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CptNonsense t1_ix6lwqf wrote

Reply to comment by cabose7 in TV’s True Crime Obsession Is Reaching a Tipping Point by HumanOrAlien

>Eh I don't think you're giving westerns enough credit on how broad the genre was stretched,

Yes they are. You can have a comedy western or a drama western. That's about it back in the 50s and 60s. You wern't getting a genre mixed sci fi western for multiple reasons. A comic book movie can be a comedy or a drama, or it can be western. Or it can be a sci fi western.

Comic book movies are beyond more flexible than Westerns because Westerns are limited to a specific style where comic book movies limitation is "has comic book characters (real or imagined)"

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cabose7 t1_ix6mmic wrote

I mean you say that but mainstream comic films are largely just hero's journey action films. Sure you can change the aesthetics of the setting but the actual story beats will be largely the same. No one's pumping out adaptations of more character driven comics like Ghost World or anything along those lines.

You think DC or Marvel would ever make a film like the original 3:10 to Yuma, which is mostly just Glenn Ford and Van Heflin exchanging superb dialogue in a room?

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CptNonsense t1_ix6npjz wrote

>No one's pumping out adaptations of more character driven comics like Ghost World or anything along those lines.

You not looking for or watching them doesn't mean people aren't making them. Still.

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Skavau t1_ix6su2g wrote

Do you consider Neo-Westerns westerns? Or Weird West?

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CptNonsense t1_ix7x24b wrote

Sure, but how many of those did they make in the 40s through 60s?

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