Author Topic: Cowboys & Aliens (Read 7854 times)

Colonel Tubby · « **Reply #15 on:** March 22, 2011, 05:13:30 PM »

Just came across this movie this afternoon on Sy-Fi UK, High Plains Invaders.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1388432/

It wasn't that bad even if it does appear to be low budget TV rip-off by someone who read the comic.

Gluteus Maximus · « **Reply #16 on:** March 22, 2011, 08:53:32 PM »

Quote from: Brummie on March 07, 2011, 08:06:37 PM

Well does anyone remember those old B-movies with Cow Boys Vs Dinosaurs?

Are you suggesting "Valley Of The Gwangi" is not an all-time classic piece of cinema?

You're right though - it was shite! I just hope for once that all my high hopes are not going to be dashed. Think Indy IV, Van Helsing, The Wolfman etc etc

Donpimpom · « **Reply #17 on:** March 24, 2011, 03:25:08 PM »

Quote from: Gluteus Maximus on March 22, 2011, 08:53:32 PM

Are you suggesting "Valley Of The Gwangi" is not an all-time classic piece of cinema?

OMG i saw it when i was 9yo and I was shocked! cowboys & dinos!
I though was imposible to find a cooler movie (something really frequent when you are 9yo)

offtopic: last week I saw Rango, I had no idea was a kind of "weird western", not a great movie (the CG are awesome) but I had a good time.
Don't brign your kids with you, all the kids on the cinema where obviously bored.

warrenpeace · « **Reply #18 on:** April 07, 2011, 01:47:07 AM »

Well, who knows? Could it be worse than Wild Wild West? It's probably no more realistic than an alien movie set today, or a few decades in the future. With so many programs about aliens visiting earth in the distant past, something like this was bound to pop up eventually.

By the way, I don't mind the mix of the western genre with sci fi in the Firefly / Serenity series. But this Cowboys and Aliens thing looks a bit like a horror / thriller. Maybe it will be a bit more spiffy than Dr. Who in the Wild Wild West.

leadfool · « **Reply #19 on:** April 07, 2011, 07:06:03 AM »

I am looking forward to it, then again I like westerns.

This might create a whole new genre. Instead of Steampunk we could have,.... Nukeposse.

Rob_bresnen · « **Reply #20 on:** April 07, 2011, 10:36:03 AM »

Wild Wild West was one of the most god-awful fills ever made. I love Wll Smith, and all of his films, exsept that pile of donkey doo.

back on topic, Cowboys vs aliens- sounds stupid, and I saw the trailer at the pictures, and it provoked howls of unintended laughter from everyone. I would have to say it looks a bit naff, even with it's budget. I wont go an see it- perhaps I will watch it on Horror chanel late at night in a few years.

That said- I watched Outlander on DVD- that's got vikings vs aliens- and that was actually quite enjoyable.

leadfool · « **Reply #21 on:** April 08, 2011, 06:42:56 AM »

Not sure how anyone thinks of cowboys vs aliens as a horror movie. I didn't see a single zombie, vampire, chainsaw or teenage girl. Aren't those the elements of a horror movie? At least according to Elvira.

The movie trailer has horses, sixguns and wood buildings, so it is a western. Even "The good the bad and the wierd" met that defination. Maybe a bad western, but not a horror movie.

Wild Wild West took a fun campy tv show and turned it in to a unbelievable steampunk farce. The horror was sitting through it.

Donpimpom · « **Reply #22 on:** April 08, 2011, 08:30:01 AM »

to me the idea of a bunch of cowboys having an alien encounter sounds cool, but I dont know why when I look that trailer something looks crap.
Maybe the problem is Harrison Ford trying to be a badass Gene Hackman style?
Maybe is my subconscious sees 007 and Han solo dressed as cowboys?
I dont know whats wrong here, but usually IMHO a really cool trailer could hide a crap movie, but if the trailer looks bad is very unusual the films turns better.
I hope to be wrong, honestly

Rob_bresnen · « **Reply #23 on:** April 08, 2011, 02:25:25 PM »

does anyone remember the old-school Battlestar Galactica story when they went to a frontier town to refuel, and it was so obviously an old set from a cowboy movie. and there was a cylon there who was the sherif, having lost his memory in a crash landing. I remember thinking that was naff, even though I was about nine years old.

richarDISNEY · « **Reply #24 on:** April 08, 2011, 02:51:05 PM »

IMO, its looks lame...

Gluteus Maximus · « **Reply #25 on:** April 08, 2011, 10:02:15 PM »

How could Indy/Han and James Bond dressed as cowboys battling aliens in the Wild West possibly fail?

Get the damn thing made in feckin' Hollywood, that's how

Looks like it will join a very long list of failed F/SF/Horror etc movies based on graphic novels.

At least we've got Hellboy 1 & 2.

General · « **Reply #26 on:** August 01, 2011, 02:36:31 AM »

I just saw Cowboys & Aliens, definitely a summer flick worth seeing! The depth of the characters was intriguing with plenty of carnage and green-blood splattering to boot!

HerbyF · « **Reply #27 on:** August 01, 2011, 02:51:09 AM »

Quote

Wild Wild West was one of the most god-awful fills ever made. I love Wll Smith, and all of his films, exsept that pile of donkey doo.

But it generated so many cool toys.

Digitarii · « **Reply #28 on:** August 01, 2011, 03:53:28 AM »

I saw C&A today, I think it was a good summer flick and I agree that the depth of the characters is surprisingly well-developed. I think the premise of the whole thing is a bit far-fetched, but most movies coming out of Hollyweird anymore are like that. But as far as bad western movies based on a comic, Jonah Hex was much worse. I watched that yesterday. Bleah! Not even good ideas for gaming from that piece of celluloid crap. C&A has several potential playable scenes to try out and it makes for an interesting cross-genre game.

goon3423 · « **Reply #29 on:** August 01, 2011, 05:02:31 AM »

I just saw this today with the boy, it's a fun popcorn movie! Nothing that's gonna change cinema or anything but we both enjoyed it.

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