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Bad ass westerns?

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slackerinabox

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Been weirdly in the mood for westerns - any recommendations off the beaten path? Nothing too slow or american (meaning I'm not in awe of 3 hour travelogues of the american plains, I need a plot). Extra points if it's bad ass and propulsive, like genre mishmashes are awesome (cowboy mystery, western action /sheriff vs baddies). Thanks!
 
To fill in my own thread, recent watches
1. Bone Tomahawk - Could have been more viscerally made (the last act was underwhelmingly shot), but was different and worth a watch (western horror? not really but kinda. also I *LIKED* the un-pc view of certain tribes of natives, the tribe in question was brutal and unsympahetic - they didn't have a hugging trees and loving nature whitemen are evil montage, which i appreciated as more honest)
2. The Good, the bad, the weird - south korean western that's both over plotted yet a mess plot wise, but shot with great energy and fun - like a tarantino throw everything at the screen good time
 
Well, if you like violent start with The Wild Bunch, Ride the High Country, The Ballad of Cable Hogue and anything else from the glory days of Peckinpah.

You have to watch Tombstone, Unforgiven and pretty much any of Eastwoods stuff from the 60s and 70s. Man with No Name Trilogy, Outlaw Josey Wales, Pale Rider, High Plains Drifter and Hang 'Em High. Toss in True Grit, 3:10 to Yuma, Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. For genre mashups, Paint Your Wagon, the Ballad of Buster Scruggs and Cowboys and Aliens, A Million Ways to Die in the West, Blazing Saddles. You can stretch a little to include things like Tremors or From Dusk Till Dawn, while not technically westerns they're good monster/horror flicks in a western setting.

That should keep you busy for a while.
 
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OccamsToothbrush said:
Well, if you like violent start with The Wild Bunch, Ride the High Country, The Ballad of Cable Hogue and anything else from the glory days of Peckinpah.

You have to watch Tombstone, Unforgiven and pretty much any of Eastwoods stuff from the 60s and 70s. Man with No Name Trilogy, Outlaw Josey Wales, Pale Rider, High Plains Drifter and Hang 'Em High. Toss in True Grit, 3:10 to Yuma, Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. For genre mashups, Paint Your Wagon, the Ballad of Buster Scruggs and Cowboys and Aliens, A Million Ways to Die in the West, Blazing Saddles.

That should keep you busy for a while.
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Awesome list. There should also be the Ballad of Buster Scruggs still streaming. Short and brutal stories.
 
OccamsToothbrush said:
Well, if you like violent start with The Wild Bunch, Ride the High Country, The Ballad of Cable Hogue and anything else from the glory days of Peckinpah.

You have to watch Tombstone, Unforgiven and pretty much any of Eastwoods stuff from the 60s and 70s. Man with No Name Trilogy, Outlaw Josey Wales, Pale Rider, High Plains Drifter and Hang 'Em High. Toss in True Grit, 3:10 to Yuma, Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. For genre mashups, Paint Your Wagon, the Ballad of Buster Scruggs and Cowboys and Aliens, A Million Ways to Die in the West, Blazing Saddles. You can stretch a little to include things like Tremors or From Dusk Till Dawn, while not technically westerns they're good monster/horror flicks in a western setting.

That should keep you busy for a while.
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<3 THANK YOU!
 
there's The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs and surely you can't miss the short The Gunfighter (starring the voice of one Ron Swanson):

Otherwise, you can go spaghetti western. From the vaguely comical to the downright silly, and occasionally the dark and grim, there's plenty. Most of it is in Italian, subtitled.
 
OccamsToothbrush said:
Well, if you like violent start with The Wild Bunch, Ride the High Country, The Ballad of Cable Hogue and anything else from the glory days of Peckinpah.

You have to watch Tombstone, Unforgiven and pretty much any of Eastwoods stuff from the 60s and 70s. Man with No Name Trilogy, Outlaw Josey Wales, Pale Rider, High Plains Drifter and Hang 'Em High. Toss in True Grit, 3:10 to Yuma, Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. For genre mashups, Paint Your Wagon, the Ballad of Buster Scruggs and Cowboys and Aliens, A Million Ways to Die in the West, Blazing Saddles. You can stretch a little to include things like Tremors or From Dusk Till Dawn, while not technically westerns they're good monster/horror flicks in a western setting.

