Harrison Ford Didn't Understand 'Cowboys & Aliens' Script

[Thunderpussy]

I'd say D Craig is thought off by most cinema goers as, ............... "Oh, there's that guy from the Bond movies, Oh! What's his name again "

[Capt. Sir Dominic Flandry]

I'd say D Craig is thought off by most cinema goers as, ............... "Oh, there's that guy from the Bond movies, Oh! What's his name again "

The joke is many people will go to see Bond 23 and ask "who is playing Bond in this one" on their way to the cinema.

[katied]

I can sum up why Bond 23 should not be in 3d in 3 words: Rapidly.Aging.Actor.

[shaken not stirred]

I can sum up why Bond 23 should not be in 3d in 3 words: Rapidly.Aging.Actor.

Cregg is quickly becoming the troy mclure of films, hi I'm daniel craig you might remember me from such terrible flops such as the golden compass (one person coughs)...how about cowboys and aliens (silence)..I play james bond

Audience: You do, I was wondering why he looked like a russian boxer..who are you again

Cregg goes into hulk smash mode: cregg smash audience, cregg hit enemy

eon: no cregg that's babs...friend

Cregg: babs ...friend....cregg no hurt....babs

babs: Good man, now go and put on another dress for your next psa as bond

Cregg: ok (cregg goes back to normal and starts skipping)..so who's in this next bond film aside from Me and Dench anyway

babs: hell if I know (babs lights a cigarette and eats a few cakes)...well c'mon hurry up

Cregg: yes miss (pouts).

[Thunderpussy]

Craig as Troy Mclure great!

[katied]

LOLing at the Troy McLure reference..having seen the Dream House trailer all I can say is:Why didn't it go straight to video?

[JackWade CIA]

I bought a ticket for Cowboys and Alien since everyone here was so happy to dump on it.

[Thunderpussy]

Well at least you bought it for a good reason, not because it's a wonderful movie.

[Omega]

Doesn't seem like you enjoyed it?

[Alessandra]

Listen, I thought the movie would be horrid from the start, as soon as I saw the trailer. And that's the whole point with it. It's a bad movie. ON TOP of it, Craig is no box office draw. And Harrison Ford is past his prime BUT he is still the main reason why people went to watch (In fact, one of the reasons why the movie tanked was that it failed to attract younger audiences, only 30+ went to see it which is clearly due to Harrison Ford. Also means it's not true that Craig appeals younger audiences. One of the many lies they tried to sell when they cast him).

There ARE still a few people who are box office draws, a few actor and actresses, and they're a selected bunch. And Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford surely are not in that lot. But much as they can be a box office draw, if a movie is bad, people won't go see it, word of mouth now travels super fast with Twitter for example. That means of course if there's a mega star (like George Clooney, or Di Caprio) people will go see it when it opens, but not after. So yeah, Cowboys & Aliens should have done WAY better on opening day regardless. They expected a very low $45 mln and instead they got a ridiculous $36 mln. The forecast wasn't high to begin with but they managed to do way worse than even a prudent expectation. And THAT is certainly due to the lack of appeal on Daniel Craig's part and the fact that while Harrison Ford still has his public, he's past his prime. Opening weekend (first day especially) is all about the advertising and people who are in the movie. After that, it's all about the movie being good or bad. Clearly this didn't fare well with viewers.

I bet Campbell is laughing, everyone dumped on Green Lantern yet it didn't do nearly as badly. It made $53 mln on opening weekend. And so far $154.5 mln worldwide. Not that that makes it a success given they spent $200 mln to make it, it's a disaster, but it's still way less of a disaster than C&A.

C&A TOTALLED $56.3 mln so far. Basically It totalled what Green Lantern made on opening weekend. (and let's not forget everyone keeps reporting they spent $163 mln to make it but Deadline.com which is the most reliable site in terms of Hollywood news, especially financial, said that the figure is actually between $163 and $200 mln as more than one insider said they actually spent $200 mln).

And man, Friday's estimates are a BLOODBATH for C&A

1. Rise of the Planet of the Apes $19,750,000
2. The Smurfs $5,950,000
3. Cowboys & Aliens $4,749,000

Uhm.. the Smurfs made over a million dollars more than C&A? Not to mention Apes is CRUSHING it

[Omega]

The Smurfs are close to $10 million more than CvA total. RDJ could have saved CvA only because he would have lightened the mood, not being Craig in sullen attack mode. RDJ leave to make sherlock 2 essentially a Bond movie Craig takes over CvA to make it a Craig movie that crash and bruns.

[JackWade CIA]

Doesn't seem like you enjoyed it?

I did enjoy it. Ford has one of his best performances of recent history, Craig had some strong points as well but not I'd say his best. To throw you guys a bone they couldn't find a cowboy hat to fit Craig.

I still have concerns over Bond 23 Craig seems to be somewhat limited when he does actions movies.

Cowboys & Aliens was never going to be a winner with the mash up of themes and poor film making, no matter who the stars are. I can't say Craig or Ford were not good in it, just not as good as they could be.

[Thunderpussy]

This crazy mix of genres should never of seen the light of day. Many of us predicted a flop, are we gifted or simply have some common sense.

[Alessandra]

The Smurfs are close to $10 million more than CvA total. RDJ could have saved CvA only because he would have lightened the mood, not being Craig in sullen attack mode. RDJ leave to make sherlock 2 essentially a Bond movie Craig takes over CvA to make it a Craig movie that crash and bruns.

