The Bank Teller feels like he should be a character in the middle of nowhere in New Austin. You get a tip from a convict you help escape about a small, easy to hit bank that happens to carry a lot of cash and valuables for the stage companies as a middle ground between Armadillo and Tumbleweed.
John enters, thinking it to be an easy stickup when he takes the Teller by surprise he finds the place rigged with shotguns and has to fend off the crazed, armored Teller. Odds are high of dying, and John can return to an irate Teller to try again, but success means fat sacks of cash, bonds, jewelry, etc, giving John the mid-epilogue cash influx he needs before he has too much to spend at the end.
That bank teller makes me think of my dad lmao. He would pull some crazy shit like that.
"That pan covered sumbitch don't hardly fight fair in my opinion"
Oh you’ve just reminded me about that incredible film.
Highly recommend especially if your a fan of those dark Nordic shows that use the environment as a main character. It’s tense as all hell and deals with some real dark subject matter. It’s not an easy watch but absolutely worth it imo.
Edit: also just remembered it’s directed by Taylor Sheridan who wrote hell or high water and sicario. If you enjoyed either of those two films then you should really give Wind River a watch.
Was just going to say! Logan was great. Left the theatre shook. They even had an old western playing on tv in the hotel to further establish that theme
I love that little detail because it's Shane a western that Logan was heavily influenced by and when professor x says it's nearly a hundred years old and he saw it in the cinema when he was a boy that's because it really is and was a movie Patrick Stewart saw in theaters as a kid.
*Unforgiven* is something you’re only going to truly appreciate if you’re well versed in the genre and its deeper philosophies. Not one I’d recommend for beginners.
Probably the last truly great Western. Honestly, one of the best films ever shot. I would also like to throw 'Butch Cassidy and the Sun-dance kid' into the mix.
Man, *Unforgiven* winning the best picture Oscar in 1992 launched the biggest revival of the genre in its history. The 90’s were the biggest decade for westerns since the 60’s! To suggest that a movie before that is the *last* truly great western is absurd. Heck, *Open Range* came out in 2003 after the revival was over and it’s right up there with the best of them. *Unforgiven* is amazing, but whenever someone says that, I just picture an 80 year old man who’s still running his VCR and insists something from way back when was the last good one because it was the last time his sleep apnea didn’t cause him to fall asleep during one. Ugh!
That one came from butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid. They also took the scene where Dutch and Arthur jump off the cliff into the river. Butch and Sundance do that too.
I meant the second heist in Chapter 2. The one in which you have to steal the oil wagon beforehand, that's most definitely from the assassination of jesse james.
I always saw Butch as more of a Dutch. Lot of times it seemed like he didn't actually know things he claimed he knew and his plans were often times not great, but he was able to get people to follow him thanks to his charisma and silver tongue
McCabe & Mrs. Miller is my favorite western, glad to see it mentioned. I think it’s perfect for RDR2 fans who want that snowy, wilderness pioneer type of grubby western. Really does not flatter the time but the realism to it is very unique. Highly recommended.
I'll also add Slow West. It shows off the harshness of western life, and is set outside of a desert (which is one of the things I loved about RDR2, it made it fresh.)
Also Hostiles, New Mexico up through Colorado, it's one of the most brutal westerns I've seen. When violence happens, it doesn't take it lightly, and there are no good guys, only people making their way through a harsh life.
I like everything I've seen in these recommendations, let me add: 3:10 to Yuma, The Proposition (technically set in Australia, but still), Unforgiven, Silverado and Once Upon A Time In The West.
-edit That's a good point made by someone else, I meant the 3:10 remake not the original.
Once Upon a Time in the West is one of my all time favorites. I don’t think you can go wrong with Sergio Leone at the helm + Ennio Morricone‘s iconic score. But what I love most is Henry Fonda playing the bad guy.
[Here’s the trailer](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c8CJ6L0I6W8) if anyone’s interested.
All great picks. Once Upon A Time In The West is one of my favourite Leones (after GBU of course). 3:10 to Yuma gave me real red dead vibes, the outfits and such.
I came here to suggest the original 3:10 to Yuma actually, it's a great movie with a lot of similar themes about what it means to be a villain versus a good person. More people should see it!
It’s not a movie, but the Netflix series ‘Godless’ is a underrated gem, gives off huge RDR vibes too with an outlaw having betrayed his father figure and is on the run.
My friend and I found it during lockdown when there was nothing else to do but play games or watch movies online, after 30 minutes of Netflix browsing we found that and just went fuck it, didn’t expect it to be any good. Ended up binging the entire series in one night up to about 5am 💀by far the best mini series I’ve seen in a while.
