Young Guns (1988) poster
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Young Guns

Western

Directed by Christopher Cain

A group of young gunmen, led by Billy the Kid, become deputies to avenge the murder of the rancher who became their benefactor. But when Billy takes their authority too far, they become the hunted. From TMDB

166 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy) · newest Oct 28, 2026 · last updated Oct 28, 2026 · How this works

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Young Guns is a 1988 western film, directed by Christopher Cain, starring Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland and Lou Diamond Phillips.

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  • Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.socialBluesky · May 12, 2026

    12 May 1962 – Emilio Estevez, 64, US actor, film, TV director, writer. The Outsiders (1983) * The Breakfast Club * St Elmo's Fire * Stakeout * Young Guns I/II * Mighty Ducks * The War at Home (director) * Bobby (+ director) * The Way (director) * The Public * Mighty Ducks: Game Changers (2021–22)

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  • Natania Barron ~ Fantasy Author @natania.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 29, 2025

    Watching the 1990 masterpiece that is YOUNG GUNS II with my sister. A movie I know every word to (and every lyric of the album tie-in by Jon Bon Jovi).

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  • A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 10, 2025

    YOUNG GUNS is, in my opinion, half-bad. letterboxd.com/andrewmoxon/...

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  • Monica At The Movies @monicasmovies.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 24, 2026

    Young Guns (1988) 🎬🤎 Directed by Christopher Cain

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  • Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham @govmlg.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 13, 2025

    The original "Young Guns" films put New Mexico on the map as a top filming spot. Emilio Estevez's "Young Guns 3: Dead or Alive" continues that legacy, strengthening the state's place in the national film industry. Thanks, Emilio, for sharing the great news today! tinyurl.com/58496a23

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  • Charlotte Sometimes 🇨🇦 @charlysometimes.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 4, 2025

    #SeptemberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky 9/5: Outlaw in a movie I referenced this movie last hour in a music challenge. So nice, I used it twice. "Young Guns II" (1990)

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  • Coach Rusty @coachrusty.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 17, 2023

    If you’re wondering how I got this toxic it’s because I based my entire concept of masculinity around the movie Young Guns II

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  • Ian Titular @ukiyaseed.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 25, 2024

    I did not expect a Bon Jovi reference in this week's Boonboomger. I know this is me stretching a bit, but I think they are named that way because one of them look like a cowboy, and the group performed the song "Blaze of Glory", the theme song of Young Guns II, a cowboy movie.

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  • Tom Cody @realtomcody.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 25, 2024

    Watched both YOUNG GUNS back to back today. First is still charming as hell with endearing characters & a jubilant Emilio in a strong lead. Technically however, much of the film is a mess, with ineptly staged action, incomprehensible geography and strong hints of post-production salvaging. (cont)

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  • Pia Guerra @piaguerra.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 24, 2026

    My favourite was realizing 35 years later that the movie Young Guns was a play on "young'uns" (because Billy the Kid).

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  • Kat Alderson 🙃 @klaybourne.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 9, 2025

    A movie from the year, you turned 18. Young Guns (1988)

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  • Count Paxula @paxholley.comBluesky · Feb 5, 2026

    Loot that drops after defeating me: Copies of the Midnight Madness and Back to the Future movie novelizations. An autographed Young Guns poster, folded. A box of turmeric ginger green tea packets. 3 Fisher Space Pens A bootleg DVD of the entire run of the Teen Wolf cartoon.

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  • JPSea ..✳️🈶 @jpsea83.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 8, 2025

    6. A film you never get tired of.. #filmsky Young Guns (1988) dir. Christopher Cain 📽️⭐️🎞️

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  • FrankMyersCreative @frankmyerscreative.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 2, 2025

    Impossible project instant film image from Cerillos, New Mexico one of the locations where Young Guns was filmed. This is one of my series of BigAssPolaroids where I print them 30” x 24” #film #photography #artistsofbluesky #art #experimentalfilm #impossibleproject

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  • Nostalgic Things that go bump in the night @nostalgicthing.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 16, 2024

    Young Guns II: Blaze Of Glory is actually a quite good film #TOTP

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  • Andrew Otis Weiss @thatweissguy.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 18, 2026

    Movie spots in the July 29, 1988 episode of Friday Night Videos: Young Guns Clean and Sober The Blob Vibes Cocktail

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  • Lee Casebolt @leecasebolt.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 2, 2025

    Haven't watched this thing in 35 years but pleased to report Young Guns still holds up. All the principals are great but Emilio Estevez really stands out. Easily his best role.

