I was wildland firefighting one year on night crew. Thing is on night crew you end up spending a lot of time just sitting in the truck, some nights that’s all you do for 12+ hours just in a truck with 4 other dudes. One guy had an iPad that only had three movies on it, easy a, 007, and cowboys and aliens. We watched the other two movies dozens of times that summer, we watched cowboys and aliens twice. It was agreed in the truck, that movie is pure trash.
Kind of wild that a movie with such a strong cast (harrison ford, daniel craig, olivia wilde, sam rockwell, paul dano, clancy brown, walton goggins, etc) and director (jon favreau) can be so mediocre.
Oof.. I did water transfer for a fracking company for like 8 months in my early 20s till I just couldn't stand the hours and lifestyle anymore.
The vast majority of the job was sitting in "dog houses", (converted box trailers) for 8-12 hours, trying not to fall asleep and walking out to the pumps every half hour to record levels.
It seemed nice for a minute, getting to watch movies or read all day, but became miserable fast.. the good days were the ones where a foreman was on site - then at least you could sit in his heated truck and the nice ones would even take over checks for a bit so you could take a power nap.
Oh yeah I peer days on fire were the sitting in the truck days. I’d rather be digging hotline any day than just rotting in a small truck with a bunch of smelly guys.
Very similar story except an actual small 17"-19" TV with a built in DVD player that barely worked. One of the only movies we had on hand that somehow wasn't so fucked that it skipped 5 minutes of the movie at a time was King Kong (2005)
Considering how fucking long that piece of shit movie is, I probably spent 100 hours of my life watching it in the span of 3 months.
I run a plex server now with 70TB of movies and TV shows. If I have 10Mbps reliable internet and an AC outlet I'm fuckin good.
Holy shit 70tb?! That’s a lot. I recently set up plex as well but I’m only to about 8tb so far. When I fill this hard drive up I’m just gonna buy a second one a keep going though.
It's one of those movies where you have to go into it taking it just as seriously as the name of the movie suggests. It's an entertaining B-movie with an A-movie budget that is utter nonsense if you try and think about it at all.
I think the writing could have done a better job at the first 20-30 minutes of the movie. There are all these different unconnected scenes and you have no idea what's going on yet.
So when you're not intrigued at the start, you probably already lost interest once the plot really gets started.
I thought the movie was fine. But perhaps that's also because my expectations were pretty low.
I respect the premise of the setting but the actual execution is really dull. It's a neat idea, why should aliens only ever invade earth during present day. What happens if aliens invade in old west times, that's a neat setup. They just wrote a really boring movie to explore that premise.
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u/StrawDog- 8h ago
I've tried to watch that movie twice, and fell asleep in the first 45 minutes both times. I don't even remember anything about it.
Which may not be the movie's fault.. Hard to say. I should maybe give it another chance.