[Movie] Cowboys and Aliens - you know what you're getting as soon as you read the title
To be fair, I think the first half of this movie is great. There are a lot of long, slow shots which really feel reminiscent of a spaghetti western. But as it goes on, it eventually just turns into a mindless action movie with lots of quick cuts and as much CGI as they can fit on the screen. So yet another entry into the "yes, this movie is bad, but it's a Weird Western!" category.
Here's a trailer. You can currently watch it on Netflix.
Agreed. It could have been a dumb movie about cowboys trying to lasso UFOs, but it was an actual attempt to make a serious film about a ridiculous concept.
The first half genuinely felt like it had its own thing going on, and then the aliens arrive and instead of it going off the rails it maintains tone and gravitas. I really enjoyed it.
"...And Having Writ" by R.D. Benson, Four aliens land on Earth and meet characters like Edison and Teddy Roosevelt. The explorers aren't the smartest of their species, and problems occur.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is both the laziest and cleverest idea for a novel - the author literally just took the original novel and rewrote it to add zombies.
I was surprised with how well Pride and Prejudice and Zombies followed the original plot. Oh, you free thinkers, learning Chinese martial arts instead of Japanese martial arts, how ever will you fit in?
CGI gets such a bad rep even though it is the backbone of modern scifi media.
You can do a lot with miniatures, puppets and perspective, sure. But the craziest stuff you can only do with CGI.
I'd rather have bad CGI in every scene than have scifi stories written with the least possible scifi in them. Like that trope where some scifi person gets stranded and has to live without technology in nature. Or that they time travel to our time and now has to live like we do but with a crazy view of the world.
The arbitrary rule I gave myself (I don't expect anyone else to follow it) is I'm only including items that actually take place in the 1800s. I'm trying not to do space westerns but we'll see how long that lasts.