I've watched Unforgiven twice, explain why you think it's GOAT Western

[Black Ball]

My favorite Westerns are

The Good, Bad, & Ugly (Whole trilogy is dope)
High Plains Drifter (1st memorable western I saw as a kid, it really stuck with me)
Unforgiven (My pops took me to see this in the theater as youngin, great moment in my life)
Tombstone (Pops took me to see this one in the theater also, maybe the most fun & entertaining western I've seen)

Never saw Once Upon a Time in the West

I should really have seen more Westerns, all my Pops do is watch westerns all day long on TV including reruns of Gunsmoke

His favorite is Shane, but I've never actually sat through all of it. I think it was that Black & White wave that turned me off from it as a kid.

 

[Sane]

Once upon a time in the west which is also by Sergio Leone.
Harmonica

 

[karim]

maybe unforgiven is the goat western made after 1980 (which doesn't really say much, because most of them have been trash, even though unforgiven is a pretty good movie). but there are countless westerns made during the golden era of westerns which are better.

the dollar triology
once upon a time in the west
the original django
the magnificent seven
high noon
the rio triology by john wayne and howard hawks
the shootist
the man who shot liberty valence
the big country
red river
and those are only the ones from the top of my head.

 

[Marco Zen]

A story of redemption

 

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[Brozay]

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I think its my all time movie man

 

[AnonymityX1000]

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It's a drama with a definite theme first and foremost. If you go in not expecting a lot of gun fighting you will enjoy it. Great performances by Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman and Clint Eastwood.

 

[TheGodling]

I love me some Leone and I love me some Eastwood but High Noon is the GOAT western ever made.

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

This reminded me of the goatness of this, and 2 things i forgot about

1. Eastwood left like a 6 year old and a 9 year old by themselves for weeks . In the wild west, and hes a HATED NOTORIOUS MURDERER who could definitely be a target at any point
2. I had no idea that these two were father and son

They a deeper resembelence, cadence, and voice similarity than the martin sheen and his sons even

 

[Ziggiy]

Unforgiven is one of the GOAT movies. Perfect in almost every way.

Acting
Directing
Writing
Cinematography
Score

All just expertly done

 

[Geek Nasty]

I didn't think of that. I just assumed it was some fake, Hollywood stuff. Everybody shook of this dude when somebody could have easily popped him.

That was the whole point. Real gunfights aren’t about all the Hollywood glitz and perfect aim, just like Little Bill says the cool hand wins. All those other guys were shook, but Bill Munny was a stone cold killer. One guy ran off a whole bar full of cowards. Even when they had a chance to blindside him they were too scared to take it.

That’s the real world not “a movie”

That theme is throughout Unforgiven. It’s kind of a ”meta-Western“ where the mythological West keeps running into the “real” West.

• The dime store novel writer spinning duck tales
• Little Bill outting English Bob and all the other frauds
• The Scofield kid and his duck tales

 

[Geek Nasty]

I love me some Leone and I love me some Eastwood but High Noon is the GOAT western ever made.

I think The Outlaw Josey Wales is my favorite

 

[NormanConnors]

Young Guns 1 and Tombstone were better

And Appaloosa too

 

[WIA20XX]

This is the scene that told me I was watching something special

 

[MenacingMonk]

I never saw it as a GOAT. Good film, but “Good, Bad, Ugly” is better imo.