8 Classic American Western Movies That Haven't Aged Well

Unforgiven and Dances with Wolves are the two Westerns worth returning to when you want to remember what the genre is actually capable of. Eastwood’s classic took the mythology of the heroic gunslinger and gutted it from the inside, and Costner’s movie had the patience and the humility to perceive the frontier from the eyes of the people already living on it. Both movies arrived in the same decade and proved the same thing… that Westerns could be honest, and that they could hold the complexity of what happened out there.