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Glad someone finally made this thread.
Random movie thought: I’ve been thinking a bit about westerns recently, and how this genre is supposedly “dead.” I feel like part of the reason is because many have too narrow a view of it (in that it needs to be set in the Old West). The truth is I feel like there’s still plenty of westerns being made, they just aren’t the blockbusters they once were, nor do they necessarily fit that setting to a t. I also feel like in general we’ve evolved beyond the revisionist western and entered a new style of what seems to me like I guess you could call the atmospheric western or something along those lines, where the ‘Wild West’ sort of setting is very much a landscape for an overwhelming mood of existential dread - I’m thinking about Hold the Dark, which I just watched, and Wind River, The Revenant, Sicario, The Hateful Eight, No Country For Old Men, There Will Be Blood - probably not a surprise that many of these are set in the snow.