The Cowboys vs Aliens trailers hits the web on wednesday and i can't wait. I love westerns, alien invasion movies, genre mash-ups, explosions, director Jon Favreau and the cast. So what could go wrong? Well like a beaten dog, I've at least learned to taper my expectations. Here's why:
5. Wild Wild West: A Mega-budget summer tentpole that combines westerns, science-fiction, and 'comedy'? We've seen this before. Wild Wild West effectively killed Barry Sonnenfeld's (previously impressive) big screen career. The only things to walk away from this with any dignity were the theme song (which i can still sing) and a giant mechanical spider.
4. Jonah Hex: A mega-budget summer tentpole that combines westerns, science fiction and 'comedy'? We've seen this before. Jonah Hex effectively killed Jimmy Hayward's (never impressive) big screen career. The only things to walk away from this movie unscathed were the Mastodon score and Megan Fox's cleavage (see previous).
3. Iron Man 2: Jon Faveau's superhero sequel made a ton of money but anyone who argues its a good movie is lying through their teeth.
It's a boring mess filled with tedious action sequences, an incoherent story, f/x for f/x sake, and wall-to-wall one-liners that let us know the characters care just as little as the audience does. It's better than Wild Wild West or Jonah Hex, but then again so are a lot of things I don't want to stare at for two hours.
2. Vs movies: Freddy, Jason, Alien, Predator, Santa Claus, Martians, The People, Larry Flynt. The bar is not as high as we'd like it to be.
1. Space Cowboys: What if this is just a remake of a shitty Clint Eastwood movie?
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