Cowboys & Aliens Reviews

Fun Facts:
• For Cowboys & Aliens, advised the filmmakers with Scott Rushforth, a teacher versed in the history and customs of the Chicahua State University of New Mexico and Enjady Oliver, an Apache Mescalero Apache Reservation.
• Producers also inviting the Mescalero southern New Mexico, Native Americans hired nationwide.
• Where land hostile invaders, is the territory of New Mexico in 1875. At the time the Civil War had ended recently in the American west, Aboriginal Apaches, Navajos and others fought against the expansion of the settlers on their land.
• Olivia Wilde, Keith Carradine and Ana de la Reguera, decided to shoot her scenes in which the link and the aliens abduct and for that were trained by the stunt coordinator Tommy Harper.
The actors are numerous and riding scenes during the test period were trained on the horses to many hours would the following three months. Riders coach Clay Lilly worked with stakeholders to carefully pick a horse for each of them.
• The dog that reaches Absolution is played by two Australian Shepherds named Dart and Arrow, both trained by Eadie McMullen.
To help create the atmosphere of the old American West, were used more than 100 horses, cattle, sheep, goats and rats, the same as a Eurasian owl appears briefly in the steamer.
• In the 1870's the laundry or an extra set was a luxury. The production required 14 copies of each outfit, many of which had to do more dirty and worn as the plot progressed.
• For her, there were 17 copies of her two dresses.
• 10 people were devoted to old clothes.
Absolution scenes were filmed at the Bonanza Creek Ranch southwest of Santa Fe, a ranch of several thousand acres.
• Production established its base in the city of Santa Fe, where the company filmed for three months across thousands of acres in northern New Mexico.
Several scenes were filmed at Rancho San Cristobal, 35 miles south of Santa Fe
• Among the locations are in the sights of San Cristobal, Santa Clara town, the banks of the Rio Grande, Lake Abiqui and Plaza Blanca in the hills of the Chama River Valley in upstate.
To film the first attack of the alien invaders, the company brought cattle, double and a variety of film crew.
• joined the cast over 30 doubles and women, 23 horses, two dogs, a goat and two dozen extras.
• There was an array of cranes, cables and lights. Suspended in cars from over 300 tons of construction cranes had sophisticated laser lights that moved synchronously as explosions detonated around skilled riders on horses specially trained to work with pyrotechnics and loud noises.
At both ends there were 14 additional towers 80 feet tall with light boards.
• Shane Mahan was commissioned to design the aliens, part insect, part amphibian, part sea creature.
• Instead of creating a costume that someone uses, Shane Mahan created a complex set of multifunctional gear interchangeable parts. The result was a monster of 8 feet tall with a head that moves to remote and limbs protruding from his torso during some of his encounters with humans.
The visual effects were achieved largely by the supervisor Roger Guyett of Industrial Light & Magic of Lucasfilm.
• Companies The Embassy Visual Effects, Ghost FX, Fuel VFX, The Garage VFX and FX Shade VFX created additional.
• Studies and Kerner Optical New Deal created models and miniatures.
Cast:
Daniel Craig - Jake Lonergan
Harrison Ford - Col. Woodrow Dolarhyde
Olivia Wilde - Ella
Sam Rockwell - Doc
Adam Beach - Nat Colorado
Paul Dano - Percy Dolarhyde
Noah Ringer - Emmett Taggart
Ana de la Reguera - Maria
Adam Beach - Nat Colorado
Clancy Brown - Meacham Pastor
Keith Carradine - Sheriff John Taggart

TECHNICAL:
Director: Jon Favreau
Producer: Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Scott Mitchell Rosenberg
Executive producers: Steven Spielberg, Jon Favreau, Denis L. Stewart, Bobby Cohen, Randy Greenberg, Ryan Kavanaugh
Plot: Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby and Steve Oedekerk
Screenplay: Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzzman & Damon Lindelof and Fergus & Hawk Ostby Markus
Music: Harry Gregson-Williams
Costume Designer: Mary Zophres
Film Editor: Dan Lebenthal, Jim May
Production Designer: Scott Chambliss
Cinematography: Matthew Libatique

