My Favorite Westerns
I will be the first to admit that there are plenty of westerns I have never seen (good, bad or indifferent). I'm sure there are several reasons why, but I'm only going to express to you the most obvious one. I've grown extremely accustomed to the “action western.” If there wasn't some sort of “white hat-wearing" gun-slinger there to exact justice, I felt that it really wasn't worth my attention. Between the ages of twelve and sixteen, my father had introduced to me two movies that helped shape what I felt were then, as well are still today, the quintessential films of the western genre. Both are located in the number one and number two slots and have become a measuring standard of everything else I've seen since then. As my palette matured, so did my opinion of westerns. I started to appreciate not only the “action western” but films that took place in the American West that contained multi-layered characters or films that were not only driven by action