virag's movie reviews: cowboys and aliens (2011)

cowboys and aliens might have been the best movie ever made--or at least marginally entertaining--had the film been made with the cast of deadwood and an r rating, along with music by kitchens of distinction.  however, it wasn't, and it didn't, so it sucked.  as it turns out that jon favreau is an awful filmmaker.  go figure.

hilarious or 1 step away from a syfy original movie?

those crazy frakkers!  it seems almost funny, in a syfy original movie way, but this is all really tied to the sorta nutty idea of peak oil and associated horseshit.  as we deplete much of the easy and cheap-to-extract oil and natural gas, we will be using more of these difficult, dirty, dangerous and expensive methods to get our fix.  fracking, deep-water drilling, tar sands mining are all last-choice scenarios, so expect to see much more of this weirdness happening for the next century.  peak oil may not mean the last drop; it may wind up being more about the destructive extraction methods we are left with for the remaining oil and gas.  man-made earthquakes today, godzilla tomorrow.

high plains invaders movie

i actually watched this a while back with my daughter and she thought it was pretty okay.  it bobbed up again this afternoon.  i can say with all alacrity that it is the finest romanian cowboys and aliens movie made in the last decade.