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DominicCobb
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Random Movie Thoughts
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1-Oct-2018, 9:15 PM

Handman said:

And don’t forget Slow West, Bone Tomahawk, and I’d say Hell and High Water qualifies too. The genre isn’t dead, and hasn’t been for quite some time now. Maybe it felt that way in the 80s, can’t think of any that were all that great then, but the 90s were kind to the genre before it took a nap for another decade.

Looking at ones that fit the new sort of style of western that I’m noticing, I feel that Slow West and Bone Tomahawk seem a bit more traditional to me than the others, though I think Hell or High Water possibly qualifies though I feel like it fits the “revisionist” label pretty well too. If I was still in film school this would’ve make an interesting topic to write about.

Beyond that there’s actually a lot of recent westerns that I didn’t list - can’t forget recent sci-fi ones like Logan and Mad Max: Fury Road. I think the myth that they’re dead is a box office thing, but even then you still get stuff like Django Unchained every once in awhile (though for every one of those there’s a Lone Ranger).