Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA Saw 'Cowboys & Aliens' last night. Terrific movie! Super fun. Special Effects are seamless and dazzling. Best time I've had at the movies since the first 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movie several years ago. Daniel Craig is a bone fide movie star. He's like today's Steve McQueen. Harrison Ford -- this is one of the best roles I've seen him in -- ever. Sam Rockwell, Paul Dano, Clancy Brown, Keith Carradine, Adam Beach, Noah Ringer -- all do a superb job in their supporting roles. Olivia Wilde is also carving out a niche as a terrific young actress. I didn't see too many trailers for this movie -- which I'm glad about -- and didn't read much about it either before seeing it. I recommend it.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA And having just now visited Rottentomatoes.com -- I see that it hasn't really caught on with critics. Or audiences! It's tied with 'The Smurfs' this weekend.
Originally Posted By Yahtzee Nay Nay I saw it today. I've been waiting and waiting for this movie and was really disappointed when I saw the reviews this morning on Rottentomatoes. I really liked it a lot. It was a lot of fun.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 All I could think when I saw the first ads for it was that it should get this year's "Snakes on a Plane" award for "best telling you most of what you need to know about a movie right from the title.".
Originally Posted By Ursula Wow, we saw it today and hated it. My husband fell asleep and started snoring and I had to elbow him so as to not disturb the other movie-goers. Everything in it, we've seen before. The dialogue was flat to me specifically, and Dabob, the title wasn't the only thing projecting what was going to happen next. We did like one or two things (like how he gets the bracelet), but after something particular happened, we were MST3king the rest of the movie. The thing is, I REALLY wanted to like it and had been looking forward to it for some time.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 I should note I haven't seen it. That's just how the title hit me when I first heard about it. All I could think of was Snakes on a Plane.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA <MST3king> identify please... I'll admit, there was one action sequence that took me out of the movie. Yes, aliens in the wild west, but this part was just a bit too far-fetched. Sort of like the 'dogs that fly bi-planes' in 'UP' -- it was jarring. But overall, we really liked it. And the dialogue was one of the positive aspects for me. Some of the subtle exchanges between Sam Rockwell and the other posse -- very funny!
Originally Posted By skinnerbox MST3K: Mystery Science Theater 3000 It's the only reason I own the Brother Bear DVD. McKenzie Moose doing MST3K commentary. Hilarious! 8^D
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA Got it! Thanks for clarifying the Mystery Science Theatre aspect, skinnerbox. Man, I just didn't see this movie being that silly and stupid. To me, the tone of the movie was very much in keeping with the premise. I wasn't like they were trying to 'play it straight' to the point of it being somber and morose. Guess that's why the critiques have been so varied.
Originally Posted By Yahtzee Nay Nay Looking at the critic's reviews, the opinions are very diverse as well. Very interesting. I read the original graphic novel. The movie is very different from the graphic novel, yet maybe having read it already, there are basic elements in the movie that stand out to others that my brain has already accepted as perfectly reasonable. One thing that did bug me a little about the movie was how serious they tried to play it. This was the perfect opportunity to have some crazy fun but I think they took themselves too seriously. This was not meant to be True Grit. This is Cowboys and freakin' Aliens.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA This movie is clearly not on very many people's 'must see' list.
Originally Posted By Yahtzee Nay Nay It was No 1 at the box office this weekend so SOMEBODY had to have seen it.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA <-- (standing in the empty topic) So, then....there was this part where Harrison Ford's all, 'yeah' and the other guy is like, 'huh' and then he punches Harrison Ford, and then Harrison Ford punches the guy back, and they're all 'whoa'
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan Last night, Harrison Ford was the guest on 'Conan.' After the audience applauded wildly for him for several moments, he said to them "Where were ya this weekend?" He then sheepishly admitted that his wife had taken their youngest to see the Smurfs movie. Conan offered Ford a plush Smurf to take out his aggressions, and Ford tore the head off of it.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA And so these aliens are all like, flying in to the western town, and the people are all like, 'whoa, flying machines' and then the aliens grab the people with these, fishing line things, and they grab them and take them away to this spaceship like thing, and it's really cool....
Originally Posted By utahjosh I can't wait to see this. Been on my must see list since the beginning of Summer. Just no time this week or last to see it yet!
