Cowboys and Aliens

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You wife rules!

I thought it was okay, until I saw it on a plane recently. Oye vey schmear and lox. That is one saptastically overrated movie.

But we beat the Cowboys in that movie! That's gotta count for something. :D
 

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I would say that would be believable (something in our environment destroying them that their bodies have never experienced, or a human virus killing them...a la the native americans almost completely wiped out by european diseases).

What isn't so believable? That alien technology would be so compatible with ours that a computer virus delivered via disc could a) interface with their systems in the first place and b) be built on some universal code structure that it would take down all their ships hovering over all the major world cities. Will Smith involved or not.

LoL True, almost as good as a bunch of common people being trained to fly fighter Jets in a couple of hours.
 

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What a bunch of movie snobs. If it has a happy ending and no sub-titles, some of you guys automatically start ripping it to shreds. Jerry Maguire would have been nominated for an Oscar if it had a French Director.;)

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What a bunch of movie snobs. If it has a happy ending and no sub-titles, some of you guys automatically start ripping it to shreds. Jerry Maguire would have been nominated for an Oscar if it had a French Director.;)

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Not me, I liked Jerry Macguire I dont care how cheesy it was. I haven't watched it recently and i'm sure like MOST movies, when you see them 15 years later you laugh at how corny they are, but I remember this movie fondly. It's all about the memories and how you felt the first time you saw it. Plus, the freaking CARDINALS were in it. New fans dont know what it was like to be a Cardinal fan in Phoenix back then, we never got mentioned EVER, even on sportscenter, half the time they wouldn't even show the highlights from our games they would just put the score up! So for there to be a big Hollywood movie with Tom Cruise, the Cardinals, beating he Cowboys in OUR stadium, sorry but that was pretty cool for a kid who'd been getting made fun of for being a Cardinal fan his whole childhood.

Oh and I remember it very well because I was 16, it was right around Christmas time and I kissed Brittany Stevenson for the first time thanks to that cheesy movie!

So take that haters! lol jk :D
 
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Parts of Jerry Macguire were really good. Jay Mohr rules. But the sappy parts? Ugh. Movie could have been 45 minutes shorter.
 

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Not me, I liked Jerry Macguire I dont care how cheesy it was. I haven't watched it recently and i'm sure like MOST movies, when you see them 15 years later you laugh at how corny they are, but I remember this movie fondly. It's all about the memories and how you felt the first time you saw it. Plus, the freaking CARDINALS were in it. New fans dont know what it was like to be a Cardinal fan in Phoenix back then, we never got mentioned EVER, even on sportscenter, half the time they wouldn't even show the highlights from our games they would just put the score up! So for there to be a big Hollywood movie with Tom Cruise, the Cardinals, beating he Cowboys in OUR stadium, sorry but that was pretty cool for a kid who'd been getting made fun of for being a Cardinal fan his whole childhood.

Oh and I remember it very well because I was 16, it was right around Christmas time and I kissed Brittany Stevenson for the first time thanks to that cheesy movie!

So take that haters! lol jk :D

Well, I wasn't quite 16 and if anything, I'd have probably had to kiss Brittany's grandmother but I felt the same way. I had friends that insisted the only reason they used the Cards was because no one knew what our players looked like so you could toss that uniform on anybody and it would look authentic.

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I think someone should start a Cowboys and Aliens thread.:)

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how can Cardinals fans rip Jerry Maguire? When it came out, it was our only win against the Cowboys in years... besides the fact that it's just a great movie.
 

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how can Cardinals fans rip Jerry Maguire? When it came out, it was our only win against the Cowboys in years... besides the fact that it's just a great movie.
The sappy parts are way too long for my tastes.
 

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Parts of Jerry Macguire were really good. Jay Mohr rules. But the sappy parts? Ugh. Movie could have been 45 minutes shorter.

I thought it was too long also. Did that story really need to be almost 2 1/2 hours?

The movie doesn't really hold up for me, maybe because its been parodied so much.

Plus, for years I had to read how the greatest Cardinal is Rod Tidwell, a fictional character. That got really old, as well.
 

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The sappy parts are way too long for my tastes.

When you watch an action movie do you complain that there was too much action? I'd back your play on this if we were talking about Reservoir Dogs or Apocalypse Now but this movie was intended to be sappy. IMO, it had just the right amount of it.

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When you watch an action movie do you complain that there was too much action? I'd back your play on this if we were talking about Reservoir Dogs or Apocalypse Now but this movie was intended to be sappy. IMO, it had just the right amount of it.

Steve

agreed. LOVE Jerry Maguire.

also saw Cowboys. It was fun. Didn't reinvent the wheel, but i don't it was trying to either.
 

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Love the supporting characters more than the leads. Ford is now typecast as grouchy jerks hence "Extraordinary Measures" and "Morning Glory." As Craig came off the lesser of the two evils but still not likable. Despite his character being a crook. But the supporting players of Clancy Brown and Noah Ringer among the few were the best.
 

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There's a whole bunch of reasons not to like this movie......

That being said, my bride and I both really liked it. Great, goofy fun!
 

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When is the sequel? Just watched on an airplane. Not bad. Like James Bond guy and Olivia Wilde. Mostly her. But he was good, kinda like a short McQueen.
 
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When is the sequel? Just watched on an airplane. Not bad. Like James Bond guy and Olivia Wilde. Mostly her. But he was good, kinda like a short McQueen.

This bombed in the theater.. There will be no sequel!
 

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