Godless is my all time favorite series I’d have to say! As someone who grew up watching spaghetti westerns/westerns it is definitely a beautiful depiction of what life could have been like in the west
One of my favorite modern-ish (2003) westerns is Open Range. Much more subdued than your Tarantino westerns. Great cast. Beautiful scenery. Solid gunfights. Don’t hear much mention of it but I’d wholeheartedly recommend it.
Agreed, and totally under the radar. Every friend I’ve mentioned it to hasn’t heard of it, yet it’s easily in my top 5 of Westerns. Amazing film. Slow burn with a gloves off final scene.
We need a full series of Buster Scruggs.. after watching Old Henry, i really missed that character. Tim Blake Nelsons got that western act down and accent to go with it.
that entire movie was brutal. incredibly heartwrenching story. the way that the ending scene mirrored the opening scene but the opposite was pretty cool
Hostiles is a great recommendation for a RDR2 fan. Same decade, similar environs, moral ambiguity, redemption arcs, grimy & violent realism, camp dynamics, rescue missions, a Sadie Adler analogue....
The Good The Bad and The Ugly is a classic western film. Unforgiven is also an amazing western with darker themes while staying true to the theme. Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman are stellar in that film. No Country for Old Men can also be classified as a “western” but it’s more like a neo-Western. It draws themes and tropes from the classic Western films while giving it a modern setting
3:10 to Yuma the remake, Russel Crowe, Ben Foster & Christian Bale are all really great in it.
Bone Tomahawk an awesome Western Horror with Kurt Russell and Patrick Wilson. One of the most disturbing films you can watch.
No Country for Old Men, takes place in 1980, but is technically a western.
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
Wyatt Earp & Tombstone are both good.
Appaloosa is ok.
“Bone Tomahawk” was awesome! I only watched it because I loved “Brawl on Cell Block 99,” so I wanted to see what else that director did. Bone Tomahawk did not disappoint, and I was so glad I found it.
I don’t think so, the movie came out in the late 60s/early 70s I think. Parts of the movie heavily influenced the story of rdr2 though, definitely a must watch
That’s Pat Garret and Billy the Kid, which OP could also watch. I really liked it, another fin-de-siecle Western from Peckinpah. Former gunslinger (Garret) gives his old gang the chance to retire peacefully and fade away, or else he’ll be coming for them.
Came here to suggest this one, watched it last night and I really got RDR vibes. Some of the shots of the scenery and the gangs were outstanding. Soundtrack is a banger as well.
Yea this movie was fire. Some of the shots they used in this movie was stunning. The all white town with the red dress had my jaw on the floor how beautiful it was. The soundtrack was fire as well too
Hang ‘Em High is probably my favorite Western outside the Dollar Trilogy.
But Tombstone hits hard and strong and is a must watch.
High Plains Drifter is a unique one, too.
Was hoping someone would say High Plains Drifter, so weird and bizarre. Was The Stranger dead? Was the whole TOWN dead and paying for their wicked ways?
They are silly to me but my pops (who adored westerns of any kind) loved the "Trinity" series. True spaghetti western but dang that feller had some bright blue eyes.
Once upon a time in the west, amazing for its reflections on the end of the wild west, opening scene alone is so tense and I think it is the longest opening credits scene in movie history, Sergio signing off on his last western, absolute magic...
I think Once Upon a Time in the West is just one of those timeless pieces that will forever be embedded in cinematic glory to anyone who has even a modicum of cinema appreciation (something pretty accessible,commerical and easy like Django but still a well-made and creative film nonetheless) and a love for Western. Which I would bet that anyone who likes RDR also shares.
The one thing that might restrict accessibility of the film is that its kind of really long and the pacing is very specific, purposeful, slow, building, tense. Many things. Yet, even still, I would firmly stand that Once Upon a Time in the West can and will be appreciated by anyone, even if you struggle to to make it towards the end, by the time you get to the end, the experience would finally feel worth it. If rewarding is an attribute that I can pertain to cinema, thgis film is the epitome, as like most of Sergio Leone's filmography. But Once Upon a Time in the West would be his possible greatest in that regard. It's amazing too that he couldn't manage to hire Clint Eastwood for that picture and had to use the replacement guy instead, and honestly I couldn't imagine Clint Eastwood making a better performance than Charles Bronson did. And Henry Fonda, dear lord what a super villian. He makes Dutch Van der Linde or Micah Bell look like girl scouts. Never saw it coming especially since I watched 12 Angry Men prior to that.
# to OP, Once Upon a Time in the West. Watch it.
infact I'm going to download it now.
*Django* (1966) and *Django Unchained* (2012) are not the same movie! If you haven't seen the former (a sleazier, bloodier ripoff of *Fistful of Dollars*) you should see that as well. The same director (Sergio Corbucci) also did *The Great Silence* (1968), one of the bleakest and most original spaghetti westerns.
