Review: Cowboys & Aliens 225
So let me be clear up front: I didn't hate it. The only movie this summer that I walked out of the theater thinking FAIL in capital letters was Green Lantern. So far everything else has had some sort of redeeming value. And this does too: solid production values, occasionally funny dialog, cool looking aliens, and a really awesome bad guy base/rocket ship is good fun.
The plot: Daniel Craig is a cowboy who wakes up with amnesia and a strange metal wrist band. He runs afoul of a punk kid with a rich daddy (Ford) in a town where blinking lights in the sky show up and lasso people away at night. So Craig and Ford and a ragtag assortment of town folk go looking for their kin, learning about the aliens, and growing beyond their cheesy racism with the local indians, and shooting pistols at alien space ships.
The sci-fi western is tough sod to trod. The winners (Firefly, Cowboy Bebop) have typically placed Cowboys into Outter Space, and not Aliens into the Old West. For me, this is because the whole old west/cowboy thing is kinda campy. Hollywood dried up that well over the years, leaving behind a legacy of great and terrible movies. But the Western has a visual vocabulary we all know. The Bar Hall Brawl. The standoff in main street between two gun-slingers. The Boozing and the Prostitutes. And of course the dialog conventions... that 1800s slang which is very fun to play with for a moment, and pretty annoying after awhile. Unless you are Malcolm Reynolds.
I think they did an ok job with their world. They never really break out of The Old West. With the exception of the super weapon that Craig has attached to his wrist, the good guys weapons are pistols, rifles, dynamite sticks which makes it all the more awesome fighting highly maneuverable alien fighter jets, as well as the more melee battles on the ground.
The aliens and their technology are a mixed bag. Their design is sort of like a turtle with a quatto to inside. We see 2 ships: one which is kinda a fighter that looks like a firefly, and one giant rocket base that is mostly underground and used to mine gold (which is explained, but really is done just for cool golden visuals scattered all around the film, and to justify alien presence and overall badness).
Should you see it? I enjoyed Captain America, Harry Potter, and Thor more. But this was better than Transformers 3 and Green Lantern. It's visually stylized. Sometimes charming. My wife thought Daniel Craig was just ok, where I found him to be pretty cool. I thought Harrison Ford to once again proves that he is just to old for this sort of work: Same problem with Indiana Jones the action just isn't believable any more- he looks and moves like an old man, and they edit it this stuff to make him look like he is doing more than he is instead of embracing the fact that he's an old guy shuffling around. He just doesn't pull it off. But he looks good in a hat.
But when I look at the producer credits, I can't help but feel like this just should have been better. There are 8 writers, including several of the Bad Robot regulars. The producers include the Ron Howard/Brian Grazer team, Steven Spielburg and those Lost guys again. I can't help but feel like when the dust settled, this was a film by committee. From the design to the script to the casting and somewhere through 8 writers and all these producers a bit of sparkle got sanded off.
But hey, next summer Pirates & Aliens? Ninjas & Aliens? I spent all night trying to decide what genre should encounter aliens next, and i have the answer: Alien & Aliens. Now THAT would be a movie.
Steven Spielburg? (Score:2)
Who the heck is that?
Re:Steven Spielburg? (Score:5, Funny)
Pretty sure that's the guy who directed Shaving Ryan's Privates.
Re:Steven Spielburg? (Score:5, Insightful)
Turns out that wasn't enough!
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Am I the only one who really liked that movie?
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Re:Steven Spielburg? (Score:5, Funny)
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Steven Spielburgh. He makes all the movies filmed in Pittsburgh.
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He's the guy who edited the post to include the word "to" used incorrectly three times. Not to be a grammar-nazi, but after the third grade, you should know the difference between "to" and "too".
There are 8 writers (Score:4, Insightful)
The true sign of any picture I would avoid.
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I dunno. One of the best episodes of Star Trek:TNG had at least four, and they may have stopped there because at the time they couldn't credit any more.
