Good Civil War/Western/Gunslinger films -

[MZ 052]

I like Westerns but it seems the genre's gone down the shitter, thanks mainly to Quentin Tarantino
Does anyone have any good films in this genre to recommend?
Please more focused on pew-pew and action rather than moralizing about the Confederacy/Reconstruction, I don't need it to be Birth Of A Nation but I don't want to watch white guilt porn of sobbing niggers getting whipped ect
Examples of good films in the genre (imo)
Unforgiven
Fistful of Dollars trilogy
Gangs of New York
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
No Country For Old Men (wrong era I know but it's got the right vibe)
thanks for any recs and also general Western thread I suppose

 

[Judge Holden]

Oh boy do I have a something for you...

 

[Crichax]

If you're looking for Western parodies as well, Support Your Local Sheriff! is worth a watch.

 

[The Shadow]

The Outlaw Josey Wales sounds like it was made for you.

Also:
They Call Me Nobody, really any of the Terence Hill westerns. Some good comedy with it, too.
Both versions of 3:10 to Yuma are good, though I prefer the old one.
High Plains Drifter
Hang Em High
Pale Rider
Navajo Joe
Hondo

 

[Judge Holden]

Also if you like the Dollars trilogy then you are legally required to watch Once Upon a Time In the West

 

[MZ 052]

The Outlaw Josey Wales sounds like it was made for you.

Also:
They Call Me Nobody, really any of the Terence Hill westerns. Some good comedy with it, too.
Both versions of 3:10 to Yuma are good, though I prefer the old one.
High Plains Drifter
Hang Em High
Pale Rider
Navajo Joe
Hondo

Thanks man I'll check them out

Oh boy do I have a something for you..

If you're looking for Western parodies as well, Support Your Local Sheriff! worth a watch.

haha I do like Boss Nigger, Blazing Saddles is my favourite Western parody though
will check all these out, thanks

 

[Crichax]

will check all these out, thanks

When you quoted my post, you showed how much it resembled caveman speak (there was no "is" separating the movie title and "worth a watch"). So, thank you for doing that, and I edited it so it would be less exceptional.

 

[UnKillShredDur]

Pretty good civil war movie.

 

[Crichax]

Pretty good civil war movie.

Superhero movies will be the next Western if they ever fall out of favor.

 

[Y2K Baby]

the genre's gone down the shitter, thanks mainly to Quentin Tarantino

dude wat lmao

 

[Damn Near]

The original version of "the Beguiled" starring Clint Eastwood. Really fucking good Civil War thriller

 

[Syaoran Li]

This genre is a favorite of mine, and I have several recommendations for you, split up into multiple categories...

Civil War
Gettysburg
Gone With The Wind
Andersonville
Gods & Generals
Shennandoah

Western
The Alamo (both the John Wayne original and the 2004 remake)
Tombstone (my favorite Western of all time)
The Last Outlaw
Young Guns
Young Guns II
Breakheart Pass
Pale Rider
Hang 'Em High

Comedy/Parody/Weird West
Blazing Saddles (obviously)
Rustlers Rhapsody
Wild Wild West
Support Your Local Sheriff
Support Your Local Gunfighter
Maverick
Tremors 4

 

[FaceOfTrueHorror]

Some good one I haven't seen posted yet

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
High Noon
Back to the Future 3 (it counts)
Westworld (it also counts)
Bone Tomahawk
A Pistol for Ringo
The Man from Laramie
Winchester '73

I would also recommend looking into neo western movies like Hell or High Water, No Country for Old Men, Wind River among others.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Thank you for asking.

I just watched "Free State of Jones" last night and it's great. It's about a mixed-race rebellion by the poor people of Jones County, Mississippi against the Confederate government. By showing the war through this event of white Southerners shooting at white Southerners, it takes away all the pretense of honor or defending the South or any of that. I found the movie very moving/haunting.