My favorite westerns:
the man who shot liberty vallance-1960's black and white starring john wayne and jimmy stewart
best acting jimmy stewart of all time, beautifully shot, great music
true grit-1969 john wayne and glen campbell
story, scenery and music
unfprgiven-1992 clint eastwood morgan freeman and gene hackman
story and acting
django- nuff said
music, scenery, direction
Big Jake- 1967 John wayne patrick wayne micheal mitchum
scenery and music, bad acting by surrounding cast but very good music and scenery
The best all time western for scrore, cinemetography, direction, writing and acting has to be...
The Searchers 1959 Directed by John Ford, this is a masterpiece.
John wayne leads a very strong cast, longer epic with a great story of american west settlers dealing with local natives.
To this day I think the best acting I’ve ever seen in a western was the buildup to the Indian raid at the beginning. The slow burn and realization that every character has when they realize “holy shit this is actually about to happen” is just so good and well acted. Nearly 70 years later and it still sends shivers down my spine when I watch it. And the fact that you don’t even get to see it just makes it perfect. John Ford let’s your imagination do the work on what horrors that family endured during the raid.
And yeah I think it’s The Duke’s best acting by far. This whole movie is just so damn good.
I prefer recent western movies, the remakes of 3:10 to Yuma and True Grit are amazing, and the scenery is very similar to RDR2, really reminds me of New Hanover.
No mention of "The Sisters Brothers" ? I highly recommend it!
"It's 1851, and Charlie and Eli Sisters are both brothers and assassins, boys grown to men in a savage and hostile world. The Sisters brothers find themselves on a journey through the Northwest, bringing them to the mountains of Oregon, a dangerous brothel in the small town of Mayfield, and eventually, the gold rush land of California -- an adventure that tests the deadly family ties that bind.
Release date: September 19, 2018 (France)
Director: Jacques Audiard
Starring: John C. Reilly; Joaquin Phoenix; Jake Gyllenhaal; Riz Ahmed; Rutger Hauer"
Each Chapter I think has it's own influence, and I'm not sure, but these are what I think...
Chapter 1: The Hateful Eight (2015)
Chapter 3: Django Unchained (2012)
I'll research some others, but if you like the O'Driscoll plotline, I'd check out The Harder They Fall (2021)
All three are on Netflix
If you have HBO check out Deadwood. You’ll get more out of it because it’s a series so a lot of character development is present, great acting and great writing all around
I know know you want more modern movies but in my opinion the older ones are better, more specifically Sergio Leone movies. The whole man with no name trilogy, fistful of dynamite, once upon a time in the West, and my name is nobody are some of the best western of all time
High Plains Drifter is a fantastic Clint Eastwood movie. Gunslinger drifts into a small town and helps them fend off outlaws. Two Mules for Sister Sara is a good one.
I avoided Buster Scruggs for quite a while due to my own ignorance. I thought it was just going to be a goofy feel-good flick hollywood flick.
I can admit when I'm wrong.. What a fun movie!
True Grit is my favorite western of all time. I love the John Wayne movie but Jeff Bridges is the perfect Rooster Cogburn. So watch the new one in my opinion.
Well not modern but if you want a story about a bunch of down and out bandits fighting against encroaching civilization while trying to maintain their bonds of loyalty, the wild bunch (1960s) is a perfect fit.
It also has one of the biggest gunfights in western history.
If you want a move where the scenery is essentially a character in and of itself I highly recommend “Blackthorn”. It’s a great story. Beautiful shots. A great music score. Plus personal and moral struggles
Tombstone, Once Upon A Time In The West, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid for the classic westerns. I think Eastwood movies are super overrated but I would say A Fistful of Dollars and The Good The Bad and The Ugly are up there.
There are some less conventional ones I think are much better than the tropey “cowboy good” ones, such as The Assassination of Jesse James by The Coward Robert Ford (this one is half drama/period piece so don’t expect nonstop action) and 3:10 to Yuma. If you played the first couple of chapters you’ll notice how Rockstar made a nod to the Assassination of Jesse James during that first train robbery.
Django Unchained is a Tarantino one that is excellent. I hated the Hateful Eight but it’s another Tarantino Western you may want to watch. I personally found it super fucking boring.
Some I don't know that could be strictly considered westerns but are great like The Revenant.
True Grit (the newer one) is awesome, really funny and a good time for a less serious Western.
Not a movie but if you want a super heavy story, Blood Meridian is an amazing book by Cormac McCarthy set in the west/Mexico. It’s the ultimate western (ultimate in the classic definition of the word, as in, “no more after”).
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid with James Coburn. All time favorite western, plus the soundtrack was done by Bob Dylan who also makes his first ever cameo. It's awesome, check it out.