The episode? Yesterday's Enterprise.
Reviews... (Score:2)
I still plan to see it on netflix.
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Why would you look at a movie review article then? Let alone comment on one?
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You fail to understand opinions.
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Thankyou good sir, for blessing us with your pithy little interjection. People who were going to follow that opinion like sheep will no doubt now follow yours. Dunt it make you proud. There was a little sarcasm there by the way. In case you missed it.
Re:My short review. (Score:4, Insightful)
I always enjoy when someone comes along and says a movie isn't original, not noting the fact that there are no previous big release movies with Cowboys and Aliens that I can recall. I'm sure there may be some hidden in some B-Movie treasure trove, but the fact that a main line studio did this is refreshing rather than re-rehashing some remake done 4 times already.
The movie itself has familiar 'themes' but that's about it. If you go to that extreme, every movie and story told today has similar themes (boy meets girl, good vs bad, yada yada). The movie was better than usual summer fare, with an interesting plot and an unusual story idea. That is to be encouraged, especially when they managed to pull it off as well as they did.
No regrets seeing this one.
Alien vs Ninja (Score:3, Informative)
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Right on! What's more...
Alien & Aliens. Now THAT would be a movie.
doesn't this qualify? [google.com] There's even a video game
Crappy, crappy film (Score:5, Insightful)
It's nothing like the comic and as AC posted there are eight writers which is a warning sign.
I was hoping there would be a high noon shootout, a crazy old prospector sidekick, the whore with a heart of gold and a six shooter between her boobs, saving an alien from being hung by the sheriff who's more crooked than the branch on the executioner's tree. Instead "Aliens are greedy like us. Supposedly killing off humans means they can get all our gold." Aliens who can travel interstellar distances have the need to exterminate humanity when 16-17th century tradesmen traded realty for shiny beads of glass then have the unmitigated gall to gift those natives with blankets full of cooties. Crappy films are good when they're crowdpleasers but there weren't any joyful moments where humanity got their comeuppance against the aliens.
I expected Blazing Saddles with anal probes. Instead I got JJ Abrams without lens flare.
Re:Crappy, crappy film (Score:5, Insightful)
Sometimes an action flick is just that...
Action flicks rarely if ever really have a good plot... We just think they do when we were kids, or teenagers. If you never saw any of the Star Wars movies then watched them (Even excluding the new ones) they would probably joke at the lame plot that they use to show off all the cool special effects.
Why did they need the force? Well as a plot device to show people doing super human things, so they can make these cool special effects with it, did the force really add to the plot much... Lets see...
Boy Find messagers who direct them to a an old general.
General befriends boy and asks him to join him,
Boy rejects then finds guardians dead from bad guy.
Boy goes with general as has nothing else to do.
General finds Rogues to do work No Questions Asked.
General, Boy and Rogues go on quest get caught by Bad Guys.
General, Boy and Rogues try to escape and rescue the Dame.
General works on the escape, while Boy and Rogues find dame.
Dame helps Boy and Rogues escape.
General Finds Bad Guy fights to the death and dies.
Boy takes Generals place.
Boy kills Bad Guys...
Boy becomes Hero.
Now you can take that story plot, and change things around many ways to create hundreds of movies. After such movies we do not gain much insight into anything. They are just fun to watch the special effects, and its easy plot allows our imagination to make us feel like we can be the hero too.
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I get your point, but there really aren't any huge OMG special effects in Star Wars related to the force. Stuff moving without being touched? A dude grabbing his neck and pretending like he's getting choked? The most famous force moment is done completely through dialogue ("These aren't the droids you're looking for").
Star Wars special effects were all things like space ships and planets blowing up.
Re:Crappy, crappy film (Score:4, Funny)
Sometimes an action flick is just that... Action flicks rarely if ever really have a good plot... We just think they do when we were kids, or teenagers. If you never saw any of the Star Wars movies then watched them (Even excluding the new ones) they would probably joke at the lame plot that they use to show off all the cool special effects.
