>I'm completely flummoxed when it's not exactly what I hoped it would be. With filmmaking, you have to be underwater with this thing: You're pitching it, then making it, then promoting. By the time it comes out, you've gone full speed down a one-way track. With Cowboys & Aliens, I was really bummed out.
>Favreau said about the sci-fi Western that cost $163M before P&A and only grossed $173M worldwide. Knowing the dark days of the film were coming, Favreau’s therapy that summer entailed going to the pool with his kids “A lot,” he said. “By the end of the summer, I had a huge tan.” Also his response to Cowboys & Aliens? Going back to his indie roots and making Chef.
Why didnt you save him being sad Sup Forums? :(
Why didnt you go see Cowboys and Aliens?
Wyatt Cruz
but I did, it was ok
Elijah Turner
no it wasnt
Michael Parker
...
Ian Long
>In order to make the Cowboys & Aliens comic appear to be a big seller, Platinum Studios priced the 105-page book at the low cost of $4.99 (when most graphic novels were $10 and up). Platinum attempted to game the system in various other ways, including using a business arrangement with the popular publisher Top Cow Productions to list Cowboys & Aliens in Top Cow's section of the Diamond Comic Distributors catalogue. They also gave certain retailers huge bulk discounts on the book, all of which counted toward sales numbers. Based on these inflated numbers, Entertainment Weekly listed Cowboys & Aliens as a top seller for the month, which prompted Universal/DreamWorks to move the film project forward again.
Sebastian Gutierrez
I can't remember a single thing from it, except the aliens dick shaped gold rocket
Hunter Rivera
I did. I can't really remember any of it. Got a vague recollection of the town at the start and him going inside the spaceshit but no clue what actually happened.
Henry Flores
IT WAS FINE, BETTER THAN LOTS OF SHIT, DECENT MASHUP FLICK
DANIEL CRAIG IS ALWAYS GLARING LIKE A BADASS, HARRISON FORD IS OLD BUT STILL HAS A BIT OF CHARISMA LEFT
GOGGINS IN THE BACKGROUND IS ALWAYS A SURE THING
Sebastian King
Was great until the aliens showed up.
Angel Torres
stupid name honestly. i never bothered to watch it because of that
Aiden Rivera
If this had succeeded would we have had Cadillacs and dinosaurs?
Oliver Reed
>he expected grown adults to pay to go see this in theaters He should have stuck to capeshit.
Owen Hall
It was decent entertainment but as a lot of scifi-action movies, it's incredibly unimaginative and forgettable.
Justin Perez
No. The only dinosaur movies we are allowed to have are Jurassic Park, documentaries, and kids movies.
Easton Anderson
>john faverau will never be in charge of doing Star Wars ep VII
Connor Jenkins
Good
He's shit
Joseph Ross
I remember the cool manacle/blaster, Olivia Hotness, and that Fird's character's name was Dollarhyde, which I thought was a cool last name. That's about it.
Joseph Nelson
This.
>Why didnt you go see Cowboys and Aliens?
Never heard of it until someone posted about it on Sup Forums years later.
Julian Gutierrez
Chef was pretty good bros
Parker Bennett
Inb4 someone posts the webm of the guy making a girled cheese sandwich while hunched over all sweaty and shit
Ayden Carter
He's objectively better than jj abrams still
Alexander Johnson
No he's not. Favreu is visionless and everything he makes is uninspired.
Colton Martin
>Going back to his indie roots and making Chef >indie
Chase Thompson
i dont believe in the mandela effect but wasn't this called cowboys VS aliens?
Dominic Hill
You've just described jj abrams
Both only have one half decent movie in their catalogue (MI3 and IM1) and jj fucked up 2 established franchsies with unoriginal garbage stories
Logan Butler
NAH SEE, CUZ ITS A PLAY ON COWBOYS N INDIANS
Jordan Cooper
RLM said it sucked so I avoided it
Nathaniel Bell
Fun movie. Would not see again except for Olivia.
Nathan Barnes
The movie was shit. Harrison Ford's acting was some of the worst I've ever seen. It deserved to fail.
Christian Brooks
>Why didnt you go see Cowboys and Aliens?
I did, it was shit
Jace Phillips
>Why didnt you go see Cowboys and Aliens?
I did, thought it was pretty decent
Isaac Turner
>Why didnt you go see Cowboys and Aliens?
I did, it was pretty good
Owen Parker
Because
>written by damon lindelof
Alexander Bell
Not surprised it flopped. It was unrealistic.
Dominic Taylor
Because Daniel Craig has the charisma of a cigar store Indian and Harrison Ford sleepwalks through his performances these last 2 decades.
Alexander Barnes
It's honestly not hard to be better than JJ abrams. All he does is mimic other actually talented directors and passes off wholesale intellectual theft as "homage". Not a single one of his films are unique. He has no voice. He is not an auteur like favreau he is a charlatan.
William Brown
I was so happy when this failed because of all the douchebag "movie journos" on the internet calling it a "BAG OF EPIC WIN" because it had "James Bond and Han Solo!"
I also hated it because it felt like the shitty teaser trailer played for an entire year at every movie I saw. I was so happy when this dumpster fire of boredom was finally shit out into cinemas
Thomas Gutierrez
was a solid 7 screenwriters include the Orci Kurtzman duo and.... Steve Oedekerk, the Chosen One himself. He was originally gonna direct it like 10 years ago. I'd pay to see that
Angel Wood
I saw this and it was trash
paul dano in it was classic though, hearty keks when he accidentially shot the guy
Nolan Lee
Why would you cast Olivia Wilde as the lead actress in anything. Her face looks like a fucking anvil.
