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* Why do so many people think the premise of cowboys fighting aliens is fundamentally ludicrous? If we accept that aliens landing on earth is a sensible plot to begin with (and judging by the thousands of movies where exactly that happens, ''we do''), then why does setting the plot in the mid-19th Century suddenly make it crazy?
** I think it's the idea that cowboys stand a reasonable chance against aliens and won't be utterly wiped out in the first ten minutes.
** So after tens of thousands of years of storytelling, an outmatched hero triumphing against impossible odds is now ridiculous? Bonk that; I want to see them do a series of these movies. Just think: ''[[The Colonial Period|Colonials]] and Aliens,'' ''[[Samurai]] and Aliens,'' '''''[[
*** There's a novel by [[Poul Anderson]] called ''[[The High Crusade]]''. Anglo-Norman knights preparing for an excursion into the Holy Land, face a surprise [[Alien Invasion]], kick the aliens' asses, commandeer their ship and carry the crusade beyond the stars - and that's just the first few chapters! It could make an AWESOME movie -- unfortunately, ''Cowboys And Aliens'' seems to have tanked and discredited the idea.
**** I ... don't know quite how to tell you [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110024/ this ...]
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