Why did they need the force? Well as a plot device to show people doing super human things, so they can make these cool special effects with it, did the force really add to the plot much... Lets see... Boy Find messagers who direct them to a an old general. General befriends boy and asks him to join him, Boy rejects then finds guardians dead from bad guy. Boy goes with general as has nothing else to do. General finds Rogues to do work No Questions Asked. General, Boy and Rogues go on quest get caught by Bad Guys. General, Boy and Rogues try to escape and rescue the Dame. General works on the escape, while Boy and Rogues find dame. Dame helps Boy and Rogues escape. General Finds Bad Guy fights to the death and dies. Boy takes Generals place. Boy kills Bad Guys... Boy becomes Hero.
Now you can take that story plot, and change things around many ways to create hundreds of movies. After such movies we do not gain much insight into anything. They are just fun to watch the special effects, and its easy plot allows our imagination to make us feel like we can be the hero too.
Boy finds out the bad guy was his father NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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I love your story idea. But I can't let the beads-for-realty thing go without making the comment that the Natives didn't pretend to own any land, so if anybody got taken for a ride in such a deal it was the one who purchased from a non-owner.
But I think the realty reality was more about violent force (and cooties) than swindling.
Re:Crappy, crappy film (Score:4, Informative)
It's also worth noting that the land was actually traded for several thousand dollars (in that time, not today's) worth of beads, firearms, cookware, and other manufactured goods (the bulk of which was NOT the beads).
It's especially worth noting that the natives who sold the land didn't live there. They actually sold a neighboring tribe's land. The rest is violent force and cooties.
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Huh? You pull for aliens because humans deserve their comeuppance? This is a bizarre little corner of the world we have here...
Brett
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Putin is not James Bond (Score:3, Funny)
Daniel Craig aka Vladimir Putin should be a Bond villain not James Bond. How do they explain him being a cowboy in this? The KGB sent him to spy on our cattle?
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I don't even know what this means.
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It's kind of like how Pierce Brosnan playing Bond doesn't make sense.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fourth_Protocol_(film) [wikipedia.org]
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Re:Putin is not James Bond (Score:4, Funny)
Dude, Craig is half Welsh, half English.
God, keep him out of the kitchen, whatever you do.
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Because no one would suspect him?
Come on.... (Score:3)
Pirates & Ninjas, obviously!
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But you still have monkey vs robot vs pirate vs ninja (vs alien vs predator vs terminator (wait, robot...)) which is wide open.
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The series will end in 2031 with the Oscar-winning, Capcom-sponsored blockbuster, Super Cowboys and Aliens and Pirates and Ninjas and Monkeys and Robots and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies II Turbo: Hyper Fighting.
Re:Come on.... (Score:5, Funny)
90 minute film, 85 minutes of action.
So, a porno without the sex? :-)
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Pirates & Ninjas, obviously!
I have always said that the only thing missing from The Last Samurai was pirates, and it would have then become the ultimate action movie, because it would have had pirates, ninja, samurai, and machine guns.
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Think I'll be skipping this one (Score:4, Interesting)
The producers include the Ron Howard/Brian Grazer team, Steven Spielburg and those Lost guys again.
Wow, that just screams mediocre crap before the first scene even plays.
Same problem with Indiana Jones the action just isn't believable any more- he looks and moves like an old man
Ford seems to be one of those actors who just can't accept his age. And for some reason, everyone is still indulging him (maybe they're still starstruck from his younger days). Personally, he's one of the actors I would least want to ever have to work with. He comes off as an arrogant prick in just about every interview and the people who've worked with him don't ever seem to have many kind words for him (except Lucas and Spielburg, who both started working with him before he became so big). Basically, he's an old-school movie star who does everything HIS way and isn't going to listen to any direction at all, especially someone telling him "You're an old man now, and you look stupid as shit in a fight scene." And this is not the kind of movie he should be in anymore (not sure what in the hell Favreau was thinking).
