The official Jonah Hex thread.

[Karelia]

That short looks awesome. Like really... really awesome. Can't wait to see it, it's a shame it isn't a full movie, only 12 minutes.

Maybe if Jonah Hex gets another shot, it'll be a show HBO/Whatever and Thomas Jane playing him, eh? EH?

 

[lespaul59]

is it true that they used CGI to clean up Megan Fox's make up ?

I read where somebody said they used CGI to soften or tone down her looks.

 

[Webhead2006]

well it sucks it couldnt have turned out to be a better picture.

 

[Rumpy Bulge Dubz]

I just pray for a Director's Cut

but I don't think praying's gonna help

 

[WorthyStevens]

I know I'm late for this comment, but here goes.

As one Warner Bros exec said about the lesson learned; "You don't take a handsome actor and disfigure him."

Because clearly that stopped people from seeing The Dark Knight.

You don't take a s****y script and turn it into a film. How about that, WB?

 

[brainchild81]

Ditto

 

[DCUmoviepage]

The blu-ray date is come,sad news,no director's cut

The film arrives in October 12 and the features will be:

• Deleted Scenes
• The Inside Story of Jonah Hex
• The Weird Western Tales of Jonah Hex

Here is the cover,with a stupid shade hiding the scars

Source

 

[MadVillainy]

Weird they dont even show his disfigured face on the cover. Sad news about directors cut

 

[cerealkiller182]

My review:

Spoiler

Jonah Hex is a former confederate soldier who has started a family and tried to live a peaceful life. Eventually, Quentin Turnball, a former commanding officer, catches up with him seeking vengeance for the death of his son, which Jonah inadvertently caused. Killing his family and scarring his face, Jonah is left for dead, but is helped by neighboring Native Americans. After his recuperation, he finds he now has supernatural abilities, which help him in his new craft, bounty hunting. The U.S. government now needs his help to stop Turnball and the doomsday machine that he is building.

Despite Jonah Hex's appearance in the comic Weird Western Tales, he is not actually known for his supernatural powers. Hex in the film is able to talk to the dead by touching them. Apparently, after they perish they, become omniscient towards the people they knew while alive. He also seems immortal. He sports a collection of gunshot wounds yet is still walking. Part of the appeal of Jonah Hex is similiar to Batman. He is just a normal guy with normal abilities. Armed with his six shooters and his ugly mug, Hex faces down insurmountable odds and comes out the otherside victorious. Granting him powers makes Hex bigger than the normal man. Whatever humanity could boil over his col, dark facade becomes completely untethered from the character when you realize he perpetually has one foot on the other side.

Josh Brolin is near perfect as Jonah Hex. His blunt cynicism matched with his gruff attitude make for an especially badasss cowboy archetype. He is surrounded by an impressive cast including John Malcovich, Michael Fassbender, and Lance Reddick. Fassbender is delightfully sadistic, but Malcovich plays it mostly straight leaving his villain with very little personality. Megan Fox plays the primary love interest. She does a little more than sleepwalk through the film relying on her looks, which she has done in the past. I thought she found a softness behind her cold prostitute's eyes. Michael Shannon is criminally underused given one scene where he just yells, and Will Arnett steps up in a dramatic role without chewing the scenery too much, like he is known to do in comedies.

Clocking in at 81 minutes, the run time is a welcome change to the 2.5 hour run time these summer comic book adaptations usually are. It is written as a short and sweet western actioner, and while there was plenty of potential for fun, the movie just falls flat. The amateur directing of Jimmy Haywood leaves the film with very little personality. Despite decent performances from Brolin and Fassbender, none of the actors seem to gain enough momentum to really sell their characters. At times, the film attempts to be surreal, depiciting Hex and Turnball fighting on red clay during their real-life encounters. While I appreciate the attempt, it does nothing to progress the characters or story in anyway. It is just an unnecassary set piece. The film also skirts the concept of steampunk, a form of science fiction set in Victorian England or Frontier America where the primary energy source, steam, is used to power advanced technology in context of the time period. The movie never takes full advantage of this concept. Turnball's doomsday device is only used once while being tested and remains mostly secretive for the rest of the film. I barely recall if it is ever truly revealed. This makes for some interesting visuals, but attracts far too much compariosn to the big time flop, Wild Wild West.

