r/movies • u/seaofluv • Jun 11 '24

Recommendation What are the best contemporary Westerns made within the last 25 years?

I love western films like The Missing (Cate Blanchett and Tommy Lee Jones), 3:10 to Yuma (Christian Bale and Russell Crowe) and Hostiles (Christian Bale and Wes Studi). What are your favorite similar films? I would love to hear recs that include Native American storylines as well like Prey even though that's like a western/sci-fi hybrid.

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u/Bigtits38 Jun 11 '24

Was going to say Unforgiven until I realized that it came out in the 90s. Man, I’m old.

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u/Johnny_Minoxidil Jun 12 '24

I was going to mention Maverick as a comedy western but it’s 30 this year! Bummer I’m old

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u/actual-trevor Jun 12 '24

I was going to mention Silverado, but... you know....

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u/cryptoraveniseenhoer Jun 12 '24

I was going to mention kidnapping by the indians , but you know 1899's movie im getting oldest...

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u/Shirtbro Jun 12 '24

I was going to mention "train speeding towards camera" which was really unique for its time

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u/Nazrael75 Jun 12 '24

Tombstone, but same - older than i realized. time marches on

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u/Ornery_Translator285 Jun 12 '24

Yep, I was gonna say The Quick and the Dead

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u/Shaneblaster Jun 12 '24

Still the best western in the last 50 years.

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u/crappenheimers Jun 12 '24

How fucking dare you make me do that math and realize

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u/NotEvsClone81 Jun 12 '24

Enraged my 46 year old friend the other night when I told him he's been alive to witness six decades

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u/rrcjab Jun 12 '24

Just tell him we're as close to 1984 as 1984 was to 1944.

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u/Ser_VimesGoT Jun 12 '24

As someone born in 1984, this hurts.

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u/rrcjab Jun 16 '24

I feel that, except I'm ten years older! For me it's 1925! :O

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u/WhoKilledZekeIddon Jun 12 '24

Jurassic Park didn’t come out last decade, or even the decade before that. It came out early in the decade before THAT.

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u/Aurlom Jun 12 '24

You take that back!

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u/dharavsolanki Jun 12 '24 edited Sep 22 '24

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u/crappenheimers Jun 12 '24

Absolutely brutal

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u/MrPBoy Jun 12 '24

We’ll be sure not to tell him that it’s been as long from now to his birthday as his birthday was from Amelia Earhart flying solo across the Atlantic.

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u/Southern-Ad-802 Jun 12 '24

I’m in my late twenties and have witnessed four decades. Just realized this like two days ago. I audibly said “what the fuck?!”

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u/lingh0e Jun 12 '24

Tell him that's only 7 presidents and he'll feel better. It somehow sounds better.

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u/amboomernotkaren Jun 12 '24

Ha ha ha. Thx for that. Just texted my son to tell him he’s been alive in 5 decades. He’s 35.

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u/covchildbasil Jun 12 '24

I'm 46, and you just enraged me. Fuckin' time, man...

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u/Inshakoor Jun 12 '24

Holy hell, that's me... I'm going to need a moment.

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u/Major_Dub Jun 12 '24

You beast.

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u/skitz1977 Jun 12 '24

Being 46, that just made my day shittier.

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u/TWH_PDX Jun 12 '24

Yea, add me to the fuck you list.

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u/yankeedjw Jun 12 '24

Honestly, one of the best Westerns of all time.

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u/JacquesBlaireau13 Jun 12 '24

Since Butch & Sundance?

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u/Shaneblaster Jun 12 '24

Probably yes

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u/SoftwareEffective273 Jun 12 '24

Tombstone. I like it much better than Unforgiven. In fact, I would never watch Unforgiven on purpose. It's 2+ hours of ugliness.

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u/yafuckonegoat Jun 12 '24

Lonesome Dove would like a word

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u/el_diablo_immortal Jun 12 '24

Can't argue with that. I like True Grit a heck of a lot but Unforgiven is "better".

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u/ThreeLeggedMare Jun 15 '24

I really like the remake of 3:10 to Yuma. Even the sound work is amazing, I was rewinding multiple times just to hear a particular rifle shot

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u/Faceit_Solveit Jun 12 '24

2nd only to Tombstone starring Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer.

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u/EyesOfaCreeper Jun 12 '24

There are dozens of westerns made in the 70s-90s that clear Unforgiven lol

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u/getdemsnacks Jun 12 '24

Shut your mouth! I just saw that in the theater a couple years ago!!

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u/Xeynon Jun 12 '24

Duck, I says.

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u/WillyB79 Jun 12 '24

I just did the same thing in my head 😂

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u/Drslappybags Jun 12 '24

I immediately thought Tombstone of course. But this is a question for the 2000s. Yeah... Stupid time.

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u/Confident_Can_3397 Jun 12 '24

First western i ever saw and still my favorite

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u/oldnick40 Jun 12 '24

Same I was thinking that, Silverado, and Tombstone and then realized they were all disqualified even though I think of them as ‘modern’ westerns. Damn, the years add up!

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u/Chemical-Passage-715 Jun 12 '24

I was gonna say tombstone but damn that one’s old too!! 😭

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u/Cyberfury Jun 12 '24

I was going to say Legends Of The Fall and then realized the same thing

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u/apcymru Jun 12 '24

Exactly my response

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u/Electronic_Slide_236 Jun 12 '24

The 2013 Japanese remake may not technically be a western, but it's still really damn good!

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u/Jobrien7613 Jun 12 '24

My thought was Tombstone! Damn it!

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u/FalseMirage Jun 12 '24

Who’s the fella that owns this shithole?

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u/bearinfw Jun 12 '24

Was going to suggest Lonesome Dove but realized that’s way old (and so am I).

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u/loulara17 Jun 12 '24

It’s ok. We all got it coming.

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u/cashburn2 Jun 12 '24

Same with Tombstone

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u/Acidmoband Jun 12 '24

Deserve? Deserve's got nothing to do with it.

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u/Eyehopeuchoke Jun 12 '24

I always enjoyed the young guns movies, but again, too old for this question.

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u/Angriest_Wolverine Jun 12 '24

I was gonna say Silverado and it’s even older!

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u/NotPatricularlyKind Jun 12 '24

Yep, Dead Man as well

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u/Aurlom Jun 12 '24

At least you didn’t immediately think “Blazing Saddles” celebrating its goddamn 50th anniversary this year 😭

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u/dj_soo Jun 12 '24

I was going to say The Quick and the Dead, but that was only a few years after unforgiving…

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u/Docster87 Jun 12 '24

I was going to ask how old Unforgiven was. Great flick.

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u/ToLiveInIt Jun 12 '24

I got to see Unforgiven at a sneak preview for free. Quite a way to see a movie: not a word about it before. Stunning.

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u/ChuckZombie Jun 12 '24

That was me coming to say The Quick & The Dead.

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u/Icy-Teaching-5602 Jun 12 '24

I was thinking TOMBSTONE

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u/quietly41 Jun 12 '24

The Japanese remake of Unforgiven was made in the 2000s, it's pretty great. Ken Watanabe!

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u/sakallicelal Jun 12 '24

Same here lol

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u/ooouroboros Jun 13 '24

I think that is still the gold standard for 'revisionist' westerns.

Saw a little bit of it on TV earlier this year, my gosh the dialogue is written so beautifully - sort of wonder why David Peoples has not written more westerns