Recommend a Western!!

[Bakunin]

"Paint your wagon" is the best western bar none.

And that's a fact.

This gentleman would beg to differ, Sir...

 

[fractionMan]

This gentleman would beg to differ, Sir...

yeah, but what does he know about it, eh?

 

[rioted]

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

My favourite Humpty Bogart film.

 

[Bakunin]

yeah, but what does he know about it, eh?

Harmonica Man is displeased by your lack of respect.

*Takes out harmonica*

'Wha-wha-wha-wha-whaaaaaaaaaaaa....'

 

[spawnofsatan]

A fistful of travellers cheques.

 

[Gromit]

How about Young Guns 2?

 

[Gromit]

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Badges?

 

[dylans]

How about Young Guns 2?

That wins the prize for WORST western ever.

If we are talking classics then there is no competition. The Good The Bad wins hands down as the best western ever made. Simply superb in every way.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Fuck me, 37 posts in and nobody has mentioned THE WILD BUNCH.


The best Western ever is The Wild Bunch.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

That wins the prize for WORST western ever.

If we are talking classics then there is no competition. The Good The Bad wins hands down as the best western ever made. Simply superb in every way.

Once upon a time in the West is Leone's finest imo.

 

[Gromit]

That wins the prize for WORST western ever.

If we are talking classics then there is no competition. The Good The Bad wins hands down as the best western ever made. Simply superb in every way.

Awards prize for not spotting the deliberately silly answer post.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

*cod theory alert*

The very best Westerns – The Wild Bunch, Once upon a time in the west are prime examples – deal with the disappearance of the age of the Western. Nothing becomes a gunslinger more than his impending obsolescence.

 

[Gromit]

I'll admit to enjoying the Outlaw Josey Wales (sp?) the other night.

Hey you're Josey Wales!
Draw guns.
Woo we've caught Josey Wales!
They die.

Repeat.

Still it was fun.

 

[gsv]

If we are talking classics then there is no competition. The Good The Bad wins hands down as the best western ever made. Simply superb in every way.

I actually find it really boring. It takes the characters and (broadly) the milieu from the earlier two films, which had a really cool drive, and turns them into something really loooong and turrrrggid.

It lacks the cool and subversion of the Dollars films on the one hand, and the operatic scale of Once Upon A Time on the other.

Or maybe I was just in a bad mood the day I watched it.

GS(v)

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I actually find it really boring. It takes the characters and (broadly) the milieu from the earlier two films, which had a really cool drive, and turns them into something really loooong and turrrrggid.

It lacks the cool and subversion of the Dollars films on the one hand, and the operatic scale of Once Upon A Time on the other.

Or maybe I was just in a bad mood the day I watched it.

GS(v)

Yes, I broadly agree with that. I like it but it meanders quite badly in places. Once Upon a Time in the West, on the other hand, is three tightly focused hours. Every scene plays a role in the overall story – right from the opening with the train arriving and three men in dusters. Like all the best stories, every piece of the action is necessary.

 

[camouflage]

Also there was a movie I really liked as a kid where the main character is called Barbarossa by his enemies. It's a vengeance movie, as an old man he is hunted by the black cald son of a Mexican baron that he killed, it has become the vengeance crazed family Mission to destroy this... Barbarossa and they send hate-filled son after son to accomplish this.

He's befriended by a younger man who's as good a gun-fighter as he, takes him under his wing, and at the end... well. The black-clad son I'd happily nominate as one of the best villains ever, but I was like twelve when I saw this movie and easily impressed.

Can't remember the name though, I'd thought it was called Barbarrosa because that's what they chant at the end.

I'm kind of hoping to have the name of this movie back so I can watch it again but nobody on the thread yet seems to recognize the plot...

 

[camouflage]

Yes, I broadly agree with that. I like it but it meanders quite badly in places. Once Upon a Time in the West, on the other hand, is three tightly focused hours. Every scene plays a role in the overall story – right from the opening with the train arriving and three men in dusters. Like all the best stories, every piece of the action is necessary.

I agree it's too long, perhaps if it was edited down as a Directors cut... but the last half hour would have to be kept in-absolute-tact.

 

[camouflage]

Wehey...

It is called Barbarosa, they just spelt the name wrong... well different from the Wehrmacht's invasion of Russia anyway

Willie Nelson plays the old gunslinger... heheh, didn't realize it was him.

 

[rennie]

Unforgiven.

Wot he said.

 

[Urbanblues]

For a Few Dollars More
Little Big Man

Read Flashman and the Redskins.

Apaches were right cunts.

The Cheyenne 'Dog Soldiers' were according to Flashman the greatest light cavalry in the world.

 

[Urbanblues]

Wehey...

It is called Barbarosa, they just spelt the name wrong... well different from the Wehrmacht's invasion of Russia anyway

Willie Nelson plays the old gunslinger... heheh, didn't realize it was him.

Jane Fonda's really horny.

 

[Urbanblues]

‘No Requiem for Ringo No-Nose’