{"id":496,"date":"2011-08-12T16:11:37","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T22:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/2011\/08\/12\/cowboys-aliena-sci-fi-meets-western-kids-loved-it\/"},"modified":"2011-08-19T16:21:34","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T22:21:34","slug":"cowboys-aliena-sci-fi-meets-western-kids-loved-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/2011\/cowboys-aliena-sci-fi-meets-western-kids-loved-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys &#038; Aliens &#8211; Sci &#8211; Fi Meets Western &#8211; Kids Loved It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onclick=\"ps_imagemanager_popup(this.href,'','','');return false\" onfocus=\"this.blur()\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-content\/uploads\/\" \/><a onclick=\"ps_imagemanager_popup(this.href,'','','');return false\" onfocus=\"this.blur()\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-content\/uploads\/\" \/><a onclick=\"ps_imagemanager_popup(this.href,'cowboys.aliens.jpg','184','274');return false\" onfocus=\"this.blur()\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-content\/uploads\/cowboys.aliens.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"168\" height=\"250\" title=\"cowboys.aliens.jpg\" align=\"left\" alt=\"cowboys.aliens.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-content\/uploads\/.thumbs\/.cowboys.aliens.jpg\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"3\" hspace=\"5\" \/><\/a>14-year-old Raven Devanney, a KIDS FIRST! Film critic reviewed it this week. Here are her comments:<\/p>\n<p>If you love action packed adventures then \u2018<em>Cowboys and Aliens\u2019 <\/em>is the perfect film for you!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m actually pretty impressed with this movie because I think the concept of throwing together two separate genres like westerns and Si-Fi is an interesting idea but I didn\u2019t think there would be much more to the film then explosions and gun fights. However the story line is much more entertaining than I expected.<\/p>\n<p>I think the visual aspects of this film are good because the aliens are relatively creepy and the design of their ship is really cool. If you\u2019re into horror films (like me) then the aliens won\u2019t be that impressive to you, but if you are easily frightened then some scenes may seem a bit intense.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite character is the preacher because he seems a lot more compassionate and caring then most of the other characters.<\/p>\n<p>Something that I think is very unrealistic is in the final battle scene when the humans start defeating the aliens. In the beginning of the scene the humans are totally getting crushed by the aliens (which makes sense since they are practically killing machines) then the humans start winning which is odd considering their weapons are far inferior to the aliens. Obviously there isn\u2019t be much of a movie if the aliens conquer the world; it just seems a bit unrealistic.<\/p>\n<p>This movie is for ages 13 and up because there is some inappropriate language and it is very violent. Overall, I give <em>\u2018Cowboys and Aliens\u2019 <\/em>3 out of 5 stars because personally I\u2019m not that into Si-Fi, but if you are, you\u2019ll definitely enjoy it!<\/p>\n<p>Credit: Raven Devanney, age 14, KIDS FIRST! Film Critic<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"420\" height=\"345\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bxEwtAIfczE?version=3&#038;hl=en_US&#038;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>14-year-old Raven Devanney, a KIDS FIRST! Film critic reviewed it this week. Here are her comments: If you love action packed adventures then \u2018Cowboys and Aliens\u2019 is the perfect film for you! I\u2019m actually pretty impressed with this movie because I think the concept of throwing together two separate genres like westerns and Si-Fi is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feature-film-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSd8M-80","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}