The post before was the 3.000th in this thread. The voting started nearly 15 years ago, and since then over 200 lists were submitted, of which actually 186 are still counting. Some older lists were taken out by me, but so far only incomplete lists from ex-members, who had their account deleted.
The chief aim to get a stable top 20, which reflects directly the taste of the SW community, was pretty quick accomplished, and meanwhile, by such an amount of lists, the next 30 - 40 spags are also more or less sure.
Yankee at # 59 is the first one with less than 10 votes, but at least 3 films are in the top 100 with only 3 votes, the highest being Robert hossein’s extraordinary The Taste of Violence at # 81.
Outside the top 100 there are 4 Spags with 5 - 7 votes, and at the moment overall 212 films were named at least once.
The next update will be published in Jan 2021, and then the 15 years are reached.
Spose I’ll get in on the action here. Nice to be around likeminded folks … even if I don’t know who the hell you are! I’d like to offer up some different selections, though, the truth is, if we’re talking about the best of the best, it’s likely that what I hold in that regard will be nothing new. Regardless, here it goes:
1 Once upon a time in the west 1968
2 The great silence 1968
3 For a few dollars more 1965
4 The good the bad and the ugly 1966
5 The big gundown 1966
6 Django 1966
7 Face to face 1967
8 A bullet for the general 1966
9 The mercenary 1968
10 Compañeros 1970
11 A fistful of dollars 1964
12 Return of ringo 1965
13 El puro 1969
14 Keoma 1976
15 Cemetery without crosses 1969
16 Death rides a horse 1967
17 Long days of vengeance 1967
18 Black Jack 1968
19 A minute to pray a second to die 1968
20 Blindman 1971
I meant to do this back in 2019, but finally here’s my top 20 after spending two years watching loads more SWs
Il Bouno, il Brutto, Il Cattivo (The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly) - Sergio Leone (1966)
C’era una Volta il West (Once Upon a Time in the West) - Sergio Leone (1968)
La Resa dei Conti (The Big Gundown/The Settling of Accounts) - Sergio Sollima (1966)
Une Corde, Un Colt…(Cimiterio Senza Croce/The Rope and the Colt/Cemetery Without Crosses) - Robert Hossein (1969)
Django - Sergio Corbucci (1966)
I Giorni dell’Ira - Tonino Valeri (1967)
Gli Specialisti (Le Specialiste/The Specialist/The Specialists) - Sergio Corbucci (1969)
Una Pistola per Ringo (A Pistol for Ringo) - Duccio Tessari (1965)
9 (Tie). Se Incontri Sartana, Prega per la Tua Morte (If You Meet Sartana…Pray for Your Death) - Gianfranco Parolini (as Frank Kramer) (1968) & Sono Sartana, il Vostro Becchino (I Am Sartana, Your Angel of Death) - Giuliano Carnimeo (as Antony Ascot) (1969)
Bandidos - Massimo Dallamano (as Max Dillmann) (1967)
Il Ritorno di Ringo (The Return of Ringo) - Duccio Tessari (1965)
Il Mercenario (The Mercenary) - Sergio Cobucci (1969)
Il Grande Silenzio (The Great Silence) - Sergio Corbucci (1968)
El Precio de un Hombre (The Price of a Man/The Bounty Killer/The Ugly Ones) - Eugenio Martin (1966)
Sette Dollari sul Rosso (Seven Dollars on the Red) - Alberto Cardone (as Albert Cardiff) (1966)
W Django! (Viva Django/A Man Called Django) - Edoardo Mulargia (1971)
Un Dollaro Tra i Denti (A Dollar Between the Teeth/A Stranger in Town) - Luigi Vanzi (1966)
Corri Uomo Corri (Run Man Run) - Sergio Sollima (1968)
Vamos a Matar, Companeros! (Companeros) - Sergio Corbucci (1970)
Ehi Amico…C’e Sabata, Hai Chiuso (Sabata) - Gianfranco Parolini (as Frank Kramer) (1969)
I feel a bit more confident with this one, as I’ve had a lot of time to think these over, and have seen a lot more stuff, hopefully in early 2021 I can do my Alternative Top 20.
Hah, ok, but mow let me be curious, I Am Sartana, Your Angel of Death was on # 9 (or 10) on your previous list, but why it is now completely out of your Top 20?
Logically it should still be close to If You Meet Sartana…Pray for Your Death …
When I started considering my Alternative Top 20, I realized I wanted I Am Sartana, Your Angel of Death as my #1 on that list, and I wanted to try to see if I could keep the Official Top 20 list to one film per franchise apiece (I don’t see the two Ringo films as related in anyway btw)
Ok, but we shouldn’t do any limitations in the kind of “one film per director” or “per actor”, just the 20 films you like the most.
Also (now I’m speaking not directly to you, but to every voter including myself) one should avoid to think that “a certain film has already enough points, I chose instead one of my lesser darlings, even if the one with enough points is the one I prefer”. Also not " there has to be one film from a certain direcor or (or actor or whoever)" on my list. If e.g you like all films with Anthony Steffen more than any other Spags, well than make a list which includes all Steffen films. The lists need not to be balanced (and not sane), and there are no Spags a list must have, and no Spags a list should not have.
Just be as honest to yourself as possible, and name the 20 films which are the most fun to watch, the ones which make the biggest impression.
I’d like to offer up some different selections, though, the truth is, if we’re talking about the best of the best, it’s likely that what I hold in that regard will be nothing new. Regardless, here it goes: