Definitely! What a great movie, very entertaining. Tom Selleck is awesome and Alan Rickman is such a great villain. It's just a good western adventure with Aborigines instead of American Indians.

well, rickman's name being mentioned might've just swung it my direction.

It may have already been mentioned but I thought 'open range' was pretty good.

"Hondo"
w/ John Wayne

Great Movie, Great Book

Hoping to actually get western rolling by this summer. Looking at locations in Montana and New Mexico. Getting insurance quotes, horse rentals, etc now. Pain in the ass. Remiond me never to do a period piece again. grrrr
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Great thread. I love the few Westerns I've seen (except I don't care for John Wayne). I need to see more, and now I know where to start.

I'd suggest The Great Silence if you want something similar to The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, but better. Of course, Once Upon a Time in the West is Leone's best western.

You also might like Dead Man, Forty Guns, Johnny Guitar, The Shooting, The Missouri Breaks, Man of the West, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, and Pat Garret and Billy the Kid. The latter I find to be Peckinpah's best western.

Oh, then there's Whity and A Girl is a Gun. Both I'd call Euro art-house westerns. Enjoy!!!

Damn, I forgot to mention two great Robert Mitchum westerns, Pursued and Track of the Cat. Then of course, there is all the great classic John Ford and Howard Hawks westerns which have already been mentioned. My favorites from them respectively are My Darling Clementine and Red River. I should also mention William A. Wellman's The Ox-Bow Incident, tho I think his Track of the Cat is slightly better. I'm sure I'm forgetting something.

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I just thought of the best one, and no one has mentioned it yet! It is:

The Appaloosa (1966)

Marlon Brando is great, but the Mexican villain steals the show. This film doesn't have any of that corny John Wayne Hollywood corniness feel to it. This is a bad ass artistic western. A cool ending too, and a tough choice gets made. Check it out.