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Rick
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Finally, after much anticipation, Cowboys & Aliens has finally made its way into the box office. With big names like Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig backing up the combination of A-list and B-list cast, this movie dares to walk with a big stick; whether the film itself is capable of wielding said stick is for you to decide.
The film starts off just like the trailers portray it: a cowboy wakes up in the middle of nowhere, has no idea who he is, and has a mysterious metal wristband on his arm. After making his way into town and undergoing several different conflicts with, both, idiots with guns and the authority of the town he encounters his first alien attack, warding off the last ship in the region with this arm band laser gun. This process takes up about twenty to thirty minutes and feels a tad bit drawn out due to the large number of times I have seen the same parts played out via the actual trailer.
No, that isn't a typo - this is not a review for the summer 2011 film "I am Number 4" but rather another short film found in the bowels of the internet. Where this deserves to stay.
The film begins with a pretty interesting idea, what if the guy that usually plays the bumbling idiot gets to be the big star for once in his life. Then it takes that idea behind the shed, holds it down, and makes it eat its spit. Andy is, like most people in California not smoking all of the legal weed they can get their hands on, trying to make it big. He has had several roles allowing him a foot in the door but he is always casted as the bumbling idiot. On the day that he decides to tell the producer of his biggest opportunity to forcibly insert the role up his anus - coinciding perfectly with Andy's birthday, he is magically turned into Bob Saget's bitch . . . . John Stamos.
I was originally going to write a review for the newest Luna Lovegood . . . I mean Harry Potter movie, but I felt like that would be boring. So instead I decided to fluff my hipster ego by reviewing a short indie film that no one has heard of.
I've posted a link containing the entire video for the sole fact that I doubt very many have seen it. The video follows Doug Karr as he questions his grandfather, David Karr (A player on the world stage during the Red Scare post World War 2), well Doug is posing his questions to a ghost seeing as his grandpa died a month before his birth.
The 10 questions begin simply enough, questioning David's multiple marriages, and with building suspense - each question digging deeper into his life as a writer for the USA Communist newspaper "The Daily Worker" and his growth as a world player - finally ending with the deepest question asked throughout the entire video "Who where you?".
I don't want to give too much of the video away, and I can't talk too much about it without giving something away. That said I do want to talk as a whole, the transitions were gorgeous and entertaining, I didnt see a single flaw between each scene and they flowed almost magically. The actors chosen were very good, and I enjoyed the performance but the short was shot and directed by the actual Dough Karr and the question arises "Why the hell weren't you in a movie that follows you?" That was the only problem I saw with the short.
I don't believe that we have started any form of a rating system - they seem cliche to me. But I do want to give this short my thumbs up and suggest that if you have not clicked the link at the top yet, that you do so soon . . . do it now. . . . watch the video.