WTF Happened to COWBOYS & ALIENS? 

That's the same for me. I watched years after it's released on cable & I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Same for me. Totally agree.

it's times like these, critics are stupid because they are totally forgetting the whole purpose for going to the movies! Your fun entertainment value! I'm glad this movie exists so we can see a possible dimension where cowboys have a showdown with some aliens and their fancy technology! What a great ride!

Same here. Good movie.

I couldn't have said it better myself. Watch and enjoyed it several times

Kind of underrated, imo

Agreed

Same.

Dito

+Pizzatime Ditto

Same

Same, I really enjoyed it. My only quibble was with the alien designs - to me, they seemed TOO physically formidable, so much that I didn't fully believe the humans had a chance.

same

In my experience, the more a movie is slammed by the critics the better I like it 👍

@@heathernewman7930 yes, often the case.

As a western it has good characters and storylines as ufo movie it covers Ancient Aliens theories and myths. Totally original movie.

I thought it was good and HF and DC are my guys. You cant name one bad HF movie.

@@jprosey Hollywood Homicide?

The beginning of the film always gave me a weird negative vibe. Still can't put my finger on it. 2am here. It's on the lockdown watchlist for tomorrow. Can't help but feel Gary Larson may have left an impression.

Birds, bats, and balloons.

Exactly making fun of your own movie and spoofing it is a recipe for disaster. If that was the case they would have cast Ryan Reynolds instead of Craig.

For the same reason ALOT of people seem to think every movie should be like Shakespeare level, nothing can just be enjoyable or entertaining anymore....Were getting to the point were every movie practically has to be some high brow thought provoking experience.

@@lutherheggs451 they are outnumbered by a hell of a lot who want humour in everything. Just look at what sells

@@lutherheggs451 hmmm I don’t know. Transformers and the F&F movies say something else. These movies are so dumb and disjointed, they put me to sleep, but they make a ton of money.

Studios just don't know what the audience likes, and right now they don't even care anymore. One recent example for total studio cluelessness: In 2007 Damian Lewis starred in a great TV show about a cop (Charlie Crews), who got $50 million as a compensation for spending 12 years in prison for crimes he didn't commit. He still went back to work after that, but his former buddies at the precinct (some of which had helped to convict him, although he was innocent) didn't like that very much and tried to get him to quit with some subtle bullying and using his new partner Dani Reese (who was still dealing with her past and current substance abuse) as a spy to collect dirt on him and force him out. In addition to navigating workplace intrigues, he also had to get used to technological and societal developments he had missed due to his time in prison - like those stupid sensor taps in public bathrooms, that require you to use Italian levels of sign language for 20 minutes on the whole room, before you accidentally hit the spot and they spray water for 3 seconds. And the event that got him convicted seems to have been orchestrated by a conspiracy, that is connected to organised crime, so he has to solve that as well... while his prison buddy Ted (former CEO convicted for insider trading), who moved in with him and became his financial advisor kept buying shit like orange plantations with his money, because he thought he was Lieutenant Dan or something. It was a really well-made, complex show with interesting characters, elaborate plot lines, great single episodes and at the same time a good overarching story, that connected everything. I liked the actors, the setting and the subtle humour of it, that came organically with the main character's difficulty of catching up to modern life - as if he had been in a coma for 12 years. Many characters had some "internal dynamite": Charlie had become a fruit-loving zen master in prison, but we were kind of waiting for him to drop that and go totally ballistic, because he had been mistreated and traumatised so badly in those 12 years, that he could as well have snapped and become a serial kill*r. Ted was always on the brink of committing fraud or running off with the money, although he was a really good friend - but letting him take care of the money was like asking Winnie the Pooh to guard your 50 million honey jars. Dani never really got off her alcohol and other drugs, and for a while her loyalty was more than questionable. TL; DR: The show was well-liked and had good numbers, but was cancelled after 2 seasons because of the world economic crisis (2008). Allegedly people didn't want to watch drama anymore, because they had enough financial drama at home, so it was dumped for some silly comedy shows. I can't confirm that at all - "Life" was so immersive, that it took my mind off of all the real life bs, that was going on back then. Even when the show runners were told they wouldn't be renewed for a third season, they did a great job of wrapping everything up before the end of the second season. They cared enough, that they didn't want to leave the audience with a bunch of open ends, and it honestly didn't feel too rushed. I have no idea who shat in the producers' empty skull cavities back then, but taking "Life" off the air to make something like "Drop Dead Diva" was a grave mistake.

He directed elf

Um...he had a pretty notable career even before ELF.

It's called SWINGERS. And Favreau didn't play Rudy, Sean Astin did.

@@Geronimo_Jehoshaphat I meant to type “IN” not “AS”

Same. I actually enjoyed it more than the original graphic novel. I think it's really underrated.

it's actually a good movie.. i never actually listen to other reviewers who think they knew it all.. :)

was the theater packed?

