I review it: Cowboys and Aliens

Indiana Jones and James Bond fighting aliens in the Old West!  How do you *meh* that up?  Cowboys and Aliens isn't a bad movie.  It's just not as fun, surprising, or inventive as it should be.  I mean, it's no Serenity.

I look at it this way: if you removed the science-fiction material, you’d be left with a decent Western that covers pretty familiar territory. If you just focused on the fantastic angle, you’d have a fairly typical alien-invasion yarn. Because neither one of the two ingredients is exceptional in itself, the melding of the genres is uninspired.

Exactly, Leonard Maltin!  Exactly.   And while the film is beautifully shot and cast - yes to Clancy Brown, Sam Rockwell, Keith Carradine, and Adam Beach - I never really felt invested in any of the characters.  Especially Olivia Wilde.  I could have cared less about Olivia Wilde.

This about sums it up.

2 leather chaps out of 5.

The movie would have been better served to ditch the aliens (keep the dog) and just have Daniel Craig roam the New Mexico badlands, glare into the middle distance ...

drink whisky, and beat the crap out of people.  That's 2 hours of entertainment!

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He could also occasionally stop to adjust his hat.

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So, in conclusion: You're doing it right.

You're doing it better

I'll be in my bunk ...

Lizard baby! Lizard baby! Lizard baby!

I'm in.  

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via io9. So. Much. Awesome. Brain. Meeeelllttttinggggg .....

Lizard people from outerspace for the win!

io9 has been covering this for a while, but according to yesterday's Variety, it's official ...

ABC has greenlit a pilot for a reworking of "V".  It will be written by the co-creator of The 4400 - which I don't watch, but have heard good things about.  So I'm hopeful.

Although really, as good as this new version may be, it will never be able to top this.  This is just magic.

Tip o' the hat to T.

One size does not fit all

Nineteen episode of Square Pegs are available now on hulu.com (sadly, only for users in the US. I know, these effers need to get with the program already. Spread the love. Go global).

I fear that the actual show won't live up to my memories of it. As happened with a failed revisiting of Land of the Lost. Wow was that show terrible. It did not take much to impress me when I was 7. Although the sleestaks still freak me right the hell out.