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Post by james on Jun 30, 2010 10:21:03 GMT -5
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Post by Derrick on Jun 30, 2010 12:17:26 GMT -5
Why isn't every member of the board discussing this? THIS is one of the very issues Tom and I talk about all the time. |
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Post by Eddie Love on Jun 30, 2010 18:42:29 GMT -5
I pretty much stay out of comic books contretemps, 'cause I just don't have a dog in that fight. But, as one of that odd, small, segment of the populous who actually saw JONAH HEX (under the mistaken impression it was a Western), I'd say the film's meager charms were precisely because it didn't conform to the below:
The movie version of “Hex” should have been rated R, made like a relatively cheap spaghetti Western instead of a PG-13 exercise...
If Warners didn’t want to commit to a more down-and-dirty version, it shouldn’t have made the movie.
In fact, what “Hex” should have been, and still could be, is a limited TV series on HBO, FX or TNT. It would have been about a bounty hunter who is barely better than the men he hunts but who occasionally shows a spark of humanity.
I think 12-year old boys would have had a good time at this and seen a movie that was kind of dumb-but-not-entirely-stupid (if that makes any sense) and that could serve as a tasty gateway drug to their checking out THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN or EL DORADO.
Do all comic book movies have to be dark now? Do all Westerns (not that this was one) have to be "down and dirty"? (The two I mentioned above aren't...)
This was a good article, though. I would posit an alternative as to why people (in this case, kids) rejected the film, as they obviously never saw it, and whatever the film's production problems they can't have had any relevance to people's determination whether or not they would see it. Namely, how do you successfully market a movie for kids that doesn't have a myriad (if any) marketing opportunities for toys or other ancillary products? I think GI JOE was a better movie than JH, but I also think it's quaint that the later film lacks the taint of hucksterism of the former, for which the finished film is just one piece of an industry of related items.
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Post by tombitd on Jul 1, 2010 20:15:28 GMT -5
I think 12-year old boys would have had a good time at this Do all comic book movies have to be dark now? Do all Westerns (not that this was one) have to be "down and dirty"? (The two I mentioned above aren't...) No....but I do think that Jonah Hex should've been, given the dark nature the character has always had--whether you talk about the Albano, Fleischer, Lansdale or Palmiotti version. A version true to the comic book should not be able to sell toys. |
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Post by Eddie Love on Jul 2, 2010 15:18:25 GMT -5
Well, at least it got made...
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Post by Derrick on Jul 2, 2010 21:03:44 GMT -5
Well, at least it got made... Get him! GET HIM! Don't let him get away! |
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Post by Eddie Love on Jul 2, 2010 21:23:24 GMT -5
Well, at least it got made... Get him! GET HIM! Don't let him get away! I'm only kidding! By the way, is "at least it got made" in your glossary? What about "fan-wank"? Not sure if that's one you guys coined, but it's awesome. |
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Post by tombitd on Jul 4, 2010 11:48:43 GMT -5
By the way, is "at least it got made" in your glossary? What about "fan-wank"? Not sure if that's one you guys coined, but it's awesome. Just added these two to the glossary, and should be posted soon. |
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