High Plains Drifter Good, the Bad and the Ugly Outlaw Josey Wales The Unforgiven For a few Dollars More Eastwood's cowboy films best since John Wayne for me
i remember watching a western set in the rockies i believe as there was snow, had Jack Nicholson as co star. they were camped out in a cabin and were being chased. saw it once many years ago but cant seem to find it in his filmography.
Ride The Whirlwind?
Has to be as that has a similar premise with them being in a cabin and getting chased for something they didn't do. Not sure if there was any snow involved so must of made that up. Knowing me I probably just watched it in black and white.
One of the reasons I really like McCabe and Mrs Miller was due to the snow in the last part of the film and the somber ending.
Unforgiven - Eastwood's masterpiece Dances With Wolves - Costner's masterpiece Star Wars (Episode IV A New Hope - if you're under 50) - Lucas's masterpiece
Any film that has a notion that ‘the only good injun is a dead injun’ as some kind of underlying theme is automatically wrong in my opinion. I thought ‘Dances with Wolves ’ was underrated at the time, as with ‘The Last of the Mohicans’ but they developed the kind of sympathetic pro Aboriginal North American theme begun with ‘Broken Arrow’ which I appreciate. Our European diaspora conquered and crushed the indigenous people of North America and history is written by the winners. The recent Tom Hanks western ‘News of the World’ set in post civil war United States was thought provoking and a good film.
Any film that has a notion that ‘the only good injun is a dead injun’ as some kind of underlying theme is automatically wrong in my opinion. I thought ‘Dances with Wolves ’ was underrated at the time, as with ‘The Last of the Mohicans’ but they developed the kind of sympathetic pro Aboriginal North American theme begun with ‘Broken Arrow’ which I appreciate. Our European diaspora conquered and crushed the indigenous people of North America and history is written by the winners. The recent Tom Hanks western ‘News of the World’ set in post civil war United States was thought provoking and a good film.
Why do you have to make everything political. Everyone's bored of it . It's just a bit of fun .
Any film that has a notion that ‘the only good injun is a dead injun’ as some kind of underlying theme is automatically wrong in my opinion. I thought ‘Dances with Wolves ’ was underrated at the time, as with ‘The Last of the Mohicans’ but they developed the kind of sympathetic pro Aboriginal North American theme begun with ‘Broken Arrow’ which I appreciate. Our European diaspora conquered and crushed the indigenous people of North America and history is written by the winners. The recent Tom Hanks western ‘News of the World’ set in post civil war United States was thought provoking and a good film.
Why do you have to make everything political. Everyone's bored of it . It's just a bit of fun .
Any film that has a notion that ‘the only good injun is a dead injun’ as some kind of underlying theme is automatically wrong in my opinion. I thought ‘Dances with Wolves ’ was underrated at the time, as with ‘The Last of the Mohicans’ but they developed the kind of sympathetic pro Aboriginal North American theme begun with ‘Broken Arrow’ which I appreciate. Our European diaspora conquered and crushed the indigenous people of North America and history is written by the winners. The recent Tom Hanks western ‘News of the World’ set in post civil war United States was thought provoking and a good film.
Why do you have to make everything political. Everyone's bored of it . It's just a bit of fun .
Why is what I have written 'political'?
I’m not going to point it out because it’s obvious to anyone other than yourself . Yet again you’ve hijacked a thread . That’s the last I’m going to say because it’s boring . How about just giving your top five westerns ?
Any film that has a notion that ‘the only good injun is a dead injun’ as some kind of underlying theme is automatically wrong in my opinion. I thought ‘Dances with Wolves ’ was underrated at the time, as with ‘The Last of the Mohicans’ but they developed the kind of sympathetic pro Aboriginal North American theme begun with ‘Broken Arrow’ which I appreciate. Our European diaspora conquered and crushed the indigenous people of North America and history is written by the winners. The recent Tom Hanks western ‘News of the World’ set in post civil war United States was thought provoking and a good film.
Why do you have to make everything political. Everyone's bored of it . It's just a bit of fun .
Why is what I have written 'political'?
I’m not going to point it out because it’s obvious to anyone other than yourself . Yet again you’ve hijacked a thread . That’s the last I’m going to say because it’s boring . How about just giving your top five westerns ?
OK.
Broken Arrow Dances with Wolves Little Big Man Geronimo, an American Legend News of the World.
To be fair to Seth here, a lot of modern Westerns are concerned with the topic of how Native Americans were treated across history and in previous Westerns themselves. Revisionist Westerns concerned with addressing that are a sub-genre of the medium and add a lot of nuance to the topic.
Seth, you'd probably like Hostiles, which covers the topic fairly directly and Hell or High Water, which draws a parallel between the way Americans are being driven out of their homes and off their land by banks taking over everything and the way the native population were driven out by the settling Americans.