Caleb Powell
they said you'd like it if you love movies
Leo Sullivan
I saw a bit of it on tv, was pretty unremarkable.
Blake Hill
That movie was the definition of forgettable.
Joseph Gray
>Steve Oedekerk, the Chosen One himself
Jacob Wilson
then years later they were talking about shit movies from the same writer and showed cowboy and aliens too
Carter Miller
t. low test homosexual
Nolan Robinson
but Olivia looks like a man with a box face, you are the hOm0
Cameron Hernandez
>cost 163 million
well there is your fucking problem
Parker Carter
>A Western with Aliens This never interested me sorry
Jonathan Harris
If they made an R Rated Western with Daniel Craig going on shooting sprees then I would have been interested in seeing it
Tyler Collins
She played an alien, so it fits.
Jace Edwards
>he doesn't want kids (sons) who have strong faces
OK, have your cuckface women, more for me
Charles Taylor
it was just really boring, and a movie about cowboys and aliens with Craig, Ford, Rockwell and Wilde should not be so fucking boring
Jace Wilson
i enjoyed it, but i was high as fuck
Cooper Evans
bravo lindelof
Gabriel Brooks
>lindelof huh? he had nothing to do with this
Kevin James
look at the poster.
Tyler White
ye he old now but he was set to direct pre Kung Pow days
Ryan Martin
ok
still don't get it
William Sullivan
Look at the writing credits. The line above the director credit.
Ryder Nelson
huh fuck i'm dumb, I just looked up the credits >Kutzman >Orci >Lindelof its a perfect storm of shit
Aaron Thomas
YOU FORGOT THE CHOSEN ONE
Tyler Fisher
oooo i'd love a cadillacs and dinosaurs film.
xenozoic tales bruh. with sexy big breasted woman wearing tight fitting clothes and fighting dinos.
Lucas Clark
shut the fuck up uridon, oedekerk is a wonderful man and theirs no need to lump him in with these hacks
Ryan Torres
>>Favreau said about the sci-fi Western that cost $163M before P&A and only grossed $173M worldwide.
He could have made it for under $75 if he didn't hire fucking James Bond and Han Solo and everyone would have called it a success. Blame whoever insisted on hiring Hollywood royalty for a risky film like that.
Christopher Hill
viggo and costner would have done it for less and been better
James Lopez
it still would've been written by damon lindelof, thus absolutely doomed.
Ryan Lopez
not arguing about the quality of the script, but it would have made more or less the same amount of money with just about any two male leads. the movie coasted on the titular gimmick
Elijah Williams
now now don't forget the wonder twins orci and kurtzman who have given us classics like >transformers >the amazing spider-man >st: into darkness >the amzing spier-man 2 >many more transformers national treasures these two
Tyler Gomez
lindelof was on the writing staff for into darkness as well.
good point.
Luis Brown
the man is pure cancer, everything he touches turns to shit
Juan Mitchell
I don't think hes ever touched anything that had a shot of not being shit, if because the producers thought he was a good choice or because the project was doomed from the onset.
Sebastian Wilson
lost had a shot at not being shit, but that triggered lindelofs autism and he did his best to ruin it
Henry Turner
lindelof is also the producer more often then not, he tanks his own projects
Lucas Hughes
Lost was pitched, produced, and executed to be "Gilligan's Island: the next generation." It was either going to be shit, shit, or if they were lucky, shit. But for six years they were able to trick people into thinking it wasn't going to be shit.
Hunter Lopez
I remember it was advertised as a mystery/survival story with movie level production values. the actual show survivor had a lot do to with Lost being approved, people forget that
Elijah Walker
its also worth noting that survivor, lost, and gilligan's island were all CBS shows.
Logan Taylor
The GN was pretty shit when I read it. Incredibly ham handed alegory about racism, colonialism, etc, basically a dumbed down War of the Worlds. The movie was stupid but overall more interesting by far.
Gabriel Torres
I know that you son of a pig, the guy didn't list all the credits.
Brayden Young
lol I never made the connection they were also involved in cast away, why is CBS so obsessed with islands?
Benjamin Allen
yesh it was, you double faggot
Eli Hughes
oedekerk wrote the story not the screen play prob never even met the screen writers thats who was listed btw I just can't stop sucking cocks please help
Tyler Cox
Well its got two older actors that kids might not care about, and I don't remember seeing any aliens in the promos. No hot chick on the poster. It looks like Wild Wild West or something. The marketing fucked up.
John Miller
It all started with a tale of a fateful trip.
Josiah Jones
a 3 hour trip?
James Perry
It was decent for what it was, the stupid title of Cowboys and Aliens fucked it from the get go because it sounds fucking retarded.
Elijah Hernandez
I did, and I thought it was ok It suffered severely from the fact that it never really went anywhere interesting with it's premise, all my memories of that movie are just long stretches of cowboys looking for the aliens, that bit where they fight the spaceships, and the bit at the end where they fight the aliens in their cave, and none of it was especially great
David Morris
a three hour trip.
Blake Turner
I watched it yesterday, thats all it is, doesn't even have good Ford growling or Rockwell bantz or really much of anything
Cooper Russell
My favorite scene is olivia wilde coming back to life, standing in a fire and just bluntly sating "i'm an alien!"