Old Western movies

Bee

Specifically, the marked preponderance of long, awkward scenes of cowboys singing songs around a campfire.  I get that it's a thing that happens, and it's occasionally not painful to sit in on in real life (hell, my family reunion had one).  But in a movie it completely screws over the pacing, and in a series of movies taken as a whole the songs all sound the same.

Monsoon

I think it sort of fits, as so many Westerns are about long, drawn-out shots of landscapes, faceoffs, men on horseback, and people standing over corpses.  Men singing around a campfire are part of the (mostly fictitious) "cowboy mythos," so it makes sense that old Westerns would have too much of it. 

 

Still, I think that most of the best Westerns avoid it.  I don't remember it in any of the four Leone Westerns I've seen (Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, TGTGATU, Once Upon a Time in the West).  No campfire scene in High Noon or Shane.  The Searchers definitely had one, though, and I think Silverado and the original True Grit both did as well.  And, of course, Blazing Saddles had the best possible send-up of cowboys around a campfire.  Whatever.  Maybe you just need to watch different Westerns. 

Nyktos

TGTGATU

The Good, The Gooder, and The Ungood?

Monsoon

The Good, The Great, and The Unladylike

Schitzo

I know Mexican westerns do have that in abundance, what with their Mariachi stars like Antonio Aguilar and Vicente Fernandez and the like having films in the high double digits each.

lrdgck

German westerns are mostly about noble Apache warriors and their gunslinger white blood brothers.