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I read a lot of negative reviews on Jonah but, personally I didn't think it was all that bad. In fact, I felt it pretty decent. Yeah, it could have been longer, and I do agree with some of the complaints (Turnbull was bad but... I don't know, he needed more. I also wasn't a fan of all the mass killings in order to make Turnbull out to be evil, and would have liked to have seen Jonah save some of those Turnbull tried to wipe out. It also dragged a wee bit in the middle).
But if you're a fan of action and bad guys getting their come-uppance, which I am, then it's a fun movie to watch. Hex is a great character who delivers the best one-liners. And Michael Fassbender as a psychotic knife-wielding Irishman with tattoos on this throat and shoulders *fans self*. Man, I could watch him all day.
On the other hand, I imagine that if you're a hard-core fan of the Jonah Hex comic you may be disappointed. It seems like it was comic fans who were the most disenchanted. But for me, though, yeah, it had some unfulfilled potential, I still enjoyed it (and, in fact, thought it better executed than some other comic-turned-movies out there).
Drag me to Hell - brace yourselves: I didn't like this one. That's right, a movie I didn't like. But I think a lot of that had to do with the fact that I went in with all the wrong expectations. I was expecting it to be serious and creepy, not campy, and that threw me like crazy. It's by the guy who made Evil Dead 2 and if you're a fan of his work, then you'll love DMTH. Thing is, I've seen Evil Dead 2, and though I'm not a fan I still thought it better than DMTH. Even going into ED2 not knowing that it was meant to be campy, the campiness still worked for me. It didn't with DMTH.
It was also horribly predictable, and I'm so tired of scary/horror movies following the same dang formulas. I could see everything coming a mile away right down to the twist ending that wasn't a twist after all because I knew it was coming!.
I also have a death-to-animals squick which really annoys me when it comes to horror movies. If there's a pet, you know it's going to be the first victim. What made it worse in this movie was that said animal was a kitten, a very sweet lovable kitten. Seriously, little miss "But I'm a vegan!" You couldn't go out and buy a chicken to sacrifice? You had to go straight for the kitten? Yeah, way to make us hate the protagonist, movie.
Anyway. If you want campy horror then you'll like it. If you're looking for something creepy with a real twist you don't see coming at all then I recommend Dream House. Warning: it's sad, very sad. But it's interesting and different, and though it's not something I would watch again (too sad!) it was still excellent.
But if you're a fan of action and bad guys getting their come-uppance, which I am, then it's a fun movie to watch. Hex is a great character who delivers the best one-liners. And Michael Fassbender as a psychotic knife-wielding Irishman with tattoos on this throat and shoulders *fans self*. Man, I could watch him all day.
On the other hand, I imagine that if you're a hard-core fan of the Jonah Hex comic you may be disappointed. It seems like it was comic fans who were the most disenchanted. But for me, though, yeah, it had some unfulfilled potential, I still enjoyed it (and, in fact, thought it better executed than some other comic-turned-movies out there).
Drag me to Hell - brace yourselves: I didn't like this one. That's right, a movie I didn't like. But I think a lot of that had to do with the fact that I went in with all the wrong expectations. I was expecting it to be serious and creepy, not campy, and that threw me like crazy. It's by the guy who made Evil Dead 2 and if you're a fan of his work, then you'll love DMTH. Thing is, I've seen Evil Dead 2, and though I'm not a fan I still thought it better than DMTH. Even going into ED2 not knowing that it was meant to be campy, the campiness still worked for me. It didn't with DMTH.
It was also horribly predictable, and I'm so tired of scary/horror movies following the same dang formulas. I could see everything coming a mile away right down to the twist ending that wasn't a twist after all because I knew it was coming!.
I also have a death-to-animals squick which really annoys me when it comes to horror movies. If there's a pet, you know it's going to be the first victim. What made it worse in this movie was that said animal was a kitten, a very sweet lovable kitten. Seriously, little miss "But I'm a vegan!" You couldn't go out and buy a chicken to sacrifice? You had to go straight for the kitten? Yeah, way to make us hate the protagonist, movie.
Anyway. If you want campy horror then you'll like it. If you're looking for something creepy with a real twist you don't see coming at all then I recommend Dream House. Warning: it's sad, very sad. But it's interesting and different, and though it's not something I would watch again (too sad!) it was still excellent.
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Date: 2012-02-26 02:33 am (UTC)From:The title was enough for me to steer clear but I did watch a really ridiculous sci fi which takes place in 2017....
It was made in 1983
It was called Cherry 2000
In the future, a man travels to the ends of the earth to find that the perfect woman is always under his nose. When successful businessman Sam Treadwell finds that his android wife, Cherry model 2000 has blown a fuse, he hires sexy renegade tracker E. Johnson to find her exact duplicate. But as their journey to replace his perfect mate leads them into the treacherous and lawless region of 'The Zone', Treadwell learns the hard way that the perfect woman is made not of computer chips and diodes, but of real flesh and blood!
I wonder who these people are who write stuff like this?
I still am not sure it was serious or not. Among those in the cast was Melanie Griffth who I like a lot.
But I really wonder what type of man, and I use the term loosely, would prefer a robot as a companion??
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Date: 2012-02-26 02:55 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-02-26 03:06 am (UTC)From:I watched all of it.......I liked the look THEY gave 2017, not long from now........and the story content was interesting.
It was half western, half sci fi etc.
I mean kind of Mad Max genre combined with something other
>;-)
With a bit of The Mummy thrown in for good measure when she is fixing the plane and finally flying it...........
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Date: 2012-02-26 03:07 am (UTC)From:>;-)