... back in the early 1960s. One time, four huge tackles, FOUR OF 'EM, pounced on Jim Brown to tackle him. This were BIG dudes, over 270 pounds each. Jim Friggin' Brown kept truckin' with four huge dudes on his back and hanging on to him! We say his feet haulin' butt carrying these guys down the field! He ran many years carrying these guys until they finally brougth him down. In his day, Jim Brown was the baddest of the bad on the gridiron.

Okay, golden girls, who remembers Ray Nitschke and penis Butkus?!?

Oh, my! I'm SOOO off topic, aren't I? Sooorrreeeee !!!

Carolyn! See what ya made me do? Flashback City, babes! Dang, I LOVE it!

Thanks! Ya made my day! Happy Holidays!

Lacey Lynne

[Guest Lacey Lynne]

Of course, I'm referring to that 1967 classic move, The Dirty Dozen! Young 'uns, ya gotta see it sometime! Yes!

Lacey

[Guest Elena]

Ok, I am a Eastwood fan, make no mistake and I love Charles Bronson's westerns also, but my favorite western is 'Tombstone'. Can't help it. Val Kilmer's portrayal of Doc Holiday was just too dang cool.

For me there are lots of memories af hanging out in the hills behind the house with my friends, big bonfire going, a swiped bottle of real Tombstone Whiskey, playing poker with a shot in the pot and the losers had to say a quote from a western movie while the winner drank up.

<3

Elena

[Guest PhoebeJoan]

Once upon a Time in the West, is actually my favourite movie full stop (with Alien not far behind)

[Guest Donna Jean]

.

The seven Samurais....

Think about it.......

Dee Jay

[Sally]

One of the 'baddist' of the bad guys was Jack Palance in Shane - barely spoke as Wilson, the hired gun - Alan Ladd played Shane.

Remade as Pale Rider with a few changes but Eastwood was the reformed gunslinger and the bad guy was John Russel.

I also love Silverado.

Love ya,

Sally

[Guest The Cheshire Wolf]

I love Westerns, though I feel like I can't say that somehow, because most of the Westerns I've seen and love are the Italian "Spaghetti Westerns" or the ever-depressing existential/revisionist Westerns. The ones I have in my collection are: The Dollar Trilogy (A Fistful of Dollars, etc.), The Great Silence, The Proposition, The Hired Hand, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Unforgiven, High Plains Drifter, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Joe Kidd, Once Upon a Time in the West, and (if it counts) Blazing Saddles.

[Guest Megan_Lynn]

Guess I am the oddball here. As for some reason I just can not stand westerns at all. Not sure why though.

[Carolyn Marie]

Guess I am the oddball here. As for some reason I just can not stand westerns at all. Not sure why though.

Megan, I'll answer you as soon as I finish whittlin' this here piece of wood, and finish chewin' my jerky. Yee haw!

Carolyn Marie

[Guest Kendra K]

I'm not exactly a Western sort of person, but I loved the Young Guns movies.

[Guest Karen K]

I am a big fan of westerns and it would be difficult to narrow this vast genre down to three. What comes to mind is:

The Shootist

Silverado

Open Range

I am an Eastwood fan any of his spag westerns rate high. John Wayne is the epitomy of the western actor. But lets not forget Yul Brynner:

The Magnificent Seven

Laura Jane

[Guest Just_Lucas]

Hello,my favorite western movie so far is rio bravo with john wayne XD,if you haven't seen it you should check it out its really good

[Guest Mia J]

I would be very hard pressed to pick a favorite.

The Magnificent Seven would be right up there at the top.

Any western with the Duke.

There were just so many classic westerns.

Mia

[Guest rita63]

The Magnificent Seven is the U.S. version of The Seven Samuri and a great memory. On my birthday my mom gave me money to take my friends to a Disney movie but we saw the magnificent seven instead, except for one guy whowent home because he told his mom it was a Disney.

Aslo the classics The Oxbow Incident Fonda and Stewart, and Cooper in the Hangin' Tree.

More modern Once Upon a Time in the West.

Ok so I'm an old girl who grew up on westerns.

hugs rita

[Guest NatashaJade]

For me, it's Unforgiven. I cried at the end of that. I was riding my motorcycle home from the theatre and had to pull over I was crying so hard.

I also love Once Upon A Time In The West and Silverado and just about any of Sergio Leone's westerns with Clint.

And, for laughs, Blazing Saddles and Ruster's Rhapsody.

xoxo

[Carolyn Marie]

For me, it's Unforgiven. I cried at the end of that. I was riding my motorcycle home from the theatre and had to pull over I was crying so hard.

I've got the end title music on a CD, and it nearly brings me to tears. I love that music, which I believe Eastwood composed.

HUGS

Carolyn

[Guest CLAIRE100]

The ALAMO withJohn Wayne and Richard Widmark was a terrific movie.m