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Post by Cad Zombie on Oct 16, 2010 21:58:19 GMT -5
Just watched this tonight. As I never have been a comic book reader (only T.V. cartoons when I was a kid) this particular D.C. comic character was unknown to me. That being said there could have been alot more done with this movie especially given the "half dead" mystical nature of this character.
I'd say it was just o.k.
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Post by thomasallencummins on Oct 18, 2010 6:22:41 GMT -5
I'm not all that familiar with Jonah Hex. Of course I know of the comic but I just wasnt (and am still not) all that into non super hero books like Sgt. Rock, Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos, Kid Colt Outlaw, Two Gun Kid etc. I heard about the movie for Jonah Hex and when I read that Josh Brolin was going to play Jonah I thought that's a decent pick. From what I understand from the reviews Brolin didn't do a bad job and may have been the standout. With the exception of John Malkovich I read that everyone else pretty much walked through the movie reading their lines and that Hex has more in common with the painfully crappy Wild Wild West movie, especially the end climax of the film. I'll watch it but I don't expect much.
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Post by dANdeLION on Oct 21, 2010 13:59:44 GMT -5
I had several issues of the original Jonah Hex series when I was a kid, and the stories were relatively typical Westerns. I'm sure Jonah sometimes fought monsters and other oddball comic stuff, but Jonah himself was a regular Civil-war era gunslinger, and drew a lot from Clint Eastwood's "Man with no name" and "Josie Wales" characters. Now, comics have an annoying tendency to 'reboot' characters, and I'm sure that at some point Jonah was 'upgraded'. I haven't read those comics, so I don't know what changes DC has made to the character, but I do know that the description of the movie Jonah had little to do with the '70's comic Jonah. So I passed on the movie, as I was sure that would diminish my enjoyment of it.
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Post by thomasallencummins on Oct 21, 2010 15:44:23 GMT -5
I haven't read those comics, so I don't know what changes DC has made to the character, but I do know that the description of the movie Jonah had little to do with the '70's comic Jonah. So I passed on the movie, as I was sure that would diminish my enjoyment of it. And of course I understand the film pretty much sucks so that would be a good reason to avoid it too. ;D
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Post by dANdeLION on Oct 21, 2010 21:49:23 GMT -5
Yeah, but it's a comic movie. I hate avoiding those. I feel that as a collector, I want to encourage the making of more comic movies. But there's only so much I can do to convince myself to see something that every sense I possess says it's going to stink. It's that instinct that's kept me from watching either Swamp Thing movie, Supergirl, Catwoman, Elektra, Spawn, the Phantom, and Howard The Duck. That last one is a shame, because I loved the comic. I'm sure I've missed more comic movies than that, but those are all I remember right now.
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Post by thomasallencummins on Oct 22, 2010 5:45:24 GMT -5
Yeah, but it's a comic movie. I hate avoiding those. I feel that as a collector, I want to encourage the making of more comic movies. But there's only so much I can do to convince myself to see something that every sense I possess says it's going to stink. It's that instinct that's kept me from watching either Swamp Thing movie, Supergirl, Catwoman, Elektra, Spawn, the Phantom, and Howard The Duck. That last one is a shame, because I loved the comic. I'm sure I've missed more comic movies than that, but those are all I remember right now. I'm sure the ill-fated Man-Thing movie was a miss as well as Punisher - War Zone which I just got from the bargain bin at Wal-Mart. Funny thing about that last Punisher movie was I didn't think it was all that bad. Frankly I kind of enjoyed the one before that with John Travolta and Thomas Jane. I'm not saying they were great films but I didn't think they were horrible either. I'm also pretty sure you haven't watched the three Blade movies which, again, weren't great but weren't bad enough to avoid either.
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Post by Cad Zombie on Oct 22, 2010 8:26:28 GMT -5
It's that instinct that's kept me from watching either Swamp Thing movie, Supergirl, Catwoman, Elektra, Spawn, the Phantom, and Howard The Duck. Seen em,..they all sucked in a huge way, some more than others.
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Post by Cad Zombie on Oct 22, 2010 8:29:37 GMT -5
Yeah, but it's a comic movie. I hate avoiding those. I feel that as a collector, I want to encourage the making of more comic movies. But there's only so much I can do to convince myself to see something that every sense I possess says it's going to stink. It's that instinct that's kept me from watching either Swamp Thing movie, Supergirl, Catwoman, Elektra, Spawn, the Phantom, and Howard The Duck. That last one is a shame, because I loved the comic. I'm sure I've missed more comic movies than that, but those are all I remember right now. I'm sure the ill-fated Man-Thing movie was a miss as well as Punisher - War Zone which I just got from the bargain bin at Wal-Mart. Funny thing about that last Punisher movie was I didn't think it was all that bad. Frankly I kind of enjoyed the one before that with John Travolta and Thomas Jane. I'm not saying they were great films but I didn't think they were horrible either. I'm also pretty sure you haven't watched the three Blade movies which, again, weren't great but weren't bad enough to avoid either. Gotta love the Blade movies, really good "vampire lore" thread running throughout, good music, solid secondary characters.
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Post by dANdeLION on Oct 23, 2010 10:02:59 GMT -5
I saw the Blade movies, too, which is why they weren't included in my "Comic Movies I Haven't Watched" list. ;D
Overall, I thought they were pretty good. The Clubbing Vampires (Party Vampires?) died way too easily (like stormtroopers), but other than that, pretty good.
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Post by Cad Zombie on Oct 25, 2010 22:49:59 GMT -5
I saw the Blade movies, too, which is why they weren't included in my "Comic Movies I Haven't Watched" list. ;D Overall, I thought they were pretty good. The Clubbing Vampires (Party Vampires?) died way too easily (like stormtroopers), but other than that, pretty good. Good point. I think the club vamps were meant to portray the "noobies" that were not too "long in the tooth" LOL and therefore easy fodder for a hunter.
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Post by thomasallencummins on Dec 9, 2010 12:32:51 GMT -5
Jonah Hex has been available for rent on demand on cable for a while now. Still can't pull the trigger. Heh.
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