Sunday, February 26, 2012

Cowboys & Aliens (2011, directed by Jon Favreau)

- Is this movie supposed be fun adventure or serious adventure?  Raiders of the Lost Ark is a fun adventure.  Conan the Barbarian (the version released in 1982 directed by John Milius) is a serious adventure.  From the title you would think that this movie is supposed to be a fun adventure.  However, the movie didn't feel fun.  The tone felt like the filmmakers wanted us to take the movie seriously.  But when I tried to take the movie seriously, I couldn't stop laughing.  The movie did not work; it needed to decide whether or not to be a fun movie or a serious movie.

- Ella, the good alien, says that the bad aliens are kidnapping humans to do experiments on them to find out human weaknesses.  How about using that wrist-gun they use to shoot holes through a human's torso?  Or piercing their pointy fingers through a human's abdomen?  Are those weakness in humans not enough?  And then later Ella says when they're planning to attack the bad alien mining ship that humans have an advantage because the bad aliens underestimate the humans; the humans are like insects to them.  So then why do the bad aliens have a kidnap a whole bunch of humans to find out their weaknesses?

- Ella says that the mining ship is just a scouting mission.  She says that if the scouts get away, then more bad aliens will arrive and take over earth.  So Ella blows up the scout ship.  So this means no more bad aliens will ever come earth, right?  Wrong.  You would think that the scouts sent out signals to the mothership.  Or you would think that if the mothership loses contact with its scout, it would investigate why it hadn't heard back from them.  Nope.  There'll be more bad aliens visiting earth.  Sequel?  Probably not, the box office returns for this movie were low despite it's large budget and star-studded cast.

- alien spaceship uses rockets?  The aliens have conquered interstellar travel and they did it using rockets?

I wouldn't pay money to watch this movie but it's ok to watch it for free.

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