Best western movies ever!!

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Neesy

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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford was a good film. I really liked the last chapter of the film. It was more of the anti-romanticized western and a bit slow paced at certain points, but overall I really liked it.
They filmed parts of that here in Winnipeg in the old Exchange district. I never did apply as a crowd 'extra' but it's kinda cool that you can see how they made it look like the Old West.
 

Grandpa

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Did anyone mention Seven Samurai? Okay, a Japanese film, swords rather than guns, but still a Western in theme, so much so that it was redone practically scene by scene as The Magnificent Seven, which wasn't all that bad, either.

I know people who would put The Wild Bunch right up there. I'm not one of them, but it might deserve mention.
 

FlakeNoir

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Did anyone mention Seven Samurai? Okay, a Japanese film, swords rather than guns, but still a Western in theme, so much so that it was redone practically scene by scene as The Magnificent Seven, which wasn't all that bad, either.

I know people who would put The Wild Bunch right up there. I'm not one of them, but it might deserve mention.
Both are great, been years since I've seen either.
 

Kurben

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The seven samurai is just one of Korusawas "western". Have anyone seen Yojimbo? A Fistful of Dollars is copied almost scene for scene from that movie. Its just that Toshiro Mifune had a sword but Clint Eastwood had a gun. Otherwise they are identical. Korusawa is much copied, his The Wild Escape was the main inspiration for the first Star Wars movie according to George Lucas himself.
Speaking of Toshiro Mifune he actually made a western in the US that are quite good. Red Sun with him and Charles Bronson in the leads. Think it was Terence young who directed. Alain Delon and Ursula Andress is also in the movie.
 
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