The official Jonah Hex thread.

[Webhead2006]

yea for me i too dont care about critics reviews some times. HEck i seen tons of films i have liked over the yrs that were not reviewed well. We all have our likes and dislikes. Now yea the film probably and should have been better. But as we know there was studio issues.

 

[Docker2.0]

Docker,

V for Vendetta, 300, Constantine, Watchmen, and Superman Returns (yeah, I love it...sue me.). That's not even counting their other hit films of the past few years...anything with Eastwood's name on it, The Book of Eli, Edge of Darkness, The Hangover, The Blind Side, Sherlock Holmes, the Harry Potter series (biggest franchise of all-time), etc.

Again, from about 1999 to 2009, WB has been on point in terms of good to great films that are solely the director's vision.

Can't say the same for Fox or Universal.

Avatar, Star Wars, Independence Day, Night at the Museum, X2, all Fox movies. You just named a bunch of WB movies that did good and I just named some from Fox that did good. Does it mean that Fox is great? Hell no, they suck! Same with WB.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

I dont really dont know what to think of all this, I havent seen the movie but its obvious from the reviews its not up to standard, but why spend $50 million on this?

A genuine, more faithful Hex movie could have been done for $30 million, and been rated r and been more like the Palmiotti comics which are superb reads. They didnt even need to have any CGI in the movie for crying out loud, I just done get the thinking behind this, at all.

 

[Docker2.0]

They Hollywooded it up. I was really looking forward to seeing it and for awhile I thought it was possible for this movie to make $70M.........but now it will be lucky to make $7M.

 

[TNC9852002]

This movie probably makes FOX look really good right now...

 

[Judge Holden]

This makes me worry for Green Lantern.

If WB butchered and micromanaged a modest budgeted cult movie like this... what are they gonna do to a mega budget mid summer blockbuster like Green Lantern?

Hex should of been released in the winter or something, not in the summer. It should of been a gritty, violent, cult film. But they tried to micromanage and "Hollywood" it. The source material doesn't call for that.

 

[cerealkiller182]

This makes me worry for Green Lantern.

If WB butchered and micromanaged a modest budgeted cult movie like this... what are they gonna do to a mega budget mid summer blockbuster like Green Lantern?

Hex should of been released in the winter or something, not in the summer. It should of been a gritty, violent, cult film. But they tried to micromanage and "Hollywood" it. The source material doesn't call for that.

They micromanaged Hex because its R-rated material ham-fisted into a PG-13 rating. Green Lantern on the other hand I would say is very Hollywood already.

 

[RogueDK]

I'm hearing reports on the net that a WB spokesperson has said that the reason Hex failed in its box office debut because of his facial cosmetic? If this is true, they are in deep denial and still don't GET IT.

By that logic, wouldn't scarring up a heartthrob like Heath Ledger in TDK stagger the monetary success of that film? How do these guys keep and maintain their jobs making up these soupy excuses?

Anyone know if what was said is true?

 

[Dr. Evil]

Jonah Hex debuts at #8:

http://www.collider.com/2010/06/20/weeekend-box-office-toy-story-3-dominates-with-109-million/

What was the budget for this film anyways?

 

[the a1ant]

I expected this to do horrible, but not that horrible. Yikes.

 

[akfj]

Jonah Hex debuts at #8:

http://www.collider.com/2010/06/20/weeekend-box-office-toy-story-3-dominates-with-109-million/

What was the budget for this film anyways?

$47 million

Source: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/ent...rs-biggest-jonah-hex-will-likely-misfire.html

 

[BestGirl]

This makes me worry for Green Lantern.

If WB butchered and micromanaged a modest budgeted cult movie like this... what are they gonna do to a mega budget mid summer blockbuster like Green Lantern?

Hex should of been released in the winter or something, not in the summer. It should of been a gritty, violent, cult film. But they tried to micromanage and "Hollywood" it. The source material doesn't call for that.

I'm hoping that WB will take more care with GL precisely because it's a megabudget blockbuster and not a modestly budgeted cult flick like JH.

I wasn't aware that JH was micromanaged. In what way?

 

[Zant]

Yet another bad WB comic book movie.I'm sure comic book fans will still blame Fox for this disaster since thats the 'hip and cool' thing to do on the internet

 

[Tony Stark]

They micromanaged Hex because its R-rated material ham-fisted into a PG-13 rating. Green Lantern on the other hand I would say is very Hollywood already.

