Mini Review - Cowboys & Aliens

We have an interesting pairing here. James Bond meets Han Solo. This is Cowboys & Aliens

With the star power or Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig you’d figure this movie would be a success, but nope, made on a $160m budget, this movie bad a mere $173m, which by the time you address theatre cuts and promotional expenditure makes this movie ‘one of 2011’s most expensive flops’

But not all movies that are financial failures are necessarily bad movies, but this one seems to have committed a worse crime, being OK, a rating of 43% on rotten tomatoes with an equivalent audience score and average ratings of 5.5/10 and 3.1/5 respectively.

The movie was directed by Jon Favreau, who had just come off of Iron Man 2, intriguingly another movie that has the same audience approval rating as critic approval rating on rotten tomatoes. Robert Downey Jr was originally intended to play the lead but dropped out owing to the filming of Sherlock 2. Probably for the best

What do I think of the movie, well let’s take a look?

Guilty Pleasures #3: Ender's Game

A movie based on a book series I’ve never read, and making a mere $15 million profit at the box office (source: Wikipedia - and in case someone's about to skip to the comments, yes, I'm aware that this could be inaccurate). Distributed by Lionsgate and Summit Entertainment (much like Now You See Me.) A trailer I saw for the movie on the Now You See Me Blu-ray convinced me to take a look at this movie, and I like it a lot.

That’s not to say that it doesn't have its problems. Let’s play a drinking game, if a character acts like a complete asshole, take a shot. If you aren't in the hospital by the end of the movie, you've probably missed a few.