I watched hell or high water and wind River pretty much back to back on a whim one evening - without any knowing much about either movie. I believe they had released relatively close together for steaming. Fell absolutely in love with both
I always love the brief pause between the waitress and the Rangers after she explains the menu as they try to compute all of the things she told them.
*Well, I tell ya one thing...nobody's gonna rob this son of a bitch.*
This line. This line has stuck with me for years. I wouldnāt do bank robbery, or murder, but Iāll be damned if my kids get raised in the sort of shit rutting poverty I dealt with as a kid and young man.
Not saying I agree with the characters decisions, but man.. I understand where he was coming from.
My current favorite movie. A really cool "two-hander" type movie with some great sort of parallels between the two duos (both character-wise and "cinematographically".Ā
And one of the funniest non-comedies ever made.Ā
He's actually pretty prolific back here in AUS. Apparently he's quite content doing the odd big budget and then spending the rest of his time supporting Australian cinema. Check out Animal Kingdom if you want to see him alongside all our contemporary greats.
Indeed. Anytime I bring it up itās like Iām in a dimension where it was never made. Wtf?
I remember seeing it in a rundown theater that smelled like mold in Charleston West Virginia. Iāll never forget that or this awesome film. š
Hailee Steinfield impressed me with such an emotionally heavy role at such a young age. I know she has done more YA stuff, but she has serious acting chops
It's not too often that a remake is so much better than the original, this one achieves it. Of course it has affected Bridges ever since where he is playing that character in a different setting for pretty much every movie - like Depp with Jack Sparrow.
True Grit (2010) remake was superb. I enjoy it more than the original.
Unlike the original with John Wayne, the character Rooster Cogburn never got any more movies with Jeff Bridges.
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, who composed the soundtrack to this film, got the job as a direct result of their work on another film mentioned in a comment below called The Proposition (which IMO and with all due respect, is the better film)
Out of this world movie that (I think) is one of the best book adaptations ever. Anton Sigur is legit one of the most terrifyingly purely evil people ever thanks to Javier Bardem. Also the red neck pronunciation of shit like āoxygen tank for intferzemaā and āI canāt give you no intfermationā is hilarious.
The opening monologue is maybe my favorite ever in film. The ending is also one of my favorites and iirc itās word for word the exact same thing Ed Tom says in the book.
Everyone in that film is amazing but Tommy Lee Jones was phenomenal.
The Coen Brothers have a way to emphasize the quirky ways people talk almost to the point of parody, with slight exaggeration of regional dialects and repetition. Like H.I. in Raising Arizona's almost poetic choice of words *"her insides were a rocky place where my seed could find no purchase."* and the repetitive phrases in The Big Lebowski *"he's a good man, and thurrah."*
I've worked in factories/labouring jobs with several psychopaths and former prisoners over the last 20 years. Bardem is STAGGERINGLY good at playing a dude with no soul. I dont think I can watch that movie again.
This is definitely the best answer. Particularly in the notion that law and order still works like the old westerns, whereas those ideals are futile in the nature modern world.
The best scene is toward the end when Sheriff Bell is talking with his uncle Ellis.
What you got aināt nothing new. This world is hard on people. You canāt stop whatās coming. It aināt all waiting on you. Thatās vanity.
The opening monologue, that scene, and the final scene of him describing his dream are some of my favorite scenes ever in film.
His whole storyline of feeling over matched and almost scared and unable to understand the world around him as he aged is so poignant. And then that scene with Ellis (who I believe is his cousin) informs him that the world has always been like this. The way he describes their uncle Mac being murdered almost a century earlier is very similar to how Lewelyn was murdered. Both shot in their doorway, one by āIndians on horsesā wanting āthis or thatā and the other by Mexicans wanting their money.
I love that movie and those scenes so much. Some of those Ellis quotes run through my head regularly. The one you mentioned and the one about āthe more time you spend trying to get back whatās been took from you, more is going out the door. After a while you have to try and get a tourniquet on itā. Itās such a powerful statement about moving on after tragedy.
I think the closest thing to it is From Dusk Til Dawn. In the sense that the first half of the movie is a completely different genre than the second half.
