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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?
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>>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.
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>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

And nobody has mentioned one of my faves - Silverado.