Vote for Our Official Top 20

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I haven’t posted my top 20 because I don’t feel like I’ve seen enough yet. I’ve seen more than 20, but not enough. For example, I still haven’t managed to get my hands on “run man run”, “Django kill… if you live shoot!” and the Sartana movies. These movies aren’t exactly easy to obtain.

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Ahh, ok, then good luck with finding those you search soon.

Btw, I also think that the uncut version may change your opinion.
My first version run only about 85 min, and I gave it only 5/10. Later I raised it after a re-watch to 6/10, but it was the uncut version which really made me enjoy the film. Same for Run Man Run.

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3220

You might be surprised. :wink: But, then again…

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  1. For a Few Dollars More
  2. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
  3. Once Upon a Time in the West
  4. The Mercenary
  5. The Big Gundown
  6. Bandidos
  7. Keoma
  8. The Great Silence
  9. Day of Anger
  10. Black Jack
  11. Death Rides a Horse
  12. A Bullet for the General
  13. Companeros
  14. Face to Face
  15. El Puro
  16. A Fistful of Dollars
  17. The Unholy Four
  18. God Forgives, I Don’t!
  19. A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die
  20. The Hellbenders

This was hard, so many contenders for the last few spots.

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3222

The next 5 old lists, which will be taken out of the voting for every new posted list, are those:

El Chuncho Vote for Our Official Top 20 - #125 by EL_CHUNCHO
Malo Vote for Our Official Top 20 - #186 by Malo
Kohlbek Vote for Our Official Top 20 - #232 by kohlbek
Yocke Vote for Our Official Top 20 - #267 by Yocke
Colt_45 Vote for Our Official Top 20 - #286 by Colt_45

I post them here, cause if somebody knows one of them, and thinks he (or she) is or was very knowledgeable about the genre, then I would keep their lists for now, and erase instead another one.

I will keep for example the list of Shobary, even if it is pretty unlikely that he will ever come back and change it.

3223

I won’t post my top 20 yet as I don’t feel I have seen enough SWs to formulate a proper top 20 list.

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3224

I’d second that …

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3225

Now that Spagvember is over, maybe some Spagvembers want to revisit their top 20?

Or post their first one?

The annual update of the big forum list will be done again in January.

3226

My revised Top 20 :

1 For A Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone) music Ennio Morricone 1965
2 Once Upon A Time In The West (Sergio Leone) music Ennio Morricone 1968
3 Dead Men Ride/At The End Of The Rainbow (Aldo Florio) music Bruno Nicolai 1971
4 Django Kill If You Live Shoot (Giulio Questi) music Ivan Vandor 1967
5 A Fistful Of Dollars (Sergio Leone) music Ennio Morricone 1964
6 The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (Sergio Leone) music Ennio Morricone 1966
7 The Big Gundown (Sergio Sollima) music Ennio Morricone 1967
8 My Name Is Nobody (Tonino Valerii) music Ennio Morricone 1973
9 Cemetery Without Crosses (Robert Hossein) music André Hossein 1969
10 Requiem For A Gringo/Duel In Eclipse (Eugenio Martín, José Luis Merino) music Angelo Lavagnino 1968
11 Johnny Yuma (Romolo Guerrieri) music Nora Orlandi 1966
12 The Forgotten Pistolero/Gunman Of Ave Maria (Ferdinando Baldi) music Roberto Pregadio 1969
13 Kill The Wicked/ God Does Not Pay On Saturday (Tanio Boccia) music Angelo Lavagnino 1967
14 The Stranger Returns/A Man, A Horse, A Gun (Luigi Vanzi) music Stelvio Cipriani 1967
15 Viva Django / Django, Prepare A Coffin (Ferdinando Baldi) music Gianfranco Reverberi 1968
16 El Puro/The Reward’s Yours… The Man’s Mine (Edoardo Mulargia) music Alessandro Alessandroni 1969
17 The Big Silence/The Great Silence (Sergio Corbucci) music Ennio Morricone 1968
18 Death Rides A Horse (Giulio Petroni) 1967
19 Day Of Anger (Tonino Valerii) 1967
20 Sabata (Gianfranco Parolini) music Marcello Giombini 1969

