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>>>>>>Predator is one of my all-time faves. P2 with Danny "Shee-it" Glover was fine too.
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>>>>>>BTW, the family took me to the cinema on Fathers' Day, but I didn't get to choose the flick (which would have been the new Star Trek, or Salvation). Funny, I thought it was supposed to be MY day. Anyways, we saw Angels & Demons. Not that bad, and definitely better than Da Vinci Code, but I wondered whetehr it was because of the rich Roman backdrop to everything, bringing back memories of my visit there.
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>>>>>You ever see Lonesome Dove? It was actually a mini-series, but it is still the best or one of the best I have ever seen.
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>>>>No, and no idea what it is.
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>>>It is THE quintessential western!
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>>High Noon?
>>Rio Bravo?
>>Butch Cassidy? (maybe not a western in the classic sense)
>>Shane?
>>The Searchers?
>>Stagecoach?
>>Unforgiven?
>
>How the West Was Won
>Mountain Men (Brian Keith and My President (Charleton Heston)
>Jeramiah Johnson (maybe not a western either, but set in the west)
>Outlaw Josie Wales (How could you have missed this one?)
>High Plains Drifter
>Across the Brazos
>The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
>etc.
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>Yep all good, but I still say Lonesome Dove is head and shoulders above them.

I suppose it's all personal preference so........
High Noon is my choice as best-in-category

Prize winners would be
Shane
Stagecoach
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance


Honorable mention
Magnificent Seven
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly