Ten Movies You Didn't Know Were Westerns.
Hey all. I stumbled across this article, and thought that it would make for some interesting discussion. Even though not all of the movies mentioned in the article are of the Sci-Fi genre, I figured that you, my fellow SF fans, could come up with Sci-Fi and Fantasy movies to supplement Rotten Tomatoes' list, and discuss the movies on that list that are Sci-Fi/Fantasy.
To get the discussion started, here's a few movies (and TV series) that I thought of to add to RT's list:
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
The entire SW saga has a sort of Western tone to it, but ANH is the one film in the series that is the most overtly and distinctly of the genre. The Mos Eisley cantina sequence reminds me of the scene in 'Tombstone' where Wyatt and his brothers go into the saloon/tavern in town for the first time looking for work and Wyatt gets his first glimpse of the 'Cowboys', and Han Solo wouldn't be out of place in any Wild West town, especially if you stuck a badge and cowboy hat on him and replaced his blaster with a six-shooter.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Gene Roddenberry's original 'pitch concept' for Star Trek was 'Wagon Train to the Stars', but the franchise never really quite captured that feel and tone, at least not until the creation of DS9. The series has all the hallmarks of the typical Western genre, particularly given that it's set aboard what is quite literally a 'border town'... although in this case, the 'wilderness' is the un-explored Gamma Quadrant of space as opposed to desert or the untamed wilderness of the American west.
Babylon 5
Although there are certainly similiarties - and some glaring ones - between B5 and DS9, the two series take different approaches in terms of 'adapting' the classic Western genre archetype. Whereas DS9 - the station - feels like a classic 'border town' with its share of gambling, prostitution, and crime, the station Babylon 5 feels much more like a civilized Western 'mining town' where there are still problems, but they're, for the most part, kept to a minimum and the citizens are able to live their lives in peace... that is until bandits decide to make the town their home and threaten everybody's way of life.
Hey all. I stumbled across this article, and thought that it would make for some interesting discussion. Even though not all of the movies mentioned in the article are of the Sci-Fi genre, I figured that you, my fellow SF fans, could come up with Sci-Fi and Fantasy movies to supplement Rotten Tomatoes' list, and discuss the movies on that list that are Sci-Fi/Fantasy.
To get the discussion started, here's a few movies (and TV series) that I thought of to add to RT's list:
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
The entire SW saga has a sort of Western tone to it, but ANH is the one film in the series that is the most overtly and distinctly of the genre. The Mos Eisley cantina sequence reminds me of the scene in 'Tombstone' where Wyatt and his brothers go into the saloon/tavern in town for the first time looking for work and Wyatt gets his first glimpse of the 'Cowboys', and Han Solo wouldn't be out of place in any Wild West town, especially if you stuck a badge and cowboy hat on him and replaced his blaster with a six-shooter.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Gene Roddenberry's original 'pitch concept' for Star Trek was 'Wagon Train to the Stars', but the franchise never really quite captured that feel and tone, at least not until the creation of DS9. The series has all the hallmarks of the typical Western genre, particularly given that it's set aboard what is quite literally a 'border town'... although in this case, the 'wilderness' is the un-explored Gamma Quadrant of space as opposed to desert or the untamed wilderness of the American west.
Babylon 5
Although there are certainly similiarties - and some glaring ones - between B5 and DS9, the two series take different approaches in terms of 'adapting' the classic Western genre archetype. Whereas DS9 - the station - feels like a classic 'border town' with its share of gambling, prostitution, and crime, the station Babylon 5 feels much more like a civilized Western 'mining town' where there are still problems, but they're, for the most part, kept to a minimum and the citizens are able to live their lives in peace... that is until bandits decide to make the town their home and threaten everybody's way of life.
