Posts Tagged ‘Cowboys and Aliens’

Welcome everyone to Movie-Thoughts’ first annual Turn of the Year Awards! While everyone else is making Top 10 lists for the upcoming awards season, we thought it would be more worthwhile to talk about what we feel are the most notable movies of the past year, good or bad. Read about our Best and Worst moviegoing experiences, our biggest surprises and disappointments, the most well-crafted movies, and the overall Best movies of the year. Then, after you’re done reading what we think, tell us your thoughts in the comments section below!

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Short Take: Decent fun, but only mildly engaging and not altogether memorable

Director: Jon Favreau

Screenwriters: Robert Orci, Alex Kurtzman, Damon Lindelof, Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, Steve Oedekerk; Scott Mitchell Rosenberg (comic)

Cast: Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell, Paul Dano

Length: 1h 58m

Synopsis: One day in 1873 outlaw Jake Lonergan (Craig) finds himself awaking in a desert, unaware of who he is or where he has just been. A strange device is strapped to his wrist that he can’t remove, but it would seem that it isn’t there to harm him. Stumbling into a nearby town he gets recognized and thrown in jail, sentenced to wait until local boss Dolarhyde (Ford) returns and decides what to do with him. When Dolarhyde does return he is followed shortly by strange UFOs that proceed to abduct and terrorize the townspeople. The next day Jake, Dolarhyde, and a few other survivors form a search party to find the abducted, with Jake leading the way because the device on his wrist turned out to be the only viable weapon against the inscrutable invaders. A woman named Ella (Wilde) tags along to impart knowledge about the aliens, as she has personally dealt with them before. In a toilsome search the group must find and free their lost loved ones, armed only with six-shooters and iron wills. Yippy ki yay.

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Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci

Comingsoon.net has published an interview they recently held with screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, the writers of this year’s Star Trek reboot and Transformers: Rise of the Fallen. Kurtzman and Orci are also producers for the television show Fringe, as well as the Sandra Bullock film The Proposal.

The interview goes over what the writers’ thoughts were while writing the script for Star Trek, including what things they took into account like fan preferences, taboos, and what they consider good or bad directions for films that are the first in a series. The two writers seem to have good heads on their shoulders, as they make a lot of sense when they talk about how they go about constructing the stories for Star Trek and Transformers. Feelings about the individual films aside, their logic appears very agreeable.

The writers also touch upon their involvement with the Jon Favreau project Cowboys and Aliens and Masi Oka’s gaming-themed movie The Defenders.

It’s safe to say that the duo of Kurtzman and Orci has become one of the more sought after writing teams in Hollywood, and after reading this interview it becomes a lot clearer why.