Cowboys & Aliens

I love that film.

Cowboys and Aliens.

Okay.

Those are like Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford.

Well, let's, uh-

It's Cowboys versus Aliens, right?

Cowboys versus Aliens.

That's right.

I saw that movie.

And so, I, I mean, who knew at that point? And let's face it, this was the summer as well, and summer blockbuster, uh, summer blockbuster season, relatively fierce that films that were around in cinemas in this summer were Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, um, Pixar's Cars 2, genuinely a dreadful film that, really surprising.

Um, Super 8 from J.J. Abrams was around, and then it was opening directly against, uh, the, um, Cowboys & Aliens, the big new release.

Now, Cowboys & Aliens, Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, from director Jon Favreau of Iron Man, and this was a challenge.

I, I mean, the general expectation was if they can take a bit of money there against some very, very tough competition, they would be doing all right.

And so especially given that i- it was a degree of an unknown quantity, that it, it wasn't entirely clear, uh, how much of that audience would carry, what the film was like, um, uh, The Inbetweeners heads into cinemas.

Its total after two weeks, this is a big budget Hollywood Planet of the Apes film, was 11.6 million.

The Inbetweeners movie had beaten that in five days.

Then Cowboys & Aliens.

Now, Paul Dano, you might know from Batman, Little Miss Sunshine, 12 Years a Slave, Prisoners, Looper, Swiss Army Man.

He was in Cowboys and Aliens back in the day.

Paul Dano, really interesting actor.

And speaking of Quentin Tarantino.

I'm sure some of yous are familiar.

In the card, he writes, "I hope your birthday is as amazing as the movie Cowboys and Aliens."

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"Go out and enjoy the lake life or maybe a round of golf.

Happy birthday to a big, strong guy." And that's from Killer Jesus.

Yeah, uh, if you don't know the story, uh, I, well, I don't know, a good, uh, 20 years ago, whenever the movie Cowboys and Aliens came out, uh, old pal of mine, we were out having some beers, and he says to me, "Hey, I saw a movie last night, Cowboys and Aliens.

Have you heard of it?" And I said, "Yeah, I think I might have heard some." He goes, "Oh my God, that is so frigging good.

...

Cowboys and Aliens.

Cowboys and Aliens was bigger fluff.

Chef was, uh, I would put it above Cowboys and Aliens, but you know, similar kinda fluff.

It's, uh-

Wow.

A lone gunslinger protects a young boy with psychic powers from falling into the hands of a dangerous man who wants to use him to destroy the universe.

Just like Cowboys and Aliens?

No.

A gunslinger? So

There's some, some movies for you, you know.

Cowboys & Aliens.

Cowboys & Aliens with Daniel Craig.

[laughs] Oh, yeah.

And Harrison Ford is in that one.