Cowboy movies

First of all I'm not big on westerns but I'll get into that later. For some reason when people talk about westerns nobody ever mentions my favorite which is Tombstone. I love that movie because its Val Kilmer's only good performance to date, its a good ol' fashioned western disguised as a revisionist western and everybody has a mustache especially Sam Elliot which i believe his mustache actually is just a small dog taped to his upper lip. Again i got off topic thats a habit of mine, anyway, The reason i say that tombstone isnt a full on revisionist western is because the main character and the story line actually IS a classic western. I mean if this movie came out in 1956 it would star Bruce Wayne and would have two dimensional antagonists who are cliched Mexican banditos. Tombstone however was covered with a thin film of darkness of sociopath like vengeance in Wyatt Earp and a serious drinking problem with Doc Holiday. This movie was great because the bad guys actually had a background to themselves and weren't just a marauding horde of outlaws. Instead the bad guys where more like real outlaws, they were sick, deranged and homicidal. Now at the beginning of this blog i said i didn't like westerns well now I'm getting to it. This may sound dumb but you're reading this either voluntarily or because your being paid to so keep reading. The problem with westerns isn't writing or acting or directing rather its the fact that when ever i watch a western i always end up wondering "So whats happening in Europe or in New York at this time?" I say that because apparently unlike writers of westerns who are trying to re-shoot the same scene in monument park for the ten billionth time i am aware that between 1875 and 1903 there wasn't just one geographic location with something important happening. Lets look at just a few alternative locations for movies that take place in this time that are rarely used, In Japan at this time they where moving from a feudal system to an imperial system, other than kung fu movies the only movie i know of that touches on this subject is The Last Samuari(Edward Zwick, 2003 ) starring Tom Cruise. In Europe at the time they where suffering and rebuilding from Napoleon's Wars, Russia was at the end of their Czarship example Love & Death (Woody Allen, 1975) and across the English empire there where assorted rebellions example Ghandi(Richard Attenburough, 1982). My final say is that westerns should take a break find a globe and instead of shooting a movie taking place in Colorado or Montana, shoot one somewhere new, i just listed four wonderful locations and events so any film writer can take their pick.... just note me in the credits.