Quentin Tarantino's Top 20 Spaghetti Westerns

[Tucumcari Bound]

Quentin Tarantio revealed his TOP 20 favorite spaghetti westerns:

http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Quentin_Tarantino%27s_Top_20_favorite_Spaghetti_Westerns

Quentin Tarantino's favorite Spaghetti Westerns:

1. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
2. For a Few Dollars more
3. Django
4. The Mercenary / A Professional Gun
5. Once Upon a Time in the West
6. A Fistful of Dollars
7. Day of Anger
8. Death Rides a Horse
9. Navajo Joe
10. The Return of Ringo
11. The Big Gundown
12.A Pistol for Ringo
13. The Dirty Outlaws
14. The Great Silence
15. The Grand Duel
16. Shoot the Living, Pray for the Dead
17. Tepepa
18. The Ugly Ones
19. Django, Prepare a Coffin
20. Machine Gun Killers

The runners up in not so strict order:

Hellbenders; If you meet Sartana, Pray for your Death; God forgives, I don't; Companeros; Four of the Apocalypse; Ace High; Boot Hill; Duck, You Sucker; Minnesota Clay; Arizona Colt; Ringo and his Golden Pistol; Adios Gringo; and to quote Quentin "all the Calvin Jackson Padget films with Giuliano Gemma" (One Silver Dollar; Fort Yuma Gold; Wanted); The Trinity movies (They Call Me Trinity; Trinity Is Still My Name); This man can't die; The Deserter; Five Man Army; Chino; Requiescant; Red Sun.

[The Firecracker]

Quentin Tarantino's favorite Spaghetti Westerns:

1. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
2. For a Few Dollars more
3. Django
4. The Mercenary / A Professional Gun
5. Once Upon a Time in the West
6. A Fistful of Dollars
7. Day of Anger
8. Death Rides a Horse
9. Navajo Joe
10. The Return of Ringo
11. The Big Gundown
12.A Pistol for Ringo
13. The Dirty Outlaws
14. The Great Silence
15. The Grand Duel
16. Shoot the Living, Pray for the Dead
17. Tepepa
18. The Ugly Ones
19. Django, Prepare a Coffin
20. Machine Gun Killers

The runners up in not so strict order:

Hellbenders; If you meet Sartana, Pray for your Death; God forgives, I don't; Companeros; Four of the Apocalypse; Ace High; Boot Hill; Duck, You Sucker; Minnesota Clay; Arizona Colt; Ringo and his Golden Pistol; Adios Gringo; and to quote Quentin "all the Calvin Jackson Padget films with Giuliano Gemma" (One Silver Dollar; Fort Yuma Gold; Wanted); The Trinity movies (They Call Me Trinity; Trinity Is Still My Name); This man can't die; The Deserter; Five Man Army; Chino; Requiescant; Red Sun.

Saw this on SWDB to.
Thanks for putting it here TB.
He sure does make some odd choices for top 20.
Shoot The Living Pray For The Dead is usually seen as one of the worst. I like it but it would never reach even my top 100.
Machine Gun Killers is another odd choice.

Hooray for Grand Duel. At least there is somebody out there who likes this as much as I do!
His Runner up choices are all over the place.
At least two in there are in my all time worst SW list.
And one of them being one of the worst movies I've ever seen, regardless of genre.

[Tucumcari Bound]

I don't get why OUATITW is on the list. I've never really considered it a spaghetti western. And being on the list, I'd think it be at least number 2 on his list. I know he's a huge fan of it.

[The Firecracker]

I don't get why OUATITW is on the list. I've never really considered it a spaghetti western. And being on the list, I'd think it be at least number 2 on his list. I know he's a huge fan of it.

I don't approve of his ranking of it but I do approve of it being on that list.

[T.H.]

I'm no spag expert, so I'll leave that discussion to you guys.

I don't know what bothers me more: West's inclusion on this list or its ranking.

Chino is an unbelievably terrible movie. QT must be listing every spag. he's ever seen as HMs or he genuinely has poor taste.

[The Firecracker]

Chino is an unbelievably terrible movie.

That is one of the two I was talking about. Chino is one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

QT must be listing every spag. he's ever seen as HMs

The more I read his list the more I'm beginning to believe in your conclusion.

[Arizona Colt]

MACHINE GUN KILLERS is the most perplexing to me. It has a pretty good story but nothing else. My guess he put it on there because he thought the title sounded cool. Other than that, there's at least 50 other SW's that are miles away better than this one. I did a mini review for it here with pics...

http://www.coolasscinema.com/search/label/A%20Fistful%20of%20Spaghetti

What's an HM?

[noodles_leone]

Just noticed "Duck, You Sucker" was in the runners up list. It means that QT (who's supposed to be a great Leone fan) ranks it under "Django, Prepare a Coffin" and "A Pistol for Ringo ".

[The Firecracker]

Just noticed "Duck, You Sucker" was in the runners up list. It means that QT (who's supposed to be a great Leone fan) ranks it under "Django, Prepare a Coffin" and "A Pistol for Ringo ".

A Pistol For Ringo is a classic, Viva Django is mediocre.

I wouldn't rate either of them higher than DYS.

[noodles_leone]

A Pistol For Ringo is a classic, Viva Django is mediocre.

I wouldn't rate either of them higher than DYS.

Yes, i heard A Pistol For Ringo was good, but come on... As we all know (and as you say), it's just not in the same league.

[Arizona Colt]

A Pistol For Ringo is a classic, Viva Django is mediocre.

I wouldn't rate either of them higher than DYS.

I never saw DUCK all the way through. It didn't grab me the first two times. A PISTOL FOR RINGO deserves to be in any top ten list. Another one on there that's odd is THE UGLY ONES. What an awful movie that is.

I asked above and nobody answered, but what's an HM?

[The Firecracker]

Yes, i heard A Pistol For Ringo was good, but come on... As we all know (and as you say), it's just not in the same league.

Agreed. As TH said... The list is just what he's seen.

Anybody who rates the second installment of the Sartana series as the best of the franchise is not to be trusted. Those are my rules. I make em' up and mankind must follow em'.

[The Firecracker]

Another one on there that's odd is THE UGLY ONES. What an awful movie that is.

I thought it was a heavily flawed character piece but worthy of at least one view.

I asked above and nobody answered, but what's an HM?

I haven't a clue.

[noodles_leone]

I haven't a clue.

That's a shame, i was waiting for your answer too...

[Arizona Colt]

I thought it was a heavily flawed character piece but worthy of at least one view.


I haven't a clue.

A character piece??? We are talking about the boring as all hell Milian movie, right?