Fun Facts:
In July 2009, Kurtzman and Orci were found in the convention Comic-Con with Jon Fabreau (who directed Iron Man and Iron Man 2) and gave him the script to read.
• After returning to Los Angeles to meet with Spielberg, Howard and Grazer, Favreau agreed to direct the film.
• Spielberg showed 'more heart than hate' from John Ford to see the elements that gave success to cowboy films.
• To play Jake Lonergan, the lone stranger, was chosen British actor Daniel Craig, best known for his role as James Bond in Casino Royale and Quantum 007.
Daniel Craig said he based his character in Clint Eastwood in their hundreds of cowboys and John Wayne, his favorite being that of 'Little Big Man'.
• One of the latest was hired actors Harrison Ford, who plays Woodrow Dolarhyde, a wealthy and powerful landowner and farmer of Absolution. Harrison Ford is associated with characters from Indiana Jones and Han Solo.
• A Harrison Ford was interested in the look of the old American West in 1875, where they had no knowledge of space travel and aliens, but the only explanation is the one that gives the pastor the people that aliens are demons.
• For her role, the filmmakers needed an actress who could be strong and mysterious found in Olivia Wilde, who has appeared on the TV show House, and has acted in movies like Tron: Legacy. The production designer Scott Chambliss was inspired by the American artist Lee Bontecou.
• The technology of the invaders is from a ship that looks like a giant flying insect with 10 wings extending metal with long tentacles like whips to capture their prey with their claws.
The maze of tunnels where aliens conduct their experiments, was built in a forum planned as the underground area of ​​the desert of New Mexico where the alien spaceship lands are developed and where the final battle scenes.
• The Forum 27 is built a vessel propelled by steam turbines that are face down in the desert, where you have the first face to face with an alien.
• After studying steamboats, conceptual artists drew illustrations to demonstrate how a ship would be intact. Based on the structure built molds upside down on the forum and then equipped with furniture, casino tables, chandeliers, chairs and tables then had to destroy part.
• In Universal Studios, Chambliss and colleagues worked for months on the forum 19.200 square feet 6 building a series of tunnels.
• The Forum 27 is built a vessel propelled by steam turbines that are face down in the desert, where you have the first face to face with an alien.
• After studying steamboats, conceptual artists drew illustrations to demonstrate how a ship would be intact. Based on the structure built molds upside down on the forum and then equipped with furniture, casino tables, chandeliers, chairs and tables then had to destroy part.
• It is based on the Chiricahua who were one of the last tribes of Native Americans. In 1886 were only several dozen men, women and children. However, under the direction of Jerome, this group was one of the strongest resistance to the governments of United States and Mexico. Those not killed were taken away from their land and taken or imprisoned on the other side of the country, where many perished.
• The weapon that Colonel Woodrow Dolarhyde used was a Uberti Colt 1873 Army.
Thell Reed is one of the top coaches in the old west guns who trained Hollywood actors weeks before shooting.
• The bracelet using Jake, is a powerful weapon and is a combination of research and imagination was invented. Its surface is steel and clockwork, is something that would not be in the American West, 1875. Some weapon movements are enhanced with computer graphics images.

Fun Facts:
In the 14 years since Rosenberg published the graphic novel Cowboys & Aliens, many have tried to bring this combination of genres to the big screen.
• The story was written by Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby were writers of Iron Man and Steve Oedekerk in Almighty.
• Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby share credit for the end of the movie script.
• Kurtzman and Orci have proven exceptional writers Transformers, Mission Impossible III and Star Trek. Lindelof and as a writer of the television series Lost and producer of Star Trek.

Fun Facts:
• The film rights of Cowboys & Aliens graphic novel by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, were acquired before it was published.
• The project had to wait until 2008, Spielberg teamed with Imagine Entertainment for the finishing touches were made to the script.
• The cover of the graphic novel loved producer Ron Howard showing inhabitants of the old west to face alien invaders.
• The Rosenberg graphic novel describes an invasion in the American West in the late silo 19.

Cowboys meet Aliens, awesome concept! Poorly delievered. WIth a great cast, that could have saved the movie, didn't help at all. The writing was terrible, the effects and Daniel Craig's acting were the only things worth watching. Harrison Ford wasn't strong at all, a really dissapointing role. The thing that bugged me, was how cliched it was. Like when the hero is in trouble and then the enemies who's trying to kill him gets shot but another hero, we've seen that tooooo many times before. Plus the ending with the hero having that one line like "see you around", seen that before too. The screenplay sucked, they gave Daniel Craig all these one liners, which I hated because he's a better actor than just one liners. A really unoriginal movie, other than the concept. Skip it since we've seen it all before.

