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Post by finniussnrub on Dec 5, 2018 2:11:11 GMT
Are you gonna hit those likes or whistle dixie?
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Post by Viced on Dec 5, 2018 2:13:30 GMT
13....with 158 pointsGo on home to your kids, Herb. HIGH NOON (1952)
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Post by finniussnrub on Dec 5, 2018 2:14:36 GMT
Well directed, but I've always found the script incredibly heavy handed.
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Post by Viced on Dec 5, 2018 2:16:40 GMT
12....with 168 pointsI call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man! TRUE GRIT (2010)
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Post by DeepArcher on Dec 5, 2018 2:17:29 GMT
Wonderful placement for True Grit. At least the Coens got some love here!
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Post by Viced on Dec 5, 2018 2:20:36 GMT
11....with 187 pointsCalm down, friends. Since when are wolves afraid of wolves? THE GREAT SILENCE (1968)
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Post by stephen on Dec 5, 2018 2:21:23 GMT
Never woulda thought this would nearly break the Top 10 a year ago. Super pleased.
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Post by Mattsby on Dec 5, 2018 2:21:34 GMT
Gottttta go with that quote. Good choice. Prob deserves a spot in the Top 10 but I'll take it.
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 5, 2018 2:21:36 GMT
The Great Silence is the bleakest Western ever made. There is no way out of it, no flaw in its merciless and unforgiving logic – and it ends exactly as it should and spares no one, character or viewer. Like all great tragedies you don’t get depressed by it, rather you just nod your head because it speaks some kind distinct, horrible truth.
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Post by Viced on Dec 5, 2018 2:25:06 GMT
10....with 188 pointsAlive or dead? It's your choice. FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE (1965)
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Post by stephen on Dec 5, 2018 2:25:07 GMT
The Great Silence is the bleakest Western ever made. There is no way out of it, no flaw in its merciless and unforgiving logic – and it ends exactly as it should and spares no one, character or viewer. Like all great tragedies you don’t get depressed by it, rather you just nod your head because it speaks some kind distinct, horrible truth. I'd argue that Unforgiven beats it out for bleakness. Nobody walks away from that film better for it. The most decent character in the entire movie is still scarred and trapped in a profession that will force her to always be seen as damaged property. The Great Silence is dark as hell, no question, but to have your protagonist accept the fact that he is damned to hell with a weary resignation is staggering. |
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Post by Viced on Dec 5, 2018 2:28:45 GMT
9....with 192 pointsA game-legged old man and a drunk. That's all you got? RIO BRAVO (1959)
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Post by finniussnrub on Dec 5, 2018 2:28:52 GMT
The dueling chimes never fails to give me chills.
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Post by Viced on Dec 5, 2018 2:33:30 GMT
8....with 209 pointsThis is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend. THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE (1962)
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Post by finniussnrub on Dec 5, 2018 2:34:31 GMT
Is this the right placement?
You better believe it dude.
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Post by Viced on Dec 5, 2018 2:37:58 GMT
7....with 224 pointsThat man never killed anyone in his life. MCCABE & MRS. MILLER (1971)
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Post by stephen on Dec 5, 2018 2:39:09 GMT
Doesn't deserve to be quite this high, but it's still a fine flick.
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 5, 2018 2:40:27 GMT
#1 for me.
I’m not sure who said it first but the genius of McCabe is that it, a year before (!), inverted what The Godfather put across - It’s the story of a man who refuses an offer he can’t afford to.....and in that story the country is off on the wrong foot – saving the institution and forgetting the man, preserving the myth and not the facts. The most American of all Westerns to me, a sort of template for failing that is an undercurrent in all subsequent American generations.
The 70s had revisionist mysteries and war films and this is the decades great revisionist Western.
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Post by DeepArcher on Dec 5, 2018 2:40:56 GMT
Pretty great placement for McCabe. Well worthy of the top ten, I'd say.
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Post by Viced on Dec 5, 2018 2:43:55 GMT
6....with 247 pointsIf they move, kill 'em! THE WILD BUNCH (1969)
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Post by Joaquim on Dec 5, 2018 2:48:41 GMT
CLOSE, BUT NO CIGAR:( alphabetically)3:10 to Yuma (1957) The Ballad of Buster Scruggs The Cowboys The Culpepper Cattle Company The General The Good, the Bad, and the Weird Jeremiah Johnson The Man from Laramie No Country for Old Men Rango The Shootist Young Guns Ahh I would've put The General and NCFOM on my ballot but letterboxd didn't have them as westerns. |
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Post by Mattsby on Dec 5, 2018 2:50:44 GMT
 Ah, thought maybe it'd squeeeze up to the 4 or 5 spot! My #1 of all time so easily my top pick here. There's no other movie I'm more deeply and ineffably absorbed by. A poetic masterpiece, a complete re-evaluation of its genre, a stunningly realistic portrait of its period, a romantic tragedy, with ever relevant thematic heft. |
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Post by Viced on Dec 5, 2018 2:50:48 GMT
5....with 259 pointsDon't that picture look dusty? THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD (2007)
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Post by DeepArcher on Dec 5, 2018 2:51:59 GMT
Top five for Jesse James??? Holy shit!!! Would've never expected it. Well done, MAR.  |
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Post by stephen on Dec 5, 2018 2:53:19 GMT
Top five for Jesse James??? Holy shit!!! Would've never expected it. Well done, MAR. ... Really? It's pretty damned beloved. |
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