Westerns back in?

I grew up watching the great western classics (most of them with John Wayne) and I don't think we're ever going to see another one like him. Just like we'll probably never see another Clark Gable. There's no way the studios would attempt to remake some of the great western classics. They would have to be crazy to try because they can't be topped. I may not have been born when these movies were made (I'm only 21), but the quality of the movies now is so much lower than it used to be. I thank my dad for getting me to watch my first western(El Dorado). This one is still my favorite. I also agree with what was posted above, I think that the action movies since the westerns went out of style replaced them.

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I have to agree, I don't see a return to the popularity of western movies. These days the closest thing you get to a blockbuster western is Brokeback Mountain, and that's certainly a far cry from El Dorado!

I don't think that there are very many actors today who can fit the bill of the tough and rugged gunfighter/cowboy that John Wayne and Clint Eastwood pulled off. I think that Tom Selleck is maybe the best, as I've always enjoyed his westerns and think that he's a very credible western hero. Although I don't like him as much, Sam Elliot is another one.

I enjoyed 'Open Range' with Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall, but that's probably the last western I've seen come out that had any publicity whatsoever. Costner I think is very good at making westerns, but he's obviously not a John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, or Lee Marvin.

Hollywood changes, as time has shown, but these days it has become so youth oriented. The concept of an actor being "rugged" is almost forgotten. What we have now are a bunch of pretty boys who are in touch with their femenine side in most of the leading rolls. Most of your older actors are stuck playing second fiddle to the young upstarts, or doing Made-for-TV movies. I use Selleck as an example of that.

What a previous poster said is correct. The days of the Old West are long gone, but they are also not quite long gone enough. Look at the number of films we're seeing every year based in the medieval period, most of which have a lot more success than today's westerns. Medieval is en vogue right now, and westerns will be too at some point... although it's doubtful that they'll ever return and be like the Duke's films. They'll all be 3 hour epics like Dances With Wolves starring 20/30-something year old pretty boy types.



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Westerns never really went away. They changed in style, but they have always been with us. And always will be.

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I certainly hope that one day they'll return again! I'm a big Western fan myself! Just don't do any remakes. Focus on new material and try to be original is all I can say.

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