“Oh lordy.”

“What went wrong?”

“How did something that sounded like a brain-dead, but awesomely rollicking and supremely fun thrill-ride turn out so fucking boring?”

These were but a few of the thoughts that crossed my mind as Cowboys & Aliens lethargically played out before my eyes. Not a single happens in this film that could be described as shocking, surprising or interesting. It plays out exactly as one would think from the trailer and TV spots. It’s ripe with clichés about bitter old racists overcoming their ignorant beliefs, mysterious women being exactly the barrier of information and hope that the main character(s) needed, and a Man With No Name/Memory finding the key to his identity.

The Old West town in this film looks like something filmed on the Universal Studios back-lot, with location shooting done in the same places that John Ford/Wayne put on the cinematic map to much better effect forever ago. It tries desperately to adhere to genre conventions, but never truly gets the spirit or tone right. It is pure pastiche without any of the weight or simple poetry of the truly great westerns like High Noon.

This false note is echoed in each of the performances. The actors appear to be happy to tag along for this ride, but none of them deliver a true performance. Each of them appear too clean, too modern, too much like actor’s playing pretend in period get-up. The worst of which is Olivia Wilde who mostly stares with her wide-eyes and has a cringe-worthy accent that sounds like she’s straining to maintain it throughout.

The title does dip into false advertising for much of the time, with the film being primarily a western with the slightest taste of science-fiction for much of its running time until the last third. But the motivations for the aliens are as moronically underdeveloped as the rest of the characters and their situation. They’ve come to Earth to harvest gold. And for what purpose? Is it their monetary standard, or do they find it to be as arbitrarily valuable as we do? Your guess is as good as mine. And why are they kidnapping aliens? To perform experiments on the native species to determine its weaknesses, I didn’t know it would take an advanced alien race so many different specimens to figure out what our weaknesses. Perhaps this alien race has a market for human-torture porn.

The design of these alien creatures is both a retread of something that we’ve seen before and incredibly stupid. You see, they look like the upright cousin of the xenomorph from the Alien franchise. But they have one difference – their chests open up to reveal a smaller set of arms and their beating heart. In order to kill them, all you’d have to do is wait for them to open their chest, reach their second arms out, and stab at their beating heart. It’s a glaringly obvious weakness in their design/anatomy.

But this inattention to detail in just about every sector of the film should come as no surprise. No one went into Cowboys & Aliens expecting high-art or scenes of serious contemplation, but a pulpy good-time with inventive action scenes and thrills would have been nice. These two tones could have made sweet music, but the jarring shifts in tone are leaden and limp.

When I first saw the trailer for "Cowboys and Aliens" I thought, here we go another uninteresting action filled film, that lacks anything a good traditional science fiction film would have.

However, I was proven wrong. "Cowboys and Aliens" is done well and has characters and relationships we actually care about. This is unusual with the way films are made today.

Daniel Craig is Jake Longergan the wanted man with a past he cannot remember. Harrison Ford is Woodrow Dolarhyde the business man who provides most of the work for Absolution , the small town, in which the film takes place. Both actors play their roles well and Ford is given some priceless lines that will not be soon forgotten.

Jake Lonergan is the anti-hero in this western, without a doubt. The way in which we see Lonergan's path unfold is like any seen in a John Wayne classic. However, it is the fact that Longergan is an amnesiac that sets this film apart from this summer's blockbusters. Especially when we have films like "Priest" which rely on the lead character's intuition and "knowing".

"Cowboys and Aliens" is in a couple of words the perfect summer movie. The pacing is right , the acting is superb, and the story is well thought out and makes you ask questions.

"Cowboys and Aliens" also stars Olivia Wilde, Paul Dano, Keith Carradine, Clancy Brown, and Sam Rockwell as Doc. "Cowboys and Aliens" is one of the better summer movies of 2011. If you want a western with a twist, this is it.

daniel craig not a bad actor might be a good movie