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  • Bluesky Dave @davesim.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 17, 2024

    The film list for trashy teen flicks was unparalleled... Ferris Beullers Day Off, Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Mannequin, St Elmo's Fire, Young Guns, War Games, Repo Man etc etc

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  • Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 2, 2024

    “Aren’t you thinking of Young Guns?” “Nope, different movie.” “Flatliners?” “Also a different movie. You’re just naming Kiefer movies at this point”

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  • Jamie Garwood @nexttotheaisle.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 17, 2025

    #AprilFilmChallenge #filmsky #moviesky @omacolt.bsky.social Day 17: First R rated film YOUNG GUNS The brat pack get guns

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  • Shawn Robare @shawnrobare.comBluesky · Dec 12, 2025

    It’s up there with the fake novelization cover for Young Guns that @paxholley.com & I created that sometimes pops up in reference to the film, and the fake Robo Force trading cards that I made popping up in the IP brand worth sales deck, to be chiseled on the accomplishments part of my tombstone…

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  • Lazy Reviews @lazyreviews.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 1, 2025

    Spell your name with movie titles 👀 Lifeforce Aliens Zodiac Young Guns Riki-Oh Easy Rider Videodrome I, Daniel Blake Evil Dead II Wayne's World Society #FilmSky

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  • DC @dstuclark.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 8, 2025

    #1994AlbumsTop20 #MusicChallenge 15. Cross Road The Best of Bon Jovi Loving the movie Young Guns II a year or so earlier and being bombarded with 'Always' on MTV was enough to fire up some interest in Bon Jovi in 94.

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  • The Real Beardium @beardium.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 6, 2025

    I think we need a break from all the doom and gloom. Let's play, Re-score a movie. What movie's soundtrack would you change? I'll go first. Young Guns. I would replace all of the Bon Jovi songs with All Star by Smashmouth. The Shrek soundtrack is perfect. If you want to change it, instablock.

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  • James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 26, 2024

    Obscure YT of the day: The real Young Guns! 1976's LAW OF THE LAND, a TV movie western starring the busy Don Johnson, Barbara Parkins (Valley of the Dolls) & Charles Martin Smith (The Untouchables)! Johnson & Smith go after a western serial killer (!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDWr...

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  • Chad @spidey9000.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 1, 2026

    I was listening to your old Young Guns II podcast. The Christian Slater talk made me realize you guys should tackle Heathers. We watched that movie so many times in high school and I can still quote half the movie. @paxholley.com @shawnrobare.com @shezcrafti.com

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  • Delilah S. Dawson @delilahsdawson.bsky.socialBluesky · May 25, 2026

    Kit Cargill sounds like the star of Young Guns III, my future favorite movie.

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  • Dave Ghoul @daveghoul.comBluesky · May 17, 2026

    Morning Dave thoughts... Remembering the time Jon Bon Jovi sang about being a cowboy and nobody took it seriously so he did a cameo in the movie Young Guns 2 and did another song about being a cowboy and folks were like "dude your from New Jersey".

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  • Trevor @capitalcitysol.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 27, 2026

    Clue Titan A.E. Clerks 2 Addams Family Mortal Kombat Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare Mad Max Fury Road Batman (any of them) Young Guns Back to the Future (1&3) Indiana Jones The Last Crusade The Untouchables Down Periscope Sinners D&D Honor Among Thieves Bob's Burgers Movie Into the Spider-Verse

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  • maineborn.bsky.social @maineborn.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 12, 2026

    Young Guns. Great cast but terrible movie!

