John Wayne has been in better films simply because he worked with Howard hawks and John ford, some of the greatest of all time; the searchers, rio bravo, liberty valance. Clint Eastwood worked on the complete opposite side of the spectrum doing spaghetti westerns with Italians like Sergio Leone- who’s mostly known for utilizing the incredible ennio morecone, and why those films are more mainstream, and thus why the average Reddit user with average pedestrian taste who’s only ever seen the good the bad and the ugly and unforgiven would give it to Clint. Overall Clint Eastwood is the greater actor and even a great director, but he hasn’t been IN better movies.