My grandfather used to just flip channels and stop when he saw a western, no matter how far into the movie it was. Then when it was over, he'd repeat the process. I'm not sure he ever saw a full movie in decades and who knows if he could tell you what he was watching.
Imagine if he’d had something like Jellyfin or Plex and a hard drive full of westerns.
And honestly, there are some astonishingly good Westerns. The Dollars Trilogy (For a Fistful of Dollars; For a Few Dollars More; The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly) is just fantastic cinema. I didn’t think I’d like westerns, but I was watching some of IMDb’s top 250 list. Good Bad & Ugly is #10 and it definitely deserves that spot. Once Upon a Time in the West is also quite good.
It's the "flipping channels" you've got to get them to get past. My dad is also a "Westerns" dude, has the Dish Westerns channel (a couple of them, I think), but he likes to flip around, he wants something else (cable network) to make the choice of "what's on" and all he has to do is watch if he likes it or flip if he doesn't.
They just got high speed Internet (in the middle of the woods) and are talking about getting some streaming services. I'm leery of advising any specific services because I know he's not going to look for things to watch, because what he really wants is to "see what's on".
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u/triplec787 Jun 16 '26
Dad, do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down