• Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.eeEnglish
    62·
    9 days ago

    And if I were alive in 1977 I would say that too.

    It’s just a western with lasers.

    /fakeflamwarmongering

    • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
      10·
      9 days 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

      • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        9 days ago

        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! :)

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      9 days ago

      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.