Seconded, it rules. Also hammers home the point that the Wild West is not a specific time and place, but a relation of society and environment that can crop up anywhere and anywhen. Manchuria 1939 is just as Wild West as Tombstone 1881.
Pretty wild that the Scottish director of Slow West really just made a fantastic directorial debut and then peaced out for a decade.
His upcoming sophomore release, Tornado, sounds lit though-contrary to the bland title:
>A travelling puppet Samurai show in Britain in 1790 crosses paths with ruthless criminals, but one of the performers, Tornado, hatches a plan to play them at their own game.
Robert Duvall and Kevin Costner in Open Range are perfect to me.
Spoiler incoming
>!Charlie asking Butler if he killed their friend and just walking up and blasting him in the head got a yell out of me in the theaters haha.!<
A series (not a movie) but I am continually surprised more people donāt know about this show. The cinematography is unparalleled, the characters and acting are amazingā¦ itās easily one of the best western series ever, ESPECIALLY if youāre looking for native perspectives.
Hell Or High Water, Bone Tomahawk, No Country For Old Men, True Grit, Open Range. Also, though itās a miniseries not a movie, but Broken Trail was one of Robert Duvallās best performances.
Edit-Hatfields And McCoys and Godless. Both are also miniseriesā.
I feel like Seraphim Falls deserves a mention. I don't think it's very well known, but it's Pierce Brosnan and Liam Neeson chasing each other across the west after the Civil War. It's pretty damn good. Came out in 2006.
I recommend 'Hell or High Water' to everyone I meet
This is always my answer. Wind River is also great.
Wind River really surprised me. In a good way.
Check out Hold The Dark (2018) for a similar vibe to Wind River š
Wind River is amazing and also impossible to recommend to anyone because of how grim the subject matter is.
Both written by Taylor Sheridan, and he also directed Wind River.
Fuck it throw in Sicario too
His American frontier trilogy was sick, everything else..not so much
His series 1883 and 1923 were much more streamlined and not so soapy and implausible.
I fucking LOVED 1883. 1923 I was unsure of at first but I liked it in the end and I'm looking forward to more of that over more Yellowstone.
First couple seasons of Yellowstone were good
āWhy you flanking me?ā
"You didn't see it?"
Thatās a heartbreaking scene in retrospect.
"Six miles. Barefoot. That's a warrior. That's a *warrior.*" Jeremy Renner's delivery of that line was phenomenal.
I watched hell or high water and wind River pretty much back to back on a whim one evening - without any knowing much about either movie. I believe they had released relatively close together for steaming. Fell absolutely in love with both
Lmao these are the exact two movies i constantly recommend
Both written by Taylor Sheridan, as was Sicario.
One of the best movies I have no desire to watch again. Fucking fantastic.
[Best short character actor performance of all time](https://youtu.be/p-FX_7SFSsM?si=rjyWlFLFzVMBsIfN)
I always love the brief pause between the waitress and the Rangers after she explains the menu as they try to compute all of the things she told them. *Well, I tell ya one thing...nobody's gonna rob this son of a bitch.*
"What don't ya want?" That whole scene was hilarious
Ben Foster is, imo, one of the greatest underrated actors ever. But yes, Jeff Bridges and Chris Pine are also phenomenal. Such a good modern Western.
Ben Foster was amazing in it. āLord of the Plainsā
"Do you know what Comanche means?"
Boy, you'd think there was ten of me
This movie was great, truly a modern western.
Being poor is like a disease...
Ā But not my boys, not anymore.
This line. This line has stuck with me for years. I wouldnāt do bank robbery, or murder, but Iāll be damned if my kids get raised in the sort of shit rutting poverty I dealt with as a kid and young man. Not saying I agree with the characters decisions, but man.. I understand where he was coming from.
Filmed in Clovis, NM. Great film.
My current favorite movie. A really cool "two-hander" type movie with some great sort of parallels between the two duos (both character-wise and "cinematographically".Ā And one of the funniest non-comedies ever made.Ā
Ain't nobody gonna rob this sumbitch
"I'll see, but I doubt they serve pemmican."
"Only assholes drink Mr. Pibb." "Drink up!" So good. The dialog writing and delivery are just excellent throughout.
