Jonah Hex Movie

[Doc]

OH I was more CGI in general not directly about this movie. Transformers for example was so confusing with CGI you really didnt know what robot was fighting who. It was just a jumbled mush. Van Helsing with people jumping out over 500 foot gorges holding ropes with one hand umm yeah.

Its just so easy to do this now. Add 500 stormtroopers to a scene, Heros jumping out impossible hights, flipping and cartwheeling around. Where it used to be WOOOOWWWWW. Now its like yawn......

And its taking the place of plots, characters etc.

[fallensaviour]

OH I was more CGI in general not directly about this movie.
its taking the place of plots, characters etc.

I absolutely agree with you on that point.
I also feel that part of the problem with this film was Hayward wanting to blow up everything,Cgi or no Cgi he's like big explosion equals good...
I can count on one hand how many times Leone blew things up...

I am hoping for a better cut dvd...One can dream...one can dream.
I think I'll check this one out again at the cheap seats though...

[Captain]

Well, met an old buddy for lunch and we decided to try out Mr. Hex's film. Pee Yuuu! I'm glad Ron (Urko from the first Megomuseum board) paid, because this was one bad mess of a film.

I agree with you FS regarding Brolin, he IS Hex in this film...except for the talking to the dead crap, and the other mumbo jumbo. I wish they would make a real Jonah Hex film with him in it.

Fox looked great, but she just doesnt know how to act...period. I could have cared less for her character, and couldnt understand why Hex did at all....She's pretty, but no talent there at all.

Seeing Tom Wopat, albeit briefly, was cool.

Other than that......the best part of the film for me was when Ron wiped out and sprayed his supersize coke and spilled his extra large popcorn all over the theater. Luckily for him, we were the only two in the place.

This film had some moments, but for the most part looks like it was lifted from a video game. I havent read Hex comics since they turned him into Mad Max back in the eighties...is this what he is like in the comics now? A sorta Zombie freak, with impossible weapons?

[fallensaviour]

I havent read Hex comics since they turned him into Mad Max back in the eighties...is this what he is like in the comics now? A sorta Zombie freak, with impossible weapons?

H*E*L*L NO!!!
The recent run of comics are awesome the stories are amazing.The writing is top notch that's why I don't understand where this dead speak came from!?!?!?
Or the crazy insane weapons!?!?!?
I just don't understand what the heck they were doing?
The source material for this character is just great.
There are a million ways they could have done this film but didn't.
Again I hope the directors cut dvd plays out better than this one with like an added 35minutes of film...LOL

[Captain]

Yeah, I agree...at times they were so close to having a decent Hex story going...then they would start doing something goofy again.

[StrangeVisitor]

The Hex Gadgets were stupid and not needed they reminded me of Van Helsing.
The Crow like resurrection aspect of the Hex character was not only never part of the character ever,it was also stupid to put in the film.
Same goes for the dead speak.
The sets looked great,costuming was great and overall cinematics looked good.

Wasn't as bad as I expected it to be.
Yeah, I agree that the production design or set dressers did a heck of a job with the look of the film, really liked the visual textures early on in the proceedings. Brolin was good as Hex and Fox was okay as a saloon girl but there should've been about 50% LESS of her in it - the title is HEX not FOX. Maybe the writer could've used that 50% less Fox to smooth out some of the hiccups in the rest which, with all the gadgets, felt like a re-written/combined scripts of The Wild Wild West & The Crow sequels. Jonah hardly ever just plain shot anyone with his six-shooter.

[fallensaviour]

Wasn't as bad as I expected it to be.

It did have some redeeming qualities not many but some.
Brolin has said he would love to do another film however I'm sure that won't happen after the failure at the box office.

Domestic Total as of Jul. 1, 2010: $9,812,400
With a production budget of 47 million I don't think sequels will happen.
I can only hope this turns into another star trek the motion picture with a directors cut coming out better than the theatre film...

The great part about a sequel is fox is not necessary.Her character sure but not her...

[BlackKnight]

It May still Bounce Back on DVD and Break Even ...., some Movies Do , Do this. Considering it only costed 47 Mil to make,... It is Possible.

