Originally Posted by boo boo

WTF.

I thought the characters were great, any of the 3 of them are interesting enough to have a movie of their own. Harrison was great in his little role too.

Originally Posted by TheCunningStunt

It's a western fused with a thriller. Surprised what I said even caused a debate.

Originally Posted by Janszoon

It's more like film noir with cowboy hats. I'm surprised there's even a debate about this.

Originally Posted by TheCunningStunt

A western thriller set in 1980, just brought up to date. Guess we'll have to agree to disagree.

Originally Posted by Janszoon

Or maybe it's a sci-fi movie with all of the sci-fi elements removed!

Originally Posted by Wikipedia

The Western genre, particularly in films, often portrays the conquest of the wilderness and the subordination of nature in the name of civilization or the confiscation of the territorial rights of the original inhabitants of the frontier. The Western depicts a society organized around codes of honor and personal, direct or private justice (such as the feud[1]), rather than any rationalistic, abstract law, in which persons have no social order larger than their immediate peers, family, or perhaps themselves alone. The popular perception of the Western[2] is a story that centers on the life of a semi-nomadic wanderer, usually a cowboy or a gunfighter.

In some ways, such protagonists may be considered the literary descendants of the knight errant which stood at the center of an earlier extensive genre. Like the cowboy or gunfighter of the Western, the knight errant of the earlier European tales and poetry was wandering from place to place on his horse, fighting villains of various kinds and bound to no fixed social structures but only to his own innate code of honor. And like knights errant, the heroes of Westerns frequently rescue damsels in distress. Similarly, the wandering protagonists of Westerns share many of the characteristics equated with the image of the ronin in modern Japanese culture.

The Western typically takes these elements and uses them to tell simple morality tales, although some notable examples (e.g. the later Westerns of John Ford or Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven) are more morally ambiguous. Westerns often stress the harshness of the wilderness and frequently set the action in an arid, desolate landscape. Specific settings include isolated forts, ranches and homesteads; the Native American village; or the small frontier town with its saloon, general store, livery stable and jailhouse. Apart from the wilderness, it is usually the saloon that emphasizes that this is the "Wild West": it is the place to go for music (raucous piano playing), women (often prostitutes), gambling (draw poker or five card stud), drinking (beer or whiskey), brawling and shooting. In some Westerns, where "civilization" has arrived, the town has a church and a school; in others, where frontier rules still hold sway, it is, as Sergio Leone said, "where life has no value".

Originally Posted by Alfred

I'd rather my face reek of women's body parts than of comic book ink and dirty NES cartridges.

Originally Posted by Akira

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz genre arguments.