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Originally Posted by crich70
They said the Western was dead when Kevin Costner decided he wanted to make "Dances with Wolves" and it's been holding its own since I think.
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BLAZING SADDLES killed the western, at least in movies.
SILVERADO brought it back to life, but comatose.
Since then we've gotten a few great efforts to revive it (DANCES, UNFORGIVEN, 3:10 TO YUMA...) but the core values of the western don't seem to carry much weight with current culture, which is what I'm wondering might lie ahead for SF.
SF is about ideas, not the trappings around those ideas.
And too much of what poses as SciFi these days has a veneer of the field on the outside but is hollow on the inside.