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Hollywood is a bottom-line industry. When they see "Harrison" they think of all the money his movies have generated. If they have to wheel him out on stage they'll do it.
Same thing with a lot of other aging actors. Sylvester Stallone is still squeezing blood from that stone and they're talking about a Die Hard 5!!! I really just don't get why Hollywood doesn't trust the new generation of leading men to carry films. Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, et. al. are proven assets.
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Die Hard was Bruce Willis.
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That's another prick I wouldn't want to work with. Kevin Smith had a routine [imdb.com] on him that pretty much summed up what it's like to work with Bruce Willis. It was basically along the lines of "I would give Bruce direction and he would either insult me or completely ignore me." Now, depending on your opinion of Kevin Smith, that was either appropriate or rude. But Bruce still doesn't come off as the kind of guy you want to have to work with every day on a stressful shoot.
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I would prefer a second source. After all, Kevin Smith is a prick.
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Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, et. al. are proven assets.
Crowe maybe, but some people think he's already beyond his sell-by date. And Jackman? I like him, but name one hit he's carried as the leading star? He was the big attraction in the first X-Men movie, so they gave him a Wolverine movie. Didn't do to well? Swordfish? Mediocre sales. Australia? Nobody outside of Australia went to see it. He's been in a number of underperforming romantic flicks. He's yet to carry an action movie all on his own. Ford and Craig have. I like Jackman better than either, but this i
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He was thinking he wants to sell tickets to people over 40. Especially women over 40. Nothing wrong with that. Rosie Huntington-Whitely isn't in Transformers 3 for her acting skills.
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Rosie Huntington-Whitely isn't in Transformers 3 for her acting skills.
Really? I'm pretty sure simply being alive counts as good acting for that series. And yes, I am including plants.
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Ford seems to be one of those actors who just can't accept his age.
It is not so much that as the fact that everything he has done that isn't an action film has bombed.
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No, he's made some decent dramatic films (Witness, The Mosquito Coast, Regarding Henry, etc.). I think he just wants the big paychecks.
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It's not the age, it's the massive marijuana habit.
A vs A? Done that. (Score:2)
This movie was AWESOME. (Score:4, Funny)
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Yeah, but it can't truly be perfect unless Michael Bay is directing.
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Air Force One (Score:4, Funny)
Zeppelin vs Pterodactyls - dammit! (Score:4, Interesting)
Jürgen Prochnow as the prussian sabre scarred Zeppelin captain with a vast history and one last battle to prove! ...and i dunno...uh, John Malkovich as the psionically mentally linked Pterodactyl master - who, unlikely enough, has a past that overlaps Prochnow's ...yeah.
You Know... (Score:3)
It might be worth seeing if it had Vin Diesel.
And I was really drunk.
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No I liked Pitch Black and I like Vin Diesel his voice is crazy.
But Cowboys & Aliens looks like it will be as good as The Pacifier (2/10) was, which I only saw very drunk and only because Vin was in it.
I enjoyed it (Score:3)
To me it was a fun, marginally campy movie. Daniel Craig does a pretty good job playing the tough guy. I didn't go in looking for a life-changing experience, and I came of the theater having enjoyed myself.
I guess each has his own opinion, but I still don't understanding the hating some people have for this movie, given its limited ambitions in the first place.
Re:I enjoyed it (Score:4, Insightful)
I also agree.. :)
Well put. Sometimes movies are just supposed to be fun. I mean, seriously? We're praising movies on the one hand that have just as silly a premise as this one, but because someone has a boner against Daniel Craig as James Bond, this movie lacks "substance"? WTF? Didn't the title clue everyone in? (As for Craig, I enjoyed his Bond movies... more than I can say for the last 4 Bonds...)
