Olivia Wilde Maxim part 2

Some things just aren't meant to go together: Steak and grape jelly. Bermuda shorts and black dress socks. Your grandmother and Facebook. And for good measure, let's throw in Cowboys and Aliens. From the moment I saw the previews of this one, the only thing that kept rolling through my mind was "What is going on?! Are things so bad that Indiana Jones is just signing on to ANYTHING?" Yes. Yes they are.

So we have a man named Lonergan (Daniel Craig) who wakes up in the desert with a nasty gaping hole in his side, and a weird iron bracelet on his wrist. He has no clue who he is or how he got there, but one thing that's not in question is that he has fighting credentials. He can take out a whole group of armed cowboys with only a small amount of grunting. He eventually wanders into the nearby town of Absolution, where he finds himself unwelcomed by just about everyone but Ella (Olivia Wilde) who follows him around like a puppy and clearly starts to get on his nerves. He also has the pleasure of meeting Col. Dolarhyde (Harrison Ford) who seems to be the one running the town, albeit not in a kind and orderly way. And then we have the real villains of the movie, the gargoyle/crablike creatures who are flying overhead and snatching people up with some sort of bungee cord and hauling them away for experimental surgeries. Lonergan, Dolarhyde and the rest of what's left of the townspeople team up with the local Apaches to bring all this madness to an end. If only.

In fairness, Harrison Ford does an outstanding job of making you not like him, which is surprising because despite his usual cranky demeanor in most films, he is always able to pull off an underlying charmingness. For the majority of this film, he's just mean, and you wish someone would just slap him upside the head. So, kudos to Mr. Ford for achieving that bad guy persona, and convincing you of its reality. On another positive note, the alien creatures were memorable and creepy. I'm still not sure, however, why we insist on aliens always looking like giant bugs. Is there NO chance that, if they exist, they don't look just a LITTLE bit like a human? But I digress.

I can't specifically point to the acting as being the downfall of this film, although Craig comes across as very mechanical and Olivia Wilde never seems to blink. For all intents and purposes, the cast works nicely, but it's the very basis of the storyline that just doesn't hold together for me. I realize of course that anything to do with Aliens is a far stretch from reality, and clearly this movie was meant to entertain, not to be a documentary. But I think when you have a cowboy jumping from a HORSE, onto a flying saucer to save the woman he is irritated by, maybe you have jumped that train from implausible to just plain silly. I literally laughed out loud at this part, and I'm pretty sure it wasn't meant to be funny.

Given this all goes down in the wild west, there ARE some pretty gruesome lookers to be found--bathtubs were not abundant in these places. But clearly the ugly award goes to the outer space demons who hulk around when they walk, and run upside down on ceilings like spider monkeys when they really want to move. Again, I don't mean to pound this into the ground, but let's just TRY to envision alien beings as something other than giant insects who only want to dissect us and steal our resources. It's getting old.

Olivia Wilde Maxim

Do you love to watch old vintage Hollywood movie with the glamour of pinup style? The Hollywood studio movies where the stars were stars such as Olivia de Haviland, Bette Davis, Betty Page, Lauren Bacall, Katherine Hepburn, Claudette Colbert and yes even Mommy Dearest herself Joan Crawford. These ladies of the silver screen epitomized style and Hollywood glamour.

In three easy steps you can achieve a glamourous pinup style. The You Tube channel has many how to makeup videos you can watch and learn from or try printing this article and go to your makeup with a mirror then start to play.

Step one: Liquid eyeliner from any brand you choose like Wet n Wild or LashFood is to be applied along the lash line as close to the lashes as possible with a small amount of winging out just past the end of your eyelashes. Liquid liner is the most authentic eyeliner look for the old Hollywood glamour though you can mix it up with your makeup and try a pencil or a slant tip brush, moistened and dipped into an eyeshadow in the color of liner you want to create.

Step two: To truly be "pinup" you are going to need a really great matte red lipstick! One of my favorites is Explore by Lorac or for the budget savvy in creating a new style, try Wet n Wild MegaLast Matte. This lipstick is new on the market and retails for $2.99 at Walmarts and Targets. To apply, start by lining your lips with a nude lip liner or a matching toned lip liner to your lipstick shade and then fill in the the entire mouth.

Step three: One hair flower to style and accentuate your hair with by adding to the side of your head just above the ear. I like Dollface Bettys, Lila JO and Exposure Swimwear hair flowers. Though the one I'm wearing in the YouTube how to video is from the Tinkerbell store in the local mall here in Arizona. I bought it for two dollars which is a fair price since they can average anywhere from five dollars to twenty dollars. You can even make your own hair flowers with clips and silk flowers or use a fresh flower and a bobby pin to secure it in your hair.

To achieve a truly "pinup" hairstyle, I suggest a set of rolled curls that are tucked under towards the neck or roll the hair back away from the face. One of the best and classic setting lotions for thse type of hairstyles is called Lotta Body setting lotion. You can purchase this for about ten dollars for a large bottle that can be diluted in strength to make it go further and do more hairstyles. Hair styles that had a smooth crown with tightly curled ends with a side pinned up in a flower is very old Hollywood glamour vintage "pinup" style!