Writing a review on Thanksgiving can provoke all those hushed up emotions, especially since I'm not American and clearly see what some out there choose to ignore: minorities, people! Those who were majority, at some point. So, yeah, it's Hollywood, it's just a movie but, come on! If you've already decided that the movie's name is going to be Cowboys and Aliens (which is, withouth a doubt, one of the worst possible names you deepshits could come up with) then you might as well add Indians to it. Afterall, half of the movie has them united with cowboys to fight aliens.Man, even typing this premise seems weird and stupid. But, it's actually not so bad. There are some less plausable things in it (why aliens start attacking cowboys: gold.....seriously? Gold?!) and some that are, on a certain emotional level, ok (thanks to Harrison Ford, my favourite grumpy old guy). And putting Daniel Craig as a lead was not a bad decision, his Bond-ish presence pulls this movie forward quite nicely........so why was it a blockbuster failure?
I mean, there were far worse movies than this that brought in the viewers and money, why not this one? Here's my teory: whenever there's Damon Lindelof's name attached to anything that flops, I tend to blame him. Afterall, didn't he fucking ruin 6 years of my life with the last season of LOST erupting in the disgusting finale that jumped all the sharks in television history? (and yes, I will never get over it)
Back to the point. Aliens look quite all right, the ending is not horribly bad and even though Olivia Wilde is in this one, again!!!!, one can tolerate her. Anyhow, I didn't particularly love it but I liked it. Which is saying a lot, having in mind that my last couple of reviews were hatred incarnated.
7 out of 10.