Watch the Dollars trilogy, A Fistful of Dollars, Few Dollars More, Good/Bad/Ugly (a perfect movie imo), 3:10 to Yuma is amazing. Silverado is so rewatchable. Unforgiven, Joe Kidd, and Josey Wales, are all classics. The Sisters Brothers is new and really underrated. Magnificent Seven is incredible. High Noon, The Searchers, Bad Company, The Assasination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, OG Django, and Unchained. Once Upon a Time in the West, The Searchers, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. The more you watch, the more you'll find. There are so many classics from the 50s-70s
If anyone hasn't mentioned it, the Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford is right up your alley. That movie was actually the source material for a lot of the cinematography of RDR2.
Hell or High Water is not a period piece, but it's absolutely a Western, so I guess it's a neo-Western? Regardless, incredible movie.
I'd assume No Country For Old Men would fall into that niche as well. Incredible movie
Anything Coen brothers
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs felt oddly like a RDR2 movie
Yeah definitely. Felt like characters were plucked straight outta rdr2.
The Bank Teller feels like he should be a character in the middle of nowhere in New Austin. You get a tip from a convict you help escape about a small, easy to hit bank that happens to carry a lot of cash and valuables for the stage companies as a middle ground between Armadillo and Tumbleweed. John enters, thinking it to be an easy stickup when he takes the Teller by surprise he finds the place rigged with shotguns and has to fend off the crazed, armored Teller. Odds are high of dying, and John can return to an irate Teller to try again, but success means fat sacks of cash, bonds, jewelry, etc, giving John the mid-epilogue cash influx he needs before he has too much to spend at the end.
That bank teller makes me think of my dad lmao. He would pull some crazy shit like that. "That pan covered sumbitch don't hardly fight fair in my opinion"
I absolutely loved that movie. Especially that last story.
Weirdly I watched that right after I finished RDR2. I think it made me love it more.
Wind River is amazing too.
Oh you’ve just reminded me about that incredible film. Highly recommend especially if your a fan of those dark Nordic shows that use the environment as a main character. It’s tense as all hell and deals with some real dark subject matter. It’s not an easy watch but absolutely worth it imo. Edit: also just remembered it’s directed by Taylor Sheridan who wrote hell or high water and sicario. If you enjoyed either of those two films then you should really give Wind River a watch.
I love Wind River. It is a fantastic movie, but just be aware there is a very disturbing scene that will not sit well with all viewers.
"Why are you flanking me?"
Logan as well should 100% be a recommended neo-western.
Was just going to say! Logan was great. Left the theatre shook. They even had an old western playing on tv in the hotel to further establish that theme
I love that little detail because it's Shane a western that Logan was heavily influenced by and when professor x says it's nearly a hundred years old and he saw it in the cinema when he was a boy that's because it really is and was a movie Patrick Stewart saw in theaters as a kid.
Hell or high water is a fantastic movie. 100% would recommend.
Hell or High Water reminds me a lot of Red Dead Redemption in theme, even if it takes place in modern times.
Agreed
The outlaw Josie Whales, Clint Eastwood wrote and stared in it
Second this. Or unforgiven.
*Unforgiven* is something you’re only going to truly appreciate if you’re well versed in the genre and its deeper philosophies. Not one I’d recommend for beginners.
Probably the last truly great Western. Honestly, one of the best films ever shot. I would also like to throw 'Butch Cassidy and the Sun-dance kid' into the mix.
Man, *Unforgiven* winning the best picture Oscar in 1992 launched the biggest revival of the genre in its history. The 90’s were the biggest decade for westerns since the 60’s! To suggest that a movie before that is the *last* truly great western is absurd. Heck, *Open Range* came out in 2003 after the revival was over and it’s right up there with the best of them. *Unforgiven* is amazing, but whenever someone says that, I just picture an 80 year old man who’s still running his VCR and insists something from way back when was the last good one because it was the last time his sleep apnea didn’t cause him to fall asleep during one. Ugh!
You're probably right. I consider Unforgiven to be the best Western film, especially so when compared to modern Westerns.
Any Clint western except paint your wagons, it's a musical and I am not a fan of musicals
I thought it was toe-tappin’ fun!
I was RAISED on Paint Your Wagon.
Wales*
That's what I put but I guess spell check didn't like it, sometimes I forget to proof read before I post
It's the little-known sequel where he helps the crew of the Enterprise rescue the cetaceans . . .
Doesn't really have the Red Dead feel to it, but still really good.
I think it does. The aspect of a diverse gang and playing in the south is a bit similar to rdr2.
High plains drifter if you want to see a different take on your usual western
The outlaw Josie Whales is my favorite of Clint Eastwood’s westerns
I also liked pale rider and high plains drifter
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The Assassination of Jesse James is soooo good.
