Miscast star mars fun, effects-laden 'Cowboys & Aliens'
Daniel Craig's stoically Eastwoodesque outlaw.
Vintage 1950s flying saucer invasion paranoia.
Top-notch special effects with excellent, eardrum-puncturing sound.
A restrained sense of humor.
But ... Olivia Wilde's miscast, misguided Wild West woman resembling a Mabelline model who packs a six gun strapped around a tight and shimmering pearl-colored outfit?
She looks out of place, talks out of place and acts out of place. The screenplay poses a reason why she seems so different, but the rules against spoilers prohibit me from saying anything further.
I can tell you that there comes a scene where Wilde's character, Ella Swenson, takes “Cowboys & Aliens” out of spoof mode and drags it into sheer, off-the-charts dumbness, a scene that triggers the movie's quick erosion from a fascinating mystery into a noisy, bloated, special effects and cliché extravaganza.
Let's come back to her later.
For now, let's lighten up and assume that a movie titled “Cowboys & Aliens” isn't looking to make the U.S. National Film Registry any time soon.
Craig, the erstwhile James Bond, cuts a convincing figure as a cowboy decked out in chaps, a 7.5 gallon hat and a dandy American accent.
He wakes up in the desert alone. Like a Wild West ancestor of Jason Bourne, he has no memory of how he got there. He has a wound in his side and a strange bracelet attached to his left wrist.
We know he's a man of violence the moment a motley band of would-be Comancheros tries to accost him, and he effortlessly wipes them out.
Eventually, he realizes he's really Jake Lonergan, a wanted desperado, gang leader and killer.
Working from a script cobbled together by six writers, Favreau delights in setting up a regular, old-fashioned western before the aliens appear.
Percy Dolarhyde (Paul Dano in weasel mode), the immature, bullying son of powerful cattle baron Woodrow Dolarhyde (Ford), gets tossed in the clink after wounding a deputy sheriff.
Dad brings his hired gang into the town — fittingly called Absolution — to spring Percy. Then, just when the movie delves into “Rio Bravo” territory, flying machines appear and start bombarding the cowpokes with incendiary devices as the invaders lasso screaming victims and hoist them high into the heavens.
(Not that I want to question the aliens' intelligence, but if they're trying to capture human specimens, why blast them to smithereens first?
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I can tell you that there comes a scene where Wilde's character, Ella Swenson, takes “Cowboys & Aliens” out of spoof mode and drags it into sheer, off-the-charts dumbness, a scene that triggers the movie's quick erosion from a fascinating mystery into
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Well all i have to say is that TW had better cough up some aliens soon. FOUR episodes with not an alien in sight (unless they of course look like humans currently) which seems ridiculously odd for a show based around aliens. It's turning into SGU which
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Mars Attacks!
Rated: PG-13
Comedy
Great movie! This movie is about aliens from Mars that suddenly come to Earth and try to conquer the human species.
This movie is a little old, I think it’s from ’96.
It’s a Tim Burton classic. The very funny thing about it, is that many celebrity’s are in that movie, but most of them weren’t really known or famous, so it’s very funny. People such as Jack Black and Sarah Jessica Parker are in it. Try to watch it one rainy day when you want to watch a funny movie!
I would rate it a 4 and a half out of 5 on my movie scale!
The Haunting In Connecticut
Rated: PG-13
Horror
This is about a boy who has cancer, so the family move to a house near the hospital, which is in Connecticut. He keeps seeing things in the house they move into, but the doctors just think that it is from the medication and radiation. This horror is a very jumpy movie. The scary things happen right away. Nothing in it is very scary, but since it pops out at you, it’s VERY scary.
It’s a newer movie. I think from 2008 or 2009.
Watch this movie!
I would give it a 4 out of 5 on my movie scale!
(I will add trailers to this post later!
Deepest is out 3. Deminsion richest with space shuttles colony on mars thounsand years ago illl it become aliens reveal to the richest
I prefer the "Mars Attacks!" take on that, with Sylvia Sidney's reaction. RT @: Cowboys & Aliens. Congress?
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