Cowboys & Aliens: (Merged Threads)

[Ted C]

But these have to be some of the dumbest movie aliens I think we've seen. And I don't even mind the motive (maybe gold is valuable to them...why not?) They have advanced weaponry and guns don't outright kill them, but rather than use their tech and stamina to their advantage, they charge into melee combat, which is the doom of them as spears have a better shot at piercing their hide than bullets.

I tend to think of them as a bunch of redneck miners instead of super-smart alien astronauts. Interstellar travel is obviously old news for these guys, much like it has become so commonplace in the Star Wars galaxy that Joe Shmo can have a starship if he really wants one.

These aren't the intelligentsia or military of the aliens: they're gold-rush prospectors hoping to make it big on the new, gold-rich planet. They just need to knock off some talking monkeys that still shoot bullets at each other when they fight. I'm surprised we don't see them taking big swigs of some kind of alien booze.

[hunter5]

My girlfriend and I went to see this movie and were very surprised by how good it was. I did like the theme behind the movie with the Cowboys suddenly being the less advanced race and being put in the position of the Native Americans.

[FaxModem1]

I saw the movie, and I loved it. They played it totally straight and as a good old fashioned western, which worked for it. Harrison Ford needs to do more westerns.

Only problem with them being a bunch of prospectors, do you know many prospectors who are good at dissecting frogs to figure out how best to kill it? Either that, or the aliens have a human pet shop side business.

[Zor]

I saw the movie, and I loved it. They played it totally straight and as a good old fashioned western, which worked for it. Harrison Ford needs to do more westerns.

Only problem with them being a bunch of prospectors, do you know many prospectors who are good at dissecting frogs to figure out how best to kill it? Either that, or the aliens have a human pet shop side business.

Way i see it they have an onboard scientists to get data for a company fleet. When it arrives, it will have used said data to make a plague to wipe out mankind.

Zor

[CaptainChewbacca]

They were advance scouts and researchers, not heavy troops.