The soundtrack was fantastic
Old Henry
The Proposition (2005) It's a "Australian Western" movie, written by the musician Nick Cave and stars Guy Pierce.
Absolutely stunning visuals, and utterly brutal (I loved it)
Guy pierce - a man I want to see in more movies that just isnāt for whatever reason
He's actually pretty prolific back here in AUS. Apparently he's quite content doing the odd big budget and then spending the rest of his time supporting Australian cinema. Check out Animal Kingdom if you want to see him alongside all our contemporary greats.
And Ray Winstone! This movie was really outstanding. My landlords told me about it because they knew the directorās parents, but I was hooked.
Love this movie. Even the small parts are gold - the late greats David Gulpilil and John Hurt make all-too-brief appearances.
While weāre at it, add Lawless to the list, also written by Cave.
I saw that at the US premier and had no idea what I was in for. Such a great experience.
The Nightingale is another great offering set in Australia
Was going to say Unforgiven until I realized that it came out in the 90s. Man, Iām old.
I was going to mention Maverick as a comedy western but itās 30 this year! Bummer Iām old
I was going to mention Silverado, but... you know....
Still the best western in the last 50 years.
How fucking dare you make me do that math and realize
Enraged my 46 year old friend the other night when I told him he's been alive to witness six decades
Just tell him we're as close to 1984 as 1984 was to 1944.
Jurassic Park didnāt come out last decade, or even the decade before that. It came out early in the decade before THAT.
Fuck you
Honestly, one of the best Westerns of all time.
Shut your mouth! I just saw that in the theater a couple years ago!!
True Grit (obviously) The Sisters Brothers
Sister brothers is fantastic.
So underrated
Indeed. Anytime I bring it up itās like Iām in a dimension where it was never made. Wtf? I remember seeing it in a rundown theater that smelled like mold in Charleston West Virginia. Iāll never forget that or this awesome film. š
Hailee Steinfield impressed me with such an emotionally heavy role at such a young age. I know she has done more YA stuff, but she has serious acting chops
Haven't watched True Grit but has been on my radar. Thanks!
Itās in my top 15 all time favs. Great western, great movie in general, standout cast. I rewatch usually once a year.
Oh my, it's wonderful!
Itās the movie you made this post for, only you didnāt know it at the time. None better.
I came into this thread to say True Grit. It is on another level.
It's not too often that a remake is so much better than the original, this one achieves it. Of course it has affected Bridges ever since where he is playing that character in a different setting for pretty much every movie - like Depp with Jack Sparrow.
He was already playing a wild west version of The Dude
True Grit (2010) remake was superb. I enjoy it more than the original. Unlike the original with John Wayne, the character Rooster Cogburn never got any more movies with Jeff Bridges.
True grit is possibly my favorite western ever and one of my favorite films ever. Jeff bridges is so good as rooster.
Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Seconded. Fantastic film, way underrated. Quite a touching film by the end, without ever getting sentimental. Loved it.
"The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford". I love this movie.
One of the first movies I saw where Blu-ray Discs elevated to a completely different level.
Roger Deakins has some of his best visuals here!
Right, that train scene at night was š„š„
Absolute banger of a soundtrack
Hell yeah! Nick Cave!
And he put "I'm a Good Ole Rebel" in there. Nick wrote The Proposition which an excellent western.
Great movie and directly inspired some scenes in Red Dead Redemption 2
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, who composed the soundtrack to this film, got the job as a direct result of their work on another film mentioned in a comment below called The Proposition (which IMO and with all due respect, is the better film)
No Country For Old Men
Out of this world movie that (I think) is one of the best book adaptations ever. Anton Sigur is legit one of the most terrifyingly purely evil people ever thanks to Javier Bardem. Also the red neck pronunciation of shit like āoxygen tank for intferzemaā and āI canāt give you no intfermationā is hilarious.
The opening monologue is maybe my favorite ever in film. The ending is also one of my favorites and iirc itās word for word the exact same thing Ed Tom says in the book. Everyone in that film is amazing but Tommy Lee Jones was phenomenal.
TLJās closing monologue sticks with me to this day
The reason itās such a good adaption is because McCarthy originally wrote it as a screenplay.