I Just think the General Population Just don't care to see Western's Much in the Theater , anymore, if they ever did. Unless it's something like Broke Back Mountain ..., However I hear when you take Away the Main Theme with the 2 Dudes, ... The over all story is Horrible .

[fallensaviour]

It May still Bounce Back on DVD and Break Even ...., some Movies Do , Do this. Considering it only costed 47 Mil to make,... It is Possible.

I Just think the General Population Just don't care to see Western's Much in the Theater , anymore, if they ever did. Unless it's something like Broke Back Mountain ..., However I hear when you take Away the Main Theme with the 2 Dudes, ... The over all story is Horrible .

I guess it is possible 3:10 to yuma had an opening box office of 14 million and cost 55 million and open range had 16mill(adjusted) opening.So it made about 30% of what those films did in opening,And they were way better westerns.

As for brokeback.....
That wasn't a western.
I would rather watch Jonah Hex on the imax everyday for the rest of my life than watch that crap film ever again!!!

[Captain]

Turns out Hex wasnt what I would call a western either. that may have killed it for old cowboy movie die hards like me. I honestly still feel if they stayed true to the character and did a real Western, this film would have done a lot better.

Hollywood hasnt given up on the genre, with a big budget True Grit remake out this winter, and Gunsmoke, Big Valley, and others due out in 2010/2011.

[Wise4671]

Ok so I watched Hex last night and right after Hex got his scar (which was right away in the opening) and he spoke his first line all I could hear is Carl from the movie Slingblade. Other then trying to get over that I thought it was a pretty good movie. It is different from the comic in alot of ways but if you can put that to the side I think most people will enjoy this movie.

[samurainoir]

>A shame Hollywood had to do a sci-fi/horrorification on a simple western.

Maybe it’s all a prep for the “Hex” sequel?

*crickets chirping*

>Pathetic, worthless garbage. Period.

No; tell us how you REALLY feel....

I’m always kinda bothered by stuff like this: movies where they feel the need to monkey with all sorts of aspects of the original material. You’d think if they thought the comic was worth filming they’d.... you know.... base more of it on the comic.

*sigh*

>not to defend Boll

Holee Smokes! Somebody defended Uwe Boll!

http://megomuseum.com/mmgallery/files/5/0/uweboll.jpg

>It will be on DVD in a couple of months.

Hell; POPULAR movies are on DVD in a few months!

Don C.

In this case, I was under the impression that the original material they were using was the Vertigo series, which added the Supernatural elements (although I understand that Johan Hex was also the star of Weird Western Tales as well wasn't he?).


As for defending Uwe Boll, I can find one single defense that even you can get behind Don. He's employing hard working Canadians and pumping money into our economy (it is a global recession after all). They are not huge budget films, but he does make a few films a year and some are shot in the great white north.

I attended my film school reunion a few weeks back, and got to hang out with a number of friends and former classmates who have credits in that specific film, as well as other shot-in-Canada Boll films.

The one thing that was clear to me is that Canadians sold their own film industry up the river, and block booking Hollywood studio films into the theatrical venues has shut out our homegrown films to the point where even our top-tier gets released on 18 screens nationally at most.

Doesn't mean the films themselves on their own merit stand up to much critical scrutiny, but I personally know children that are well fed and have roofs over their heads because the mortgages continue to get paid by friends of mine putting in ridiculous hours to get these kind of films made.

With that said, thank goodness I had a mentor who had the foresight to point out where all this was heading, and advised me to get out of The Biz after the painful production and distribution debacle of my first feature film. I'm looking back with no regrets seeing how things have only gone downhill in the past dozen years.

[Hector]

Never mind...

[fallensaviour]

In this case, I was under the impression that the original material they were using was the Vertigo series, which added the Supernatural elements (although I understand that Johan Hex was also the star of Weird Western Tales as well wasn't he?).

The movies are not based on the vertigo stuff as far as I can tell and I'm glad because they sucked royally.
The costuming is no where near the vertigo stuff and neither is his look.

As for the supernatural it was there 20 years before the vertigo "stuff" came out.