Things I Learned from Watching Cowboys and Aliens [spoiler-free]

• Don’t mess with Daniel Craig
• I want the button-up shirt+vest look to be the norm once again
• You had white, straight teeth in the old west if you were a lead character
• Harrison Ford shot first
• They mostly come out at night. Mostly…
• Every movie with aliens must have a scene where an alien gets really close to someone and touches their face
• Daniel Craig is not afraid to kick you in the balls
• “You’ve got some balls” was apparently a phrase used in the old west
• Sci-fi and westerns go well together (um, Firefly. Of course, Firefly put the western in space, this put space in the western)
• It’s perfectly fine to name a dog “dog”
• Cowboys wore tight pants *coughMalcomReynoldscough*
• Aliens must be really good at claw machines
• Aliens always have smaller, hidden appendages #RAPTORCLAWS!
• Olivia. Wilde. HotHotHotHotHotHotHotHotHotHotHotHotHotHotHotHotHot
• Gold was a REALLY big deal at the time
• Characters always get injured in the lower right abdomen
• Harrison Ford gives awful fatherly advice #BeAMan
• Everyone had blue eyes, despite it being a recessive gene
• The areal shots were gorgeous
• Aliens generally agree— revenge is a dish best served cold (e.g. scar faced alien [not to give anything away])
• The old west was a major bro-fest (manly men are manly)