The problems are deeper than that. Giving Hex superpowers, CGI Gatling Guns on horseback. The film was a mockery of the Hex comics.

Now I agree that just because this movie was mishandled doesn't mean that GL will be. My main beef with GL is the casting of Ryan Reynolds whose best effort to date has been Van Wilder.

 

[cerealkiller182]

The problems are deeper than that. Giving Hex superpowers, CGI Gatling Guns on horseback. The film was a mockery of the Hex comics.

My point is they made Hex look like how they think the audience perceives comic book movies. Thats not an issue with GL because it is already under the Hollywood umbrella of what people think comic powers are.

Now I agree that just because this movie was mishandled doesn't mean that GL will be. My main beef with GL is the casting of Ryan Reynolds whose best effort to date has been Van Wilder.

Than you must have only seen Van Wilder and The Proposal

 

[Retroman]

Jonah Hex debuts at #8:

http://www.collider.com/2010/06/20/weeekend-box-office-toy-story-3-dominates-with-109-million/

What was the budget for this film anyways?

Ouch!

Both of DC's lower budget films have made well below expectations.

 

[J.Howlett]

Docker,

Star Wars doesn't belong to Fox. And X2 was great in spite of Fox's involvement. Trust me on that one.

 

[spider-neil]

not a hex fan so I couldn't care less, but you'd think the approach would have been like an old clint eastwood movie. for example 'good, the bad and the ugly', just a western that 'happens' to have jonah hex in it, look TDK was a crime thriller that 'happened' to have batman.

after the trailer I had no interest in seeing JH. why the heck does a JH movie need CG?!

 

[J.Howlett]

Hex was a problem from it's initial script. This thing was dead in the water the moment they let Brolin start calling the shots.

It's a simple film to tell. I don't understand why it got convoluted the way it did.

If Hex was a straight up, badass, rated R revenge western on a 40 million dollar budget(at most), it would've been just fine.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

not a hex fan so I couldn't care less, but you'd think the approach would have been like an old clint eastwood movie. for example 'good, the bad and the ugly', just a western that 'happens' to have jonah hex in it, look TDK was a crime thriller that 'happened' to have batman.

after the trailer I had no interest in seeing JH. why the heck does a JH movie need CG?!

Perfect question, and the simply answer is, it didnt, and it shouldnt have needed any either.

 

[spider-neil]

Hex was a problem from it's initial script. This thing was dead in the water the moment they let Brolin start calling the shots.

It's a simple film to tell. I don't understand why it got convoluted the way it did.

If Hex was a straight up, badass, rated R revenge western on a 40 million dollar budget(at most), it would've been just fine.

exactly, why on earth does JH need a big budget?
sometimes movies just fall into the hands of people that just don't 'get it'

 

[spider-neil]

pretty much like the large indiana johns movie, the film is swamped with CG when there should be any (or very little) in movies like these, with real world settings, cg just takes you out of the movie.

I'm not saying making JH with no CG would have saved the movie but at least it wouldn't need to make loads to make a profit.

 

[Heretic]

Another thing I think this shows is that Megan Fox is NOT a star. It's so bizarre how magazines and gossip shows treat people with no talent and no real Hollywood success (such as Paris Hilton) as if people actually care about them. Megan Fox has been in 4 movies. Two of them are Transformers, which made it's money based on nostalgia for the toys and robot fights...the other two movies relied much heavier on the stars selling the pictures...and both were complete and utter box office bombs.

She has no business being treated as anything other than a B-level celebrity in a supporting role. Her presence adds nothing to the box office of a film.

 

[J.Howlett]

Heretic,

Her beauty and her wiliness to be more open than most actors/actresses is what got her into this position. Make no mistake, her coming out scene in the first Transformers film is this generation's equivalent of the Ursulla Andress moment in Dr. No in '62. That's what it felt like on opening night back in '07.

I think she can be good. I've seen flashes of it but she needs better handlers than the ones she has. Her film with Mickey Rourke is really her last chance. It's an independent and it's really just those two in that film. She HAS to hit it out of the park on that film. She's got no choice.

 

[Dr. Evil]

I think the film's failure is going to hurt Josh Brolin in the short term, but he has three other movies coming out later this year, so he has a great chance to redeem himself.