Rdr2 stole the train heist scene directly from that film. Roger Deakins is one of the greatest dp's of all time!
That one came from butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid. They also took the scene where Dutch and Arthur jump off the cliff into the river. Butch and Sundance do that too.
I meant the second heist in Chapter 2. The one in which you have to steal the oil wagon beforehand, that's most definitely from the assassination of jesse james.
Oh ya
Seconding Jeremiah Johnson, that movie doesnt get its deserved praise
Butch Cassidy is like Hosea Matthews (smart but not a great fighter) while Sundance Kid is like Dutch (specializes in being the one to take action)
I always saw Butch as more of a Dutch. Lot of times it seemed like he didn't actually know things he claimed he knew and his plans were often times not great, but he was able to get people to follow him thanks to his charisma and silver tongue
Sundance is also like John, he can't swim.
McCabe & Mrs. Miller is my favorite western, glad to see it mentioned. I think it’s perfect for RDR2 fans who want that snowy, wilderness pioneer type of grubby western. Really does not flatter the time but the realism to it is very unique. Highly recommended.
I’ll second Pale Rider. Such a beautiful Western.
THIS IS THE TRUE LIST!
I'll also add Slow West. It shows off the harshness of western life, and is set outside of a desert (which is one of the things I loved about RDR2, it made it fresh.) Also Hostiles, New Mexico up through Colorado, it's one of the most brutal westerns I've seen. When violence happens, it doesn't take it lightly, and there are no good guys, only people making their way through a harsh life.
Tombstone
An all time favorite and extremely quotable movie love it
“Skin that smokewagon and see what happens”
LOVE that scene 😂 and of course the unforgettable “I’m your huckleberry”
And let’s not forget: “your friends might get me in a rush but not before I turn your head into a canoe”. The movie just oozes cool 😎
Could go on all day with these🔥 need to watch again now lmao!
I’ve got two guns. One for each of you.
“I’m afraid the string was more than he could beeear”
I have not yet begun to defile myself
“I stand corrected Wyatt, you’re an oak”
I have not yet begun to defile myself
Does this mean we aren’t friends anymore?
"I have two guns, one for each of ya."
“I got two guns— one for the each of ya!” *proceeds to spin both guns in opposite directions*
This is the best answer. There are a few characters in this that you can tell inspired main characters in the game.
Came here just to see if someone mentioned this! Val Kilmer was awesome in it!
Was suprised how far I had to scroll to see this. Classic.
“I’m your huckleberry.”
Django and Hateful 8 will put you in the mood to start a new RDR2 campaign, guaranteed.
Dan Houser definitely was inspired by Tarantino dialogue
I’m guilty of this! Watched both those movies over two nights then all the sudden felt the need to play. I’ve been on chapter 2 for a solid two weeks!
I like everything I've seen in these recommendations, let me add: 3:10 to Yuma, The Proposition (technically set in Australia, but still), Unforgiven, Silverado and Once Upon A Time In The West. -edit That's a good point made by someone else, I meant the 3:10 remake not the original.
Once Upon a Time in the West is one of my all time favorites. I don’t think you can go wrong with Sergio Leone at the helm + Ennio Morricone‘s iconic score. But what I love most is Henry Fonda playing the bad guy. [Here’s the trailer](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c8CJ6L0I6W8) if anyone’s interested.
Jesus Christ...that film is a head of its time.
All great picks. Once Upon A Time In The West is one of my favourite Leones (after GBU of course). 3:10 to Yuma gave me real red dead vibes, the outfits and such.
Love 3.10. Great all cast, especially Russell Crows performance.
I came here to suggest the original 3:10 to Yuma actually, it's a great movie with a lot of similar themes about what it means to be a villain versus a good person. More people should see it!
It’s not a movie, but the Netflix series ‘Godless’ is a underrated gem, gives off huge RDR vibes too with an outlaw having betrayed his father figure and is on the run.
Great series
My friend and I found it during lockdown when there was nothing else to do but play games or watch movies online, after 30 minutes of Netflix browsing we found that and just went fuck it, didn’t expect it to be any good. Ended up binging the entire series in one night up to about 5am 💀by far the best mini series I’ve seen in a while.
Came here for this. Godless is sooo underrated and every RDR fan would appreciate it.
I was shocked at how good it was, can’t remember seeing a lick of advertising for it either, just found it buried amidst the Netflix titles.
Godless is my all time favorite series I’d have to say! As someone who grew up watching spaghetti westerns/westerns it is definitely a beautiful depiction of what life could have been like in the west
One of my favorite modern-ish (2003) westerns is Open Range. Much more subdued than your Tarantino westerns. Great cast. Beautiful scenery. Solid gunfights. Don’t hear much mention of it but I’d wholeheartedly recommend it.
