Highest grossing westerns since 1980

I was actually looking for a list like this, thanks!

I was happy to see Back to the Future 3 so close to the top! Up there with my favorite movies !

Mrs. C

Well I saw 3 out of the top 5. No prizes for guessing which two I avoided.

Wonder will Pitt movie about Jesse James make an impact.


Mike

Is there anything there about highest grossing War Movies? :teeth_smile:

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I was happy to see Back to the Future 3 so close to the top! Up there with my favorite movies !

Mrs. C

I see Universal Studios park is dumping the Back to the Future ride. The wife and I went on it when I took her to Orlando a few years ago. The rides in the Universal park were pretty decent, this one included. And they are going to replace it with something from The Simpsons... give me a break. I suckered the wife to go on Disney's Tower of Terror. That was also good.

Man, that breaks my heart, DakotaSurfer. That was one of my most favorite rides when the wife and I went there years ago. Waited in line several times just to ride it again. As Homer would say " DOH ! "

Mark

Apparently The Mummy ride is one of the big attractions this year. Miss the old King Kong it was Great

Mike

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I see Universal Studios park is dumping the Back to the Future ride. And they are going to replace it with something from The Simpsons...

Yuck!! I am so over the Simpsons (have been almost since they began)!

Mrs. C

What is Brokeback doing on a western list?

Haven't seen any Young Guns or Back to the future movies, I'm very suspicious for some reason

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Couldn't find anything about highest grossing war movies, but here's a little something for you.

http://www.digitaldreamdoor.co…ovie-pages/movie_war.html

Thanks my friend. It is an impressive list. I've watched the vast majority of these and like most of them on the list. I sure with Apocalypse Now was not on the list at first place though. I'd kindly prefer that distinction to belong to one of Duke's movies.

Top 10 highest-grossing Westerns

Given the track record of "Pirates of the Caribbean" producer Jerry Bruckheimer, director Gore Verbinski and studio Walt Disney Pictures, their new collaboration, "The Lone Ranger," may well leave all previous Westerns behind in a cloud of dust and a hearty "Hi-yo, Silver!" (oops!)

Here are the genre's 10 highest-grossing movies -- adjusted for inflation, or else a money-losing flop like "Cowboys & Aliens" comes in at No. 8!

1. "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" $560,229,400
The Paul Newman-Robert Redford 1969 buddy classic that made the latter a star won Oscars for original screenplay (William Goldman), cinematography (Conrad L. Hall), score (Burt Bacharach) and song (Bacharach and Hal David's "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head").

2. "Blazing Saddles" $502,026,500
The 1974 Mel Brooks comedy-Western starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder is considered one of cinema's funniest films.

3. "Duel in the Sun" $405,102,000
King Vidor's 1946 Technicolor tale of a half-American Indian (Jennifer Jones) facing prejudice and forbidden love was a scandalous hit.

4. "Dances with Wolves" $346,972,400
Told from the cultural perspective of the Lakota people, director-star Kevin Costner's 1990 epic took seven Academy Awards, including best picture, director, cinematography and original score.

5. "Shane" $272,635,000
No. 3 on the American Film Institute's list of greatest Westerns, behind John Ford's "The Searchers" (1956) and Fred Zinnemann's "High Noon" (1952), is George Stevens' 1953 classic about a gunslinger and a family in the changing frontier.

6. "Little Big Man" $184,064,401
A 121-year-old's (Dustin Hoffman) memories satirize and comment on the Old West in this 1970 Western.

7. "True Grit" $171,243,005
The Coen brothers' 2010 remake of the 1969 John Wayne film earned Hailee Steinfeld a supporting-actress Oscar nomination for her first film.

8. "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly" $170,261,707
Clint Eastwood. Sergio Leone. Climactic 1966 spaghetti Western of "The Man With No Name" trilogy.

9. "Unforgiven" $163,059,604
Director-star Eastwood's poignant 1992 bookend to the above won four Oscars, including best picture, director and supporting actor (Gene Hackman).

10. "Django Unchained" $162,805,434
From 2012: Quentin Tarantino goes West.

http://www.newsday.com/enterta…ossing-westerns-1.5573403

Such an interesting list may,thanks for posting

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Such an interesting list may,thanks for posting

Yes, it is interesting. Interesting that it doesn't include "Open Range", which I personally thought was one of the best Westerns ever.

Another great Western missing from that list is "Lonesome Dove" which, IMHO, was much better than several others on May's list.

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Yes, it is interesting. Interesting that it doesn't include "Open Range", which I personally thought was one of the best Westerns ever.

Good point Jim, I watched that recently and thought it excellent.

Lonesome Dove was a TV mini-series. It had no grosses. I agree that it was great.

Open Range's lifetime grosses are $58,331,254 domestic and $9,965,039 foreign for a worldwide total of $68,296,293. It wouldn't adjust high enough to make the list.