Blog: Side One: Track One

Friday, July 29, 2011 On paper, Cowboys And Aliens is a stupid an idea as any Hollywood has put out lately: cowboys fight aliens in the wild, wild, West. A roughly sewn together pastiche of genre seemingly aimed at quarterbacking on to the upward mobility of two classic genre trends. I scoffed at the Hollywood machine when I heard the property had been pushed towards the big screen. The genre film-going audience had been bombarded with mash-ups like this in the decade prior to the announcement (Freddy vs. Jason, Alien vs. Predator, etc.) and [...]