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Cowboys & Aliens (2011)
Disappointing
I love SciFi and I will watch even the worst so I am often forgiving in my review of SciFi and I think I am forgiving here.
The premise that a group of cowboys and Indians could overcome aliens with such superior technology is the most overt flaw of the movie. The notion that such aliens would be after our gold is a stretch. And the convenient way in which three disparate human groups, cowboys, Indians, and gunslingers, join forces so quickly was improbable. The story line brings my rating to "5 or below".
What drops my rating from a 5 to 4 is the use of clichés - the boy given a knife to become a man, one leader saving another leader in the heat of battle - then the nod of acceptance. One after another, all very bad.
What takes my rating from a 4 to a 3 is the fact that the special effects are not special. Fires and explosions look a bit fake. Aliens either move too fast or are too dark to really enjoy the effects. Flying devices are never really disclosed as to what they are. All very disappointing given the advancement of special effects.
I'm left wondering why Ford and Craig took the parts.
Age of the Dragons (2011)
Don't waste your time
This adaption of Moby Dick was terrible! I love SciFi and watched the whole thing anyway. Basically, it's dragons in stead of whales and a white dragon in stead of a white whale. It features a crazy land-ship that's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside; it sleeps eight people in separate quarters, kitchen/dining/storage and office in a vehicle the size of a bus. Propulsion of the ship left me scratching my head too - no sails, no horses pulling it, no steam engine, it just rolls on wooden wheels in an age of harpoons and cross bows - I didn't get it. The effects were reasonably good. I liked most of the actors. But the premise, story line and dialog were so bad that it took down the entire movie to a (1) "awful".