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How I felt about it. Early scenes have entertaining, preposterous dialogue, especially between bloodthirsty McCambridge and the more classy Crawford. "I'm going to kill you." "I know... if I don't kill you first."
Since they are characers in a movie, they only exist for two hours, and the lives at stake are merely fictional. Thus, they can make wildly inflammatory statements. They can burn their enemy's business with a gleam in their eye. They can tell their enemy exactly what they are going to do, a strategy not recommended for baseball pitchers or gunfight showdowns.
In short, this is not a film to be taken seriously. The bady guys (especially Borgnine) are always bad, the good guys (John Carradine) are always good, and the confused (The Dancing Kid is very confused) just get into deeper and deeper trouble.
Sterling Hayden appears to be the actor most aware of the silliness of it all. He lumbers through the film like a loyal sheepdog to Crawford. Still, he can't keep from antagonizing two people in a position to help her, The Kid and Borgnine, whose need for alpha dog status leads to exaggerated and dramatic confrontation.
Part of the problem, of course, is that our androgynous star, Joan Crawford, can't really decide which is more important, having her independence or the broad shoulders of Hayden. She clearly is going to keep The Dancing Kid at a distance, not that it doesn't make her a little jealous when he dances with McCambridge, who allegedly wants The Kid (Scott Brady) although her principal obsession is with Crawford.
How others will see it. Johnny Guitar has achieved status as a camp classic western, and at times it is more amusing than Blazing Saddles. After introductory scenes, it becomes more of a traditional western, and the action picks up with stock events such as bank robberies, lynchings, hideouts, fights, and high noon showdowns.
Most people will enjoy both elements of Johnny Guitar; the curious dialogue and the conventional, even predictable action. As well they should, since most western movies aren't as good as Johnny Guitar, especially from the often dismal Republic Pictures.