Angry Movie Lurker Honest Review 60: Cowboys and Aliens 2011 (3 STARS)

A man wakes up in the desert in Arizona in 1873 with no memory and a strange device on his wrist and wanders into the town of Absolution during the start of an alien scouting mission to colonize Earth.

Finally got to see this even after most reviews were not that positive about it, I never read the graphic novels that it's based on either but it's a western with a good cast and Aliens in it (it can't be bad...right!).

I'm not a great fan of Daniel Craig (except for Bond) and Harrison Ford will only ever be Indiana or Han but they work well as people who are not that nice but band together to save the people who have been abducted and stop the aliens from  leaving the planet before they bring back more friends.

The action is quite good, the CGI is good, the aliens are not bad and have a serious Midas addiction, there are a host of supporting actors who you will know, cute kid and dog (some things we have to bear) and did I say indians?

Worth a watch as I said but could have been much more but cowboys and indians fighting aliens with bullets, spears and dynamite in the desert is not something I had seen before or likely to again.

20mm Soviet 45mm Anti-Tank Guns but there's a bloody problem!

I painted these Plastic Soldier Company 20mm Russian anti-tank guns recently and their crew and took some pictures when I realised where's the fecking crew because I know I painted them!

Now I'm not accusing anyone (Ray!) but I'm still looking for the painted shites until then here's there guns (lovely bits of kit) and also another thing why did I paint only 3 of the 4 guns that came in the box!

I need a lie down and here's a sneak peek of what was at the British Military Tournament 2011 last Saturday.

Very, very pretty Apache!

Not just one man cave but two!

.........and a joke I heard.

Postie in a rare moment of niceness.

Postie (El Presidente and Dictator for life of the Rejects) has quite a few figures but not only one man cave which is about 20 ft long and 14ft wide and where we game but a second smaller one but more impressive than the larger one because of it's contents!

There is rumour of a third in the attic but not many ask about it because of the crying.........of Ray when he tries to talk about it!

He has a lot of books but to borrow one you have to leave one of your children as a deposit, if you don't have children you don't get a book to borrow.

Part of the fleet and 28mm medieval and others....

More figures........

Painting desk......

Even more figures........but there are more stored elsewhere!

Ready for basing....

More books, same deal as before......

The joke which has had me chuckling for a few days and seen over at the wonderful blog called also The Man Cave run by my  Australian friend Paul.

Bear Remover

A man wakes up one morning to find a bear on his roof. 

So he looks in the Yellow Pages and sure enough, there’s an ad for ”Bear Removers.”

He calls the number, and the bear remover says he’ll be over in 30 minutes. The bear remover arrives, and gets out of his van with a ladder, a baseball bat, a shotgun, a large cage and a mean old pit bull.

“What are you going to do?” the homeowner asks.

“I’m going to put this ladder up against the roof, and then I’m going to go up there and knock the bear off the roof with this baseball bat. When the bear falls off, the pit bull is trained to grab his testicles and not let go. The bear will then be subdued enough for me to put him in the cage.”

He hands the shotgun to the homeowner.

“What’s the shotgun for?” asks the homeowner.

“If the bear knocks me off the roof, shoot the dog.”