To be fair, I think the first half of this movie is great. There are a lot of long, slow shots which really feel reminiscent of a spaghetti western. But as it goes on, it eventually just turns into a mindless action movie with lots of quick cuts and as much CGI as they can fit on the screen. So yet another entry into the "yes, this movie is bad, but it's a Weird Western!" category.
I thought it was much better than the title. It's not a great think piece, but I enjoyed it and would probably watch again if I was in the mood.
8.5/10
Agreed. It could have been a dumb movie about cowboys trying to lasso UFOs, but it was an actual attempt to make a serious film about a ridiculous concept.
I just finished 'Three Body Problem' on Netflix. Amazing. If you want a smart movie, this is the one.
Watch the original Chinese tv series
TIL.
Do you know what platform it's available on?
Thanks.
All i know is that it's made by Tencent or something. I haven't downloaded the series yet :c
How to show you don't know even basic science and can't figure out the most obvious things. ^
It's so incredibly bad, they make so many mistakes and completely misrepresent very simple things to a point where it's impossible to believe it wasn't done on purpose.
The trailers looked great but it was obvious after the first episode it was going to be shit and it was somehow even worse than expected by the end.
It's not smart at all, not even close, you've just somehow missed the multiple major issues and obvious lack of basic knowledge by the writers.
There's a huge difference between a smart science fiction movie and an actual course in science.
Since we were talking about 'Cowboys and Aliens' in Weird Westerns I figured anyone on the thread would realize that that by 'smart' I meant a movie dealing with interesting ideas and not just a big shoot-'em-up.
I feel sorry for anyone who treats entertainment as an examination. And, since you cite numerous problems, I'll assume you were silly enough to torture yourself by watching the whole thing.
I think the problem is that you called it smart.
Like I said; if we're talking about 'Cowboys And Aliens' in the Weird Western section, we've already given up on scientific accuracy as a metric.
If you want a highly researched and peer reviewed analysis of the physics of a popular icon, I refer you to Larry Niven's seminal work, "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex."
https://larryniven.net/stories/Man_of_Steel_Woman_of_Kleenex.shtml
now do Core
The first half genuinely felt like it had its own thing going on, and then the aliens arrive and instead of it going off the rails it maintains tone and gravitas. I really enjoyed it.
You might like this book.
"...And Having Writ" by R.D. Benson, Four aliens land on Earth and meet characters like Edison and Teddy Roosevelt. The explorers aren't the smartest of their species, and problems occur.
Thanks for the reccommendation!
Enjoy!
Remember that time in the early 2010s when everything had a surprising "and"?
Cowboys and Aliens Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Golden days of elevator pitching.
Sense, Sensibility, and Sea Monsters
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is both the laziest and cleverest idea for a novel - the author literally just took the original novel and rewrote it to add zombies.
I was surprised with how well Pride and Prejudice and Zombies followed the original plot. Oh, you free thinkers, learning Chinese martial arts instead of Japanese martial arts, how ever will you fit in?
And my Axe!
CGI gets such a bad rep even though it is the backbone of modern scifi media.
You can do a lot with miniatures, puppets and perspective, sure. But the craziest stuff you can only do with CGI.
I'd rather have bad CGI in every scene than have scifi stories written with the least possible scifi in them. Like that trope where some scifi person gets stranded and has to live without technology in nature. Or that they time travel to our time and now has to live like we do but with a crazy view of the world.
It's funny because I like movies/shows where the actors are the 'special effects.
To each their own, I guess.
This was such a good film. By good film, I mean it was so bad but so much fun at the same time!
Might as well post Firefly next
The arbitrary rule I gave myself (I don't expect anyone else to follow it) is I'm only including items that actually take place in the 1800s. I'm trying not to do space westerns but we'll see how long that lasts.
I love space westerns as a genre, but it's not what this muni is about.
I know that I watched it when I was a kid but I can't recall
Weird West (or Weird Western) is a genre of fiction that uses the Wild West period of American History as a foundation and then adds fantasy/supernatural elements to it. So stories where gunslingers encounter zombies, vampires, demons, robots, or any other creatures that wouldn't otherwise be present in a standard Western.
This is a community for sharing various Weird West works. Movies, Books, Comics, Video Games, TV Shows, whatever fits.