Cowboys & Aliens

And lesbians!

That’s the sequel.

I want to see a graphic novel called Dinosaurs and Lesbians. It doesn’t even need words at all. Really.

Aaaaan, the first Twitter review is in (like it matters, but I was curious):

A few more:

Fuckin’ A.

It looks awesome. I plan to see it as soon as I can see it for free.

Btw, I kinda feel the need to publicly state that I do not follow JoBlo on Twitter. I got those reviews from someone else’s feed.

Count me in too. A great big man crush. Highlander, Buckaroo Bonzai, Cast a Deadly Spell, Shawshank Redemption, Batman the Animated Series, Mr. Krabs on Spongebob, Star Wars Clone Wars, make that pretty much every animated series EVER MADE…

The man is a GOD.
Add in Harrison Ford and Sam Rockwell and I want to see this movie, even if it is bad.

Amen, brother! And oh man, I can only assume by its omission from your list that you haven’t seen him in Carnivale yet…get thee to a rental place tout de suite! It’s his greatest role to date – he is phenomenal. Or here, watch this for just a tiny taste of the force of nature that is Brother Justin.

The previews look good.

How did the Comic-Con screening go?

I plan to go in a couple weekends. Let the crowds die down first.

review this looks really good.

Family saw it at midnight - my mom and I knew we had to see it from the first trailers.

Fun movie, especially if you don’t think too much. Harrison Ford is very good, and Craig is an excellent ‘Man with No Name’. I am really not sure how the man has that much distilled sex appeal and badassery.

On Adam Beach:

The title doesn’t say so, but the movie also has Indians too! I like him as an actor - he did a good job as Jim Chee, and I thought he did a great job in Flags of Our Fathers. But is he the only Native American actor with a Screen Actor’s Guild card?

Adam Beach is also Canadian from the Salteaux tribe. I was going to offer up Graham Greene as a Native actor from the US, but checking his wiki, it turns out he’s Canadian too! I can’t think of any relatively well-known Native actors from US who play Native Americans.
Cowboys & Aliens only got 2.5 stars in the Philadelphia Inquirer, but I’m still going to try to see it this weekend. And probably a matinee, by myself, since everyone I’ve asked to go with me has laughed in my face at the suggestion. :stuck_out_tongue:

I’ll be going to see this next week with a couple buddies.

Wes Studi is from Oklahoma.

Good point. I learned something today.

I saw it, liked it. It requires a certain suspension of disbelief, but seriously, if you are going to see a movie called “Cowboys and Aliens” you have no right to complain that “interstellar aliens would never fall for that.” YOU fell for it!

Anyway, fun movie, well acted, but prolly not for the kiddies, kinda scary and gory in many respects. Though it does teach some important lessons, like “being a man is about stabbing.” There I go, snarking, it’s habit. Actually, the gritty Western feel works very nicely with the theme of humans as primitives facing off against advanced aliens.

We saw it yesterday and thought it was OK - not great, but fun if you know it is all kind of silly.

One nitpick/complaint about cheap-ass Executive Producer Steven Spielberg:

I know you are the Executive Producer of both Cowboys and Aliens, as well as Falling Skies currently airing on TNT, but did you have to re-cycle practically the exact same alien/skitter for both shows?! You couldn’t come up with something different? Do all aliens resemble gigantic aborted cockroach fetuses?

Really, the premise is no more absurd than any other alien invasion movie. We like to think we could fight off an invasion with our current technology, but compared to any technology that could cross between stars, us and the Old West are about equally primitive.

Wells’ War of the Worlds made this point and everyone has copied it since.

The Smurfs movie beat C&A at the box office on Friday. Did anybody predict a win for the Smurfs?