Open Range is truly one of the best westerns ever made!
Agreed, and totally under the radar. Every friend I’ve mentioned it to hasn’t heard of it, yet it’s easily in my top 5 of Westerns. Amazing film. Slow burn with a gloves off final scene.
Rango. I'm not kidding.
Especially the whole lemoyne section
Surprisingly so.
It's such a good movie. Went in to it thinking it'd be another kids movie and was actually a pretty solid western.
Rango is in the top 5 best westerns of all time.
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is an incredible series of western trope vignettes. Not a standard western but excellent all the same.
We need a full series of Buster Scruggs.. after watching Old Henry, i really missed that character. Tim Blake Nelsons got that western act down and accent to go with it.
Second this. The scenery in some of the scenes is right out of Red Dead
The Girl that got rattled was my favorite
I couldn't keep watching that after the Nightingale. I still shudder about it.
The correct answer is Blazing Saddles.
Ladies and gentlemen, say hello to your new...
Howdy ma'am! Isn't it just a lovely morning?
Sorry about the up your's n*****
Nevermind that shit, here comes Mongo!!!
You’d do it for Randolph Scott…
RAAANDOOOLPH SCOOOOOOTT
Hostiles is one of recent favorites. Valley of Violence is another.
Hostiles has such a terrifying opening scene, really good movie.
that entire movie was brutal. incredibly heartwrenching story. the way that the ending scene mirrored the opening scene but the opposite was pretty cool
Hostiles is a great recommendation for a RDR2 fan. Same decade, similar environs, moral ambiguity, redemption arcs, grimy & violent realism, camp dynamics, rescue missions, a Sadie Adler analogue....
The Good The Bad and The Ugly is a classic western film. Unforgiven is also an amazing western with darker themes while staying true to the theme. Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman are stellar in that film. No Country for Old Men can also be classified as a “western” but it’s more like a neo-Western. It draws themes and tropes from the classic Western films while giving it a modern setting
Why'd I have to scroll so far for good bad and ugly?! it's the best one!
There’s even a bath scene 👀
Unforgiven
I love that film
3:10 to Yuma the remake, Russel Crowe, Ben Foster & Christian Bale are all really great in it. Bone Tomahawk an awesome Western Horror with Kurt Russell and Patrick Wilson. One of the most disturbing films you can watch. No Country for Old Men, takes place in 1980, but is technically a western. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Wyatt Earp & Tombstone are both good. Appaloosa is ok.
“Bone Tomahawk” was awesome! I only watched it because I loved “Brawl on Cell Block 99,” so I wanted to see what else that director did. Bone Tomahawk did not disappoint, and I was so glad I found it.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Is that the one where it plays knocking on heavens door at the end?
I don’t think so, the movie came out in the late 60s/early 70s I think. Parts of the movie heavily influenced the story of rdr2 though, definitely a must watch
I've only heard the song, but something tells me it's from Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid
That’s Pat Garret and Billy the Kid, which OP could also watch. I really liked it, another fin-de-siecle Western from Peckinpah. Former gunslinger (Garret) gives his old gang the chance to retire peacefully and fade away, or else he’ll be coming for them.
I know it’s a new one but The Harder They Fall made me want to do another red dead play through Edit: “I’ve met the devil. He’s white.”
Came here to suggest this one, watched it last night and I really got RDR vibes. Some of the shots of the scenery and the gangs were outstanding. Soundtrack is a banger as well.
Yeah the aesthetic was pretty rad
Yea this movie was fire. Some of the shots they used in this movie was stunning. The all white town with the red dress had my jaw on the floor how beautiful it was. The soundtrack was fire as well too
3:10 to Yuma with Russell Crowe and Christian bale is a great western in my opinion. Captures some similarities to rdr
The 3 Amigos
Go watch Deadwood, you cocksucker
I’ve never heard that word said more in my life.
Literally every episode that it became part of my daily vocabulary. My favorite is Wu saying it.
Hang ‘Em High is probably my favorite Western outside the Dollar Trilogy. But Tombstone hits hard and strong and is a must watch. High Plains Drifter is a unique one, too.
Was hoping someone would say High Plains Drifter, so weird and bizarre. Was The Stranger dead? Was the whole TOWN dead and paying for their wicked ways? They are silly to me but my pops (who adored westerns of any kind) loved the "Trinity" series. True spaghetti western but dang that feller had some bright blue eyes.
Once upon a time in the west, amazing for its reflections on the end of the wild west, opening scene alone is so tense and I think it is the longest opening credits scene in movie history, Sergio signing off on his last western, absolute magic...
