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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.
