Was this the last great Western??
I say yes.
shareThe Assassination of Jesse James and “Deadwood” qualify as great westerns for me.
Also the likes of True Grit, Open Range, 3:10 to Yuma, Django Unchained and the mini series “Hatfield and McCoys” were all very good imo.
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shareOriginal 3:10 to Yuma.
sharei have to give this one another look
shareMost of those were terrible. Especially Open Range.
shareSERIOUSLY...THOSE ARE ALL QUALITY WESTERN PICTURES...
shareCostner can’t act his way out of a paper bag
shareTHAT IS CERTAINLY NOT MY OPINION...
shareI will have to politely disagree. He's not as good as Brad Douriff, but he's done well with his range. I think he was good in Silverado, Mr. Smith, Prince of thieves (no english accent for a good reason), Dances with Wolves, and Field of dreams.
shareThis is a true statement. My wife says the only movie of his she likes is "Field of Dreams."
shareCostner was really good in “Hatfield and McCoys”
shareYeah Open range was terrible and boring; appaloosa was worse. Assassination of Jesse James was pretentious garbage that went on way too long. That movie should have been an hour shorter, there was not nearly enough interesting material to justify that runtime. True Grit was an okay remake; but I am partial to The Duke; so I prefer the original but that might be a subjective bias and not a fair objective judgement of quality. 3:10 to Yuma I did not like the original but the remake had Crowe and Bale (and Ben Foster); that is a lot of on screen presence and I found the remake more interesting for it.
Django Unchained was a good film (not Tarantino's best) but I would not really call that a western. It had some western elements sure; but that was more of a southern pre-civil war film; more akin to something like 12 years a slave than a western like Unforgiven or other Wayne/Eastwood westerns.
Jeez, I love Open Range. Probably my favorite of all the movies you've mentioned, with the possible exception of The Hateful Eight, which I also think is superb.
share"Open Range" and "Appaloosa" were the best westerns of recent decades. "Unforgiven" is pretentious, although Hackman is always good to watch.
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I wouldn't put Django Unchained in the Western category. It was some weird Tarantino creation that is hard to pigeonhole into a traditional genre. 3:10 to Yuma was a good movie, but not a great movie. Assassination of Jesse James has its fans, but I am not among them. Hatfields and McCoys was great, but it was a series, not a movie. Agree with Open Range and True Grit. So for me, True Grit (2010) the last great western movie.