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  • The Santa Fe New Mexican @thenewmexican.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 13, 2025

    Emilio Estevez, the famed actor who starred as Billy the Kid in the popular 1988 Western "Young Guns," has revealed another movie about the misadventures of the notorious outlaw will be shot in the Land of Enchantment almost 40 years later.

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  • Jack @jackflash.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 5, 2025

    Brain: We have a day off and an hour to kill before heading back to the gym. Let's watch a fun new movie and explore....why are you clicking on Young Guns!?

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  • AJ: A Mario Bava Film @ajmacready.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 14, 2026

    On more than one occasion I have had a run in with a YOUNG GUNS hater, telling me "that movie sucks shit" and all that; they're all wrong. This movie is awesome. The cast is awesome, score is awesome, goofy sense of humor is awesome, inordinate level of violence is awesome. ...damn thing's AWESOME.

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  • Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 30, 2026

    Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Young Guns II, TOYS, Crocodile Dundee II, Rankin Bass’s ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas, the part in The Mummy when Rachel Weisz falls in the river, the sandwich from DAVE, the missile rollout & launch from STEALTH, the tittymountai

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  • Lilly 🪿 @theejadedvet.bsky.socialBluesky · May 17, 2026

    TIL that Tom Cruise and Jon Bon Jovi were both *extras* in the original Young Guns movie. The "it" crowd was so psyched about a Western starring a bunch of hot young talent that guys like Cruise and Bon Jovi just said "Hey can I be in it?" So they were given cowboy hats and made collateral damage 😂

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  • Xx_Johnstone_xX @massiveattack420.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 7, 2026

    I was watching The Arrival #VHS #PhysicalMedia and Charlie Sheen is actually a pretty good actor. I already knew that from Young Guns, but seeing him in a Sci-Fi movie changes my idea of what his range is. youtu.be/QTl34Gs-OmE?...

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  • PhantoMantis @phantomantis.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 9, 2026

    I like Young Guns but I think there's a better movie to be made about The Lincoln County War and Billy The Kid.

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  • Ghost-Lee Apparition @kupofgreentea.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 8, 2025

    Young Guns (1988) 🤠 #MovieSky #Film #80s 🤠

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  • Seamus Petrie @seamuspetrie.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 18, 2024

    I’d include Young Guns and that ‘90s Three Musketeers movie before I’d think of half of the movies on this list - to say nothing of The Breakfast Club or Pretty in Pink.

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  • Medusa’s Wink @medusaswink.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 2, 2023

    Giddy reminder to Gen X film buffs looking for a reason today to hold on … Young Guns 3 officially has a script. The irony alone is gonna make it worth the wait filmsky

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  • allfrightner @allflicker.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 30, 2026

    Geoff Murphy is a b movie guy i’ve always dug. Freejack and Young Guns 2 were junior high constants and Fortress 2 is dumb fun. #TheQuietEarth #CultShelf #filmsky

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  • HELLFRAZIER @popnpizza.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 1, 2026

    SLEEZ ’N’ CHEEZ IV: THE CRACKDOWN continues with tonight's movie: Geoff Murphy's 1990 action western YOUNG GUNS II, starring Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christian Slater, William Petersen, James Coburn, Viggo Mortensen, Alan Ruck, and Ginger Lynn.

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  • ♔ 𝖽ⲇⲙⲇⳋⲉ𝖽 𓃠 ⲫⳙⲉⲉⲛ ♔ @damagedqueen.satan.socialBluesky · Sep 1, 2026

    Share an ACTION movie title that begins with the letter “X, Y or Z” 🎥 X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) Year of the Dragon (1985) Young Guns (1988) Zombieland (2009) #moviesky #filmsky #lastday

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  • HELLFRAZIER @popnpizza.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 28, 2026

    SLEEZ ’N’ CHEEZ IV: THE CRACKDOWN continues with tonight's movie: Christopher Cain's 1988 action western, YOUNG GUNS, starring Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen, Dermot Mulroney, Terence Stamp, Terry O'Quinn, Brian Keith, and Jack Palance.

