Westerns......

As far as the article Too Tough to Die goes I find myself often contradicting it. I think i favor westerns more than the article does. Quotes such as "Americans don't like the past" and "you can't speed up horses" I flat out reject. If Americans didn't like the past, 75% of all movies we have would be failures. Take a look at any top 100 movies list and i guarantee at least 50 of them are set in a time past. All war movies, world and medieval, all stories about 'land uncharted' etc... would be disliked, and this is untrue. As far as speeding up horses, those interested in speeding up horses don't like westerns for westerns, they want them to be action movies when in reality that is an entirely different genre. The pace of the horse is the pace of the untamed nature is the pace of the western film. The long slow walks down the road, gun in holster, build suspense and embellish the ideology of the cowboy, unemotional, unwavering. Films like The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, wouldn't be the same if they were futuristic and high-speed. This is one viewer who can appreciate the canter of the horse and the brief window to imagine himself in a time past, the wild west.