Cowboys and Aliens: The Movie

Though I really enjoyed the movie and have been looking forward to it for some time one has to love Clint Eastwood type Western Movies and Alien movies like the one Sigourney Weaver was in to enjoy this one.  It is pretty scary and amazing from beginning to end. But very entertaining. Very much a mans movie. However, some children 8 to 10 years old and a few naive and unexposed 12 year old might get nightmares from this one.

For me personally, whether aliens are good or bad it is very important to me that they be depicted as always having been here, visiting earth etc. I believe there are as many different types of aliens out there on earth and beyond as there are different types of people here on earth with different belief systems of all sorts. So, like I said the important thing about this movie is that it shows us that potentially aliens have always been visiting here and likely we are at least part alien to earth ourselves. So this is what I feel is most important in this movie.

But the reality would be a far cry from any aliens you see in any movie. If someone is advanced enough to come to this planet from anywhere in the universe they are going to be way culturally different and technologically different than we are. It is incredibly naive to depict aliens as being like Bears, crocodiles,  or whatever ate our forebears here on earth in the past. It is guaranteed that whoever made it here is very sophisticated. Look at us humans. We can't even make it to Mars yet. How silly are we? So, whatever ones make it here are far different than any humans here on earth technologically and culturally in every single way.

So, like I said the single most important point this movie makes is that our ancestors back thousands and thousands of years likely mated with aliens and had to deal with all kinds of stuff. But the movie "Cowboys and Aliens" beyond that is mostly in the realm of fantasy. However, like many cowboy movies and science fiction movies it is really well done.

The movie "Paul" in a very humorous way might be more like the kind of alien that would actually come here. By the way "Paul" the movie is unknown when it will be released on DVD. This kind of shows me just how terrified governments and religions are when movies get too close to the truth.

Cowboys and Aliens is 70% a cowboy movie like "Unforgiven" and 30% like "Alien". However, since the Cowboy part is unflinchingly depicted. Imagine yourself in the 1800s without any knowledge of other worlds or other beings at all. So, to you the aliens might be demons in a fight for which species survives on Earth. That's basically the movie.