What's your favorite Western Film?

[Gyrate]

@Stranger_On_A_Train

For comedic/absurdist takes on the Western, Blazing Saddles is always a classic, and Paint Your Wagon is bizarrely absurdist, a film no one should try to remake because it probably shouldn’t have been made in the first place. The Ballad of Cable Hogue is almost unheard of but deserves a look even if it was made at a point in Peckinpah’s career where drugs and booze were starting to get the best of him, and Duck, You Sucker rides the line between satire and serious with a phenomenal as always James Colburn in the lead.

Duck, You Sucker is a terrible title - I prefer A Fistful of Dynamite (or even Once Upon A Time…the Revolution). Not sure why they settled for the worst title choice of the three options.

For absurdist Westerns I’ll throw in A Million Ways to Die in the West for completeness’ sake. If you’re a Seth McFarlane fan, you’ll love it. If you can’t stand McFarlane, well… there are still some killer jokes, but you’ll loathe the rest of it. The humor is mostly “people with modern sensibilities living in the past” based, plus assorted jokes about sex and shit. Best scene is actually the stinger, I have to admit.

[handsomeharry]

@RealityChuck

Support Your Local Sheriff! with James Garner, Jack Elam, Walter Brennan, and Joan Hackett.

I have to say that this has some of the funniest stuff in any movie I’ve ever seen. Not all of the time, but, enough to make it great.

[handsomeharry]

@TreacherousCretin

Beat me to it. And David Carradine, of all people, steals the movie from the rest of a most impressive ensemble cast.

David Carradine has always been great; however, in this movie, so much of the dialogue, and some of the plot, sucks so bad that I wince when I think of watching it again.

[handsomeharry]

I’m embarrassed in advance at all the acclaim that I shall receive for this submission:

**Big Jake. **

Oh, and

Three Amigos.

[DCnDC]

Fake “color inside the lines” answer: No Country For Old Men (it’s really a western if you think about it)

Actual “color inside the lines” answer: Young Guns

“Color outside the lines” answer: Yojimbo - with the exception of not taking place in the American West, it’s totally a western.

[Czarcasm]

First in with my favorite western, Sergio Leone’s comedy masterpiece “My Name Is Nobody”, with Henry Fonda and Terence Hill.

[Richard_John_Marcej]

[QUOTE=Gyrate;19253601

For absurdist Westerns I’ll throw in A Million Ways to Die in the West for completeness’ sake. If you’re a Seth McFarlane fan, you’ll love it. If you can’t stand McFarlane, well… there are still some killer jokes, but you’ll loathe the rest of it. The humor is mostly “people with modern sensibilities living in the past” based, plus assorted jokes about sex and shit. Best scene is actually the stinger, I have to admit.[/QUOTE]

I’m a McFarlane fan, like his sense of humor and still enjoy Family Guy, but my god, A Million Ways to Die in the West was excruciatingly bad. All the jokes fell flat, Seth is NO lead actor, and it was easily one of the worst movies I not only saw that year, but in recent years.

[Richard_John_Marcej]

@Raguleader

I gotta ask, were Support Your Local Sheriff/Gunfighter made back-to-back in one go? Because they really feel like they just got everything together to shoot both movies at once so they wouldn’t have to pay everyone twice or recast anything.

Am I the only one who loves Support Your Local Sheriff but never cared for Support Your Local Gunfighter? I can’t put my finger on it, I can watch and re-watch Local Sheriff but will pass on Local Gunfighter.

And I don’t know why.

[Lochdale]

Shane and Lonesome Dove.

[Defensive_Indifference]

@Richard_John_Marcej

Am I the only one who loves Support Your Local Sheriff but never cared for Support Your Local Gunfighter? I can’t put my finger on it, I can watch and re-watch Local Sheriff but will pass on Local Gunfighter.

And I don’t know why.

Same here. I saw Gunfighter once years and thought it was just so-so. But Sheriff is a masterpiece.

[Scumpup]

@Richard_John_Marcej

I’m a McFarlane fan, like his sense of humor and still enjoy Family Guy, but my god, A Million Ways to Die in the West was excruciatingly bad. All the jokes fell flat, Seth is NO lead actor, and it was easily one of the worst movies I not only saw that year, but in recent years.

I agree on all accounts. It really was just that bad.

[Raguleader]

@Richard_John_Marcej

Am I the only one who loves Support Your Local Sheriff but never cared for Support Your Local Gunfighter? I can’t put my finger on it, I can watch and re-watch Local Sheriff but will pass on Local Gunfighter.

And I don’t know why.

Gunfighter kind of lacked that certain something that Sheriff had. It always struck me as being a bit of a darker film, which maybe is why it didn’t really work, given that it was also a farce comedy.

[blondebear]

I’ll add my vote for Support Your Local Gunfighter and Silverado. Going a little outside the box, I thought * Rango* was a most enjoyable animated western. And speaking of Johnny Depp, I am not ashamed to say that I really liked The Lone Ranger.

[Trinopus]

Silverado is a joy. It brought back the fun to westerns after a long drought.

Of the classics, El Dorado is my favorite; I love watching that one, again and again.

I’m not really fond of any of the oldies, the silent-movie era and the 40s. I can’t think of anything from that era that really stands out.

[Raguleader]

I’d be lying if I didn’t say that my enjoyment of El Dorado wasn’t about 80% due to Michele Carey as Joey, the “Mustang in need of a comb”.

[Shamozzle]

Blood Meridian

I saw it about two weeks before I bought my time machine.

[Trinopus]

@Raguleader

I’d be lying if I didn’t say that my enjoyment of El Dorado wasn’t about 80% due to Michele Carey as Joey, the “Mustang in need of a comb”.

Not everyone gets to shoot John Wayne in the ass…and live to tell of it!

[Gyrate]

@Scumpup

I agree on all accounts. It really was just that bad.

Just me, then.

At least admit I’m right about the stinger, okay?

[phxjcc]

Destry Rides Again

If you are going to show blazing saddles, you have to show this movie.

[Evil_Captor]

@Gyrate

Just me, then.

At least admit I’m right about the stinger, okay?

I watched Eight Million Ways To Die because the trailer made me think it might have enough over-the-top silly violence to be consistently funny. There were maybe two or three scenes worth watching, but after the first ten or fifteen minutes it just became disgusting and unfunny.