LogFAQs > #956795581

Been a long while since I watched, but I don't remember liking The Searchers either. I know it's considered a classic, so I went in with that mindset and was disappointed. I went through my Western phase quite a few years ago and I think part of it was just that I'm not a John Wayne guy; I'm hard pressed to remember anything that I liked him in.

The thing about old movies is that the classics will have had their tropes and themes reconstituted so many times over the intervening years that, from a modern perspective, it can be hard to appreciate the original/originator.

The analogy I would make is to Super Mario 64. 64 is a classic...it's also not as much fun to play today as Odyssey or 3D World or Galaxy. I can appreciate it and understand its historical relevance but it's approach has been better refined since then. (And I say this as someone who was blown away seeing it in Toys R Us back in the day.)

Imagine being a kid today and there's no way they'd want to play 64 over a more modern Mario platformer. It doesn't mean their opinions are shit and that they hate old games; it's just that the medium has evolved.

You're playing a game (or watching a movie) out of time and that means it's not within its historical context. It's something you literally cannot recreate. You can inform, certainly, but it will ultimately always be seen through the lens of the present.

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