seriously? COWBOYS & ALIENS harrison ford daniel craig olivia wilde sam rockwell jon favreau dir

seriously?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0409847/

poll

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH7KZD5vGBY

okay I am someone who will go see a horribly conceived movie in a heartbeat (see: "Catwoman", "Ultraviolet") and this just seems like a terrible idea in every imaginable way

given the names attached, I will not be surprised if it ends up being decent but COME ON

like even my mom lol'd at this trailer and she made me see Jurassic Park III with her so

what should have been a troy mcclure joke

or a red dead redemption expansion pack

IS ALL TOO REAL

she made me see Jurassic Park III with her

What the hell was that about

"We see it or you're disowned."

oh this seems so batshit insane and ridiculous that it HAS to be amazing. or not. how strange.

Well at least they have a theme song, just need a quick rewording here and there:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHZymHVsfBU

I would be lying if I said I wasn't going to see this in the theater, because I am, largely because I have a terrible sickness, but COME ON

You are the Zen master of mixed messages.

I read something where the producers were worried that audiences were laughing at the trailer. How through the looking glass do you have to be to think people won't find cowboys vs ufos funny?

Ned, my mom and i have a running deal since we never can agree on what movie to see. She picks one and I pick one. On one hand, I can occassionally get my mom to see stuff like Almost Famous or The New World or Slumdog Millionaire. On the other hand, I pretty much know every movie Will Smith is in.

most of Will Smith's movies are awesome, your mom OTM

except for Bagger Vance

Whiney: all is clear. And that sounds pretty reasonable as a plan, whatever the results.

Anyway, enjoy!

http://ironman3.org/iron-man-2-news/set-visit-cowboys-and-aliens-part-ii

tbf, she might have recommended the New World, but I was the one that liked it.

I know with mom, I've seen Independence Day, Hancock and I Am Legend in the theater

This year i think i'm gonna have mom and dad see True Grit

has someone called Cowboys & Aliens True Shit yet?

dying

fail rider

Got to be better than...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei5l3r1dV4I

The movie stars an amazing cast of actors who have experience with both sci-fi and Western films including Daniel Craig (Casino Royale)[...]

jesus wept

inb4 it's a metaphor for western imperialism, district 9 style

omg @ Robot Wars: The Movie

huge ackman

BRRRRING IT

could be a pip, who knows, though the fav is pretty blah

the original idea for 'alien 3' wasn't so different

Wait in that trailer did he just impale some guy in the nuts (0:30 in)?

yes. yes he did

real steel looks terrible, cowboys and aliens looks rad

One of my favorite comics stories was a western/sf mashup from Eerie or Creepy, so I'm inclined to be enthusiastic about this.

yeah the comics nerd in me fucking loves genre mashups like that. when i was a kid i had a whole 'space marines accidentally time travel back to the middle ages' comic planned out in my head

It didn't hurt that this story was drawn by John Severin, the most underrated artist in the medium's history imo.

this high-concept was sold to movie producers by a dude paying some hacks to make a shit "graphic novel", actually paying comic shops to order it, and then going to Hollywood with figures that showed it was the top-selling graphic novel for the month

for real? ahahahahahaha

my company tried that precise method with some horrific bullshit comic and managed to get it into a few stores, but it never picked up steam. i don't think that strategy is particularly uncommon.

Todd McFarlane explained.

I like alien invasion movies, I like Westerns . . . this could work! It's like doing "War of the Worlds" as a period piece, except in the 19th-century American West instead of 19th-century England.

also olivia wilde

For some reason I thought this would be an awesome movie but now that I'm watching the trailer I'm not sure. Like..."Ohhhh I see you meant COWBOYS...and ALIENS..not "cowboys" and "aliens".

But I will probably see it because maybe it will be funny?

lotta crazy stuff in this article

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/movies/30cowboys.html

Speaking by telephone on Monday, Eddie Egan, president for marketing at Universal Pictures, said he was not concerned that an audience trained on wise-cracking period adventures like “Sherlock Holmes” and the “Pirates of the Caribbean” series now has some catching up to do.

“The trailer is the first very public step in reconciling the tone of the movie with the more immediate effect of the title on its own,” said Mr. Egan, who acknowledged that the notion of cowboys fighting aliens could seem funny.

By the time the film, which cost about $100 million to produce, opens next July, the studio expects advertising and future promotions to have persuaded almost everyone that Mr. Favreau’s movie is a tough-minded adventure on the order of Clint Eastwood’s “Unforgiven” —with aliens.

Unforgiven sure was a tough-minded adventure

also doesn't help that skyline already did the "aliens zipping people off the ground OMG" thing this year

This thing is gonna be Waterworld levels of oops

did hollywood always bankroll ridic. movies like this or did this start with snakes on a plane

For some reason I thought this would be an awesome movie but now that I'm watching the trailer I'm not sure. Like..."Ohhhh I see you meant COWBOYS...and ALIENS..not "cowboys" and "aliens".

But I will probably see it because maybe it will be funny?

― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Wednesday, December 15, 2010 8:57 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark

hah like good ol' american cowboys have to defend arizona against illegal mexican immigrants?

wait that would be a sad and topical movie

This thing is gonna be Waterworld levels of oops

considering this allegedly costed 100 million in 2010 dollars and that costed 175 million in 1995 dollars, nobody's going to be pistolwhipped too hard over it

ugh, did i really say "costed". my bad.

Also I don't think Jon Favreau aspires to Costner-esque levels of auterism or self-importance.

i don't think that strategy is particularly uncommon.

it is extremely uncommon

i have heard of other instances, idk

it has become extremely common to make a shit comic to try and sell your high concept - there are multiple publishers dedicated to nothing else

no-one else has managed to fiddle the numbers by throwing money at it, mainly because no-one in comics has any money

gotta admit i will see this in the theaters

good cast? favreau is p good? cowboys! aliens!

Does indeed look like a red dead redemption expansion pack.

ok lol @ the graphic novel's wikipedia entry photo:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboys_and_aliens

oh wait i'm a schmuck i thought someone...

this could be kewl but harrison ford looks like he's phoning it in again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGNUJWf1Ysk

Harrison Ford just looks like he's wandered onto the set by mistake - ALL THE TIME

Hey, you can always get ready for Favreau's next film:

http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2010/12/14/jon-favreau-explains-why-he-traded-iron-man-3-for-disneyland-trip/

Chris · 1 hour ago
Is this an "Onion" article?!?!

I will say that I really, really like Jon Favreau and because of "Elf" and "Iron Man" I give him the benefit of the doubt. For good or ill.

Gales of laughter in 3...2...1:

You're so Australian dollars.

i wonder if it's just the matter-of-fact dumbness of the title that makes this seem so ridiculous. because alien invasion in eighteen-and-whenever doesn't sound any more ridiculous to me than alien invasion nowadays, or alien invasion in some speculative future. i like the idea, but the preview didn't do much for me.

xpost Ned: ahem. Money is money. Australian or otherwise :)

Actually I thought you used koala pelts down there (after the meat was used for tacos, of course).

Money is money, Ned.

cf: Isle of Yap

Favreau is set to direct “Magic Kingdom,” which the 44-year-old filmmaker described as a family fantasy adventure that will tap into the vintage Disney creations that “loomed so large in the imagination” of his generation

Hey, the first movie based on a Stanley Elkin novel. Hoy!
I suppose I should be glad that it won't be any such thing.

stuff like "Marvel and I both came of age together,” Favreau said. “The years that we shared were a pivotal experience" makes me miss the auteurist self-importance of a Kevin Costner.

Nevermind, this is plenty of self-importance for any director.

I can’t begin to tell you how fulfilling the perennial nature of ‘Elf’ on television has been for me,” Favreau said. “It’s great to be able to connect parents with children both emotionally and through humor. I look forward to exploring family entertainment once again and examining the specifics of our day-to-day lives against the backdrop of an extraordinary adventure.”

Walt was able to expose me as a child to the full array of emotions, including fear and sorrow.

At what point did Favreau start referring to Walt Disney as "Walt"

the more I think about it the more disgusting it gets

the cowboy, the symbol of American imperialism and self-expression, defeating alien forces which are of course hostile

god forbid aliens actually do turn up here and see the kind of attitude that is held towards extraterrestrials (or indeed any ideation of 'the other')

hey, sometimes an alien is just an alien inscrutable foreign heathen with a raygun

fuck this attitude

god forbid aliens actually do turn up here and see the kind of attitude that is held towards extraterrestrials (or indeed any ideation of 'the other')

― schlomo replay (acoleuthic), Wednesday, December 15, 2010 12:15 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

good grief

i'm worried that they're gonna notice that i like boobs

anyway, we have (the brilliant) 'monsters' if you want a pacifist cant-we-all-just-get-along alien invasion movie

need to see that acshully

contenderizer i made my peace w/ boobs read yr blogs

just joshin, aco...

and yeah, monsters is way higher on my list of to-see alien invasion flicks, too. preview makes it look like D9 though, right?

haven't seen preview

i think its quite a bit better than D9, it's not as heavy handed and anyway it's just kind of better

thought Monsters was boring myself, closest thing to an exciting moment was a jurassic park rip-off and the frequent allusions to real life border issues don't add up to much (which admittedly keeps it from being too heavy handed). ending's mega-cheesy, too. director's a cgi dude and i guess he should what you could pull off on the cheap, but other than that i don't get what's great about it.

i guess he showed what you could pull off, I mean

closest thing to an exciting moment was a jurassic park rip-off

this is also true of pan's labyrinth

^ban's labyrinth

i liked the characters (so also liked the ending) and i thought it looked great -- wasn't really about having big 'war of the worlds' exciting moments

xp

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2011-02/59210800.jpg

Indiana jones and the glowing wrist thingy

You Only Glowing Wrist Thingy Twice

Iron Man 3: Casino Royale

Tombstone: Revenge of the Glowing Wrist Thingys

This is happening in a couple of weeks, people - where's the buzz?

lol (but still, if this turns into a revival of the genre and Firefly is revived as a result of that, I wouldn't mind, I guess)

that parenthetical aside will never happen

Yeah, probably for the better, after all this time.

