Top 5 westerns

Classics in no particular order:
Magnificent 7
Good, Bad, and Ugly
Outlaw Josey Wales
Lonesome Dove
Tombstone


Modern Westerners (both remakes or close enough for interpretation):
True Grit
Hell or High Water
Django Unchained
Wind River
The Hateful Eight
There Will Be Blood
Hostiles
3:10 to Yuma
Ballad of Buster Scruggs
 
One likely not seen but a 20th century western “Comes A Horseman” with James Caan and Jane Fonda. If you can get past your hatred of Fonda, the movie is fantastic. One stunt man was killed filming it and they leave that scene in the movie…
 
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Unforgiven - some dark themes most westerns don't really get into
Quigley Down Under - it's a cute movie
Tombstone - one of the most famous gunfights in american history
Wind River - because I felt like putting a new age one on the list
Pale Rider - I needed to pick a 5th one







I hate to tell you all this, but all of John Wayne's movies were kind of wack.
 
Classics in no particular order:
Magnificent 7
Good, Bad, and Ugly
Outlaw Josey Wales
Lonesome Dove
Tombstone


Modern Westerners (both remakes or close enough for interpretation):
True Grit
Hell or High Water
Django Unchained
Wind River
The Hateful Eight
There Will Be Blood
Hostiles
3:10 to Yuma
Ballad of Buster Scruggs

I forgot about the Ballad of Buster Scruggs. Though it is kind of numerous movies in one, that might make my list.

I think the moral of the story of everyone's lists is that Tombstone rules.
 
i'm glad 3:10 to Yuma and No Country for Old Men eventually got mentioned by a few folks

just because it occurred in a different time period doesn't make it not a western - No Country for Old Men is both a deeply steeped western and undoubtedly one of the finest films and book adaptations ever produced.

3:10 to Yuma is just a quality movie in a classic western setting that really makes its mark because of it's A list actors.

I don't know if want to call Dances with Wolves a Western. But it is also one of the finest films ever produced.
 
While it's not mentioned as much as Tombstone, i'm a big fan of Wyatt Earp with Costner.

In no order, I like: Unforgiven, Tombstone, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid, 3:10 to Yuma, Jeremiah Johnson.

Really need to watch the outlaw josey wales, never seen it.
 
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