I agree RDJ would have fared better with the movie but when you have a bad movie, there's no saving it even if you change the lead. It probably wouldn't have been an utter disaster though. But I still don't think it would have managed to break even, despite RDJ. The irony is that you're right, RDJ seems to do more bondian things doing other movies than Craig does even as Bond. I'm so tired of this. I just want an actor who LOOKS and ACTS the part in the role. One wouldn't think it's too much to ask for such an iconic role, but apparently with Babs it has become too much. Unreal.

My prediction was based on common sense AND my personal taste (plus my certainly not producer-like, but somewhat decent knowledge of the movie market). I said it was either going to be a big success or fail miserably. And I expected the big success based on the smart people involved, not based on Craig. Clearly the scenario was the second... let me make it clear I am NEVER happy to see people I deem good writers and directors or producers have a failure at the box office. But I think every once in a while it's healthy, keeps people grounded.

[Thunderpussy]

Ideas for some other sure fire Hits,............................................

Mix the chipmonks with Texas chainsaw,
highschool musical with paranormal activity
the exorcist with Nacho Libre
star wars and The sound of Music
Jurasssic Park with Schindler's List

Hell these Movies just write themselves and You'll be turning people away from the cinemas for these sure fire hits.

[Thunderpussy]

D Craig is to release a series of listen to, childrens books read in his own style the titles include.
Little Fu**Ing Riding hood, Snow FU**ING White, Cinder-FU***ng-ella & That long haired Bit*h Rapunzel. coming soon the Classic Beauty and the Fu**ing Beast.

[katied]

OMFG that is hilarous- Little F***ing Riding Hood by Daniel Dice Craig!

[carl stromberg]

Daniel Craig should write book reviews for the Sunday newspapers: "I was asked to read some book, some tedious f**cking book by someone or other about the f**cking Nazis. I threw it in the f**cking dustbin and thought "I'm not reading that f**cking bulls**t".

[Blowfeld]

Nobody else gets Cowboys either. It hasn't been thins unanimous since QoS.

Andy Bockelman: ‘Cowboys & Aliens’ no rootin’-tootin’ good time

In the Wild West, if you had an enemy, you had to watch that they didn’t blast you with a laser cannon when your back was turned. Likewise, on many distant planets, six-shooters and shotguns settle all disputes when mere words won’t do the job.

That assessment may sound backward, but in “Cowboys & Aliens” it’s all the same whether you’re on Dodge City’s Main Street or the surface of Mars.

When an amnesia victim (Daniel Craig) awakens in the middle of the desert in 1875 New Mexico territory, the only thing he really wants to know is how to get rid of the unusual hunk of metal on his wrist.

As he staggers into the town of Absolution, he gets little help in removing his single shackle, though he does learn who he is and finds plenty of disdain to go along with his newly recovered identity as bank robber Jake Lonegran.

With a face gracing so many “Wanted” posters, Lonegran quickly attracts attention from the local folks, especially that of cattle baron Col. Dolarhyde (Harrison Ford), whose vicious nature and controlling wealth make him a dangerous man to cross. But, the notorious stranger is the least of the town’s worries when odd machines begin swooping down from the sky spouting fire and snatching people up at random.

As the remaining people of Absolution hit the trail to try and overtake the sky demons, Lonegran and Dolarhyde must form a truce. However, the piece of hardware on Lonegran’s wrist may hold more answers than he expected about these vicious invaders.

Craig may make a fine James Bond, but he seems very displaced out in the dusty, desolate Old West. Though he’s well suited to playing a quiet but volatile sort like Lonegran, he never injects the character with much personality.

Plus, his hat looks a little too much like it belongs to somebody else in the cast, namely someone who’s visited the Temple of Doom.

Ford, in his first Western role since “The Frisco Kid,” is gruff to the extreme as Dolarhyde, a Civil War veteran who isn’t about to let Lonegran get away with past transgressions like plundering the gold of financial institutions in the area. Still, he may have more pressing concerns with invaders from above blowing up his cattle and stealing his good-for-nothing son, Percy (Paul Dano).

Wearing a high-necked dress with a floor-length skirt, Olivia Wilde is more concealed than we’ve ever seen her — though not for long — as Ella, a young woman drawn to Lonegran, knowing the fancy new bracelet he’s sporting is certainly not a fashion statement.

The strange creatures and their metal ships are a little more confusing to others in Absolution, such as the faint-hearted barkeep (Sam Rockwell), Dolarhyde’s Indian ranch hand (Adam Beach) and the local sheriff (Keith Carradine), whose grandson (Noah Ringer) has to step up in his stead.

Young’uns take their first step into manhood, feuds are dissolved, folks who have never ascribed to a higher power suddenly believe in something. All the conventions of action movies regardless of genre are to be found in this fusion of the Western and science fiction worlds based on Scott Mitchell Rosenberg’s graphic novel.

The purpose in a movie like this isn’t to think, but you’d think there would be more fun involved in popcorn entertainment of this sort.

The thrills we should be getting out of seeing two such incredibly different kinds of characters collide is quickly diminished when we realize we’re in for the same old story. Director Jon Favreau blended humor and action with style in both “Iron Man” films, but that kind of irreverence and freshness is non-existent here with the only saving grace being a sleek design of alien technology and the aliens themselves, who are respectably ugly, bug-eyed beasts.

For a movie that tries to push the envelope in terms of creative concepts, “Cowboys & Aliens” is disappointingly ordinary. It isn’t enough to just combine two kinds of entertainment and expect the clash of settings to be the entire story.

If Favreau really wanted to shake things up, maybe he could have added some music by the Steve Miller Band. At least the people who go in for such an esoteric reference would get a laugh.

[Thunderpussy]

Can't wait for the Razzies