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3227

My Top 20 (out of 280 seen SW):

  1. Mein Name ist Nobody - My name is Nobody
  2. Zwei glorreiche Halunken - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
  3. Django
  4. Awkward hands
  5. Blindman
  6. Django 10.000 blutige Dollars- 10.000 $ blood money
  7. Ein Halleluja für Spirito Santo - They Call Him Holy Ghost
  8. Mercenario der Gefürchtete - The Mercenary
  9. Für eine handvoll Dollar -Fistful of Dollars
  10. Sabata
  11. Sartana Bete um deinen Tod - If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death
  12. Für ein paar Dollar mehr - For a few Dollars more
  13. Und Santana tötet sie alle - Santana Kills Them All
  14. Il Nero Hass war sein Gebet - Hate is my God
  15. Todesmelodie - Duck You, Sucker
  16. Lauf um dein Leben - Run man run
  17. Spiel mir das Lied vom Tod - Once Upon a Time in the West
  18. Die schmutzigen Dreizehn (15 forche per un assassino
  19. Bandidos
  20. Man nennt mich Halleluja - They Call Me Hallelujah
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3228

Hah, that’s a list I like, with some outsiders which I really enjoy.

I wanted to write that it’s the first list with Nobody at the top, but actually it’s the 2nd.

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3229

Thanks a lot. Nobody was my first movie I’ve seen in cinema. I think it was in 1976. Since then it’s my alltime favorite!

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3230

I’ve never done this list before, so please be patient with me…

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  1. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

  2. A Fistful of Dollars

  3. For A Few Dollars More

  4. Once Upon A Time in the West

  5. Duck you Sucker

  6. A Pistol For Ringo

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  7. The Big Gundown

  8. Face to Face

  9. Navajo Joe

  10. A Bullet For the General

  11. The Great Silence

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  12. Django

  13. Sabata

  14. The Mercenary

  15. Arizona Colt

  16. Death Rides a Horse

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  17. Tepepa

  18. Trinity is Still My Name

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  19. My Name is Nobody

  20. The Return of Ringo

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3231

It’s a favourite of me too. Nr 5 in my SW top 20.

A bit uneven though, the comedy parts are a bit problematic in parts, but there are many scenes which belong to the best in any western.
I also watched it theatrically the first time, maybe around 1979. Actually I did not like it then as a whole, I had expected more comedy then. And now it’s the other way round, now I wish the pure slapstick stuff had been cut out.
I assume you watched it with the German dub?

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Don’t worry, every list is as good as any other list. It only matters that it was done honestly, not which films are on it.

My top 20 is made just by those which are for me the most fun to watch, the most entertaining ones.

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3233

This is a problem or question that to this day kept me from compiling such a list. If I go purely with what’s the most fun to watch for me, I’ll feel bad about those films that are imo clearly better made. If I did a list according to what I feel are the “objectively best” (if there’s such a thing), I’d feel bad for the ones I enjoy most. :slight_smile:

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3234

Go for what personally pleases you, and gives YOU the most pleasure to watch… :+1:

In other words, don’t worry about what you think you should write down, or go with popular opinion… just say what you like.

By the way, Happy Christmas, amigo… :santa:

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3235

Do as Toscano said …

Actually I also think there is not really such a thing like “objectively best” cause all the “objectively best” lists are also very much influenced by subjectivity.

Ask 10 experts and you get 12 different opinions … :wink:

… or like Dean would put it, a list can’t be an objective one without Shoot the Living, Pray for the Dead on top of it.

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3236

:rofl:

Best of the season to you, Stanton…and to Dean.
Wishing you both a cracking Merry Christmas, and a joyful New Year… :santa: :+1: :wine_glass:

3237

Thanks my friend, I wish you too some relaxed and, yes, joyful days in the time we call here “between the years”.

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