Do young people enjoy westerns?

My son went through a phase around age 7 to 11 where he was watching some old John Wayne films, the cavalry trilogy, Horse Soldiers, The Cowboys etc. He also watched They Died With Their Boots on and although not westerns the Errol Flynn Robin Hood and also Zulu which he re-watched multiple times. He is now 14 so is probably ready for some Clint Eastwood, if i can get him off the play station... (My son that is, not Clint)

 

Am I losing my mind, or was there a reply to my post that was deleted? I just got a chance to reply, and poof it was gone. I think it had to do with my favorite genres of westerns.

I haven't seen enough to develop a favorite genre yet, as I just got into them recently. I've mainly seen a few that are considered classics, so far (The Searchers, A Fistful of Dollars, etc). If anyone has any recommendations, let me know!

 

The Proposition is set in Australia, but it's a western, with some twists on the cliches

 

Excellent movie!

 

doncha love how they twist the knife on the suspense at the end?

 

Ride The High Country
3:10 To Yuma (original version!!!)
The Tall T
Johnny Guitar
Rio Conchos
Red River
The Wild Bunch
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Ride Lonesome
The Magnificent Seven
Run Of The Arrow
One-Eyed Jacks
Man Without A Star
The Man from Laramie
The Shooting

 

Silverado
Maverick

 

Have Gun, Will Travel
Wanted: Dead or Alive

 

MeTv shows around 8 different westerns. Hate them all. So dull.

 

I'm not "young" (I'll be 48 next month) but I've never been big on Westerns. Not sure why. My Dad wasn't a big fan of them either, he preferred cops n robbers/spy stuff (which is probably why I like James Bond so much) so they were never on TV in my house when I was growing up.

I watch a ton of movies (my constant posts in the "Last Movie You Watched" thread here should be fair proof of that!), but I could probably count the # of Westerns I've seen in the past 20 years on one hand.

 

A western made by (and for?) people who don't really like westerns

 

My 23 yo daughter is an "old movie" buff. She loves the musicals, crime noir, 30's -50's horror, ( although she didn't care for the Hammer Films stuff) any Lucille Ball and is addicted to the Turner classic channel. She will turn off any western that comes on, except for Calamity Jane. I wish she would tend to her studies the way she does old movies (and K-Pop).

I have seen most of the westerns mentioned here but there are only a few I would watch now if they came on - Once Upon a Time In the West and Unforgiven come to mind.

Not a movie, but Netflix has a western miniseries called Godless that is very good.

 

???? For the record, I LOVE Westerns and have since I was a child. Any fan of the genre recognizes that Silverado (and the other I recommended; Maverick) are totally intended as a love letter/homage to the classic Hollywood genre. They're extremely well done and totally work BTW. But if ya don't like Westerns, stay away!

 

I love Westerns and watch them a lot.

 

I really like that one.

I tend to like the more modern Westerns - Josey Wales, Open Range, Tombstone, Unforgiven, True Grit (Coen version), Deadwood.

The Wild Bunch is probably the oldest I really liked.

Not a fan at all of the old John Wayne ones. I watched The Searchers, which I thought was a good story, but the acting (not John himself, but some of the others) was so over the top. Like high school drama club stuff.

 

Do you like the Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Lone Ranger, etc. type of westerns?

 

No, I don't think so. I don't believe I've actually seen a Roy Rogers or Gene Autry movie, but I've seen some old Lone Ranger episodes. But I'm not generally a fan of movies from that era. Even the Clint "spaghetti westerns" I find kind of a chore to get through, though they all have good parts.

 

I enjoy good Westerns - old or more recent. Many of my favourite films would be Westerns. Don't like the cornball ones, however and I find it a lot easier to enjoy a low budget bad film noir than I do watching a similar type of Western.

Among my favourites are (at least):

01. My Darling Clementine
02. The Naked Spur
03. The Searchers
04. Rio Bravo
05. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
06. The Ox-Bow Incident
07. McCabe and Mrs Miller
08. Tell Them Willie Boy is Here
09. Stagecoach
10. Unforgiven
11. The Outlaw Josey Wales
12. One Upon a Time in the West
13. The Wild Bunch
14. Ride the High Country
15. The Shootist
16. Little Big Man
17. True Grit (according to The Coens)
18. Dances with Wolves
19. Broken Arrow
20. Bad Day at Black Rock
21. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
22. The Man from Laramie
23. 3:10 to Yuma (the original)
24. Jeremiah Johnson
25. Hombre
26. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
27. Fort Apache
28. Warlock
29. The Last of the Mohicans (Mann)
30. The Assassination of Jesse James etc
31. Treasure of the Sierra Madre
32. Red River
33. Shane
34. High Noon
35. A Man Alone
36. Will Penny
37. Monte Walsh (the original)
38. Black Robe
39. The Magnificent Seven
40. The Revenant
41. Silverado
42. The Gunfighter
42. Posse (the Kirk Douglas one)
43. One-Eyed Jacks
44. Lonely Are the Brave
45. Wyatt Earp (Kasdan)
46. Hour of the Gun
47. Bad Company
48. The Ballad of Cable Hogue
49. Ride Lonesome
50. The Tin Star

That's enough to be going on with...

And in answer to the question: no, I don't think they do generally. When I was a kid, there were still plenty of television Westerns, we had cowboy and Indian toys and whatever side you picked, there was a certain romance attached to it. Sci-Fi took over, then horror, action and now superhero movies. I don't think kids care much about film noir either. I teach film, and, to be honest, many of them don't care much about any kind of film that requires a bit of thought, let alone one made before 2000, and it's an uphill struggle to find something they can connect to within the limits set by the exam board. They pick the subject because they think they're going to spend a couple of years sitting on the backsides watching the kind of thing they watch at home. Several are, inevitably, disappointed.

 

You may like the Howard Hawk western then. He had a very naturalistic style and people talk and act more normally, like the dialogue is like real people talking rather than one actor reading his lines then another.

 

Super Hero movies are the new Westerns.

 

I can see some youngsters enjoying Cowboys vs Aliens...

 

I can dig that! love them...all of them.

 

Cheyenne!

 

Heard of-- never seen!

 

Love westerns as a 30 year old.

Shows, Movies whatever else.

Open Range is a more modern western taht was amazing