Now for the rest of you neckbeard Comic Book Guys:
Sometimes movies are just that... fun rides. Who gives a shit if Harrison Ford is arrogant? The man's been in film franchises that grossed a bazillion dollars... and he's a good actor. He's wiping his ass with $100 bills and that sparks jealousy. He doesn't "Burt Reynolds" his way through a part... he's believable.
As for high art in this movie... is everyone missing the fun? All critical folk should look at this movie the way they SHOULD have looked at the Star Wars prequels... through 11-year-old eyes. Stop trying to turn simple action space operas into hard science fiction all the time. You'll live longer. :)
This movie has all the elements:
Cowboys? Check.
Aliens? Check.
Explosions? Check.
Action thrills? Check.
Pretty much pass me the popcorn. If I wanted to watch Shakespeare, I wouldn't go to a movie with the title "Cowboys and Aliens"...
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My problem is that whenever people say they're just in it for a mindless romp and they liked it, I listen and end up watching Transformers.
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I must say I enjoyed that movie as well. I went to see it yesterday just expecting "a cool movie ". And that was really cool. The plot is weak btu I must say I did not care too much about it. Daniel Craig's active a "survivor" type of man was very convincing. For once, I found the violence in that movie really violent for a sci fi movie. Usually you got a "pioo pioo" laser sound and the guy is dead, you cross the name of the character and go to the next seen.
Here the action and violence looked really real.
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They're the same people who went to "Snakes on a Plane" expecting a life-changing, deep, inspiring experience. Instead they got snakes. On a plane. So they whined and complained and bitched and moaned.
Er, are you seriously suggesting that anyone went to see that film expecting anything other than an intentionally cheesy and tongue-in-cheek action film?!
:-)
As strawman arguments go, that's so badly constructed that it's more a pile of straw with a happy face painted on.
Popcorn Movies (Score:3, Insightful)
Y'know, people need to just learn to turn off their brains once in a while. If you really wanna use your brains when you see a movie, don't go to the cinema at the mall, go to the art-house cinema in the college district.
This is where the genre of "popcorn movies" comes into play. It's not great, it's not bad, it's a movie you can enjoy so long as you've got a bit of popcorn to stuff in your face while you watch it. Quite frankly, the last "Steak and Potatoes" movie I saw was "Moon", and I left the theater incredibly happy. The last "Dinner and Nightcap" movie I saw was "Avatar", and I left THAT one a bit dizzy and giggly, wanting a cigarette.
But most of the summer offerings so far have been either Popcorn, or flat out Pepto-Bismol. "Percy Jackson and the Olympians" from last year is a perfect example of a Peptol-Bismol movie, and I'm glad I didn't see it in the theater, but got it from "a friend".
"Cowboys and Aliens"? I'd call this one a "Popcorn, Soda and Hot Dog" movie. It's not a "Steak and Potatoes" movie, but it's got more brains than just a popcorn. You don't need a brain, per se, but if you care to use it, you won't be terribly disappointed. You'll still be a bit peckish when you leave, but not sick over spending 10 bux.
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I saw Kung Fu Hustle and Ong Bak at my college's theater. Twas awesome without all the inconsiderate SOBs around.
Be brain dead too long and your IQ drops (Score:2)
Not using your brain probably lowers your IQ or at least makes thinking seem like more work. People have way too much time to turn off their brain; watching TV turns off more of their brains than sleeping does! Given how much stupid shit goes on these days people need to wake up and START thinking not take a break (a break which they've not earned.)
Our lives have become like our food-- cheap junk we buy to falsely fill needs leaving us unfulfilled... so we consume endlessly as long as we go down the wrong
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Y'know, people need to just learn to turn off their brains once in a while.
Agreed. Art is a wide spectrum and Cowboys & Aliens firmly fits within that somewhere. Sure it's not Inception or Matrix but it doesn't try to be. Instead it's a new telling of a classic western story with the twist that the antagonists aren't from around these parts.
