IMDb plot summary: A spaceship arrives in 1873 Arizona to take over the Earth, starting with the Wild West region. All that stands in their way: a posse of cowboys and natives.
Directed by Jon Favreau. Stars Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, and Olivia Wilde.
Cowboys and Aliens is a western sci-fi that features a group of feuding townspeople and criminals in the old west, including Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford, who suddenly must band together to save themselves from an invading alien horde. This is a mix of one genre I really don't like and one genre I really do, so I was curious to see where this would land. I wish it was a little bit more playful in how it approached the combination of genres. This is far more western than sci-fi, and it gets very serious with its western tropes and characters approaching the incoming threat. The sci-fi element is truly just tacked on as a small twist -- this could be any western movies about fighting off unknown invaders. It's fine, but it feels like a bit of a wasted opportunity. Because they're taking the western part so seriously, any of the fun or creativity that I wanted to see in matching these two together gets lost. Overall, I like the idea much more than I like the actual execution.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Cowboys & Aliens (2011)
lost to Swingers (#1999 → #1955)
beat The Doorway to Hell (#2996 → #2999)
beat The Boston Strangler (#2498 → #2508)
lost to Dunkirk (#2248 → #2236)
lost to The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (#2373 → #2195)
lost to Anna Christie (#2435 → #2383)
beat Fast Times at Ridgemont High (#2466 → #2465)
beat Marathon (#2450 → #2463)
beat Once Upon a Time in America (#2442 → #2475)
lost to The Party (#2438 → #2403)
lost to Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan (#2440 → #2430)
beat Ice Princess (#2441 → #2445)
📊 Ranked #2517/4003 on my Flickchart
🎯 Flickscore™: 37
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