What is Your Favorite 90's Western Film?

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  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,395
    Tombstone (1993)
    tbergs said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    rgambs said:
    dankind said:
    I am gobsmacked that there are people in the world who think that Kevin Costner (who couldn't play a corpse in The Big Chill) is better than Kurt Russell (Snake Plissken, for fuck's sake!!! SNAKE PLISSKEN!!!).

    I'll just stand here and bleed.
    I think it's a pretty universal opinion that Kevin Kostner is a more skilled actor lol
    I love me some Kurt Russell, but he doesn't do depth or subtlety at all.
    How about Powers Boothe?.  He was fantastic at that role of Curly Bill.
    Yes! He was indeed. Honestly, when I thought about it, everyone nailed their roles, except Russell. A little too over the top as Earp, but shit, Kilmer, Paxton, Elliot, Boothe and Biehn were great. One of the best casts ever assembled IMHO. Just looked at the full cast list, holy shit, what a troupe of actors I didn't even remember were in it. Even Frank Stallone had a small role :lol:
    Charlton Heston is in it, Jason Priestly, Billy Bob Thornton as "JOHNNY TYLER!  Mad cat.  Where you goin with that shotgun Johnny?", Thomas Haden Church from Wings, Dana Delany, Jon Corbett from everything, and my favorite Billy Zane!
  • JojoRice
    JojoRice Kennesaw, GA Posts: 4,553
    Tombstone (1993)
    Tombstone!  Val Kilmer steals the movie.  
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  • Gern Blansten
    Gern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 22,190
    Dances With Wolves (1990)
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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,305
    The one thing I think we can agree on is that the 90's were not a good decade for the western film genre ..

    Unforgiven:  A great film, but not a film that has great re-watch-ability due to the slow burn of the plot.

    Tombstone: Very fun movie, great charterers and action, and amazing re-watch-ability.  Kind of an ode to westerns and 80's action movies mainly because they replaced the six-shooters with twenty-shooters in the gun fights

    The Quick and the Dead:  I loved this movie but it has one glaring problem ... Sharon Stone.  With good casting in that role this could have been an even bigger cult favorite.

    Every other western from the 90's doesn't even really warrant any comment
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  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    Unforgiven (1992)
    Gene Hackman was awesome and Crowe was really good in QandD, but yeah, Stone was terrible.
    It's just a fun movie because it's centered on that most romantic aspect of western mythology, the High Noon quick-draw shootout.
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  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,395
    Tombstone (1993)
    rgambs said:
    Gene Hackman was awesome and Crowe was really good in QandD, but yeah, Stone was terrible.
    It's just a fun movie because it's centered on that most romantic aspect of western mythology, the High Noon quick-draw shootout.
    I never liked this.  I am really surprised that so many people did?
  • tbergs
    tbergs Posts: 10,410
    Tombstone (1993)
    Quick and the Dead was ok. Entertaining enough at least with a good supporting cast.

    All time is still the Man with No Name trilogy and Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid. I don't even know how many times I have watched the Man with No Name movies, so good.
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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,674
    Unforgiven (1992)
    Unforgiven is amazing. I can watch it over and over.
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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,813
    Unforgiven (1992)
    The last 10 or so minutes of Unforgiven are about as good as westerns get.  Agree totally that it was a slow (but great) burn to get to when William H Munny finally took a drink again.
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  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    Unforgiven (1992)
    Appaloosa was pretty good, Ed Harris and Viggo Mortenson as a pair of infamous gunslingers turned lawmen.  The Shelton Brothers come into town hired to take them out and there's a great conversation, wherein Viggo asks Ed if they are as good as their reputation and he confirms they are.
    I don't remember exact quotes, except he asks if Tex is as good as Virgil (Ed Harris) and Virgil says, "don't know that they ain't" with an awesome delivery.
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  • njnancy
    njnancy Posts: 5,096
    Dances With Wolves (1990)
    Legends of the Falls is a close second. 
  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,305
    I may need to fire up some Red Dead Redemption tonight
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  • pearljammr78
    pearljammr78 Posts: 1,613
    Young Guns 2 (1990)
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Quick and the dead was funny, I thought.  Nothing serious as a movie but enjoyable.
    Recall not liking Maverick this only time I watched.  Should try to watch again....if I can stomach the anti Semite and his only Hollywood supporter 

    Nah, fuck then both.
    I was going to say the same thing about Mel Gibson, but Maverick is a hilarious fun movie. But yes. Fuck Mel Gibson. 

    Side note: the best thing Mel Gibson ever made was those drunken voicemails he left his ex wife. The guy is sick. 
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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,305
    Speaking of Mel Gibson ... I was checking out his IMDB and he is currently directing a remake of The Wild Bunch.  Very timely 
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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,305
    ^ rumored to have cast Michael Fassbender, Jamie Foxx, and Tyrion Lannister so far ...
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  • goldrush
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    Dead Man (closely followed by The Jack Bull)

    I love the Iggy Pop/Billy Bob Thornton scene

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  • mace1229
    mace1229 Posts: 9,830
    Tombstone (1993)
    tbergs said:
    Quick and the Dead was ok. Entertaining enough at least with a good supporting cast.

    All time is still the Man with No Name trilogy and Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid. I don't even know how many times I have watched the Man with No Name movies, so good.
    I like the No Name trilogy too. Just wish they made them proper, that dubbing is as bad as those classic Chinese martial arts movies.
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,813
    Unforgiven (1992)
    pearljammr78 said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Quick and the dead was funny, I thought.  Nothing serious as a movie but enjoyable.
    Recall not liking Maverick this only time I watched.  Should try to watch again....if I can stomach the anti Semite and his only Hollywood supporter 

    Nah, fuck then both.
    I was going to say the same thing about Mel Gibson, but Maverick is a hilarious fun movie. But yes. Fuck Mel Gibson. 

    Side note: the best thing Mel Gibson ever made was those drunken voicemails he left his ex wife. The guy is sick. 
    Kinda shocked there were not responses sticking up for the Anti-Semite and his lone Hollywood supporter.  (There is at least one person here who sticks up for everyone tarnished by shitty actions)  
    Fuck Gibson, and Jodie as well for standing by him.  He made it abundantly clear what type of hateful pile of crap he is.  (He made some great movies, but I didn't log Maverick as one of them.)
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  • Hobbes
    Hobbes Pacific Northwest Posts: 6,438
    Tombstone (1993)
    Was about to vote for Unforgiven, when I re-read what the poll was asking of me. My favorite is Tombstone; the best is Unforgiven. 
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,395
    Tombstone (1993)
    F Me In The Brain said:
    pearljammr78 said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Quick and the dead was funny, I thought.  Nothing serious as a movie but enjoyable.
    Recall not liking Maverick this only time I watched.  Should try to watch again....if I can stomach the anti Semite and his only Hollywood supporter 

    Nah, fuck then both.
    I was going to say the same thing about Mel Gibson, but Maverick is a hilarious fun movie. But yes. Fuck Mel Gibson. 

    Side note: the best thing Mel Gibson ever made was those drunken voicemails he left his ex wife. The guy is sick. 
    Kinda shocked there were not responses sticking up for the Anti-Semite and his lone Hollywood supporter.  (There is at least one person here who sticks up for everyone tarnished by shitty actions)  
    Fuck Gibson, and Jodie as well for standing by him.  He made it abundantly clear what type of hateful pile of crap he is.  (He made some great movies, but I didn't log Maverick as one of them.)
    I try and not get too angry about things because then I won't be able to like anything so I still like Maverick.  Funny movie.  The actors in it hold no weight in my life.

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