Cowboys & Aliens (2011)

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

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Perfect cast and a good story

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

So...this was boring.And that is pretty odd for a movie that has "Cowboys & Aliens" as its title. Its two things that usually are pretty far from boring. I love Westerns, I love Sci-Fi, this movie should have been a serious popcorn muncher.And instead it was boring.It's starts off really cool, the wounded man alone in the desert, clearly just after a fight...and then it gives you the very real feeling that you've seen it before, the only difference is the Alien technology on his wrist.And then it hits a few cliches that you've also seen before in the troupes of Spaghetti Westerns. By then, if it hasn't lost you then you are a really a trooper.From there it goes into Science Fiction....or more science fiction...but that doesn't improve the film, you're already wondering what you're going to cook for dinner tomorrow.By the time the big reveal hits and you seen the Indians...the dinner your thinking about has turned gourmet and it's seriously going to wow your girlfriend who was kind enough to watch it with you despite liking neither genre.And by the end of the movie you want to take a nap and are wondering how something like that could have happened in a movie with "Cowboys & Aliens" as the title

Aliens have landed in the American Wild West to obtain gold & kidnap a few locals. Good job James Bond, I mean a ripped Daniel Craig, is on hand to take them on along with Harrison Ford and a motley bunch of bandits, Indians & town folk. With it's somewhat silly title I expected this to be a comedy, and while there are a few funny one liners in the script it is sadly played straight. In fact it's probably too scary for younger audiences. Big budget, big names but after a promising start I thought that it flatlined until the action packed finale, by which time I'd lost a lot of interest. I watched this at home on my 28" TV, no doubt it would have been far better on the big screen but at least I didn't pay for the privilege.

COWBOYS & ALIENS is one of those "what it says on the tin" type movies, obvious in content from the title. I wasn't expecting to like it much, feeling that modern-day science fiction films tend to be all about the big CGI effects without much warmth or character to go with them, but I didn't have worried. This film is refreshingly old-fashioned in feel and for two-thirds of the running time focuses on being a western rather than a sci-fi flick, which is all well and good.Things kick off well with Steve McQueen-alike Daniel Craig waking up in the desert, with an alien wristwatch and a cracking headache/case of amnesia. He's soon involved in a plot involving arch criminal Harrison Ford, but any local enmity is put on hold when the aliens show up in an impressively destructive set-piece. What I liked most about this film is that it's straight-up serious, rather than being loaded with annoying and goofy humour. The performances are therefore better than hoped for, and the direction is fine, with the early, brutal fight scenes really proving successful. Sure, it does go on a little too long, and the ending descends into effects-filled nonsense, but overall this is winning and watchable.

A spaceship arrives in Arizona, 1873, to take over the Earth, starting with the Wild West region. A posse of cowboys and natives are all that stand in their way. The first time i saw the trailer for this film i thought it was lame i mean common Cowboys & Aliens? then i saw the film and i wasn't impressed but after seeing it again god damn it was a pretty good movie Daniel Craig was pretty good so was Olivia Wilde, Harrison Ford, Clancy Brown, Sam Rockwell and honestly everyone did a pretty good job although Paul Dano was useless. My main issue is that i wanted more Ford and more adventure but the film was good besides those 2 small problems and the cgi was amazing maybe the best i've seen in years especially the first contact with the Aliens was terrific if a movie such as this can take a 6.0 and a forgettable superhero sequel such as Iron Man 2 can have a 7.0 shouldn't Zathura also be higher than a 6.1? My point is that those 2 films that were directed by the same director were way better than Iron Man 2 and if you can study this film better and give it a chance i believe that you will not be disappointed 9/10.