That should keep you busy for a while.
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Great list, but you left out "Once Upon a Time in the West"

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Many great suggestions already made, but I'll add in one more, "High Noon" starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly, the movie was shot in real time and purposely in black and white, the cinematography and camera work is epic as is the tension mounting as Cooper desperately seeks help from people in the town to avoid a four one one fire-fight, he finds none.
 
What was that movie (or maybe it was a series) that was on Netflix? Had Jeff Daniels (he was head of a gang), was set in like a mining town but I think most of the men were gone or something? Godless.

Also, to shame, no mention of Fievel Goes West? Rango was kinda fun too.

There was this crazy ass western, had ninjas. The Warrior's Way. A little too much CGI action, but still fun. Think it has a chaingun too.

slackerinabox said:
To fill in my own thread, recent watches
1. Bone Tomahawk - Could have been more viscerally made (the last act was underwhelmingly shot), but was different and worth a watch (western horror? not really but kinda. also I *LIKED* the un-pc view of certain tribes of natives, the tribe in question was brutal and unsympahetic - they didn't have a hugging trees and loving nature whitemen are evil montage, which i appreciated as more honest)
2. The Good, the bad, the weird - south korean western that's both over plotted yet a mess plot wise, but shot with great energy and fun - like a tarantino throw everything at the screen good time
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Bone Tomahawk could have been more visceral? You mean the movie with a guy getting split in half with an ax made of jawbone and teeth? Did you really want to see a more visceral version of that? I don't even know what to say about the rest. You appreciate the honesty in a horror movie about a fictional tribe of cannibals (think the movie literally calls them troglodytes)? I liked the movie but just what?

Good the Bad and the Weird was fun. I went in expecting it to be very different and basically shit and was very pleasantly surprised.

OccamsToothbrush said:
Well, if you like violent start with The Wild Bunch, Ride the High Country, The Ballad of Cable Hogue and anything else from the glory days of Peckinpah.

You have to watch Tombstone, Unforgiven and pretty much any of Eastwoods stuff from the 60s and 70s. Man with No Name Trilogy, Outlaw Josey Wales, Pale Rider, High Plains Drifter and Hang 'Em High. Toss in True Grit, 3:10 to Yuma, Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. For genre mashups, Paint Your Wagon, the Ballad of Buster Scruggs and Cowboys and Aliens, A Million Ways to Die in the West, Blazing Saddles. You can stretch a little to include things like Tremors or From Dusk Till Dawn, while not technically westerns they're good monster/horror flicks in a western setting.

That should keep you busy for a while.
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Not a Young Guns fan?

Well I guess we can rule you out as the producer guy that really wanted a giant goddamn spider (hence Wild Wild West), haha.
 
darkswordsman17 said:
Bone Tomahawk could have been more visceral? You mean the movie with a guy getting split in half with an ax made of jawbone and teeth? Did you really want to see a more visceral version of that? I don't even know what to say about the rest. You appreciate the honesty in a horror movie about a fictional tribe of cannibals (think the movie literally calls them troglodytes)? I liked the movie but just what?

Good the Bad and the Weird was fun. I went in expecting it to be very diff
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Oh, script wise I believe it got there, I don't believe the direction was effective - I imagine a version directed by someone like nicolas refn would have gotten me more in the gut. I didn't feel that punch to the gut I believe a more established director would have pulled off (it was the guy's first movie I believe).

The "honesty" I'm talking about is that there were some pretty terrifying, blood thirsty tribal elements during those harsh times, I think the more modern "cowboys are all colonists indians all peace loving vegan spirtualists" is less honest than the reality, shades of gray and all. I also say this knowing more about the director's filmography, where his politics have gotten some heat as neo-conservative, etc- i.e. i can be looking too into it as a former film student
 
The Outlaw Josey Wales comes to mind. Also Pale Rider.

Can't have a Western list without Unforgiven either, pretty sure that's a rule. I liked Open Range.

Some Japanese films with Toshiro Mifune might qualify.
 
Scarpozzi said:
Wiki-wiki Wild Wild West!

I like Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and TGTBATU.

Lee Van Cleef was always fun to watch.
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Yes he was, part of which what makes TGTBATU great. "I always do my job." (probably paraphrasing, been a few years since I've seen it.)
 
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