I would love to see The Ass-Kicking Adventures of Mal and River but I feel like everyone involved has moved on

I think Firefly would hold up FINE. But it's several levels of magnitude above whatever this thing is.

xp oh did you mean like a re-make? Nahh.

god forbid aliens actually do turn up here and see the kind of attitude that is held towards extraterrestrials (or indeed any ideation of 'the other')

― lol, lolday 10 lol 2loll etc.

do u guys realize harrison ford is 69 YEARS OLD

You'd think a movie with this title would convey a sense of campy fun but all it looks like is guys that look like they're always taking a shit and and a magic bracelet.

ha! totally otm

This was a lot of fun. Plenty of great fighting. New Mexico is gorgeous. My kid liked this a lot better than he would have liked Captain America, I think.

http://cdn.7static.com/static/img/sleeveart/00/003/134/0000313498_350.jpg

all week ive been singing "cowboys and aliens, they're cowboys and aliens" to the tune of "englishman in new york"

http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/

Cowboys & Aliens did not get any late night young male business

this earns $36.5m, but is considered a semi-flop? kind of shows how little faith they have in this stuff generating any kind of momentum. what a disaster for universal-nbc.

Cowboys and aliens - who won?

did not get any late night young male business

sequel of cowboys & aliens on grindr

Courtesy of the great Abhay Khosla:

Who will want to premiere their movie at Comic-Con after this? Screening a movie at Comic-Con is like not having sex for a while, then paying a hooker. You get your mojo back, but does that mean anything in the real world?

- Anonymous talent agent, commenting on the fall-out from Cowboys & Aliens.

reduced studio presence was one of the big stories at comiccon this year. favreau's probably one of the few true believers remaining - he gives the con a ton of credit for helping 'make' Iron Man

This was so much fun. Intensely stupid and completely ridiculous for most of it, but still so much fun. I love Harrison Ford in full-on ham-it-up mode. I loved how much time you could spend counting the film cliches as they ticked by.

By the way, if our showing tonight (95% full) and the line waiting for the next screening was any indication, this might not freefall too far in the box office this weekend.

the biggest crime for me was that the aliens were totally generic and boring. if you're gonna make a picture with aliens, show us something wild and creepy!

Heard a lot of complaints lately that Hollywood aliens have become so abstract it's hard to conceive how they even function, let alone which appendage to be afraid of.

they need to make aliens that look like a giant butt

At least you'd know what part to be afraid of!

yup

Sadly, Harrison Ford Is No Longer a Movie Star

i could've told u that in 1999

Saw this at the cinema (for free) last night - enjoyable fluff, but could have been so much better if it had been cleverer or more charming. Favreau's good at directing snappy dialogue, but there was none in this.

re the Hollywood aliens complaint: a lot of it is because Hollywood seems to only know how to 'create' two types of aliens: Greys (aka little green men types) or Draco-reptilians (the types in Cowboys & Aliens, the Alien movies, etc). what would REALLY be interesting is if Hollywood made a movie where the Nordic alien race was vying for control of Earth, but they'll never do that.

sorry, i have a friend who is alien-obsessed and explained all of this to me after we saw Cowboys and Aliens.

I blame JJ Abrams.

Really wanted to enjoy this, i didn't enjoy it at all!

what didn't you like about it?

I wanted to enjoy it to. It was badly written, poorly conceived, the dialogue was atrocious and although there was a cast of awesome actors they just didn't gel together. Worst film ever.

I thought it worked pretty well. The only thing I didn't really like was the weird subplot between Harrison Ford and Paul Dano. They're obviously not blood, but that's really important to the enjoyment of the movie. Aliens had an awesome fucking hive. Daniel Craig had an awesome laser. Harrison Ford should have been in a western before this, to be honest. Pretty women. The glorious scenery of New Mexico. That fucking upside-down boat - badass! I had at least two genuine scares.

Liked it better than the Pirates 4 and Green Hornet. Way the fuck better than Thor.

oh, that flying scene was cool too.

In no way was it better than Thor.

why was this not converted to 3D

now, thor came across as disjointed to me! also didn't like the presentation of valhalla.

haven't seen this thor was crap

Really enjoyed the character bits in this, nice & unexpected for a summer blockbuster. A Sam Rockwell character interacting with a Harrison Ford character was great but talk about a clash of two different universes.

Also really enjoyed Daniel Craig's sheepish "....It fell off" line-reading

The non-CGi aliens in close-up were great.

Liked it better than the Pirates 4 and Green Hornet

high praise indeed

an okay film, not great, not setting my world on fire. I liked the 'cowboy' elements rather than anything the 'alien' scenes had to offer.

Underwhelming all round. Though I saw it dubbed into Spanish with English subtitles, so that probably didn't help.

So when does this movie open?

had forgotten this existed til it caught my eye on tubi and i gave it a spin. did the nra executive produce this shit? just straight up gun propaganda basically.