Cowboys vs. Aliens Extended - Page 2

Movie is worth a rental.Saw it the first day and it was 2 stars out of 5 for me.Started out good but kind of never got going.Not much emotion.Few weeks later saw the Rise of the Apes'that was quite good and worth buying on BD.

If this movie is not as good as Rise of the Planet of the Apes, then I won't even RENT IT.......didn't really like the ape movie.....

The Conan remake looks great on BR too. Like CaA, shame about the movie though.

I watched this over the weekend and thought it started out pretty decently but by about the end of the first hour, the movie just sort of spiraled downhill to the point I'd rate it barely above Skyline (although *no* sci-fi movie in recent memory will match the end of that turd).

Yes, the transfer looks great, both the audio and video quality is very good but I'll never feel the need for a second viewing.

+infinity

i thought apes was better, but they are quite different so it's hard to make much of that as a point of reference

cowboys & aliens was decent but it was a bit too much of a regular old boom fest, I mean it had more to it than most of those but it also had less than most really truly top films of its sort, wonder what the disc cut will be like

Where shooting "Iron Man" like a normal movie worked to make Iron Man seem real(erish), C & A really needed to be shot like the comic it was based on with strange camera angles, and more closeups.

It was also about a half hour to long and paced so slow I fell asleep the first time I tried to watch it.

Acting was horrible with Craig scowling the entire movie and Olivia looking like a dear caught in headlights.

Between this and Iron man 2, Jon Favreau is cementing himself as a lucky director that had 1 hit.

I believe Elf was a bonafided hit was well.

Just watched this last night and thought it was fun. I've read all the criticisms so expected the worst but it was a shut your grain off and have some popcorn flick. I'm really not sure what everyone was expecting from a movie titled Cowboys & Aliens

..."shut your grain off..."

Oh... was this one DNR'd too.

Jk.

I can't believe how someone who directed Elf and Iron man can put out this big turkey. What's really weird is that on paper and from still images and trailers this looked like an easy slam dunk good time....Wrong! duped again. Ford was just awful, horrible over acting. Aren't you suppose to get better over time? And is it just me or that Paul Bano is getting stereotyped as the meeky nerdy innocent boy act irritating as heck.

This summer is one big bust, oh well one last chance next week with Apes. But then again anything is prob better than Cowoys n Aliens. I seriously think Favreau thought he would get by on the big cast alone and cheated ppl in that way.

+1 for CVA and Rise of the Apes

+1. The Indians got no love I guess in the movie title. How about "Cowboys & Indians Versus Aliens"?

Not that Super 8 is anything to write home about but C&A blew it away IMHO!

Yeah, of all the things I expected this movie to be, boring was not one of them.

Also, how a movie called "Cowboys and Aliens" can take itself so damn seriously is beyond me. This movie should have had a totally over-the-top "Big Trouble in Little China" vibe to it. In other words, it should have been fun...but it just wasn't.

I rented "Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World" the same day as this and, let me tell you, "The Lost World" looked like an absolute masterpiece in comparison.

That's what I liked about it. It took itself seriously and didn't depend on the one joke "look! We mixed Cowboys with Aliens!" It's sights were a little higher.

It was certainly a bit too long, but I think it's going to find it's audience on home video. All the complaints I read are about what it wasn't. I tend to see a movie for what it is, and so will time. It certainly wasn't a comedy nor attempted to be one.

BTW, the Blu-ray looks absolutely fantastic. Nice to see a movie shot on film and not meant for 3D in these current times.

Anybody have any playback issues on this one?

I watched it the other day (Christmas gift) on my LG BD-390. Right around chapter 4, I think it was (right when the first group of cattle haulers gets wiped out), the video hung at the beginning of that chapter. The audio kept playing, but the video froze. Pause/restart didn't help, but skipping ahead a chapter and then back again worked, and the rest of the movie played fine.

What is it with Jon Favreau's Blu-rays and my LG player? IM2 had issues, too (but those were pretty widespread).

As for the film, it was pretty much what I expected. Cowboys & Aliens. Summer blockbuster fare. I've seen worse.

Had no issues playing it on my Sony 570, audio bitstreaming to an Onkyo 605.

I thought the movie was a lot of fun (received it as a Christmas gift). So much so, that I watched the extended version the following day.

Is this better than WaterWorld??? lol....i'd like to know

This movie...well...underachieves.

A great concept for a popcorn movie.
But, sadly, ends up extremely boring.

Harrison Ford pretty much plays it like a comedy for much of the time. It was so absurd it would have been silly to do it any other way. But it needed a certain amount of tension too.

It was better than I thought it would be. I enjoyed it but once was more than enough. It seemed like something that was greenlit from a pitch without sufficient thought as to just what it would be.

I sure missed or didn't pick up on that. I thought if anything he play it a little too melodramatic.

International Paramount/Dreamworks release only contains the extended version on the BD.

Extras appear to be the same. I didn't realize that the making of, was 40mins long and the conversations with Favreau, 80mins.
I enjoyed Craig talking about the whole Bond unveiling fiasco.

Agreed...at times it was boring.

That's mildly put it. Look at all the "A" list people involved, and this is all they could come up with? This is strike 2 for Lindelof, he better have not effed up Prometheus.

I would not take word of anyone here about this movie (including mine). Rent it and judge for yourself.

I half expected this to be a quick eject rental because of shaky, handheld camera work. Turned out not to have much of that + it had a top notch sound track. IMO, a fun popcorn flick that I could watch again.

What was the first one?

Also, what about the others? He was one of five writers on this film, six if you count one of the story writers. He was also only one of, count 'em, seventeen producers for this film. You can't blame just one person when there's so many people involved.

I doubt Ridley would allow that.

IIRC, RS created the story and supervised its writing.

Lost.

Who says I only blamed him? Look at the first sentence that you didn't bother to quote and maybe read. I singled him out for the reason of Lost which he had a major part, and I ended up wasting a lot of years to follow, and this movie didn't help to "forget that". Yes I realize he's not the principal writer on this, and his comrades have a rather spotty resume as well, but none have worked on a show I wasted in so much that let me down.