BOT's Top 50 Westerns of All Time: or Cowboy films any westerner at heart must see BOT edition (Closed, reveal starts later this week)

[Plain Old Tele]

2 hours ago, Cap said:

So @Plain Old Tele @4815162342does this mean we have seven more we can add to our showing list? 😂😂😂😂

[el sid]

Tombstone will also be on my list. And did somebody already mention "The Salvation" (2014)? Maverick (1994) would also be a possibility. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) and Little Big Man (1970) was recommended to me but I still have to see them. Good that we have some time left now.

Edited July 21, 2021 by el sid

[Cap]

27 minutes ago, Plain Old Tele said:

Fiiiiine.

 

The Film Club's Updated Schedule is now:

 

Wednesday, July 21:

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Saturday, July 24:

Fistful Of Dollars

Sunday, July 25:

The Wild Bunch

 

Monday, July 26:

McCabe & Mrs. Miller

Saturday, July 30:

Buck And The Preacher

Sunday, July 31:

Pale Rider

 

Monday, August 1:

Geronimo: An American Legend

Wednesday, August 4:

Tombstone

Saturday, August 7:

The Rider

 

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[lorddemaxus]

Not sure if Bronco Billy (one of Eastwood's best and most wholesome) counts. Plays a lot around with Western tropes and mythology, but it's a movie about someone who acts as a cowboy for a show trying to make a living so I'm not sure. Wikipedia lists it as a Western and so does letterboxd. I guess it would count as a neo-western? But I wouldn't put it alongside films like No Country for Old Men and Hell or High Water either.

[Cap]

@The Panda Ruling on "The Great Train Robbery"?

[The Panda]

12 hours ago, Cap said:

@The Panda Ruling on "The Great Train Robbery"?

I’ll allow people to vote for it. If enough people think it should eligible that it makes the list then it’s fine with me (my ruling for most things).

[Fancyarcher]

Working on finishing up my list. Some last minute FYC's.

 

 

 

[lorddemaxus]

1 hour ago, Fancyarcher said:

Working on finishing up my list. Some last minute FYC's.

 

 

Just watched this earlier today. Great film

[Jake Gittes]

FYC for the final stretch

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

[Cap]

So with the film club has watched at least 15 westerns this month. And we’re about to round out this week with three more: Geronimo: an American legend, tombstone, and the Rider. Geronimo is tonight at 9:30.

[TalismanRing]

I appreciate the scoring making this easier to list - it's alphabetized for same group scores.

 

1. The Searchers (1956)
2. Lonely Are the Brave (1962)
3. Oklahoma! (1955)
4. The Big Country (1958)
5. Blazing Saddles (1974) 
6. Shane (1953)
7. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) 
8. Greed (1924)
9. The Ox-Bow Incident  (1943) 
10. The Rainmaker (1956)
11. High Noon (1952) 
12. Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
13. No Country for Old Men (2009)
14. Support Your Local Sherrif (1969)
15. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
16. My Darling Clementine (1946) 
17. One Thousand Pieces Of Gold (1990)
18. The Magnificent Seven (1960) 
19. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) 
20. The Professionals (1966)
21. Red River (1948)
22. Stagecoach (1939)
23. The Gold Rush (1925)
24. The Naked Spur (1953)
25. Unforgiven (1992) 
26. Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
27. Broken Arrow (1950)
28. Cat Ballou (1965)
29. Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
30. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) 
31. Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)
32. Tombstone (1993)
33. Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970)
34. Will Penny (1967)
35. Winchester '73 (1950)
36. Dances with Wolves (1990)
37. Destry Rides Again (1939)
38. Hell or High Water (2016)
39. Hombre (1967)
40. How the West Was Won (1962)
41. Man Without a Star (1955)
42. Seraphim Falls (2016)
43. Silverado (1985)
44. The Big Sky (1952) 
45. The Comancheros (1961)
46. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) 
47. The Rider (2017)
48. The Tin Star (1967)
49. The War Wagon (1967)
50. The Westerner (1940)

[Jake Gittes]

Watched El Dorado, Hawks' own remake of Rio Bravo. Enjoyed it more than the original (which I liked a lot), if only because there's no painfully self-conscious Angie Dickinson throwing herself at Wayne for the entire movie. Tighter, too. No replacing Walter Brennan in the Stumpy role, but Arthur Hunnicutt puts his own spin on it, and Mitchum and Caan are at least as good as Martin and Nelson. A grand old time. Guess that's my last recommendation of something I haven't seen FYC'd in this thread before.

