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Best recent western movie

The Outlaw Josey Wales - any movie that sez mahsoorah scum is pretty cool.

I remember an old movie that was real macob about the last days of open range ranching and old ranchands not adjusting. One cowboy, after a month of fencing, rode a horse straight off a cliff. (They ought to try fing tractor driving to make you ride off a cliff) I think Jack Polansk was in it.

Lonesome Dove gets better everytime I watch it.
 
Brad S said:
I remember an old movie that was real macob about the last days of open range ranching and old ranchands not adjusting. One cowboy, after a month of fencing, rode a horse straight off a cliff. (They ought to try fing tractor driving to make you ride off a cliff) I think Jack Polansk was in it.
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Was that in Monte Walsh-- first version with Lee Marvin and Jack Palance?
 
Cowboy hats aren't too common here in Maine, therefore of my friends, including military ones from the Guard, I'm not only one who dresses in Wester Attire. Of course, while we were in Iraq Brokeback came out and I constantly had to hear jokes about it, and they had would point out all the newspaper cartoons that imply all cowboys are gay. I've refused to watch Brokeback. I got married before I left and last weekend we had the reception. A quick renewing of vows ceremony followed by a pig roast. Complete with Bean-Hole Beans, Beer on tap from a local brewery (Sebago Brewing, Boathouse Brown and Northern Light) and lots of good music, Country of course. Upon opening gifts I opened one from a buddy of mine who stood in the Watch Tower with me over in Iraq. He got me an Electric Slicer and you guessed it, Brokeback Mountain.

Back to the topic.
Just finished Broken Trail two nights ago, I really liked it. Don't think it would be the top of the list but it's up there.
Open Range was great, saw it in the theater and it's sitting on my DVD rack to watch again.
Tombstone is great, love the line "I'll Be You're Huckleberry".

Of honerable mention in a similar category would be:
8 Seconds
Pure Country
the Bucking Bull grower movie with Kieffer Sutherland from 24, can't recall the name.
 
Congratualations to you and your bride, Ben H.
May you have many years together.

Thank you for serving your/our country.

What are Bean Hole Beans?

Remember, the males in Brokeback Mountain were SHEEPHERDERS
not COWBOYS. Big difference! :wink: And in my estimation they
might be males, but they aren't men.

I too, refuse to watch it.
 
I had read they were sheephearders, I made that point quite clear to my friends.

Bean Hole Beans are where you spend hours making coals in a brick lined pit. Once the coals are ready you settle the pots of beans in the coals, cover with coals then cover with hole with a piece of metal, cover with insulation the a piece of plywood. You let them cook all night long. We put them in the hole at 11:30pm and took them out around 4:00pm the next day. I'm not sure what the beans got mixed with, but they were soaked overnight in the pots, ingredients were added. We use dutch ovens, when ready cover with foil then the cover. You need to make sure you have enough water in there because you can't add more before they are done. They are the best beans you'll ever have.
 
JW Coop
Jr Bonner
8 Seconds
The Rounders
Lonesome Dove
Last of the Dogmen
Tombstone.
The Cowboys


(well hell, I like alost all of the ones mentioned...haven't seen a few but am netfilxing them now...)
 
I was making a joke-lighten up lol. Imagine the poor gay guys getting accused of being sheepherders lol. I heard there was a bad accidant on the set somebody disregarded the 'NO EWE TURN' sign. They filmed that movie in Alberta-hehehe- and they got the sheep from a Hutterite colony from close by a friends ranch-in the mountain scenes they actually laid down green carpet for the sheep to walk on so they wouldn't spread disease to the wild game. LONESOME DOVE is still the easy number one rest are running for second place.
 
Lonesome Dove is my favorite, followed by Tombstone as a close second. Val Kilmer as Doc Holiday was great. My husband's favorite line is also "I'll be your huckleberry". Open Range was quite disappointing, the only saving grace was Robert Duvall. I remember when the movie debuted on satellite, it was on my birthday. All I wanted for my birthday was the day off so I could cook myself a really good meal and watch Open Range. The meal was wonderful, the movie was not.
 
This one really isn't a western, but has a slight western theme ...... The Cowboy Way with Woody Harrelson and Keiffer Sutherland. I can watch it over again quite often, just because it makes me laugh and it has quite a bit of action. Slow-paced movies just put me to sleep.
 
Comes a Horseman, but only because of Richard Farnswarth and the guy who plays in "Vegas". Not because of Hanoi Jane.

As always except for "All the Pretty Horses", the book was better. :P
 
Shelly said:
This one really isn't a western, but has a slight western theme ...... The Cowboy Way with Woody Harrelson and Keiffer Sutherland. I can watch it over again quite often, just because it makes me laugh and it has quite a bit of action. Slow-paced movies just put me to sleep.
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Shelly----did ya ever see "cowboy up" with Keiffer Sutherland and Molly Ringwald?? this is another of my 7 year old's favorites...sad ending, though!!
 
I might've seen part of it, it's a fairly old movie, isn't it? If it was a tearjerker, I probably missed most of it, because the husband wouldn't watch it if it was. "Girl movies" is what he calls those.
 
Oh, yeah, The Cowboy Way. Woody Harralson was terrific in that movie.
He would fit right in with the cowboys at Kaycee, Wyoming in that movie.
I swear, he went there for cowboy lessons.

I watched other movies he starred in after that one, but never found
another one I liked.

"Comes a Horseman", I liked it for the same reasons. James Caan and Richard Farnsworth. In fact, I never saw a movie starring Richard
Farnsworth that I didn't like. I like Wilford Brimley too. They just add
'the real deal' to the movies they are in. I felt awful when Richard
Farnsworth killed himself. I guess he was a very sick man with no hope
of recovery. But still... :cry:

I'm with you, Shelly. Val Kilmer stole the show in Tombstone.
But, I've not found another where he was that good.
 
For Val Kilmer did you see Ghost in the Darkness?

I use a line from Cowboys Way, "knock off the horn, slap it on the ash and have it sit down on my plate"
 
It was a movie about two man eating lions killing workers building a railroad in S. Africa (I think it was S. Afica)... Pretty good movie actually.. Their are two giant statues of the lions in front of the Art Instiitute in Chicago.. I can't remember where the hides are but tehy might be at the field museum in Chicago.

I can't remember who the other hunter was although it might have been of al people Micheal Douglas... That can't be right, my mind is sunburned.
 
IL Rancher said:
Here is the link to teh IMDB information on it..

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116409/

True story... Douglas was the lead, played Charles Remington.
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That was, indeed, a good movie....made even scarier by the fact that it was a true story!! :shock: :shock:
 

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