Westworld was n’t the first video show or movie to flux both Western and scifi elements — but it did it well than most . Still , while the genre has yielded some high - visibility stinkers ( Wild Wild West , Cowboys and Aliens ) , there are still plenty of amusing option out there to help fill the farseeing , long wait for Westworld ’s take .
2) Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
3) The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.
In this Weird West TV show , Bruce Campbell plays a Harvard - educate bounteousness Orion who tangle with outlaws , rivals , and a mysterious object know as “ the Orb . ” Inspired in part by the Indiana Jones movie , Brisco County is campy and goofy and only ran for one time of year . All of those factors — plus , obviously , the presence of Bruce Campbell — contributed to the religious cult - favorite position it enjoys today .
4) The Valley of Gwangi
For everyone who ever watched a westerly and thought , “ What this narration really needs is a crew of rampaging dinosaurs . ” The stop - motion outcome are by the one and only Ray Harryhausen .
5) The Beast of Hollow Mountain
Ray Harryhausen ’s wise man , Willis O’Brien , came up with the story that revolutionize both this 1956 monster movie and Gwangi ( which was released in 1969 , seven years after O’Brien ’s death ) . It ’s about a Mexican townsfolk plagued by a rash of miss cattle , a phenomenon that has literally everything to do with the dining habits of a mystifying prehistoric beast lurking nearby . Though O’Brien did n’t finish up doing the particular effects on this one , Beast is still an early example of a halt - motion film made in color .
6) Outland
A lone - wolf bull ( spiel by Sean Connery in raised badass mode ) stationed at a excavation colony on one of Jupiter ’s moons uncovers a minatory corporate cabal that makes him a pronounced man . Outland is often compare to the Gary Cooper Western High Noon — another cinema about a lawman who has to take on the local braggy baddies without anyone else step up to help . The westerly connexion is no accident , as director Peter Hyams ( Capricorn One , 2010 , End of Days)explained to Empirewhile recollect the making of his 1981 moving-picture show :
“ I wanted to do a Western . Everybody said , ‘ You ca n’t do a Western ; Western are idle ; nobody will do a westerly ’ . I remember retrieve it was weird that this genre that had endured for so long was just gone . But then I arouse up and came to the conclusion – plainly after other mass – that it was actually active and well , but in outer space . I wanted to make a film about the frontier . Not the marvel of it or the glamor of it : I need to do something about Dodge City and how hard life was . I wrote it , and by big lot Sean Connery wanted to do it . And how many fortune do you get to work with Sean Connery ? ”
7) Firefly and Serenity
As if you had forgotten . Joss Whedon ’s beloved TV show and its follow - up feature stress on the travels of a spaceship and the adventures of its crew , but its Wild West homages are obvious ( and a huge part of the fun of the show ) , and are embraced both thematically and literally . The twangy theme song is a dead game show from the scratch line , even before the first installment make it at the panorama in which the show ’s anti - hero hoagy sentry a possible ambush by hogback - riding crook on a deep - place groundbreaker planet .
8) Space Rage
A bounty hunter ( Richard Farnsworth ) , a cop ( John Laughlin ) , and a nasty - mouthed , dangerously ponytailed malefactor ( Michael Paré ) collide on a prison major planet . There are lots of dusty car chase and gun battles . As an added incentive , this jocund nugget of eighties B - picture show cheese has a goon soundtrack , for reasons that have since been lose to the galaxy .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji9KNVBlMTU
9) Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann
A stain - bike daredevil ( Fred “ Remo Williams ” Ward ) travels back in time to 1877 , where his bike becomes a extremely sought - after prize among the local outlaws , and he becomes the ultimate Pisces out of water . The script was co - written by one of the Monkees , Michael Nesmith , and Peter Coyote plays the scoundrel — the same year as his key - jangling performance in E.T.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CamGYSBFeT0
10) The Aurora Encounter
Legendary westerly thespian Jack Elam stars in this tale of an stranger who touches down in a little Texas Ithiel Town . Originally made for a younger audience , this motion picture has transform into something that only weird - cinema connoisseurs will truly enjoy . Mickey Hays , who play “ the Aurora Spaceman , ” was in reality a teenager with the too soon - aging disease Progeria .
11) Moon Zero Two
America went to the moon in 1969 , and so did Hammer Films , in this film about settlers venturing to our near intergalactic neighbour . ( It ’s actually set in the twelvemonth 2021 , and proudly bill itself as “ the first synodic month Western . ” ) The spoiled guy is a filthy copious business leader who ’s scheming to get even richer by colonize other planets in the solar system . Moon Zero Twogot the Mystery Science Theater 3000 handling a few years back , which is either an second or monition , depending on your sensation of humour .
12) Stingray Sam
It ’s a Western , it ’s a melodious , it ’s a drollery , it ’s an experimental art film , it ’s a flick unlike anything you ’ve ever seen ( except maybe director Cory McAbee ’s early feature , The American Astronaut ) .
13) Westworld
And if you did n’t already watch it ahead of the HBO show , now ’s the arrant prison term to revisit the 1972 original picture show . It ’s a thin , tight - paced , low - budget thriller that presentsa unusually grim mankind view — and its themes of bodied irresponsibleness are still timely today .
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