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minus-squareEvil_Shrubbery@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down2·edit-21 month agoAnd if I were alive in 1977 I would say that too. It’s just a western with lasers. /fakeflamwarmongering
minus-squareHonytawk@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·1 month ago It’s just a western with lasers. I mean, what’s wrong with that? I go one further and say it is a fantasy western with lasers and magic
minus-squareEvil_Shrubbery@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoOh, nothing, it’s a superb spectacle, it’s exactly what it was (re-(re-(re-(re-(re-)))))designed for by people who knew what they were doing. And your definition is better! :)
minus-squarechiliedogg@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoIt’s a Samurai movie. But a lot of Western movies were also inspired by Samurai films. The great Kurosawa films were all remade in a different genre in the West. Yojimbo and Sanjuro became A Fist Full of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More. Hidden Fortress became Star Wars. Seven Samurai became The Magnificent Seven and Bug’s Life Rashomon became The Outrage.
And if I were alive in 1977 I would say that too.
It’s just a western with lasers.
/fakeflamwarmongering
I mean, what’s wrong with that?
I go one further and say it is a fantasy western with lasers and magic
Oh, nothing, it’s a superb spectacle, it’s exactly what it was (re-(re-(re-(re-(re-)))))designed for by people who knew what they were doing.
And your definition is better! :)
It’s a Samurai movie.
But a lot of Western movies were also inspired by Samurai films.
The great Kurosawa films were all remade in a different genre in the West.
Yojimbo and Sanjuro became A Fist Full of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More.
Hidden Fortress became Star Wars.
Seven Samurai became The Magnificent Seven and Bug’s Life
Rashomon became The Outrage.