It succeeds rather nicely in that both Harrison Ford's and Daniel Craig's delivery fits their roles superbly. They're fun to watch in the context that they're portraying the typical Dirty Harry style gruff western guy.
I didn't go to thi
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> If you really wanna use your brains when you see a movie, don't go to the cinema at the mall, go to the art-house cinema in the college district.
There are two kinds of people. Film lovers that sip fine wine and have intellectually stimulating discussions about the film. The others are those that eat popcorn and watch movies.
Proper Expectations (Score:2)
Sequel? (Score:4, Insightful)
Is it worth $20 and 2 hrs? (Score:2)
+ babysitter? Sounds like, "no".
I wish that Hollywood would understand that making money of movies is not a god-given right, that folks won't go to movies just cause they're there.
I saw an interview with Favreau, where he said something like this movie "gave him a chance to experiment blah blah". Tip: movies that want to be commercially successful should not be seen as a director's playground of "visuals" etc. They should tell a story that the audience will be interested in.
If Favreau wants to experimen
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Of course, the "experimentation" with degraded footage in the opening credits of Se7en, with color grading in Three Kings, with bullet time in The Matrix all had a huge impact on film grammar and influenced the look of many movies that followed.
Also, is a director's price for "success" (being tapped to direct a 100M+ studio action flick) that they shouldn't try anything new, different, or artistically fulfilling? Sounds like a recipe for disaster.
Samuel L. Jackson VS Aliens (Score:2)
"I am sick of these Muth-f'ing aliens on this Mutha-f'ing planet!" -- I mean come on, Cowboys and aliens is this years "Snakes on a Plane" - the title is the movie and the movie is the title.
It's either this or Smurfs (Score:2)
Frankly, I'm done with these genre flicks of late. I'm also tired of the comic book crap. Spiderman was good, Spiderman 2, not so much etc. The Hulk movies were just there to fill seats with CGI which, let's face it, is what writers go for these days. Come on Nick Nolte? Seriously?
To do a movie nowadays it seems you have to pick from one of the subjects: Toys, Saturday Morning Cartoons, Comic Books and "artsy." Yes with 8 writers it was bad, but the OG "Casino Royale" had what, 5 directors and I sti
Alien vs Alien (Score:2)
And her name is...? (Score:2, Insightful)
And Iron Man Director Jon Favreau has blown a pretty penny trying to make the whole thing work, getting the sexiest woman alive from Maxim a few years back, as well as a James Bond and a Han Solo to convince you to come to the theater and watch 6-shooters take on the little green men.
Huh... Sexy woman, Bond, and Solo? Perhaps we'll get the names of these three shortly...
The plot: Daniel Craig is a cowboy who wakes up with amnesia and a strange metal wrist band. He runs afoul of a punk kid with a rich daddy (Ford) in a town where blinking lights in the sky show up and lasso people away at night. So Craig and Ford and a ragtag assortment of town folk go looking for their kin, learning about the aliens, and growing beyond their cheesy racism with the local indians, and shooting pistols at alien space ships.
Well, that's two. What about her name?
She's the lead actress, the love interest, and, in your words, the "sexiest woman alive"? Come on, Taco... Surely she has a name, or were you too busy spanking it to her tits to bother looking it up? She even shares top billing on the goddamn poster.
Frankly, Olivia Wilde deserves better than this shiat review.
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She's the lead actress, the love interest, and, in your words, the "sexiest woman alive"? Come on, Taco... Surely she has a name, or were you too busy spanking it to her tits to bother looking it up? She even shares top billing on the goddamn poster.
Frankly, Olivia Wilde deserves better than this shiat review.
Eh, what tits? She has a pretty face but she has the body of a 13 year old boy.
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She's the lead actress, the love interest, and, in your words, the "sexiest woman alive"? Come on, Taco... Surely she has a name, or were you too busy spanking it to her tits to bother looking it up? She even shares top billing on the goddamn poster.
