Ten best westerns ever, plus ten more

Gonna have to check these out. Have not seen most of them.

http://thefederalist.com/2018/03/23/top-10-westerns-ever-made-plus-10-deep-cuts/

 

Some good movies on the list but it's nonetheless a shitty list and the writer is a cartoon character... I knew any article from such a site would have some potholes but that one far exceeded my expectations ... you've got to be mentally ill to read trash like that regularly

 

Any top 10 westerns list that doesn't have The Outlaw Josey Wales on it is garbage.

 

Lol. What are you referring to? Far exceeded your ultra-left right-hating expectations? Highly doubtful.

 

It lists it in its deep cuts.

 

Pretty standard list with some good movies, but no "Treasure Of The Sierra Madre", and nothing made past 1976 because in earlier movies "the violence in them is often non-graphic, and clean enough for at least older children to watch."

Should have titled it "Top 10 Westerns Ever Made That Children Could Watch".

 

Let's all claim Tombstone should be on the list. Cdogg will have a stroke.

 

Is treasures good? What year is it from?

 

Are you serious? The article is littered with the writer's petty barbs (which aren't directed at anything tangible to do with the films) in place of useful information about the pictures being named or the methodology behind the rankings ... you'd have to be dishonest to deny it ... it's badly written

As for the list itself, there are some absolutely glaring omissions and the 1976 cutoff is the very definition of arbitrary... Josey Wales was violent as fuck (and should've been top 10)

 

I'm not a Peckinpah devotee by any stretch and maybe the film is too tough for the delicate writer but I have a hard time justifying a top 20 without "The Wild Bunch" and some of the others listed are almost objectively inferior

 

Petty barbs? Can you elaborate?

 

7 of the ten best are Clint Eastwood films.

 

I think it's late 40's. I put off watching it for a long time because I assumed it was one of those old-timey over-rated borefests like "Casablanca".

Bogart is grimy and dirty and messy and Walter Huston is fantastic. It's a much darker and edgier film then I expected.

 

"Kane’s appeals to the townspeople he has long protected go unheeded, which, along with the Communist leanings of its screenwriter, make this the Left’s favorite Western. But you shouldn’t let that prejudice you against a great movie"

"...Shane’s” enduring message is that sometimes what one wants must be set aside for what is right. An amoral society floating in hedonistic relativism could certainly benefit from a dose"

What purple drivel!

THE LEFT'S favorite western ... there's a monolith called "THE LEFT" and they were polled and voted for High Noon ... DUN DUN DUNNNN...

What place does nonsense like that have in a top ten westerns list? The answer is none which is why it's on a website like The Federalist in the first place

The bit about Shane, is the writer preaching now? It's crap writing, god knows what it looked like before an editor trimmed it

Pro tip: skip Magnificent 7 and watch "The Seven Samurai" instead... the former comes off like a "Glee" remake of the latter

 

Far better than any of the John Wayne cheese on that list

 

Well I endure similar "barbs" on a daily basis from the so-called main stream media. So I'm guessing you can handle the occasional article that doesn't promote all things Left and blame its failures on the Right.

 

HAHAHA!!! You endure them??? You precious darling!

It's a top ten movie list, for fuck's sake... you've got a good counter example not from a SJW site like HuffPost, let's see it! Because what kind of asshole says "I wonder what westerns are the most critically acclaimed???" and decides to check with The Federalist? Or Huffington Post? Or Breitbart? Or The Daily Kos?? I'll tell you what kind- A BIG STUPID ONE that needs his/her head kicked in

 

Tyson Fury is giving it to Double L today

 

You're the one bitching, . "I like the list of movies but it hurt my feelings with its point of view."

 

Are you serious right now??? It didn't hurt my "feelings", it hurt my fucking BRAIN because it's bad writing

Still I "endured"!

 

I've never been so insulted

A fucking TINKER

 

Dreadful list... at spaghetti westerns being slighted due to lack of "moral clarity". A list compiled by an imbecile for imbeciles.

 

take care. use a cold compress, lie down in a darkened room

 

have largely missed out on the western genre - growing up in britain, westerns were the kind of movie/tv show where you'd automatically change the channel. the kind of thing only your granddad liked to watch

been trying to get into some of the older stuff recently - watched The Searchers and The Wild Bunch in the past couple of weeks. interesting to watch. in retrospect Django Unchained has more than a touch of The Wild Bunch about it

of the few westerns i've seen i probably like coen brothers' True Grit and the Good the Bad & the Ugly best

 

Solid, but not perfect list. Yes, Tombstone should have been there as well as Unforgiven; No, no way 'The Outlaw Josey Wales" should have been included and was Noble drunk high or just plain have never watched 'The Treasure of Sierra Madre' to think it is a 'western'? He saw some Mexican bandidos in horses and thought, 'yup, this is a western!' LOL

yes, that boy was Robert Blake (Baretta).

 

Meanwhile on tv we got classics such as 'Have Gun Will Travel", "Bronco", "Colt.45", "Maverick", "Lawman", "Cheyenne", "The Virginian", "Bonanza", "Branded', "Larramie", "High Chaparral" among many others.

Here is a rare publicity photo of some of tvs famous western characters posing together:

 

I liked the Hatefull eight