Good modern westerns?

[TardStrong]

Walker Texas Ranger

 

[TardStrong]

The Cowboy Way
City Slickers

 

[mime]

Bone Tomahawk

Old-school western story, mix-in surreal bizarre foes and ultra-violence

 

[moreorless87]

It comes up in every thread but Drive is really a classic western/Ronin story isn't it even if the setting differs.

 

[sleepwalk]

Firefly
Last Man Standing
History of Violence

 

[Peteyandjia]

You shouldn't spike the ball, before TS clarifies.

 

[mushishi]

Brokeback

mmmmmmm


brokeback

 

[MadSquabbles500]

The Son is technically a western.

 

[tru3f4n]

Brokeback

mmmmmmm


brokeback

In Turkey they just translated it to F***** Cowboys

 

[ookii]

Hell or High Water

 

[Thai Domi]

Django Unchained

Came in to post about this, even though while it's a western style film and story, it's set in the South.

 

[Guestx]

Well, is it modern as in set in modern times, or recently made within the last decade or so?

And yeah, my God, DEADWOOD. Watch Deadwood.

Modern Westerns are a genre, ones that take place current day

I have seen the term applied to both on a consistent basis, so if "modern western" is supposed to be a term that indicates a specific genre then I'd say it has failed in its duties.

Maybe we need another term that won't be so easily confused. Like Neo-Western.

 

[Peteyandjia]

I have seen the term applied to both on a consistent basis

And I've seen it spelled Conor McGregor & Connor MacGreggor

Only one is correct though

Maybe we need another term that won't be so easily confused. Like Neo-Western.

That sounds like a description of Westworld or something.

How about we just talk about modern westerns & recent westerns

 

[Guestx]

That sounds like a description of Westworld or something.

How about we just talk about modern westerns & recent westerns

I'd say that even if it's settled in your own mind, you're still going to face the problem of countless people saying "modern Western" to mean Westerns made in the past few decades, as opposed to classic Westerns made many years ago. I just don't think the term really works.

It's not like confusing action and comedy.

 

[HereticBD]

I'd say that even if it's settled in your own mind, you're still going to face the problem of countless people saying "modern Western" to mean Westerns made in the past few decades, as opposed to classic Westerns made many years ago. I just don't think the term really works.

It's not like confusing action and comedy.

Yeah, Petey!

 

[Peteyandjia]

I'd say that even if it's settled in your own mind, you're still going to face the problem of countless people saying "modern Western" to mean Westerns made in the past few decades, as opposed to classic Westerns made many years ago. I just don't think the term really works.

It's not like confusing action and comedy.

Yeah, Petey!

 

[Guestx]

What's that old phrase that I never use but that seems appropriate right now?

"The proof is in the pudding."

 

[Deleted member 220895]

The third back to the future is an old western with modern McFly twist.

 

[HARRISON_3]

Cowboys and Aliens has a modern alien twist to it

 

[Winter-John]

Tommy Lee Jones's The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada is one of the best modern westerns you'll see. It's a damn shame it's not more popular.