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Post by droidofages on Apr 27, 2010 12:26:14 GMT -4
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Post by droidofages on Apr 28, 2010 20:07:54 GMT -4
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Post by mannypeters on Apr 29, 2010 16:19:14 GMT -4
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Post by droidofages on Apr 29, 2010 18:56:11 GMT -4
Well, this trailer actually doesn't look ALL bad. Only half bad. If I ignore the cheap humour, supernatural crap, Megan Fox's dialogue and the Mountain Dewification of dynamite and Gatling guns, I can actually imagine that it'd be a great Jonah Hex movie. Brolin and Malkovich seem to put in the fantastic performances we'd expect. The sets, lighting, make-up and costume design all look great. Some of the action sequences look cool too. I'll be pleasantly surprised if the movie is half entertaining and only half groan inducing like the trailer. Just let me be clear about something though: I actually think a dynamite crossbow gun is pretty cool. I think talking to dead people by contact is cool too. Yes, Megan Fox is fairly easy on the eyes. Crows crawling out of dead peoples' mouths is pretty frickin' creepy and John Malkovich blowin' shit up with a Dragonball is awesome. I'd like to see a movie, even a western movie with all of that cool shit in it. I just don't think Jonah Hex is the right vehicle for that kind of material. It's like buying the Mona Lisa and covering it in Spider-Man stickers... Splicing Roots with scenes from the X-Files... Pouring chocolate on pizza... I like all of these things, but they don't go together in my opinion. Adding the seemingly incongruous material to the Jonah Hex movie makes no sense to me in the same way. I personally think Hex could easily have been on par with There Will Be Blood, 3:10 to Yuma, Dead Man or the Man With No Name movies (to name a few) as a measure of good film making. I'm not against brainless, fun movies though (I really enjoyed Kick-Ass). While the quality Hex movie is made, the same studio or another could have made the summer blockbuster sci-fi/western under another name and with *gasp* an original character. It could have an all celebrity cast in their twenties and could be chalk full of fast edits, bullet-time and a heavy-metal/hip-hop/Theoryofanicklecreed soundtrack. It could be non-stop tit-splosions, demon-cursed flame-saws and dialogue made completely out of bad-ass jokes (or bad ass-jokes) and one-liners punctuated by sex scenes and/or hilariously extreme acts of violence. Scenes like this: Tough guy A says "Heads up!" before kicking the head off of another dude so that it bounces off the ceiling, the wall behind him and then right between the ass cheeks of the body it formerly occupied with a fart sound... all in 3-D... I would pay to see both of those movies several times in theater and on DVD.
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Post by Mike on Apr 30, 2010 19:31:27 GMT -4
Droid doesn't like boobs.
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