The Coen Brothers have a way to emphasize the quirky ways people talk almost to the point of parody, with slight exaggeration of regional dialects and repetition. Like H.I. in Raising Arizona's almost poetic choice of words *"her insides were a rocky place where my seed could find no purchase."* and the repetitive phrases in The Big Lebowski *"he's a good man, and thurrah."*
>Sigur Sugar?
Stilgar?
Not sure if youāre asking sarcastically lol, but the villainās name is Anton Chigurh
That's a line from the book/movie.
I've worked in factories/labouring jobs with several psychopaths and former prisoners over the last 20 years. Bardem is STAGGERINGLY good at playing a dude with no soul. I dont think I can watch that movie again.
Best movie this century, and I'd say one of the ten best American movies ever made. Unquestioned excellence.
It and There Will Be Blood coming out the same year was unfair to both when it comes to accolades.
I can never think of one without the other. We were so spoiled back then.
Filmed in the same town at the same time, too.
I remember reading they had to shut down shooting on No Country one day because oil fires were burning on the horizon for There Will Be Blood.
This is definitely the best answer. Particularly in the notion that law and order still works like the old westerns, whereas those ideals are futile in the nature modern world.
The best scene is toward the end when Sheriff Bell is talking with his uncle Ellis. What you got aināt nothing new. This world is hard on people. You canāt stop whatās coming. It aināt all waiting on you. Thatās vanity.
The opening monologue, that scene, and the final scene of him describing his dream are some of my favorite scenes ever in film. His whole storyline of feeling over matched and almost scared and unable to understand the world around him as he aged is so poignant. And then that scene with Ellis (who I believe is his cousin) informs him that the world has always been like this. The way he describes their uncle Mac being murdered almost a century earlier is very similar to how Lewelyn was murdered. Both shot in their doorway, one by āIndians on horsesā wanting āthis or thatā and the other by Mexicans wanting their money. I love that movie and those scenes so much. Some of those Ellis quotes run through my head regularly. The one you mentioned and the one about āthe more time you spend trying to get back whatās been took from you, more is going out the door. After a while you have to try and get a tourniquet on itā. Itās such a powerful statement about moving on after tragedy.
Ravenous is my favourite western horror
LOVE [the score](https://youtu.be/1l-BzOqnkVU?si=o6KMmqtxTlUlIO0p)
Appaloosa Old Henry Open Range Bone Tomahawk The Homesman News of the World
I watch a lot of westerns and I gotta say, few do me in like Old Henry. Love that movie.
Old Henry was so good
Loved News of the World. Will check out the others. Thank you!
Oh then you'll absolutely love Bone Tomahawk! ... š
Loved Open Range
Open Range is incredible. Great movie.
BONE TOMAHAWK If you know, you know
I wish i didn't
Same. Watching that one scene physically hurt š¤£
Yarp. Gave my the tingly woes
I wish there were more movies like Bone Tomahawk. Never seen a "horror western" quite as chilling as this one.
I think the closest thing to it is From Dusk Til Dawn. In the sense that the first half of the movie is a completely different genre than the second half.
It really splits the genres.
Oof
Oh god. No.
Old Henry was a big surprise to me. One of my favorites now
"Men are gonna get killed here today, Sue, and I'm gonna kill 'em."
I loved Hostiles. A top 5 Christian Bale performance. I'll suggest The Harder They Fall
Hostiles is so good. One of the best movies I feel like no one has ever heard of.
Yup. Such a great movie. I'll check out The Harder They Fall. Thanks!
Hostiles surprised me from the very beginning by how grim and brutal it is. Still loved it
The Good, The Bad, and The Weird. It's a Western, just not an American one. I really like it.
Seconded, it rules. Also hammers home the point that the Wild West is not a specific time and place, but a relation of society and environment that can crop up anywhere and anywhen. Manchuria 1939 is just as Wild West as Tombstone 1881.
The ballad of buster scruggs
All Gold Canyon is a masterpiece all by itself.
Tom Waits is so cool
He didnt hit nuthin important!!
How high can a bird count anyway?
It's my favorite. š¤š»
"It didn't hit nothin' important!" Love that line.
First time?
Pan Shot!
A very nice collection of vignettes.
