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Jonah Hex movie thread:Casting,Pics,Rumors,Spoilers till Release

$5.08 million this weekend.

Toy Story 3 $109 million.

C-level comic book characters and westerns are box office poison...even Prince of Persia beat Jonah Hex.
 
Armond White is a piece of shit.

Megan Fox has toe-thumbs. That takes her "hotness" down several points.
 
I saw it over the weekend and screw the critics. I'm not saying it was an 'A' movie but its not horrid at all.

I'd give it a C+/B- just to split hairs.

For the length of the movie its plot was evident and there. One could pick it apart by over analyzing it but no plot holes are so apparent it messes with the flow.

Megan Fox was frankly bad. She is proof that looks will only get you so far, at some point honest to god talent is needed. Lucky for her the part was of a pissed off whore so wide range of ability not needed.

Brolin and Malkovich were good so points there.
Tom Wopat(Luke Duke) had a minor role that I didn't catch till the credits.

I'm only aware of Hex having this supernatural gift as in the movie during the out of continuity Vertigo mini-series. Its not overplayed though thankfully.

I'll be curious to see if we ever get the edited out footage on the DVD release. It's a shame it tanked as bad as it did cause its not a bad film. I wonder how much the studio will discount opening against Toy Story 3 and their own handling of the project in the edit bay.
 
Out Of My Vulcan Mind said:
From early box office reports Deadline Hollywood is projecting that it'll only make about $8.5 million this weekend. They're also reporting that Warners slashed the budget in half (from $80 million to $40 million) just before filming began, although reshoots may have brought the budget up to about $65 million.

With the failure of Jennifer's Body and Jonah Hex and being dropped from Transformers 3 Megan Fox's career has done a spectacular swan dive. Pretty soon the only people calling her up with offers will be Hugh Hefner and Uwe Boll.

Edit to add: Deadline Hollywood has now revised their projected opening for Jonah Hex down to just $6 million. Ouch.
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I think the bigger loser here is Brolin. Oh, they will make it look like Fox tanked the movie. But Brolin, IMO, is proving to have little coat tails himself...

On a good note? I watched CAPRICORN ONE this weekend with my son. It was on SHOWTIME HD...movie holds up after all these years. Great irony that OJ SIMPSON's character didn't have much of a future.....Josh Brolin's dad was very good in CAPRICORN ONE, and looked very much like Gil Girard. Tomorrow we're going to watch WESTWORLD, another James Brolin winner..

Rob

Rob
 
They can't blame it on Fox. Sure she's featured prominently in all the ads, but the poster only has Brolin's name at the top. Despite all the acclaimed movies he's been in where he's part of the ensemble, who exactly thought he could carry a movie?
 
Maybe they thought it was his 'chance'. Well, if I were him, I'd fire his agent because I didn't think this was the time.

Of the stars that have made it big in the past, oh, five years, which ones, I wonder, could carry a movie? It is hard to have that breakout role, but maybe its that chic from Twilight. The movie where she's playing Pat Benatar actually looks good...so we'll see..

Rob
 
RobertScorpio said:
On a good note? I watched CAPRICORN ONE this weekend with my son. It was on SHOWTIME HD...movie holds up after all these years. Great irony that OJ SIMPSON's character didn't have much of a future.....Josh Brolin's dad was very good in CAPRICORN ONE, and looked very much like Gil Girard.
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I rewatched that recently, and lots of plot holes. West Texas to Houston in time for a funeral that already in progress! Gotta admire the real airplane stunt work, though. Never sure what the point of Brolin finding a pistol then losing it before ever using it was.

Hal Holbrook played seemingly nice guys that are really evil jerks quite well.
 
A beaker full of death said:
MeanJoePhaser said:
C-level comic book characters and westerns are box office poison...even Prince of Persia beat Jonah Hex.
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Done right - that is, doing it in the 1970s with Clint Eastwood and an R rating - would have been fucking brilliant.
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Hell, done right now it would be brilliant. Done right is the key.

Being a C-list comic character isn't the strike against you its how the talent behind the camera and on the script treats the material.

Blade was not known, still isn't by some, as a comic book property.
Daredevil is B-list at best and that movie was a hit at $100million.
Ghost Rider another B-lister is trying to get a sequel up and running by Fall for a 2012 release.
Iron Man was mocked as being too unknown(despite A-list in the comic world). The box office self appointed know-it-alls at BoxOfficeMojo(well many of them) claimed if it hit $200million it'd be lucky.

Jonah Hex was handled not as a gritty western in the vein of The Good, The Bad & The Ugly as the character excels best in. Instead it was handled in a minority interpretaion of the character with some supernatural abilities. We are just lucky they didn't go with Hex in the 26th Century for that 80's run he had.
Still at the end of the day the movie is fun and makes sense within the world they create. It'll be a failure but not cause it should be.
 
Bombs Away!: 'Jonah Hex' Edition


"Jonah Hex," based on a popular graphic novel, stars Josh Brolin (as Hex, the good guy) and John Malkovich (the bad guy) as Civil War ex-soldiers who spend a lot of time trying to kill each other. Those two get the lion's share of screen time, but we suspect a third actor is going to get the lion's share of the blame: Megan Fox.
The starlet plays (what else?) a hooker with a heart of gold and a gun in her bodice. Though she appears on screen for only a matter of minutes, Claudine Puig of USA Today writes that Fox gives "a performance so inert she seems carved out of wax." Marshall Fine of Hollywood & Fine writes, "Everyone...seems to be sleepwalking through this film. Except for Megan Fox, who is such a terrible actress that she couldn't even act like she's sleepwalking."
This marks Fox's second film in a row to crash and burn. Last year's "Jennifer's Body," penned by "Juno" scribe Diablo Cody, was ignored by many and mocked by everyone else. Previous to that, Fox starred alongside a bunch of CGI robots in "Transformers" and "Transformers 2." Both movies made a ton of money, but the effects were the main attraction, not Fox's acting.
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Captain Craig said:
Being a C-list comic character isn't the strike against you its how the talent behind the camera and on the script treats the material.
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Being a C-List comic is an obstacle to overcome. Being a western as well, that's two obstacles. The last sucessful movie western...and I mean in terms of making money...was....?
 
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