(Sorry for the weird upload - I needed a placeholder and it decided to just hold the first sentence! Technology continues to confound me.)
So, when I first saw the trailer for Cowboys and Aliens, I thought: "WTF?" Then I thought about the last time Indy hooked up with a Bond-James-Bond and decided to hold my reservations. Besides, the trailer looked pretty good - funny and action-y.
Then I watched C&A. This movie isn't really funny. Like, at all. There's abduction, body mutilations and violations, death, horror... very little comedy (though, I did chuckle a couple of time, I felt guilty doing it). This is a perfect synthesis of Spaghetti Western (with all its over-the-top, anti-hero characters) and Sci-Fi (though not as creepy as the Alien series, a definite contender in the Independence Day realm). Weird thing is, I totally bought it. I totally believed that aliens showed up to harvest humans and gold. Maybe I'm getting a little too good at this suspension of disbelief thing. 3.5 out 5 stars.
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