Classic/Non-Recent Movie Thread

[urquell]

Doc Holliday line in Tombstone cited as greatest line in Western movie film history:

32 Years Later, the Greatest Quote in Western Movie History Is Still Untouchable

The 1990s gave Western fans some of its greatest films, but one stands out for giving the genre the most quotable line ever spoken.

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Yep, very memorable line and a solid movie, which I just recently rewatched too. Kilmer was truly outstanding in it, maybe even his best performance. Still not top tier (depending on how big your top tier is, lol) western movie though. Maybe top 20.

 

[talkinghead]

It's good but wouldn't make my top 50, especially if we include the run of fantastic "neo-westerns" such as "Slow West," "Bone Tomahawk," "No Country for Old Men," and the remakes of "3:10 to Yuma" and "True Grit" (not to mention "Blazing Saddles" and "Shanghai Noon"!). As for great lines, give me Henry Fonda in the John Ford OK Corral masterpiece "My Darling Clementine." Walter Brennan, dismissive and amused on hearing that the stranger (Fonda) plans on sticking around to do some marshaling, says: "Good luck to you, Mr ....?," and Fonda (off screen) replies, "Earp. Wyatt Earp." You can read it all in Brennan's face.

 

[Wessex]

First you get the money,then you get the power and then you get the women...

 

[Doc Holliday]

My all-time top 10 westerns:

Unforgiven (1992)
Shane (1953)
Tombstone (1993)
High Plains Drifter (1973)
Django Unchained (2012)
3:10 to Yuma (2007)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid (1969)
The Magnificent Seven (2016)

 

[Verbal Kint]

My all-time top 10 westerns:

Unforgiven (1992)
Shane (1953)
Tombstone (1993)
High Plains Drifter (1973)
Django Unchained (2012)
3:10 to Yuma (2007)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid (1969)
The Magnificent Seven (2016)

I see django in there and that is fine, since Quentin himself is a big spaghetti western fan.

Do you think we can add
-Hell or high water.
-No country for old man.
-There will be blood.

Or keep those in a psychological drama/ thriller category?

 

[urquell]

My all-time top 10 westerns:

Unforgiven (1992)
Shane (1953)
Tombstone (1993)
High Plains Drifter (1973)
Django Unchained (2012)
3:10 to Yuma (2007)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid (1969)
The Magnificent Seven (2016)

I would remove High Plains Drifter and Django Unchained and substitute Once Upon a Time In The West and A Fistful of Dollars instead, with honorable mentions to the removed titles as well as Appaloosa, Open Range, Warlock and The Professionals. I would also substitute the Original The Magnificent Seven with Yul Brenner instead of the remake. If we add comedies then of course Blazing Saddles, Support Your Local Sheriff and My Name is Nobody

I think some of the other titles were objectively better movies than Tombstone but Val Kilmer was so outstandingly good in his role that it deserves recognition

 

[Doc Holliday]

I see django in there and that is fine, since Quentin himself is a big spaghetti western fan.

Do you think we can add
-Hell or high water.
-No country for old man.
-There will be blood.

Or keep those in a psychological drama/ thriller category?

I have yet to see Hell or High Water although i’ve owned the bluray since it came out. I have heard very good things about this movie recently. As for NCFOL i found okay when i first saw it but dont recall ever considering a western. Maybe i will watch it again. As for There Will Be Blood i didn’t like it as much as other people did. Again maybe i will should re-watch it.

 

[Doc Holliday]

The Wolf of Wall Street
I re-watched this masterpiece yesterday & loved it even more than although it was my third time watching it. My thanks to Marty St-Louis for reminding me of this great movie. Leo DiCaprio & Margot Robbie with career-defining performances! What a great movie involving excess & debaucherie which kind of reminded me of my time spent in Montreal during the 2002-2015 period! Great, great movie!

 

[urquell]

I have yet to see Hell or High Water although i’ve owned the bluray since it came out. I have heard very good things about this movie recently. As for NCFOL i found okay when i first saw it but dont recall ever considering a western. Maybe i will watch it again. As for There Will Be Blood i didn’t like it as much as other people did. Again maybe i will should re-watch it.

I agree with you. I found both No Country For Old Men and There Will Be Blood to be kind of "meh" movies and I don't think I'd consider either one to be a western in the sense of the way I understand "westerns", or Hell or High Water either for that matter. If they're not riding around on horses that pretty much does it for me. lol