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'Cowboys & Aliens' Is Not Kidding, You Guys
"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."
I was really excited about the ridiculous movie I had imagined. Now this sounds like the worst possible permutation of the forever doomed Hollywood-copying-comics-copying-Hollywood-copying-pulps human centipede.
Them li'l green varmints opened up a whole can of whoop-ass, I reckon.
I'm tired of these motherfucking aliens in this motherfucking saloon!
Can we pause a moment to note that James Bond has a cooler gadget in the trailer for this thing than in his actual James Bond movies?
I actually think the trailer looks pretty awesome. I would go to see this movie. But they just need a new name. There's no way to not laugh at "Cowboys and Aliens."
How the West was Facehumped.
Probe on the Range
Or the sequel, Probe on the Range II: 3:10 to Uranus
Lonesome Glove
"Cowboys and Aliens and Predators"?
UFOrgiven
The Good, The Bad and The Green.
Blazing Satellites.
Dances with Aliens
Lone Star Wars
A Tentacleful of Dollars
Tentacles n' Tumbleweeds
A Fistful of Galactic Standard Credits
Two Martians for Sister Sara
They Died with Their Moon Boots On.
The Lone Space Ranger
The Good, the Bad, and the Hideous Monstrosity from Blorgulon Seven
Big Little Green Man.
High Space Drifter
Saloon 9 from Outer Space
Rio Greedo
The Thing from Laramie
The Searchers for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
The Man Who Shot Roy Batty
True Asteroids
The Magnificent 7 Jedi (based on The Seven Space Samurai)
@sigerson: Done and done.
I think a huge part of the problem is the title. It honestly sounds like a placeholder title that someone came up with early in the development process that for whatever reason never got turned into something that is at all good or that at all conveys the intended tone of the film.
movies like this are why god invented acid.
"Whadya mean 'we,' Obi-Wan Kenobi?"
Favreau's description of the "cowboy" element as "a 'by-the-book, right-down-the-middle western' of the kind once made by Sergio Leone and John Ford" provides some insight into the origins of the problem.
I can't wait for this movie. And I love the title. It gives me another opportunity to post the Joshua Tree weirdness of the same name:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bmVCmPUyJ4