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[Cecilff2]

I don't know how it rates in comparison, but I enjoyed True Grit.

[/doesn'twatchmanymovies,especiallynotolderones]

You should see the original, John Wayne makes everything better in every way.

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Plus that dirty texan gets his comeuppance

[Gorjo MacGrymm]

Watch Open Range.

One of the best gun fights in movies at the end.

[RedKing]

I second Unforgiven, and also recommend Tombstone.

^^^

These. You would think an early 90's Western with the likes of Val Kilmer and Jason Priestley would be kind of flaky. And you'd be dead wrong.

Also, just since I haven't seen them explicitly mentioned:

The Searchers
Rio Bravo
High Noon
The Wild Bunch
Big Jake


You really can't go wrong with virtually anything with Clint Eastwood in it. Most of John Wayne's Westerns were pretty good too, but they tend to be a little more cardboard cut-out, with all the implicit racism towards Mexicans and Indians (although the blame for that lies mostly with the Hollywood writers).

Sergio Leone's work (maybe by virtue of being an outsider coming to the genre) is essentially a deconstruction of the Old West mythos, with The Good, The Bad and the Ugly being the pinnacle.

[Ottofar]

Rio Bravo is, as far as I recall the first non-animated film I ever saw. It's rather good yeah.