Favorite Westerns?

[Oblivion138]

Originally Posted by BostonMA22

The Searchers has psychological elements to it no doubt (just as almost EVERY WESTERN has), but it's first and foremost a Western.

The Treasure of Sierra Madre and No Country for Old Men are not first and foremost of the Western genre, which is why they shouldn't be mentioned.

You have to explain why they're not westerns...you can't just state as a fact that they're not, and leave it at that, as you've done repeatedly now. What makes these films not westerns? What disqualifies them? Treasure of the Sierra Madre takes place in a traditional western setting, and features characters whose motivations are no different than those of many characters in traditional westerns. How is it not a western, then? Simply because it's also something else? Is MASH not allowed to be a war film, because it's "first and foremost" a comedy?

It seems you're being a bit of a Genre Nazi here.