Brolin performs admirably, but this movie is bland and dull. It is almost as if it refuses to show you anything amazing, just teases you that something amazing could happen. It is too bad though. The western genre is dying, and could have used some vitality. Brolin was such a perfect fit for the role and Hex had such potential as a character, this film just feels like a waste.

4/10
http://rickshq.blogspot.com/2010/08/review-jonah-hex.html

 

[FlawlessVictory]

Josh Brolin Is Not Proud Of 'Jonah Hex'

Posted 1 hr ago by Rick Marshall in DC Comics, News, Vertigo

We knew to temper our expectations for "Jonah Hex" when star Josh Brolin began hyping its "absurdist tone," but let me be honest here for a sec: it's currently sitting somewhere alongside "Catwoman" and "Elektra" in my list of some of the worst comic book movies ever made. The horse-mounted gatling gun gives it an edge over the other two films, but only a slight edge.

And while I know I'm not alone in having some negative feelings about the film, it's vindicating to know that even the film's star struggled to find something positive to say about the project.

"Now that I don't have to promote it? . . . No," said Brolin when asked if he was proud of "Jonah Hex."

"We had an original intention and that got away from us a little bit," he explained. "Everybody did do their best to try and create the best movie with what we had, but I think it got so derailed at a certain point that the assemblage of what we could use was so disconnected to what our original intention was that it just got mixed up."

Brolin confessed that his feelings about the film made it difficult to promote the finished product — and he even expressed his concerns to the studio's marketing department prior to the press tour. In the end, however, he said he found a positive angle.

"That's what I told the marketing people at Warner Bros. I said, 'I can't lie about this, so I have to look for a truism that I can go with," he said. "I do think that if you go in there kind of like with 'Piranha 3-D' — when you go to see that movie you go, 'This is ridiculous and this is fun' — so if you went into 'Jonah Hex' with that, I think you had a good time."

http://splashpage.mtv.com/2010/09/09/josh-brolin-jonah-hex/

 

[Project862006]

feel bad for Jane he really wanted to be Hex

did'nt brolin choose the director and oversee the script LOL

 

[Philly Phanboy]

Weird they dont even show his disfigured face on the cover. Sad news about directors cut

That's just bizarre.

 

[DCUmoviepage]

Marketing and bad decisions of the producers killedthe film.nas worse, he can maybe be a huge hit, because the "alternative" westerns they coming in theaters like Book of Eli,Priest and Cowboys and Aliens.Hex have a oportunity to be the BOOM of this new genere and fail.

 

[kookevin3]

havent seen it but im sure to buy it no matter how crappy it is. Im pretty ocd when it comes to marvel and dc dvds.

 

[ninjamuffin]

who's jonah hex?

 

[Docker2.0]

A porn star.

 

[brainchild81]

havent seen it but im sure to buy it no matter how crappy it is. Im pretty ocd when it comes to marvel and dc dvds.

Get this piece of **** & said OCD might be forever cured.

 

[King K]

So.....I shouldn't feel guilty about bootlegging this?

 

[brainchild81]

No. They don't deserve to make any $ off of this. You might regret wasting the time it takes to download this POS though.

 

[ClarkLuther55]

Weird they dont even show his disfigured face on the cover. Sad news about directors cut

Didn't some WB exec say something to the effect of "you don't cast a handsome actor then disfigure him" after the movie came out and bombed? LOL, I'm betting they're hoping to sell/rent a few more DVDs to women by covering up his face.

 

[bullets]

I finally saw this and it wasn't terrible but I thought it fell flat by the second half.
The animated short with Thomas Jane is probably the best that will come of this for a long time .

 

[chapin]

what was john malkovich thinking?!?

 

[HighFivingMF]

what was john malkovich thinking?!?

"I'm John Malkovich and I'm f***ing awesome!" is what John Malkovich thinks all day, every day.

 

[chapin]

"I'm John Malkovich and I'm f***ing awesome!" is what John Malkovich thinks all day, every day.

good point

 

[Hellion]

I'm thinking of checking this out......I know its been torn apart in reviews and stuff, should I check it out, are people just hatin to hate? or is it really that bad?