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  • omacolt.bsky.social @omacolt.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 21, 2026

    #JulyMovieChallenge Day 20 Native American in a movie Young Guns (1988 and 1990)

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  • D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.comBluesky · Oct 11, 2025

    Apparently they're doing Young Guns 3. Which is a pretty ballsy title, considering the last movie was 35 years ago. Maybe they should do a prequel instead. "Baby Guns: Bullets & Binkies". Everybody run! It's Billy The Fetus!

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  • MovieMattSirois @moviemattsirois.bsky.socialBluesky · May 31, 2025

    200 episodes ago we covered Young Guns on the TV/Movie Rewind Podcast. Time to re-evaluate the sequel, which I haven’t seen in about 30 years… Will I still dislike it? #Filmsky

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  • Anita 🎬🎥📺🎶📚 @gemini53.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 17, 2025

    Kiefer Sutherland as Josiah Gordon 'Doc' Scurlock in Young Guns 🎬🎥🤠 #filmsky #moviesky

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  • Anita 🎬🎥📺🎶📚 @gemini53.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 15, 2025

    Charlie Sheen as Dick Brewer & Emilio Estevez as William H. Bonney in Young Guns 🎬🎥🤠 #filmsky #moviesky

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  • 🔪Creepy-pants🔪 @crasspants.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 26, 2025

    I'm going to be 100% Honest. A Young Guns III with returning cast would get me in the theater twice before any marvel movie will again.

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  • Flipse @flipse.wtfBluesky · Mar 17, 2025

    Vinyl of the day, and super underrated film soundtrack: Young Guns II. 1990 Blaze Of Glory by Jon Bon Jovi (Label: Vertigo) #vinyl #vinyloftheday #records #jonbonjovi #youngguns

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  • pud333.bsky.social @pud333.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 5, 2025

    Young Guns is a rad movie and I will not debate this.

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  • Spooky Becky Tyler Mulder @beckytylerart.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 16, 2025

    No film is a better example of 80s hotties like 1988's Young Guns.

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  • Phil Edwards - Live for Films @liveforfilms.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 5, 2023

    US Blu-ray and DVD Releases: Indiana Jones & The Dial of Destiny, Silver Bullet, Titanic, Point Break, The Monster Squad, Young Guns and more. Details here bit.ly/3TbqSzf #OutThisWeek #film #newreleases #bluray #4K

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  • Nick Michalak, RavensFilm Productions @ravensfilm.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 13, 2026

    Watching Young Guns for the first time. As I’m covering a Lou Diamond Phillips film next, I might as well brush up on his filmography.

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  • djkideye.bsky.social @djkideye.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 4, 2026

    Post a 90s movie that starts with the letter Y Young Guns 2 (1990) #moviesky #filmsky #lastday

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  • Joe Slowik @pylos.coBluesky · Aug 18, 2026

    Trying to decide if Young Guns is a "good" movie or not. Was on for lunch workout, might need to revisit in full.

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  • ♔ 𝖽ⲇⲙⲇⳋⲉ𝖽 𓃠 ⲫⳙⲉⲉⲛ ♔ @damagedqueen.satan.socialBluesky · Aug 11, 2026

    Post a movie from the 80s that starts with the letter X, Y or Z? (feel free to post more than one at this point) Xanadu (1980) Young Guns (1988) Year of the Dragon (1985) Zerograd (1988) #moviesky #filmsky #lastday

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  • bleep @bleeep.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 17, 2026

    It's Emilio Estevez as Billy the Kid from the film Young Guns, if you were truly wondering. Booboo Stewart didn't show up until the second live action Fivel.

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  • Halaylah Mekoides Trecorum Satis Dee @halaylah.comBluesky · Oct 3, 2025

    Spell your name with movie titles Heathers As Good As It Gets Love! Valour! Compassion! Almost Famous Young Guns Ladyhawke Amadeus Heavenly Creatures

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