#OH ALSO shoutout to searchers (2016)

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Top 5 noir movies? Top 5 westerns?

Already got asked about noir movies here! As for westerns, it was very difficult for me to narrow it down to a top 5 so I'm also gonna link a longer list of my favourites here.

But anyway. Top 5.

In this world, there are two kinds of people, my friend: those who's favourite western is The Good the Bad and the Ugly, and those who haven't seen it yet. Greatest score ever written, masterful use of long shots and close ups, Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef at their very coolest, all in gorgeous widescreen... One of my top five movies, period.

No Name on the Bullet. As I mentioned in the noir ask, I 🧡 movies that are cheap and pulpy and kind of bad lol. Jokes aside though this one's got a very tight script with a lot to say on mob mentality/paranoia and individual corruption, a building tension that grabs you by throat and squeezes, all carried along by Audie Murphy and his cold cold eyes... There's something very special about a well-made b-movie I must say.

Winchester '73. Ranown cycle this, Wayne-Ford movies that, well if you ask me the Mann-Stewart movies are the best western actor/director collabs out there, and this one's the finest among them. Okay actually The Naked Spur is the better film, but this one's got my guy Dan Duryea in his absolute best role, so you know I'll take it over the others any day of the week.

Blazing Saddles. I do love a good parody, and Mel Brooks is the undisputed king thereof. This one's laugh out loud funny, the type of movie that has me going "oh man that's my favourite bit" every three seconds. Except the bean scene, that one's a dud, but the mere presence of Madeline Kahn makes up for it ten times over.

Longtime followers will know of my inexplicable soft spot for godawful singing cowboy movies + my other inexplicable soft spot for godawful mountie movies, so naturally I've got a soft spot the size of Saskatchewan for the Renfrew of the Royal Mounted serial. Like idk what to tell you, they're mounted men....... though odds may be one to ten....... they'll follow the trail........ they never will fail to capture......... dangerous foes, for everyone knows they say........ they'll get their man, despite any plan you'll have to pay......... Yes I know the theme song by heart don't judge me.

Ask me my top 5/top 10 anything!