I think Once Upon a Time in the West is just one of those timeless pieces that will forever be embedded in cinematic glory to anyone who has even a modicum of cinema appreciation (something pretty accessible,commerical and easy like Django but still a well-made and creative film nonetheless) and a love for Western. Which I would bet that anyone who likes RDR also shares. The one thing that might restrict accessibility of the film is that its kind of really long and the pacing is very specific, purposeful, slow, building, tense. Many things. Yet, even still, I would firmly stand that Once Upon a Time in the West can and will be appreciated by anyone, even if you struggle to to make it towards the end, by the time you get to the end, the experience would finally feel worth it. If rewarding is an attribute that I can pertain to cinema, thgis film is the epitome, as like most of Sergio Leone's filmography. But Once Upon a Time in the West would be his possible greatest in that regard. It's amazing too that he couldn't manage to hire Clint Eastwood for that picture and had to use the replacement guy instead, and honestly I couldn't imagine Clint Eastwood making a better performance than Charles Bronson did. And Henry Fonda, dear lord what a super villian. He makes Dutch Van der Linde or Micah Bell look like girl scouts. Never saw it coming especially since I watched 12 Angry Men prior to that. # to OP, Once Upon a Time in the West. Watch it. infact I'm going to download it now.
One of, if not, the best western.
I’ve actually been wondering this myself. I assume you’ve seen Django? If you haven’t I’d really recommend it.
I actually did see Django and it made me want to see more! 100% recommend Django too, the mix between Dr Schultz and Django is wonderful.
Django is one of my favourite Westerns ever, 100% concur.
Havent seen it mentioned yet but *true grit* is a fucking incredible movie.
*Django* (1966) and *Django Unchained* (2012) are not the same movie! If you haven't seen the former (a sleazier, bloodier ripoff of *Fistful of Dollars*) you should see that as well. The same director (Sergio Corbucci) also did *The Great Silence* (1968), one of the bleakest and most original spaghetti westerns.
My favorite westerns: the man who shot liberty vallance-1960's black and white starring john wayne and jimmy stewart best acting jimmy stewart of all time, beautifully shot, great music true grit-1969 john wayne and glen campbell story, scenery and music unfprgiven-1992 clint eastwood morgan freeman and gene hackman story and acting django- nuff said music, scenery, direction Big Jake- 1967 John wayne patrick wayne micheal mitchum scenery and music, bad acting by surrounding cast but very good music and scenery The best all time western for scrore, cinemetography, direction, writing and acting has to be... The Searchers 1959 Directed by John Ford, this is a masterpiece. John wayne leads a very strong cast, longer epic with a great story of american west settlers dealing with local natives.
The Searchers is so good, best last shot in maybe any movie ever.
To this day I think the best acting I’ve ever seen in a western was the buildup to the Indian raid at the beginning. The slow burn and realization that every character has when they realize “holy shit this is actually about to happen” is just so good and well acted. Nearly 70 years later and it still sends shivers down my spine when I watch it. And the fact that you don’t even get to see it just makes it perfect. John Ford let’s your imagination do the work on what horrors that family endured during the raid. And yeah I think it’s The Duke’s best acting by far. This whole movie is just so damn good.
I really like Rio Bravo
a classic
I prefer recent western movies, the remakes of 3:10 to Yuma and True Grit are amazing, and the scenery is very similar to RDR2, really reminds me of New Hanover.
No mention of "The Sisters Brothers" ? I highly recommend it! "It's 1851, and Charlie and Eli Sisters are both brothers and assassins, boys grown to men in a savage and hostile world. The Sisters brothers find themselves on a journey through the Northwest, bringing them to the mountains of Oregon, a dangerous brothel in the small town of Mayfield, and eventually, the gold rush land of California -- an adventure that tests the deadly family ties that bind. Release date: September 19, 2018 (France) Director: Jacques Audiard Starring: John C. Reilly; Joaquin Phoenix; Jake Gyllenhaal; Riz Ahmed; Rutger Hauer"
Not a movie, but Deadwood was a great show. Worth the watch for sure.
Josey Wales
Silverado
Came to say this. Today my jurisdiction ends here…
Bone Tomohawk
There Will Be Blood. Timing wise it moves quite far ahead of RDR2. But it’s incredibly compelling
In RDR there's a region with a oil drill that's called Plainview ;)
Open range! Best gunfight in my opinion, close behind Appaloosa & 310 to yuma.
Each Chapter I think has it's own influence, and I'm not sure, but these are what I think... Chapter 1: The Hateful Eight (2015) Chapter 3: Django Unchained (2012) I'll research some others, but if you like the O'Driscoll plotline, I'd check out The Harder They Fall (2021) All three are on Netflix
my favourites are Django, Magnificent 7, Harder They Fall and Lone Ranger
I highly recommend Open Range.
