I first saw Platinum Studios' presentation for this in 1998, and thought, "kinda fun, but could a high-concept get any shallower?" They were also pitching it as a movie before the comic was even produced.
But if you throw enough talent at something, sometimes a grand, flowering effulgence can grow from a shallow root structure (no disparagement of the comic, which I haven't read and may be great).
Given this trailer, that's just what they did. An incredible cast, great director (John Favreau).
Sure, there's the usual: stuff blows up, tough guys kill, spaceships zoom, yadda yadda.
But it's character moments that really make these sorts of movies fun -- as Iron Man demonstrated.
That look Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford exchange in the last shot is so freighted, so funny.
You want to see the movie just to watch them outscowl each other.
If it's a hit, expect this to be remade:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Valley_of_Gwangi
With a new, parallel title.
Posted by: Ray | November 23, 2010 at 08:09 AM
This movie will finally vindicate that fine Charlton comic, "Space Western," in which the heroes wore Stetsons with little antennas on the hatband.
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