[lorddemaxus]

A couple I saw recently that I really liked:

 

 

 

 

 

I didn't like this one a lot (probably won't make it into my list), but I know a lot of people who seemed to dig so I'm putting it down here anyways just in case someone finds it interesting:

[Barnack]

That some title that came to mind roughly ranked:

 

True Grit (the 2010 Coens version)
Django Unchained
There will be blood
Hateful Eight
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
No country for Old men
Bone Tomahawk
The Searchers (1956)
Wind River
Hostiles (2018)
Tombstone (1993)
Unforgiven
The Quick and the Dead (1995)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Maverick
Of Mice and Men (1992)
Hell or High Water (II) (2016)
Legends of the Fall (1994)
The rover
The Revenant (2015)
 

Edited August 5, 2021 by Barnack

[el sid]

My Top 48
I've seen more than 50 western but I want to make a list with films which are really good or which I liked (and several films mentioned here sound interesting but I didn't manage it to see them in time):

#1 Dances with Wolves
#2 For a Few Dollars More
#3 The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
#4 The Shootist
#5 The Magnificent Seven
#6 El Dorado
#7 They Call Me Trinity (1970)
#8 River of No Return
#9 Once Upon a Time in the West
#10 Broken Arrow
#11 Das finstere Tal / The Dark Valley (2014, a very intense film, has a lot of western elements, but is set in South Tyrol so Idk if it's counting; many reviewers called it an „Alps-western“ or „Revenge western in the Alps“)
#12 The Quick and the Dead
#13 The Sons of Katie Elder
#14 The Big Country
#15 The Lone Ranger
#16 Little Big Man
#17 Red Sun
#18 True Grit (1969)

#19 Hang 'Em High

#20 Chisum

#21 Last Man Standing (1996)
#22 A Fistful of Dollars
#23 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
#24 White Fang (1991)
#25 Tombstone
#26 Ulzana's Raid
#27 The Great Silence

#28 Open Range (2003)

#29 The Salvation (2014)

#30 3:10 to Yuma (2007)
#31 Silverado

#32 Bone Tomahawk

#33 High Plains Drifter
#34 Maverick (1994)
#35 Django (1966)
#36 Shalako

#37 Back to the Future III

#38 Man in the Wilderness
#39 The Revenant
#40 Flaming Star

#41 Support Your Local Sheriff

#42 Two Mules for Sister Sara

#43 3:10 to Yuma (1957, streamed it for 4 Euro, not bad but did not live up to my expectations)

#44 Dead Man
#45 The Call of the Wild (1972)
#46 Quigley Down Under

#47 Rango

#48 Apache

Edited August 6, 2021 by el sid

[Cap]

I had an absolute blast with this, and I want to thank everyone in the Film Club ( @4815162342 @Jake Gittes @Nerfy @Fancyarcher @Rorschach @Alpha @Eric Quinn @DAR @Plain Old Tele ) for going on this odyssey.  We watched some cool flicks!

 

I also feel like I watched at least 40 movies this month just to come back to the same stupid comment at the start of this: "So I'm going to make a list of John Ford films."

 

I think what I keep coming back to with Ford is a quote that Marty said about Ethan Edwards: "He's a poet of hate."

