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Originally Posted by fjtorres
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.
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Blazing gave Westerns a hot foot
Robin Hood MIT gave medieval outlaws a new occupation
I will admit to being a Mel Brooks fan
I hated SF movies that Hollywood ignored the basic rules of physics or practicality
Free (dripping) water, stuff hanging in the tanker ship in Alien
Lights in the Helmet visor Battlestar G
Billowing dust in Space 1999