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The Western being 3:10 To Yuma. It contains no spaceships, although it does contain one spaceship pilot - and a villain who looks enough like him that at the online release of the trailer, Joss Whedon himself got them mixed up.

It's about honour and justice and family, men beating their devils, teh train as a force for change and grand Western stuff like that.

Its most notable nods to having been filmed more recently than the previous version in 1957 are the occasional swearing (we ain't talking Deadwood here), its treatment of the Apache as victims of white violence in one comment and unseen Reavers in one scene, and a rather surprising bit of electrified torture, which is considered wrong by the guys who are taking the victim to be lawfully hanged. That aside, it's full of heroic struggling for sound old values, gallows humour, and highly accurate six-shooters.

Also, Doktor Sordid notes that War looks like it should never be released as a film, just a trailer in the middle of Grindhouse. Michael Clayton looks pretty good, though, and the unusual-for-a-historical-biopic-sequel to Elizabeth has a whole breathtaking-epic-scope thing going on.