Cowboys & Aliens 2: Abe and the Babe

In The Big Picture, Kevin Bacon plays a newly graduated screenwriter who during the course of his search for work in the world of movies goes to a cut-rate movie studio. The sausage maker of a studio boss wants someone to crank out a movie based on America's most-beloved historical figures: Babe Ruth and Abraham Lincoln. Bacon imagines a scene in the imaginary movie Abe and the Babe in which Lincoln finishes whittling a bat for Babe, hands it to him, and asks him to "make sure the Yankees win!"

This is my review for Cowboys & Aliens. Abe and the Babe.

Movies I Would Wait On but Am Seeing Tonight

Cowboys & Aliens is a movie that I really don't want to pay any sort of money to see in the theater, but it looks like we are going to see that tonight. It sounds to me like a couple of film majors were sitting around their dorm room at UCLA smokin' a little rope and coming up with storylines while "inspired."

"I'm sick of cowboys and indians, dude. Why not ... why not ... (heh) ... why not cowboys and Egyptians? No, wait. Why not cowboys and Amazons? Huh? (heh) Why not ... cowboys and ALIENS??? THAT'S IT!"

It's sad to me that my lovely and talented (and did I mention "lovely") wife has no problem going to see a movie like this, but "True Grit" is radioactive to her because it is a Western and not a spoof ... or whatever the hell this is.

Ebert did give it three stars. So there is a little hope.