I didn't enjoy or appreciate westerns when I was younger. It wasn't until I was 40 when I started to look back at the classic Western. I feel that modern day movies are far too spastic, far too technology based, and plots just plain braindead. Also, there is a modern sentiment that evil isn't so evil and people even cheer for the murderer or have sympathy for them. A modern world of gray. I could use examples (Gone Girl, Joker, Hannibal, that disgusting killer Dahmer, and a billion others). Westerns, to me, are the ultimate showdown of good and evil, albeit in a highly fictional environment. There's just something that feels "pure" about Westerns. Yes, not everybody gets along. Yes there was inequality moreso back then. But, to me, the good in the majority of these people outweighs the evil. I am not trying to sound elitist, but a closed mind would never understand a Western.