Favorite and overrated westerns (films)

I've been watching a lot of westerns as of late. Partly because there are bunch free to watch on Amazon prime, and then I also bought a bunch recently. Every thing from classics to modern day.

My personal favorites:
Dollars trilogy
Tombstone
Open Range
Unforgiven
Maverick
Hondo
hostiles
Young guns 1 & 2 (I guess I'm only person in the world who likes these films, must be a gen x thing)
outlaw josie wales
The shootist

Ones I thought were fine, but I found them to be overrated:
The magnificent 7 (1960)
Once upon a time in the west (classic Sergio but I feel 30- 45 minutes could have been cut out).
The searchers
Silverado
True grit (2010)
The wild bunch


Some I have yet to see, or planning to see:
High plains drifter
pale rider
Rio Bravo
Butch cassidey and the sundance kid
assasination of jesse james
stagecoach
High Noon
Django
Shane

 

Not really a fan of westerns but there are a few I do like

Outlaw Josey Wales
Tombstone
Quigley Down Under

That's about all I can think of that I like.

 

Tombstone.
Magnificent Seven remake.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
The Apple Dumpling Gang lol

 

Most Spaghetti Westerns are overrated. The Searchers is one of the best of all time. High Noon is another imho. Shane and Butch Cassidy are both way up there. I also recommend Rio Bravo, but not El Dorado, which is pretty much the same movie, but crappier.

 

I like all the Clint Eastwood movies. Make sure u put Hang em High on ur to watch list.

 

Blazing Saddles

 

Try the John Ford / John Wayne cavalry trilogy

Fort Apache
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Rio Grande

Also more John Wayne

The Horse Soldiers
True Grit (the real version)

Also:

Lonesome Dove

 

The Searchers is considered by many to be the best movie ever made period. It is based on a compilation of several real events. There are several instances of Indians kidnapping young girls to raise as their own who had family members search for them for years before recovering them.

Other good choices. Really too many good ones. Ask me another day and my list might be somewhat different.

High Noon
Along Came Jones
The Ox-Bow Incident
Red River (Original 1948 version)

While I liked John Wayne a lot, the 2010 version of True Grit was closer to the book and simply a better movie. They did it right.

And if your a Wayne fan you can't watch the Shootist and not get at least a little bit emotional seeing the Duke dying from cancer on screen in his last movie while dying of cancer in real life.

I like a lot of Eastwood movies, but can't really get into the Spaghetti Westerns. Outlaw Josie Wells and Unforgiven are 2 good ones. I still like him as Rowdy Yates in the Rawhide TV show.

 

Blazing Saddles
The Three Amigos
Butch Cassidy
Good Bad and the Ugly
Any spaghetti western, for the music

https://youtu.be/GrenPqXgdBk

 

Little Big Man

 

Dances with Wolves, not to be confused with Wolverine

Last of the Mohicans (Daniel Day-Lewis version, more of an eastern but lots of indigenous peoples)

 

It's not a western in a traditional sense, but I really enjoyed Sukiyaki Western Django.

 

Both of the ‘3:10 to Yuma’ films are good. The first was made in 1957 and had Glenn Ford and Van Heflin as the stars. The second was made in 2007 and has Russell Crowe and Christian Bale as the stars.

John Wayne, Glenn Ford, Jimmy Stewart, Randolph Scott, Henry Fonda, Gary Cooper, all made good Western movies over the years.

 

I don't think anyone mentioned the John Wayne film 'The Cowboys'. One of my favorites.

Grit channel is obsessed with Audie Murphy... never liked any of them

 

For giggles try 1979's The Villian with Schwarzenegger.

Also 1995's The Quick and the Dead, a good cast and great editing.

 

The Warrior's Way.