Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Cowboys and Aliens

Decent flick, though I have a feeling that it could have been a barn-burner. Came close, though.

There were some neat things. One was that there was a wide variety of firearms, especially handguns. There were top-break revolvers and cartridge conversion revolvers, besides the usual Colt SAAs. There were Winchesters, Henry yellow-boys and Sharps carbines.

The story sort of hung together. There was an element of enemies coming together to fight a deadlier foe. While it may be a stretch to see ranchers and Apaches working together, figure that we aligned ourselves with Stalin's Russia in order to defeat the Germans seventy years ago. There were a few overdone cliches (such as "the cowardly bully son of a powerful man" bit), but nothing fatal to the movie. I was impressed that nobody used the word "aliens"; they referred to the aliens as "demons".

Worth seeing, especially if you can get in for a cheaper matinee.

1 comment:

  1. Some very nice horses in the movie. A gorgeous leopard Appaloosa that deserved, but didn't get, a close up. :)

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