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The best westerns of all time

Since we're having a "best scifi" thread below, let's have a best
westerns thread.

I don't know whether these are the best, but they are my favorites of
the ones I've seen (forewarned: I'm a Peckinpah fan).

The Wild Bunch
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
The Proposition (this is an aussie flick, still qualifies imho)
The Good The Bad The Ugly (best Eastwood flick ever)
Silverado (this film has flashes of brilliance and true banality, but
overall it's a good one).
Once Upon a Time in the West (too clean and neat, but some great
individual scenes and the proper moral ambiguity).

One of my overarching criteria for a good western is that it have a
gritty, grubby, nasty, dirty, morally ambiguous feeling to it. The
characters cannot be clean, wear clean clothes constantly, and look like
they just had fresh makeup applied; the towns need to look like they
were made from cheap lumber and thrown together quickly (which they
were); the script needs to depict the moral qualities of the era, which
were not pretty at best. Peckinpah excels at this sort of thing.

I do not like John Wayne or Clint Eastwood, as neither of them can act
and they always play the same character from film to film.

Lack of skill dictates economy of style. - Joey Ramone

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Topic - The best westerns of all time - Mike K 09:45:04 03/20/11 (42)
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