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I know we're (mostly) fans of the film here, but this statement from Universal Pictures' President Ron Meyer is quite interesting, if only for its bald-faced negativity:
"Cowboys & Aliens wasn’t good enough. Forget all the smart people involved in it, it wasn’t good enough. All those little creatures bouncing around were crappy. I think it was a mediocre movie, and we all did a mediocre job with it... Cowboys & Aliens didn’t deserve better... Cowboys & Aliens was a big loss... We misfired. We were wrong. We did it badly, and I think we’re all guilty of it. I have to take first responsibility because I’m part of it, but we all did a mediocre job and we paid the price for it. It happens. They’re talented people. Certainly you couldn’t have more talented people involved in Cowboys & Aliens, but it took, you know, ten smart and talented people to come up with a mediocre movie. It just happens.”
Clearly C&A had some problems, and did not make a killing at the box office (it has made more than its budget, but that may not take into account promotional costs, and of course a lot of that money goes to individual theaters). However with the DVD coming out in a few weeks, and the film still at theaters worldwide it is a tad strange for someone with a financial stake in the movie to be so negative about it.
...uh, although he was possibly even more negative about Land of the Lost and The Wolfman. Poor Benicio del Toro.
"Cowboys & Aliens wasn’t good enough. Forget all the smart people involved in it, it wasn’t good enough. All those little creatures bouncing around were crappy. I think it was a mediocre movie, and we all did a mediocre job with it... Cowboys & Aliens didn’t deserve better... Cowboys & Aliens was a big loss... We misfired. We were wrong. We did it badly, and I think we’re all guilty of it. I have to take first responsibility because I’m part of it, but we all did a mediocre job and we paid the price for it. It happens. They’re talented people. Certainly you couldn’t have more talented people involved in Cowboys & Aliens, but it took, you know, ten smart and talented people to come up with a mediocre movie. It just happens.”
Clearly C&A had some problems, and did not make a killing at the box office (it has made more than its budget, but that may not take into account promotional costs, and of course a lot of that money goes to individual theaters). However with the DVD coming out in a few weeks, and the film still at theaters worldwide it is a tad strange for someone with a financial stake in the movie to be so negative about it.
...uh, although he was possibly even more negative about Land of the Lost and The Wolfman. Poor Benicio del Toro.