I don’t understand why you don’t just watch the films for yourself and form your own opinions about them. Plenty of good spaghettis out there for you to discover.
My intuition and experience says that I will only - very much - like maybe in the order of 5-15 % of all the remaining several hundreds, say 500-600, SWs that I have not yet watched.
Therefore I find it not enough pleasing to go through a process of buying all that are available on official DVD or Bluray releases (which are criteria for buying) and which are not among the around 50 I have already have bought (or some 10 or so only seen on Youtube but found not good enough).
The opinions expressed in forum threads of different SWs have, not surprisingly, a substantial value in that process and they also include straight facts that might hint what will be my own appreciation of a certain SW.
I believe my SW selection process the last 2 years as a SW aficionado so far has been rather successful with the majority of the bought SWs rated 7/10 or higher by me, and since most likely a small minority of all SWs is rated that high by other SW fans in general. I save a lot of time and some money.
Thus I think my selection strategy is rather logical, given my preferences 
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My second pic ordered today in the “chronological strategy” is El Rojo from Sept 1966. It sounds from several opinions that it could be the type of somewhat different SW that I might like a lot, even if it probably has weaknesses. Richard Harrison is no great favorite of one, maybe in the same league as Steffen, but acceptable/fairly good and if the SW otherwise is very good, no problem.
Much “work” since yesterday afternoon, but now I have covered the whole year 1966 and up to and with A Stranger In Town from Jan 1967 and it sounds very promising due to some enthusiastic opinions in its thread. And there was a cheap Colosseo release with 3 DVD including the sequel The Stranger Returns.
Maybe I should pause for now until I have received the ordered items.
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Out of the Stranger films, I like the the second one the most.
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You are mixing up Johnny Oro with Johnny Yuma?
“Well old man, we’re gonna raise some hell in the village tonight.”
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No, not this time. I was just referring just to the Johnny Yuma art.
I should have said I liked Johnny Oro in a second post. Similar pose in the posters I guess. But I will admit I DID used to muddle the two films up. I saw Johnny Oro and Yuma on movies for men channel (I think). Appalling picture quality 
I have Johnny Yuma on DVD as part of a set. I would like to sit and watch it again.
On another note, which poster do you like better the Johnny Oro one or the Johnny Yuma one?
Hi runner, why the perpetual fixation on the 7/10 rating? Is 7 your lucky number or something?
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I was put off the Stranger films by a remark made about about Tony Anthony. I’m sure it was Alex Cox. Something about his main skill being sticking around for sequels. I was VERY influenced by what he and Frayling said when I was younger.
I remember Cox once said, “Duck You Sucker wasn’t a very good film” or something along those lines on one of his ‘Once Upon a Time’ introductions on ITV4. I knew that wasn’t the case, so I didn’t take his opinions about everything too seriously. I like Cox though. I admire his passion for the films, if not always his opinions.
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Taking Cox’s opinions seriously is doing yourself a big disservice. The Stranger movies are good fun.
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I think you have the right attitude! I think it’s good to hear everyone’s views. Especially on films and aspects of the genre I don’t know much about.
You’re right Dean, that’s the bottom line; having fun. These movies are great entertainment.
Hi Dean, 7/10 is just in my own rating loosely defined as a SW that I basically think is very good overall without irritating big flaws, and intuitively satisfies my criteria in several aspects such as mood, style, music etc.
Searching for such a rating (7-10/10) I sometimes find a 6/10 SW instead. That is no big deal, but I nearly always avoid the 5/10 or lesser ranked by aiming high ! I am not interested in watching those in my view lesser ranked SWs. I am no collector of SWs in general, only highly rated, by me.
How would you know how you rate them unless you watch them for yourself though?
Of course I don’t know for certain beforehand, but facts and opinions from others help me in selecting SWs that have a high probability to be highly rated by me. As I have stated before I have only bought very few SWs rated 5 or less by me, using this selection process but for the moment 29 SWs 7-10/10 and 11 SWs 6/10.
If had chosen my SWs randomly most would probably be of lesser quality.
Gosh, what’s “Western Jack”. Is that The Stranger movie where he’s in Japan?
I watched Tony Anthony’s GET MEAN on BluRay last week. Silly, but entertaining. Then I watched BLINDMAN, a Japanese release I’ve had since DVD began. Now that really is an excellent movie. Beautifully composed shots, good script. They probably had more time to spend on that. Whereas Get Mean seems awfully rushed with all those hand held shots. The script fails in many places. The 7 trials part is just stupid. He goes into Madrid’s Escorial Palace, sees a few corpses, howls like a wolf, turns black and is attacked by a single Viking of a type that he threw through a wall when he was back in the US. Some trials; I expected more. Then he gets tooled up to get the baddies and is sidetracked by the women who roll him over and then get hot over each other. So he wriggles free, and suddenly he’s all tooled up again. I really wanted him to Get a lot more Mean than he actually did. Walking to the camera in slow motion whilst explosions light up the sky behind him is great for a trailer, but that’s practically the whole end battle. Must’ve run out of cash.
Listen to Dean, he knows what he’s talking about.
As far as the Tony Anthony films go, I am a huge fan. I have that colosseo DVD set and the Get Mean blu-ray by BU. The films aren’t meant to be Leone masterpieces but they are super fun and I think Tony is an awesome hombre.
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I will, I think there are a lot of people here who really know their stuff!
I feel I have seriously missed out! I will have some catching up to do. Can I ask though as a Tony Anthony ignoramus, is Get Mean connected to The Stranger films? I have the Blu Ray on my Amazon wish list.