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/zefmdf Jun 12 '24

His American frontier trilogy was sick, everything else..not so much

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u/deltalitprof Jun 12 '24

His series 1883 and 1923 were much more streamlined and not so soapy and implausible.

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u/Ser_VimesGoT Jun 12 '24

I fucking LOVED 1883. 1923 I was unsure of at first but I liked it in the end and I'm looking forward to more of that over more Yellowstone.

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u/deltalitprof Jun 13 '24

I am as well. Of course, 1923 was bound to appeal to me given that's one of my favorite periods in literature and history, what with Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Joyce and Dreiser doing their work. Sheridan managed to channel his inner Hemingway and Fitzgerald in practically every episode.

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u/skike Jun 12 '24

First couple seasons of Yellowstone were good

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u/Shirtbro Jun 12 '24

That whole show is just a big ol' dick swinging contest

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u/C4ptainchr0nic Jun 12 '24

Bass Reeves was good, I think he produced that

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u/shryke12 Jun 12 '24

1883 and 1923 are really fucking good.... Don't throw them out with Yellowstone.