I would’ve bet money that Kioshk posted this.

If it wasn’t clear I was just riffing on the history of the movies. I do love Rio Bravo though. Liberty Valance is great. It probably comes as no surprise from my posts, but my favorite is the Searchers. I encourage everyone (again) to watch the blu ray print on a day with nothing else to do.

One Upon A Time In The West

The End

TGTBATU is the nuts for westerns.

+1. GOAT movie.

I guess not technically a western, but put me in for The Outlaw Josey Wales.

So many great westerns. Wild Bunch and Little Big Man are up there, but High Noon has that sweet Katy Jurado in it, and Once Upon a Time in the West has Claudia Cardinale. I have my own criteria for judging movies.

I should be more respectful of Dom's opinions: I hate anything with John Wayne in it, with the exception of Stagecoach. I've tried to like The Searchers since so many people whose opinions I respect like it, but it keeps getting worse every time I watch it. Drek.

+1

The ending to 'Once upon a time in the West" is so ****ing ridiculously over the top but I love every second of it. From Cardinale's close-up reaction to the epic music blasting, just everything about it is so good.

I think you'll find it is.

Some good Westerns here.

I do love me some True Grit too tho, even though it's a bit baggy.

Wayne taking on those guys on horseback with reigns between his teeth is marvellous.

I know it's no classic, but its thrilling and fun

Darkest Hour - First 15 minutes is a stone cold masterpiece if what it's actually doing is parodying these historical biopics with highly touted lead performances. (Unfortunately it's not doing that, although with Death of the Author I'm not sure that it matters.) It hits every overplayed trope to pathetic and hilarious perfection.

It settles in and is merely mediocre in the end. The film should be a call to arms as it's depicting - a call to arms for a radical uprising in the film world. With movies like this being successful critical darlings, it feels something like the biblical epic bubble of the 1950s. It's time for somebody to come in and tear it all ****ing down. We need the new Easy Rider, Bonnie & Clyde, Mean Streets, Jaws, and we need them to be nothing like those.

And with Oldman a near-lock to win, I think we probably need to nuke this thread too while we're at it; anything the slightest bit connected with mainstream movie culture. Just what in the actual **** is wrong with people?

Haven't seen The Post or Call Me By Your Name yet, but here's my current list with some additional treats:

Get Out
[The Florida Project]
Phantom Thread
(drop)
Lady Bird
(drop into below average territory)
[Blade Runner 2049] (have seen twice)
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Three Billboards
(drop)
Shape of Water

You seem to have forgotten the big battle at the end.

Lots of great westerns but for me number one is Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Just watched Liberty Valance for about the 100th time last weekend and couldn't resist. Was channel surfing and it had just started and I couldn't turn away.

Clovis likes 25th hour and that has a big fight at the end too. Hypocrite

Even though the point has been made explicit to you 10 times you seem to have still missed it. Impressive ignorance.

You don't have to respond to every troll attempt, you know. But if you do, you should probably stop calling other people ignorant.

Not if they are being ignorant.

Match point

My personal favorite end battle is from Before Midnight.

A battle at the end between good and bad is too simplistic. Now if it's between good, bad, and ugly!

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf has some epic battle scenes.

The seven samurai is the greatest western of all time..

Yep

I think my favorite line in all the movies. The way Redford delivers, "Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?" So great.

Pom Poko, Kiki's Delivery Service, Castle in the Sky - All Studio Ghibli '80s-'90s. Worth watching if you're into traditional animation and worth showing your kids. They'd all work better as miniseries though; they're too long and they all have significant lulls late in the story where they do a bunch of extra character development. The first two I listed especially would fit well with an episodic structure.

Spirited Away - Same deal, would be better as episodes (and again has a structure that would lend itself to that), but is better overall than the others. I'd take a sequel tbh.