Of course it is. Neo-Westerns are a subgenre of Westerns and they cover pretty much the same ground in a more modern time. Spoilers for an 8 year old film but:
Two outlaws fighting against corrupt banks and authority figures to carve out and keep their place in a territory that they are being driven out of. A remorseful outlaw driven by a sense of injustice and a desire to find his legacy in his son and his land. An old world sheriff looking to have one last showdown and ideally die in his job rather than retire and become a part of the new world. His part Native American part Mexican partner who reflects the themes of land theft and culture erasure back onto the American working class. There's oil being fought for, there's a standoff implying a final duel between the sheriff and the outlaw, there's confused morals based on a sense of fairness rather than law, there's even a posse at one point and it's all shot against the New Mexico landscape. It's more on the nose with it's themes than a lot of Westerns
Any film that has a notion that ‘the only good injun is a dead injun’ as some kind of underlying theme is automatically wrong in my opinion. I thought ‘Dances with Wolves ’ was underrated at the time, as with ‘The Last of the Mohicans’ but they developed the kind of sympathetic pro Aboriginal North American theme begun with ‘Broken Arrow’ which I appreciate. Our European diaspora conquered and crushed the indigenous people of North America and history is written by the winners. The recent Tom Hanks western ‘News of the World’ set in post civil war United States was thought provoking and a good film.
Why do you have to make everything political. Everyone's bored of it . It's just a bit of fun .
I’m not bored of Seth’s comments so speak for yourself.
Any film that has a notion that ‘the only good injun is a dead injun’ as some kind of underlying theme is automatically wrong in my opinion. I thought ‘Dances with Wolves ’ was underrated at the time, as with ‘The Last of the Mohicans’ but they developed the kind of sympathetic pro Aboriginal North American theme begun with ‘Broken Arrow’ which I appreciate. Our European diaspora conquered and crushed the indigenous people of North America and history is written by the winners. The recent Tom Hanks western ‘News of the World’ set in post civil war United States was thought provoking and a good film.
Why do you have to make everything political. Everyone's bored of it . It's just a bit of fun .
Why is what I have written 'political'?
I’m not going to point it out because it’s obvious to anyone other than yourself . Yet again you’ve hijacked a thread . That’s the last I’m going to say because it’s boring . How about just giving your top five westerns ?
By responding to the thread going down Seth’s overt route, it can be argued you are being political by reinforcing the anti-Aboriginal people position of what is typically thought of as a Western.
Of course it is. Neo-Westerns are a subgenre of Westerns and they cover pretty much the same ground in a more modern time. Spoilers for an 8 year old film but:
Two outlaws fighting against corrupt banks and authority figures to carve out and keep their place in a territory that they are being driven out of. A remorseful outlaw driven by a sense of injustice and a desire to find his legacy in his son and his land. An old world sheriff looking to have one last showdown and ideally die in his job rather than retire and become a part of the new world. His part Native American part Mexican partner who reflects the themes of land theft and culture erasure back onto the American working class. There's oil being fought for, there's a standoff implying a final duel between the sheriff and the outlaw, there's confused morals based on a sense of fairness rather than law, there's even a posse at one point and it's all shot against the New Mexico landscape. It's more on the nose with it's themes than a lot of Westerns
In that case CSI Vegas is a great Western series, though not as good as Bonanza.
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Also had sight of the first part of 'Horizon - An American Saga', Kevin Costner's latest large scale project. More like An American Mess.
in no particular order:
Once Upon a Time in the West
High Plains Drifter
Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Outlaw Josey Wales
Django Unchained
Me and mates adopted Montana RedDog as our card game of choice, finishing off as dawn broke with Irish brag.
2. Super Mare
3. Curtis
4. Union
5. Digital
Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Outlaw Josey Wales
The Unforgiven
For a few Dollars More
Eastwood's cowboy films best since John Wayne for me
Not sure if there was any snow involved so must of made that up. Knowing me I probably just watched it in black and white.
One of the reasons I really like McCabe and Mrs Miller was due to the snow in the last part of the film and the somber ending.
Great Western Railways
Disputed territory of Western Sahara
Weston Super Mare
Simon Weston
Dances With Wolves - Costner's masterpiece
Star Wars (Episode IV A New Hope - if you're under 50) - Lucas's masterpiece
I thought ‘Dances with Wolves ’ was underrated at the time, as with ‘The Last of the Mohicans’ but they developed the kind of sympathetic pro Aboriginal North American theme begun with ‘Broken Arrow’ which I appreciate.
Our European diaspora conquered and crushed the indigenous people of North America and history is written by the winners.
The recent Tom Hanks western ‘News of the World’ set in post civil war United States was thought provoking and a good film.
A Few Dollars More
Tombstone
Django Unchained
Hell Or High water
For a Few Dollars More
High Plains Drifter
Magnificent Seven
Dances With Wolves
Of the traditional old Westerns. But a couple of my favourite films are Westerns in the modern era.
Hell or High Water
No Country for Old Men
Broken Arrow
Dances with Wolves
Little Big Man
Geronimo, an American Legend
News of the World.
Rio Bravo
Butch & Sundance
Dances with Wolves
Wyatt Earp
so many other good ones my favourite film genre
Dances with Wolves
Hostiles
Chisum
The Horse soldiers
The Searchers
The Alamo
The Magnificent 7
The Last of the Mohicans..
If I had to limit myself to 5!
Two outlaws fighting against corrupt banks and authority figures to carve out and keep their place in a territory that they are being driven out of. A remorseful outlaw driven by a sense of injustice and a desire to find his legacy in his son and his land. An old world sheriff looking to have one last showdown and ideally die in his job rather than retire and become a part of the new world. His part Native American part Mexican partner who reflects the themes of land theft and culture erasure back onto the American working class. There's oil being fought for, there's a standoff implying a final duel between the sheriff and the outlaw, there's confused morals based on a sense of fairness rather than law, there's even a posse at one point and it's all shot against the New Mexico landscape. It's more on the nose with it's themes than a lot of Westerns
;-)