Some genres just don’t work well together. Take the science fiction and western genres for example. Despite starring the likes of Kevin Kline, Will Smith, and Salma Hayek, Wild Wild West was a travesty of celluloid film that few can forget. It should come as no surprise that since then, the science fiction and western genre haven’t been paired up again. And with good reason. Introducing blaster guns, mechanical monstrosities, and other high-tech future gadgetry into a world of cowboys, six shooters, and saloon sipping whiskey can prove quite a challenge. What you may or may not know, is that a year before Wild Wild West was tainting silver screens across the nation in 1999, another sci-fi/western mashup had been created. More »

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