Question for Big Film: It’s Not a Comedy?

December already came…!

This week, I read an article about movie. Because there are so many bad news in the world, for instance, North Korea problem, I wanted to read fun one.

The article is as follows:

The crowd at a midnight movie in Santa Monica about a week ago rocked with laughter as it took in the new theatrical trailer for the potential blockbuster “Cowboys & Aliens,” from Universal Pictures and DreamWorks.

In “Cowboys & Aliens” — which is directed by Jon Favreau, of “Iron Man” fame, and counts Steven Spielberg, Brian Grazer and Ron Howard among its producers — Universal and DreamWorks have one of next summer’s most highly anticipated movies.

But some people may be anticipating the wrong film.

Deceived by a title and a premise that many find inherently comic, potential viewers must now cope with a realization that Mr. Favreau wasn’t kidding when he told fans at the Comic-Con International convention last July that he planned to mix a “by-the-book, right-down-the-middle western” of the kind once made by Sergio Leone and John Ford, with really scary science fiction, like “Alien” or “Predator.”

“The concept of the movie sounds hilarious. Cowboys vs. Aliens,” a poster, Hitman21, wrote recently on Mmajunkie.com. But this viewer was one of many who went on to voice enthusiasm for the unexpectedly serious movie that appeared in the trailer.

Some of Hollywood’s biggest hits have defied expectations by crossing genres or striking a tone that not everyone was quick to accept. When Mr. Spielberg unveiled “Raiders of the Lost Ark” in 1981, for instance, the critic Pauline Kael, writing in The New Yorker, complained that its mash-up of clichés from the old potboilers was “so thrill-packed you don’t have time to breathe — or to enjoy yourself much, either.”

But “Cowboys & Aliens” may be caught in a web of false expectation that was partly woven from its own origins.

I like watching movie very much. When I have free time, I sometimes watch movie at home. However, I do not like big budget movie such as Harry Potter. This is because that kind of movie is using so much CG and gorgeous cast that content sometimes seems poor. For example, I saw “Alice in Wonderland” at Movie Theater. It is 3D movie, so it was funny at that point. However, the content is not fun. Original is better, I felt.

“Cowboys & alien” seems that kind of movie to me. The concept of it looks inconsistent. The title is like SF comedy, but the director said it is serious movie. .Today, no one thinks cowboys and alien as cool.  I think cowboys are too out of date.

 I want to see “Norwegian wood”, which does not use CG and image looks so beautiful, rather than “Cowboys & Alien”.

Michael Cieply. ”Question for a Big Film: It’s not a comedy?”

New York Times 29 Nov.2010 : n.pag 1 Dec.2010