Cowboys and Aliens

There is  very little in the way of new releases in theatres that gets me excited. In my 45 years of life and 40 years of actively watching what amounts to literally thousands of films, I HAVE SEEN IT ALL! And now-a-days 98% of it is CRAP.
Enter the new film , "Cowboys and Aliens" which is opening today (Friday, July 29/11) in almost every city in North America.
I've been to the website for this movie (click on the title of this post and go there) and there are not only some really cool things to look at and navigate through, but you will be drooling to get to this movie. I know I am.
Let me start by saying that I am not your average middle-aged, female movie-going. I rarely enjoy a movie if something doesn't blow-up and/or someone doesn't out-run a fire ball. But when all is said and done, there are only TWO kinds of movies: GOOD & BAD.

I have yet to see "Cowboys & Aliens" but I predict that this is definitely going to be in the good category. Did I mention I also love Sci-Fi movies? Yup, yup!

This film is about your average town in the old west which is run by the iron fisted sheriff, played by Harrison Ford. Into this town walks the "dark stranger", aka. Daniel Craig. (best known for his James Bond films). He has no memory of who he is and only a strange looking shackle on his wrist.
He's barely stepped foot into the town Saloon (these towns always have one) before he is beaten up and headed to the jail. That's when all hell breaks loose. These average town folk are about to be invaded by more than the local rowdies. The "Aliens" that reek havoc on them aren't from this neck of the woods.
Just after these nasty aliens swoop down from the sky and start taking the innocent town folk, Daniel Craig's character finds out that his "shackle" is actually a really cool weapon he can use against these aliens. Not your average Colt 45. Now he and Harrison Ford must join forces and fight the bad guys (or slimy guys in this case). And these "bad guys" make the James Gang look like a herd of new born kittens.
But there's no way that me describing this film will give you the desire to see it like watching the trailers at the website will. So you "mosey on over and see fer yerself."
Let me just make a few comments about the rest of the people involved in the making of this film.
Jon Favreau (Iron Man) directs. The one, two punch of Brian Grazer & Ron Howard are the Producers and the Executive Producer is none other than the man who made movie aliens fashionable to all of us, "The Spielberg".
Not to mention great character actors like, Sam Rockwell (always good for a thrill), Adam Beach (who hasn't he been?), Olivia Wilde (Beauty personified and eyes that look  deeper than a pool of water) and of course two other guys. Uh? What were their names? Oh. Right. Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig.
If this movie is just half-ways interesting, THIS will be the movie of the summer . And guess what. James Cameron ain't in sight!

A small foot note that I have to put in. Don't let anyone tell you that the combination of the OLD WEST and ALIENS hasn't been done before. I'm a hard core "Browncoat" and if you don't know what that is, you haven't seen the movie, "Serenity" or the TV series it's based on , "Firefly". If you need to see more of this kind of action when "Cowboys and Aliens" is over, check out both, "Serenity" & "Firefly" (created by Joss Wheadon).

And of course, there is this other "little" TV show that came out in the mid 1960's that was sold as "wagon train to the stars". You might have heard of it. It's called, "STAR TREK". You might want to check it out. But just a suggestion.

Also, I welcome anyone who has seen "Cowboys & Aliens" to come back to this blog and tell us about it in a comment. "We'd shur love ta have ya' !"