Westerns:
Lonesome Dove
- Masterpiece of the genre, a miniseries based on a real-life cattle drive from the Texan border to Montana

Little Big Man
- Great tragicomedy about the Battle of Little Bighorn, from the perspective of a White boy raised by Indians

The Searchers
- Adventure movie about a Confederate and his nephew hunting down the Comanches who murdered his nephew's family and kidnapped his niece

The Revenant
- Beautiful, moody, atmospheric movie (based on real life) about a frontiersman hunting down the man who murdered his son after being abandoned on a fur hunt. Set much earlier than most movies.

True Grit (newer)
- Good movie about a young girl hiring a bounty hunter to hunt down the man who killed her father; they join up with a Ranger and set off across the frontier to take down the gang.

Shane
- Good old movie about a drifter who happens across a small farming town and ends up defending it from the local gang.

The Man who Shot Liberty Valance
- Good old movie with a plot I don't feel like explaining; involves a lawyer having a duel with the local rough and the way his legend gets twisted for political reasons.

High Noon
- Very slow burn but builds up to a rather moving/emotional movie. About a sheriff who tries to get together a posse when the local outlaw is released from prison and swears revenge on him. In the end, the sheriff has to face him down alone.

Once Upon a Time in the West
- Confusing, long mess of a movie, but entertaining in its own way. Very complicated plot about a land dispute with several sides involved. Extremely violent.

100 Rifles
- Decent movie about an Arkansas mestizo and a Black getting sucked into the Yaqui Rebellion on the Mexican border. Famous for being one of the earliest movies to have a buck fuck a white woman on camera.

Most anything with Zorro in it


Western TV shows:
Maverick
- Fun, easy series about two brothers; they tend to smooth-talk their way out of things

Gunsmoke
- Show about the Dodge City sheriff; Western version of a police procedural

Civil War:
Copperhead
- Drama about a Copperhead being persecuted by abolitionists; has a message about political tolerance and extremism.

Gangs of New York
- Civil War-era gang drama which portrays the Draft Riots on a glorious scale.


If we're going to include Neo-Westerns, there's two TV shows people seem to like a lot. One is "Longmire," which is about the (modern-day) sheriff of a town in Wyoming. It's notable for having the Indian reservation playing a large role. The other is "Justified," which is basically a Western (in terms of theme) but set in modern Appalachia.

 

[Big Nasty]

Silverado is seldom mentioned nowadays

 

[Bongsnake McGee]

Cowboys vs Aliens - Don't let the silly premise fool you, this is a classic western pretending to have scifi in it.

Magnificent Seven - Because remake westerns are still good. After you've polished it off, go watch The Seven Samurai.

White Sun of the Desert - Meanwhile, the Soviet Union put togehter a pretty damn good Eastern. Available on the original studio's youtube channel, hit CC for english subtitles .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqnqFhc9aho

Lemonade Joe - Psychedelic Chzech Western Musical

The American Astronaut - A very arthoues space western musical, mostly on my radar because of this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzVi_acjD-s

 

[Francis E. Dec Esc.]

Jeremiah Johnson. It's set in the 1840s, so everyone carries single shot percussion horse pistols and Hawken rifles instead of Colts and Winchesters, but it's still a great example of the genre. Wonderful scenery too.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Cowboys vs Aliens - Don't let the silly premise fool you, this is a classic western pretending to have scifi in it.

Magnificent Seven - Because remake westerns are still good. After you've polished it off, go watch The Seven Samurai.

White Sun of the Desert - Meanwhile, the Soviet Union put togehter a pretty damn good Eastern. Available on the original studio's youtube channel, hit CC for english subtitles .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqnqFhc9aho

Lemonade Joe - Psychedelic Chzech Western Musical

The American Astronaut - A very arthoues space western musical, mostly on my radar because of this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzVi_acjD-s

Do you know any other Easterns?

For that matter, general question to you all: what good Australian, Canadian, and Russian "Westerns" (set in the Frontier of the respective countries, but feel like Westerns) are out there?

 

[Y2K Baby]

Do you know any other Easterns?

For that matter, general question to you all: what good Australian, Canadian, and Russian "Westerns" (set in the Frontier of the respective countries, but feel like Westerns) are out there?

Samurai movies, stupid.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Samurai movies, stupid.

Cool, I'll go look up those Australian/Canadian/Russian samurai movies.