Now, every time I'm looking for something, the first thing I say is "I know you're out there, pocket."
Two I havenāt seen mentioned yet: Aināt Them Bodies Saints (2013) Slow West (2015)
Slow West is a beautiful movie. The story, the acting, all of it is background noise compared to how visually stunning the film is.
Pretty wild that the Scottish director of Slow West really just made a fantastic directorial debut and then peaced out for a decade. His upcoming sophomore release, Tornado, sounds lit though-contrary to the bland title: >A travelling puppet Samurai show in Britain in 1790 crosses paths with ruthless criminals, but one of the performers, Tornado, hatches a plan to play them at their own game.
Wind River!!!!! SOOO good and underrated. Hit me like a truck
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All three are great, but Sicario is absolutely incredible
Benecio Del Toro is next level.
Excellent film. Never need to see it again - that movie stayed with me for too long after seeing it.
Robert Duvall and Kevin Costner in Open Range are perfect to me. Spoiler incoming >!Charlie asking Butler if he killed their friend and just walking up and blasting him in the head got a yell out of me in the theaters haha.!<
"That's right. I shot the boy, too. And I enjoyed it." *pop*
Honestly my second favorite western ever! Can you guess my first? š
The true answer is Deadwood.
Swegen! Cocksucka!
San Francisco cock sucka!
You mean they stole the dope that you were gonna sell to ME!?
Heng dai. š¤
Heng dai, Wu. Heng fuckin dai
Best three season show of all time? And in the running for best show of all time and all those that doubt it, suck cock by choice!
"Open Range" - I love that movie!
One of the best ever!!
For any RDR2 lovers, Iām 99% sure that the fact chocolate and cigars fill your deadeye core in game, was inspired by this movie.
Now listen out of your good ear
The English
A series (not a movie) but I am continually surprised more people donāt know about this show. The cinematography is unparalleled, the characters and acting are amazingā¦ itās easily one of the best western series ever, ESPECIALLY if youāre looking for native perspectives.
I scrolled way too far for this one to be mentioned
Django is a great western/ southern
The Hateful Eight as well, keeping with the Tarantino theme.
3:10 to Yuma
Deadwood was pretty perfect (for a TV show)
No Country for Old Men, friendo
What time do you close?
You ever seen Rango?
Rango is one of the most under appreciated animated films ever made, it really deserves more love.
Meekās Cutoff
Surprised no one mention Hateful 8
And Django Unchained!!!!
Loved Hateful 8. I was completely engrossed from start to finish. I do think it needed more Kurt Russell though.
That's a fair thing to say about most movies, whether or not Kurt Russell is in them
Same with Django.
Surprised no mention of *The Power of the Dog* yet.
Godless
Appaloosa with Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen. Entertaining buddy western.
It's not a movie, but Godless on Netflix is amazing.
Not a classic American western considering it was made in South Korea but - The Good, The Bad, and the Weird.
Hell Or High Water, Bone Tomahawk, No Country For Old Men, True Grit, Open Range. Also, though itās a miniseries not a movie, but Broken Trail was one of Robert Duvallās best performances. Edit-Hatfields And McCoys and Godless. Both are also miniseriesā.
Slow West
The Revenant. It's not a true blue Spaghetti Western, but it is very much a Western revenge tale.
I feel like Seraphim Falls deserves a mention. I don't think it's very well known, but it's Pierce Brosnan and Liam Neeson chasing each other across the west after the Civil War. It's pretty damn good. Came out in 2006.
Sicario Hell or High Water Wind River
Glad Iām not the only one who thought Sicario aligned with the western genre
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford doesnt get enough love in my opinion
Does Rango count? It's not the usual western movie, but I thinks a well done movie.
prospect (2018) if you're into space westerns. this one is surprisingly grounded and lower budget though
Logan. It's a western.
Open Range
The assassination of Jesse James Hateful Eight
I wanted to say Tombstone but then I did some math and realized I hate being old.
Old Henry, absolutely killer movie
The Harder They Fall The Magnificent Seven (remake)
I enjoyed "The Harder They Fall"
Quigley Down Under Thereās a lot of excellent suggestions in here so Iāll add this low brow fun flavor flick