@@octoman511 no it wasn't, but I only go to matinées, since I bartend and work weekends.

😉👍👍👍

was the theater packed?

Movies used to? Mate, movies were always political, you're delusional if you think they aren't.

@@brucesnow7125 Not all were, as he pointed out. Popcorn movies rarely were, entertainment was considered a worthy outcome. Now even popcorn movies have to have a political message clumsily shoehorned in. And on that point, politics can be included in a movie, if organically done, rather than the jarring sophomoric soapboxing that we see more today. I think the people who you see making the "EveRYtHing iS PolITiCs" claim are the exact types who think politics = egotistically bludgeoning others over the head with their asinine political viewpoints.

@@paulw5039 what popcorn movies are we talking about? Even the most outlandish stories will have a political message in them. Politics and ideologies are intertwined, movies even unintentionally send message. Be honest buddy boy, you're not really against injection of politics, rather you're only against politics you disagree with. I get it, usually it's on the nose and only done to collect tokens. But that's the thing, this was the case from the damn start. Freaking Indiana Jones movies had politics in them. You don't believe me? How about Temple of Doom pretty much depicting colonists as good guys who are there to save India from barbarism. I'm pretty sure you had absolutely zero problems with that. What about Commando? Insanely ridiculous action movie. Well, it classically depicts America's interventions towards other countries as a positive. Matrix's backstory is that he heroically took down an evil South American dictator, and now he is taking revenge. Matrix proceeds to single handedly destroy his entire army and save the unnamed South American country from the coup, while also protecting his daughter. This is classic American exceptionalism in full force. And before you start accusing me of something, I adore the movies I listed. I'm just not blind and see that there are clear messages there.

@@brucesnow7125 "..egotistically bludgeoning others over the head with their asinine political viewpoints". Your soapbox rant just proved my point. Grow up, seriously.

@@brucesnow7125 Oh, and I realise you'll take that as an invitation to blast out another egocentric wall of text. Just don't, mkay? Your opinion isn't nearly as important as you think it is and all it does is make you look childish.

was the theater packed?

Yeah. I saw both Smurfs and Cowboys & Aliens in theatre opening weekend, and this wasn't the movie I walked out on. I honestly had a lot of fun with it. I had no idea where it was going, but in the good way, Craig was a blast... 7/10, underrated honestly. I get why it flopped but only because it's not the kind of movie that's gonna play well in theatres I think, it's something that should've thrived on home release, but it was too soon to be an Amazon Original and too late to be a vhs cult hit. It reminds me of the John Carter movie for that; they had similar issues.

The movie was not silly enough. It took itself too seriously. You do get movies that blend comedy and serious drama successfully.

@@keyaamabrahams7984 Western and Alien genre isn't silly or funny, it's always drama and horror respectfully. Whoever thought mixing both result in comedy, should really reconsider their life view.

@@SpecialProjectY I did not say westerns and aliens movies are funny but when you mix it together it did not need to take itself so seriously. What I meant to say is that there are movies that manage to mix comedy, horror or drama together successfully. An example is Spielbergs own movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Mostly a serious drama but it does have moments of comedy in it.

@@keyaamabrahams7984 What.was.a.comedy.in.Close.encounters.of.the.Third.Kind?!? O.o

I too had high expectations since I liked all the concepts and yet I see now the main flaw IMO was cross-purposed storylines. I didn't like the plot angle that aliens needed our gold! What was an action western sci fi film combo, turned into a heist film too!!? The Mandalorian is done right in that the aliens are interspersed and accepted, not just villainized and one dimensional. It's Still confusing to me that simple savage (pardon the pun) monsters can create such intricate sophisticated devices and tech - maybe the same could be said of us.

was the theater packed?

@@octoman511 full attendance when I went

Never thought of it that way, War of the Worlds was actually written during this era.

Their is a BBC 2019 VERSION set in victorian Britain as in the books .Its not to bad and can be found on Amazon prime .

Right. This and John Carter. Why didn’t people like these movies? They are great entertainment.

Yeah, a fat guy in AICN said exactly de same thing

I also liked, how they never said things like: spaceship/ blasters etc but used time appropriate words to describe all the alien stuff. Edit: do they even acknowledge them as aliens? Like creatures not from this world? It’s been a while since I’ve seen the movie so I don’t remember. I wanna say they referred to the aliens as demons but I might be wrong

@@jl.7739 IIRC, they called them demons until Ella explained the situation.

First 30 minutes or so are perfect, then once they hit the road it really goes downhill

@@wiseauserious8750 Agreed!!!

Yup. It’s an actual western. No goofy „wild Wild West“ shit here.

😅😂😂😆😁😁😁😁😆😆😆 Now we have his final JB movie about to be released. I wonder what happened Daniel? I guess the money they gave you was too much to pass lol. Not worth self-inflicting yourself when you get paid in the multi-millions. 😉