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re: Top 3 favorite westerns excluding tombstone

Posted on 6/5/24 at 11:00 pm to
Posted by CrotchetyCowboy
Ward, AR
Member since Jul 2022
809 posts
Posted on 6/5/24 at 11:00 pm to
Will need to check that out. Thanks

Posted by A Menace to Sobriety
Member since Jun 2018
32529 posts
Posted on 6/5/24 at 11:44 pm to
I'll say:

Josey Wales
Unforgiven
The Searchers

Good answers in this thread though.
Posted by biglego
San Francisco
Member since Nov 2007
84704 posts
Posted on 6/6/24 at 12:18 am to
Lonesome Dove

Million ways to die in the west

Blazing Saddles
Posted by upgrade
Member since Jul 2011
15075 posts
Posted on 6/6/24 at 6:29 am to
Lonesome Dove
Unforgiven
The Assassination of JJ
Posted by PhilipMarlowe
Member since Mar 2013
21922 posts
Posted on 6/6/24 at 6:43 am to
The Proposition
no Country
Hostiles

Posted by Willie Stroker
Member since Sep 2008
16644 posts
Posted on 6/6/24 at 7:13 am to
Once Upon a Time
Good, Bad, Ugly
Unforgiven

Ask me on another day and I might throw in True Grit remake or The Proposition

But under no circumstances will I ever mention Tombstone. It’s #1 as my pick for the most overrated western ever. It’s like watching a bunch of high school theater boys play their costumes instead of their characters.

It seems amateurish, cartoonish, and campy. It’s for kids. Kind of like milk chocolate and Canadian Whiskey.
Posted by Auburn80
Backwater, TN
Member since Nov 2017
10012 posts
Posted on 6/6/24 at 7:40 am to
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Big Jake
Support your Local Sheriff
Outlaw Josey Wales
Posted by gumbo2176
Member since May 2018
20035 posts
Posted on 6/6/24 at 8:04 am to
Unforgiven
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Silverado
Posted by Pork Que
New Orleans
Member since Jun 2010
855 posts
Posted on 6/6/24 at 8:06 am to
Once Upon a Time in the West
Rio Bravo
Lonesome Dove
Posted by themetalreb
Mississippi
Member since Sep 2018
6930 posts
Posted on 6/6/24 at 8:11 am to
TG, TB, TU
True Grit - Bridges
For A Few Dollars More
Posted by JackDempsey
Lake Charles
Member since May 2023
863 posts
Posted on 6/6/24 at 8:46 am to
You didn't have to exclude Tombstone for me, it wouldn't make my top 25 westerns.

Josey Wales
The Searchers
Once Upon a Time in the West
Posted by StrongOffer
Member since Sep 2020
6926 posts
Posted on 6/6/24 at 8:55 am to
quote:

Unforgiven
Open Range
Josey Wales
My top 3 as well
Posted by 632627
LA
Member since Dec 2011
15106 posts
Posted on 6/6/24 at 9:21 am to
Unforgiven (GOAT western)
Assassination of Jesse James
How the West was won

Tombstone would be somewhere between 5-10
Posted by Locoguan0
St. George, LA
Member since Nov 2017
7270 posts
Posted on 6/6/24 at 9:23 am to
Don't know if it is top 3, but Wyatt Earp is a good one. So many people want to compare it to Tombstone, but they are entirely different movies. Tombstone is pure Hollywood flash. Wyatt Earp is epic historical drama. The women aren't all beautiful and the action is rough instead of flashy.

Staying on the same note, Dances with Wolves has to be up there as well.
Posted by The Dude Abides
Atlanta, GA
Member since Feb 2010
2260 posts
Posted on 6/6/24 at 9:24 am to
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Big Jake
I thought you were dead.
Posted by The Dude Abides
Atlanta, GA
Member since Feb 2010
2260 posts
Posted on 6/6/24 at 9:26 am to
quote:

Once Upon a Time in the West
judging by the sheer number of responses including this, i guess i should give this another try.

Grew up a huge fan of Eastwood westerns but somehow never watched Once Upon A Time, tried to watch it the other day and it just didn't grab me.

Anywho, My Answers:

Unforgiven
Josey Wales
High Plains Drifter

Honorable Mentions to:

Open Range
Butch & Sundance
Magnificent Seven (original)

Guilty Pleasures:

Django Unchained
3:10 To Yuma (Bale)
Hell Or High Water (it counts)


This post was edited on 6/6/24 at 9:32 am
Posted by iwyLSUiwy
I'm your huckleberry
Member since Apr 2008
42361 posts
Posted on 6/6/24 at 11:12 am to
Fwiw, most on here wouldn't have Tombstone in their top 3. It's very polarizing around here for some reason. I love it, but it gets weirdly hated on.


Once Upon a Time in the West
Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo
The Wild Bunch

Assassination of Jessie James being a toss up with The Wild Bunch.

Hot take, Unforgiven is extremely overrated.
Posted by Hondo Blacksheep
Member since Jul 2022
3132 posts
Posted on 6/6/24 at 11:29 am to
James Garner was the shite back in the day.

Weekends and summers I watched ninety straight minutes of The Rifleman (with former Cincinnati Reds and Boston Celtics sharpshooter Chuck Conners) followed by an hour of Maverick (with Garner) every chance I got.
Posted by thegambler
Louisiana
Member since Oct 2012
2146 posts
Posted on 6/6/24 at 12:35 pm to
All the ones posted are really good. but I will add:

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
They Call Me Trinity
Shane
Posted by goatmilker
Castle Anthrax
Member since Feb 2009
76456 posts
Posted on 6/6/24 at 7:27 pm to
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McClintock


I like this one the more I see it
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