Can't get enough Clint Eastwood. Favorite movie is Outlaw Josey Whales (sp?). Hang em high is another favorite.
John Wayne westerns are the standard. I liked the the newer version of True Grit. True Grit was based upon my city Fort Smith AR.
Some of my faves. Django The Wild Bunch The Good , the Bad , and the Ugly Missouri Breaks Run Man Run Once Upon A Time in the West Death Rides a Horse Appalosa Hombre And countless others, in recent years I have really started to enjoy Westerns, especially Spaghetti Westerns .
I hated the new True Grit. Matt Damon played a good role, but I hated the rest of it. I like the Culpepper Cattle Co., The Unforgiven, Billy Two Hats, Desperado, Silverado, The Man from Snowy River, Savage Pampas, Open Range, Dances with Wolves.
Unforgiven, Pale Rider, Outlaw Josey Wales, Once Upon a Time In The West, Tombstone, Dances With Wolves, Monte Walsh, Quigley Down Under, The New True Grit, Last Stand at Sabre River and there's more that I can't name off the top of my head right now.
I have a big box of those books in my basement. I'm hoping one of my boys starts to take a liking to them. I've started my 10 year old on a Louis L'Amour book just the other day but haven't heard back from him whether he liked it or not.
You list some great movies, I thought the new True Grit was ruined by the scene stealing young girl, its formulaic to have her always wise beyond her years and always with the last word, her role was like Gary Coleman's in Different Strokes. I liked Jeff Bridges in his role as he had some good lines and some comic touches. I thought had the girl been a middle aged woman or a aging spinster as in the origininal movie I would have liked the movie more.
Once Upon a Time, The Wild Bunch - thanks for bringing those up! I'm going to throw out Kill Bill 1 and 2. Really just a western in samurai clothing. But then again, The Magnificent Seven is a. samurai in Western clothing
Many great westerns mentioned. I'll also throw out the Trinity series...They Call Me Trinity and Trinity is Still My Name. I can't recall if there were others or not. Others I love are Unforgiven, Jeremiah Johnson, Once Upon a Time in the West, Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean A Man Called Horse Lonesome Dove The Magnificent Seven Tombstone Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid I've also recently started watching the Deadwood series on HBO, but I find it more of a soap opera set in the western era. I also love Blazing Saddles, but that's not more of a comedy than a western.
Movies:Tombstone, The Unforgiven, Pale Rider, Silverado, 3:10 to Yuma, TV: The Life and Times of Wyatt Earp, Have Gun Will Travel, Wanted Dead or Alive, Maverick, Lonesome Dove, Bat Masterson, The Virginian, The Restless Gun Classics: The Hour of the Gun, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, Chisum(of course), Sons of Katie Elder, Support Your Local Sheriff, How the West Was Won Best Classic:Liberty Valence Best Newer Movie:Tombstone Best TV: Man I grew up in the 50's and 60's...thats too hard a question...lol...Although as a kid I think I spent more time playing Wyatt Earp and second Paladin...