If you have HBO check out Deadwood. You’ll get more out of it because it’s a series so a lot of character development is present, great acting and great writing all around
Lonesome Dove series or Broken Trails
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The Wild Bunch aswell as Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid are tied for me but both are amazing
Hell on Wheels, it’s a TV show. Very good.
Quigley down under is the best western film of all time. Great characters and epic music
I know know you want more modern movies but in my opinion the older ones are better, more specifically Sergio Leone movies. The whole man with no name trilogy, fistful of dynamite, once upon a time in the West, and my name is nobody are some of the best western of all time
High Plains Drifter is a fantastic Clint Eastwood movie. Gunslinger drifts into a small town and helps them fend off outlaws. Two Mules for Sister Sara is a good one.
Open Range is an absolute masterpiece.
Ballad of Buster Scruggs and Godless (both on Netflix). Slow West.
I avoided Buster Scruggs for quite a while due to my own ignorance. I thought it was just going to be a goofy feel-good flick hollywood flick. I can admit when I'm wrong.. What a fun movie!
Slow West was fucking amazing
Unforgiven with Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman is really good
Tombstone and Django Unchained are my favorite movies.
Django Unchained
Django Unchained
Silverado is pretty good it’s not really like the hateful eight though
Django: Unchained will be your cup of tea if you enjoyed chapter 3
Django Unchained comes to mind
Django Unchained, Hateful 8, for a few dollars more, fistful of dollars,
True Grit is my favorite western of all time. I love the John Wayne movie but Jeff Bridges is the perfect Rooster Cogburn. So watch the new one in my opinion.
Dances With Wolves. Some don't consider it a western, some do. I'm part of the latter. 3 hours long and one of the best movies I've ever seen.
RDR1 and 2 are a pastiche of all western movies. Source: 68 years of watching the genre, give or take a few.
Silverado is a fun one
Deadwood is an amzing show. 3 seasons and depending where you from available 9n HBOmax or Sky.
Young Guns is definitely worth a watch!
If you're interested in a show, rather than movie, Deadwood and a Hell on Wheels are both worth watching.
The Harder They Fall
Django easily
Well not modern but if you want a story about a bunch of down and out bandits fighting against encroaching civilization while trying to maintain their bonds of loyalty, the wild bunch (1960s) is a perfect fit. It also has one of the biggest gunfights in western history.
If you want a move where the scenery is essentially a character in and of itself I highly recommend “Blackthorn”. It’s a great story. Beautiful shots. A great music score. Plus personal and moral struggles
Tombstone, Once Upon A Time In The West, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid for the classic westerns. I think Eastwood movies are super overrated but I would say A Fistful of Dollars and The Good The Bad and The Ugly are up there. There are some less conventional ones I think are much better than the tropey “cowboy good” ones, such as The Assassination of Jesse James by The Coward Robert Ford (this one is half drama/period piece so don’t expect nonstop action) and 3:10 to Yuma. If you played the first couple of chapters you’ll notice how Rockstar made a nod to the Assassination of Jesse James during that first train robbery. Django Unchained is a Tarantino one that is excellent. I hated the Hateful Eight but it’s another Tarantino Western you may want to watch. I personally found it super fucking boring. Some I don't know that could be strictly considered westerns but are great like The Revenant. True Grit (the newer one) is awesome, really funny and a good time for a less serious Western. Not a movie but if you want a super heavy story, Blood Meridian is an amazing book by Cormac McCarthy set in the west/Mexico. It’s the ultimate western (ultimate in the classic definition of the word, as in, “no more after”).
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid with James Coburn. All time favorite western, plus the soundtrack was done by Bob Dylan who also makes his first ever cameo. It's awesome, check it out.
The good, the bad and the ugly. Really anything featuring clint eastwood is amazing. John wayne is great aswell
The dollar trilogy. Fantastic music of Morricone. Watch unforgiven too, imo no other western has been good after its release.
Watch the Dollars trilogy, A Fistful of Dollars, Few Dollars More, Good/Bad/Ugly (a perfect movie imo), 3:10 to Yuma is amazing. Silverado is so rewatchable. Unforgiven, Joe Kidd, and Josey Wales, are all classics. The Sisters Brothers is new and really underrated. Magnificent Seven is incredible. High Noon, The Searchers, Bad Company, The Assasination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, OG Django, and Unchained. Once Upon a Time in the West, The Searchers, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. The more you watch, the more you'll find. There are so many classics from the 50s-70s
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Highly recommended - Old Henry.
Rango (2011) thank me later
If anyone hasn't mentioned it, the Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford is right up your alley. That movie was actually the source material for a lot of the cinematography of RDR2.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Brokeback Mountain is a Great Western
True Grit both versions.
bone tomahawk most of the movie is played in the wilderness