 

Ford's films are violent, and brutal, and challenging, and difficult -- yet there's such this contradictory sentimental humanist/populist streak in their core that that feel at odds with the films darker instincts, thus feel compelling and dangerous.  And sometimes it feels like, whether due to the Hays Code or his Personal Limitations, he slips the knife into your stomach, but he won't turn it for the death blow.  So there's always stuff you can comb through on a second showing.  Also, his fucking cinematography.  My God, his eye.  

 

So my list ended up:

 

1. The Searchers

2. Stagecoach

3. My Darling Clementine

4. Fort Apache

5. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

6. Sergeant Rutledge 

7. Cheyenne Autumn

8. She Wore A Yellow Ribbon

9. High Noon

10. The Wild Bunch

11. Blazing Saddles

12. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid 

13. The Big Country

14. The Rider

15. Unforgiven

16. Tombstone

17. Desperado

18. Johnny Guitar

19. McCabe and Mrs Miller

20. Once Upon A Time In The West

21.  Red River 

22. Oklahoma!

23. The Ox-Bow Incident

24. The Magnificent Seven

25. Young Guns

26. A Fistful of Dollars

27. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

28. A Few More Dollars

29. Brokeback Mountain

30. Buck and The Preacher

31. Geronimo: An American Legend 

32. Maverick 

33. 3:10 to Yuma (2007)

34. True Grit (2010)

35. Rio Grande

36. How The West Was Won

37. McLintock!

38. One Eyed Jacks

39. Pale Rider

40. Ride The High Country 

41. Roster Cogburn

42. Seven Samurai 

43. Shane

44. The Shootist 

45. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

46. The Great Train Robbery  

47. The Treasure of Sierra Madre

48. The Westerner  

49. Yojimbo

50. Wild Wild West

 

And thanks to @TalismanRing for reminding me that the list is ranked by posts, so that saved me about 3 hours of agonizing over what order to rank things.  L O L.

[lorddemaxus]

I'm gonna try to watch 3 films today (The Searchers, The Shooting, and My Darling Clementine) and I'll be done with my list. I wish I could've watched more last month by going to the film screenings, but at this point I think I'm just too lazy to watch movies on my PC late at night or early in the morning (if I even wake up that is).

 

And @Cap, no Wagon Master? I thought it was generally considered one of Ford's best.

[Cap]

1 hour ago, lorddemaxus said:

 

 

And @Cap, no Wagon Master? I thought it was generally considered one of Ford's best.

I kind of stopped fiddling with the list and just sent it in last night. But it was kind of bothering me that I only had eight of the 10, so it might go on

[The Panda]

Be sure to get your lists in today!

[Fancyarcher]

My final list. I had quite a few honorable mentions that just barely missed the top 50. 

 

1.    The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly

2.    Blazing Saddles

3.    Once Upon a Time in The West

4.    High Noon

5.    Unforgiven

6.    The Searchers

7.    The Outlaw Josey Wales

8.    First Cow

9.    The Ox-Bow Incident

10.  The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

11.  McCabe & Mrs. Miller

12.  The Naked Spur

13.  The Proposition

14.  No Country for Old Men

15.  The Great Silence

16.  The Gold Rush

17.  Bad Day at Black Rock

18.  The Long Riders

19.  Dances With Wolves

20.  The Shootist

21.  Tombstone

22.  The Professionals

23.  Dead Man

24.  Rio Bravo

25.  One Eyed Jacks

26.  Sholay

27.  Ulzana’s Raid

28.  Johnny Guitar

29.  Winchester 73

30.  Ride the High Country

31.  The Gunfighter

32.  The Wild Bunch

33.  My Darling Clementine

34.  The Rider

35.  Back to the Future Part III

36.  Fort Apache

37.  Brokeback Mountain

38.  Stagecoach (1939)

39.  Desperado

40.  Red River

41.  Little Big Man

42.  Open Range

43.  Rango

44.  Geronimo: An American Legend

45.  Destry Rides Again

46.  Silverado

47.  Of Mice and Men (1992)

48.  The Big Gundown

49.  They Call Me Trinity

50.  Wagon Master