How to Bring Old, Forgotten Movie Genres Back From the Dead

[UintatheriumParticipant 1861]

Hi guys. This won’t exactly be a MGTOW thread but I think that it will be a very manly topic.

I’ll start by saying something painfully obvious. The western genre has been dead for several decades. Will the western ever be back?

I think that Hollywood could potentially bring the Western genre back by making more weird west movies. This may sound like heresy, but hear me out. The best way to resurrect a dying genre is to combine it with other genres.

It worked with both Avatar and Inception. Many people complained about Avatar by saying “It’s just Dances With Wolves in space.” Those criticisms make me think “Yeah … what’s wrong with that?”

Every young boy knows that you can always make a good movie by taking a classic film and putting it in space.

Inception is similar. It’s an old heist film … but with science fiction stuff in it. It works.

In my opinion, Cowboys & Aliens (yes, the ampersand is part of the real title) was a great film. It’s one of the most underrated films I have ever seen. It just wasn’t marketed well enough. We could potentially resurrect the western genre by putting cowboys in a fantasy desert so that they can lasso sandworms. We could also put a sunken civilization beneath the sand dunes and force our cowboys to fight mummies and rock golems. I know that I am getting the Great American Desert and the Sahara mixed up. I don’t give a f~~~ because it’s just a movie.

Cowboys movies were originally created to honor American history. Nowadays, most people just see them as manly movies. If your movie isn’t trying to be anything but manly, it doesn’t need to be imprisoned by reality anymore.

This is why McCree from Overwatch and Engineer from TF2 are beloved characters nowadays. Cowboy stuff isn’t cool by itself anymore, but it becomes cool if you combine it with fantasy/Sci-Fi stuff. That’s why Pokémon Colosseum has such a huge fanbase to this day. It’s a game that combines dark cyberpunk and cowboy stuff with Pokémon in a place based on Arizona. It sounds too crazy to work, but almost everyone who has actually played the game agrees that it works … very well.

We could do something similar with the mobster movie genre. It’s hard to make a good film about Italian-American mobsters anymore … unless you put them in neo-Chicago in the year 2500 … and give them alien henchmen … and give them robotic body doubles. Why hasn’t Hollywood done this yet?

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[Faust For ScienceParticipant 22589]

Uintatherium, the action genre you crave is alive and well. Weird West is a sub-genre of steampunk. Look into steampunk and you will likely find what you are looking for.

[hmskl’dParticipant 6419]

Two of my favorite Trek episodes do involve cowboys in space each having the combined sci-fi & western theme.
Enterprise, ninth episode of third season “North Star” and TNG, eigth episode of sixth season “A Fistful of Datas.”

[experiencedParticipant]

“High Noon” (Gary Cooper) = “Outland” (Sean Connery)

Hollywood will cause a resurgence in the popularity of books:
Of Mice And Men
The Count Of Monte Cristo
The Three Musketeers

"It seems like there's times a body gets struck down so low, there ain't a power on earth that can ever bring him up again. Seems like something inside dies so he don't even want to get up again. But he does."

[ResidentEvil7Participant 9589]

I’m not big into westerns. The only westerns I like is City Slickers, and I remember liking the TV series The Rifleman when it was on TV in the 90s.

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[UnicronParticipant 752]

Western no longer make money. The sheep prefer their superhero and Social Justice Wars movies.

Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred.

[UintatheriumParticipant 1861]

And Another Thing: Science fiction nowadays needs more robo-broads.

I’m not talking about the kind that has feelings. I’m talking about the kind that is forever young and sucks your c~~~ in between space battles.

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[SuggestiusParticipant 3312]

Uintatherium wrote:

And Another Thing: Science fiction nowadays needs more robo-broads

First of all, sci-fi and all HollyWood movie industry need the new script writers. Kick out the current ones. Nothing good will come out of this without refreshing.

Happiness for all and let no one be forgotten ("Roadside picnic", Arkady and Boris Strugatsky)

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