Cowboys & Aliens

As bad as it seems.

Trust Steven Spielberg to manage to get aliens into just about every possible situation. He managed to squeeze them into Indiana Jones, which I wasnt too thrilled about, and now he has managed to make a western movie with aliens.

As you might have guessed, we watched Cowboys & Aliens yesterday evening. Quite an okay movie. I wasnt as disturbed by seeing aliens in a western movie as I feared. Harrison Ford iswellHarrison Ford which is always a good thing.

The one thing that bugged me was that the alien bit was just illogical in places. We have a space traveling species from the stars and yet it was possible for a bunch of puny humans to not only walk straight up to their space ship, but to climb up on it as well and throw some old-fash...

This is an interesting concept, unfortunately it's already been done. And there are so many tropes in this it's hard to appreciate anything... except for Olivia Wilde and Sam Rockwell. They can stay.

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 tha...