If the road to Jon Favreau had not crossed with that of Robert Downey Jr, today this director/screenwriter/actor would be remembered more for Swingers.
Or for his participation in the Soprano role of himself (Chris, you’d have to shoot him).
But Robert Downey Jr. There was and is a result of this meeting that, for some time, people believed that Favreau was a Director from keep an eye on.
But if in the first Iron Man, Downey Jr. was wonders, charging shoulders all the weight of a deficit in any point of view, turning it into a very pleasant stuff, formerly with Iron Man 2 was that underneath there was something rotten.
Now comes this Cowboys & Aliens to dispel any doubt: Favreau is a small and middling and small and mediocre film.
And Yes, even this time, had a cast mica to laugh, eh?
Daniel Craig (who is aged twenty years in the past five … hurry up to make a new Bond or will be too late), Harrison Ford (which is always nice to see on the screen and that, in this film, it is rather in the form), Sam Rockwell (pure talent, always and everywhere), Keith Carradine, Walton Goggins, Clancy Brown and then, you:
Olivia Wilde.
That is the kind of actress too beautiful to be unlikely in any role you put.
And in addition to these, a bunch of others. All good.
The subject and screenplay, an army: Orci, Kurtzman and Lindelof, Fergus, Ostby, C. Parker and Rosenberg (which is indicated for contractual reasons as well as it has only had the idea of cue basis).
To produce it, another squadron of famous names including that of the same Director and some of the writers, as well as that of the now inevitable Spielberg.
And all this people has failed even to find the right hat to put Daniel Craig.
But overall, everyone in the film have a hat (also Wilde) and a hat.
Except Harrison Ford, who he knows them wear hats and anyway relies on a Stetson pitched wide rather classical.
I think that the sign that Hollywood has definitely lost the route and the trade, it is precisely because of this absence of “sense of the hat”.
If Americans can’t even find the right hat for a sleeve of cowboys, then it means that it is over.
What about film?
That is badly written (but evil), conducted anonymously and that special effects are lower than those of standard current (usually represented by the District 9 which cost effects and results, has become the benchmark for any production of medium level in addition to the care of all evil for Hollywood in economic crisis).
On balance, is a film that would not even worth talking about, if it were not for productive history behind.
In 2006, Scott Rosenberg (the founder of Malibu Comics, says Wiki), he published an albetto of 16 pages Edition and limited distribution (Americans call these type of albi ashcan). Rosenberg had only the idea then, entrusting the implementation of the register to other.
The issue in question was published by a small publisher who later sold the rights to the same Roseberg, meanwhile, had founded the Platinum Studio (Yes, those of the film and all derived products of Dylan Dog) just to try and place in Hollywood a whole range of intellectual property-related comics.
Now you have to understand that in the full mania by cinecomics, Disney and Fox, and Universal and Dreamworks on the other hand, made a fierce war to buy the rights.
The war was won by Universal and Dreamworks, and the first draft of the film (the first draft of the screenplay), was entrusted by Platinum to C. Parker, a total stranger that he caught something like four million dollars in compensation.
Please note that then, screenwriters, vestry which rewrote, rewrote and rewrote the film.
Six writers to write a screenplay is a comic book 16 pages.
And then the film is not only ugly, but is also a disaster at the box office!
Ever seen that now the Americans will open your eyes and understand that:
A: just because it is taken from a comic book, it doesn’t mean that it’s the coolest. Especially if the book does not exist.
B: Jon Favreau doesn’t know to turn. With Iron Man had the ass and now her ass is finished.
C: If you need six people to write a movie, it means that you’re doing it wrong.
Q: If the subject is trivial and the weak screenplay, put special effects that make me go “OHHH!” and not the standard stuff of After Effects. At least I get distracted.
And: If you really need to have a bad screenplay, a bad filmmaker and ugly effects, give me Olivia Wilde naked.
(G): the problem isn’t the accostamente between cowboys and aliens (the war of the worlds by H.G. Wells is set in 1898 and nobody has ever complained about), the problem is that the film is bad!
H: what happened to the F?
The: nothing, I just wanted to see if you were careful.
