So what makes a great western???

[Playa]

The Hostiles thread left me wondering what makes a great western. Seems the old ones most might consider a “good western” we’re all pretty much the same ol predictable plot...

Quiet stranger arrives in town, trouble comes or was already there... quiet stranger single handedly or with a small posse ends the bad guys reign...

Am I missing some nuance?

[LWC]

Doesn't hurt to have Val Kilmer playing Doc Holliday. That seems to make it better.

[Duke1227]

Clint Eastwood!

[Louis]

The duke!! John wayne

[waterdog]

need directors like john ford, Sam Peckinpah

[TP3]

Need a few good fistfights, a few good gunfights, a pretty lady or 2 and a bad guy that you just love to hate. Can't go wrong.

[Playa]

Need a few good fistfights, a few good gunfights, a pretty lady or 2 and a bad guy that you just love to hate. Can't go wrong.

Like I said, pretty predictable plot. That stuff happens in varying order between quiet hero’s arrival and eventual upset over the bad guy.

[icetrauma]

The duke!! John wayne

need directors like john ford, Sam Peckinpah

This

[Dr. Evil]

And no Trace Adkins. Has anyone seen any of his “Westerns” on Netflix? Worst movies EVER!,,

[CamoQuest]

It always helps if they can actually ride a horse.

[tallnhairy]

Gotta have a rattlesnake scene, a hot saloon wench, the sweet (but hot), innocent love interest, fast horses, fancy shooting, and at least one train or stagecoach robbery.

[Cbb1722]

The new westerns are trash compared to John Wayne and Clint Eastwood. Can’t force myself to watch the new ones they make

[Leemo]

Needs to start in Texas, then move cattle north , have Indians chase one of the main characters and shoot arrows in the leg, he dies . Then his buddy takes his body back to Texas for a burial under a Pecan tree

[S-3 Ranch]

The duke!! John wayne

Best way to ruin a good western is put John Wain in it ,in his westerns he doesn't ever change his clothes from movie to movie , plots never change only the actors playing the drunks

[Grittydog]

Best way to ruin a good western is put John Wain in it ,in his westerns he doesn't ever change his clothes from movie to movie , plots never change only the actors playing the drunks

If it wasn't broke dont fix it.