Frankly, Olivia Wilde deserves better than this shiat review.
Eh, what tits? She has a pretty face but she has the body of a 13 year old boy.
Which perhaps explains Taco's interest.
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Frankly, Olivia Wilde deserves better than this shiat review.
No, she really doesn't. Her character was completely useless to the movie, and only relevant to the plot at the very end. Her presence on screen added nothing to her character or any of the others.
And it doesn't speak well for her as an actress if this is what she she chooses to appear in. It should have been obvious that the script was weak, so either she has poor judgement, or this is the only work she can get.
Unsurpsingly derivative... (Score:2)
Every time I read a good sci-fi novel I think to myself, "why is Hollywood incapable, at least nowadays, of making a movie even half this good?"
These movies offer nothing but hackneyed concepts, idiotic premises and gaping plot holes. And a significant part of the problem is that these movies all need to be turned into blockbusters. That means that any sci-fi movie is turned into an action movie with epic undertones. Hollywood lacks both creativity and subtlety and Cowboys & Aliens is a perfect example
Ouch (Score:2)
That's just harsh.
No review needed (Score:2)
Saw this yesterday (Score:2)
I liked the film, honestly. I took my dad, who likes westerns, and he enjoyed it also. Granted, the mcguffin (aliens want our gold!) was stupid, but otherwise the film's action held up. I liked that Harrison Ford's character was given some depth instead of him being the town asshole through the whole movie. Daniel Craig's character was also more complex than needed for an action film, which was nice.
Someone had told me this was based on a graphic novel. Is that not the case? Judging from the complaints abou
which plot? just wondering (Score:2)
1. THE UNION PACIFIC STORY
2. THE RANCH STORY
3. THE EMPIRE STORY
4. THE REVENGE STORY
5. CUSTER'S LAST STAND
6. THE OUTLAW STORY
7. THE MARSHAL STORY
from another post I had of 1958 TV guide article, "Seven Ways to Plot a Western"
I haven't seen the movie, not planning to (I just don't go to movies anymore). Sounds interesting however (an 8th plot? maybe that's why they needed eight writers?)
wish list (Score:2)
I want to see Sex & the City & Aliens with the aliens winning.
Though Sarah Jessica Parker would have to wear some sort of badge or special t-shirt so she can be distinguished from the aliens.
Attack the Block (Score:2)
Where's the Attack the Block review? Sounds like that is the real alien genre mashup winner.
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Re:what? (Score:5, Funny)
There are at least two different Han Solos. One of them shot first, the other shot in self defense. It's all very quantum.
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It got you to want to shave. Come on, that's something! Sort of like how Michael Bay films give me dysentery.
Smurfs vs. Aliens - possible must see (Score:2)
And if Jayma Mays shows up in that movie naked, I'm there.
(Yes, she's in my list of five. Just sayin'...)
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How about Eskimos & Leprechauns [spudcomics.com]?
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> like how did the girl even get there?
Oh c'mon, I think we are imaginative enough to be able to hypothesize another vehicle without actually seeing it. Must we be held by the hand all the way through the story?
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Funny, but heavy advertising is generally a good indicator of a lame movie. To me it says that the studio has no confidence in their product. And they get that early on when the first cuts are seen, and the general reaction is "meh."
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I have not seen grammatical flubs with this density since teaching english abroad.
You must be new here.
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>I have not seen grammatical flubs with this density since teaching english abroad.
Go to any American high school. Listen to the students. Worse yet, listen to the teachers. Follow this with an emergency trip to your therapist in a probably vain effort to stave off suicidal depression.
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I saw it last year at Fantasia. It was cheesetastic, but it had the audience hooting, hollering, and cheering along. It's the kind of B-movie where if you embrace the cheese and insanity, you have a great time. The director was at the screening to talk a bit, it was a blast.