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Anyone planning to see this? It looks kind of cool from the trailers, but it sounds like it was a troubled production, so we should probably modulate our expectations accordingly. It might be one to get from Netflix and watch on a slow Friday night in a few months.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2AS9DjwR-o

I'm somewhat interested in it simply because movie adaptations of western comic books are so rare. The only other ones that comes to mind are Blueberry, a French movie from a few years back based on the series by Moebius, and Lucky Luke, an adaptation of a western comic book series from Italy with Terence Hill (never seen either of them).

I plan on seeing it as I am a huge Jonah Hex and western fan. I don't have high hopes for the movie however as from what I have seen there is just too much silliness. Dynamite launching crossbows? Gatling guns on horses and giving Jonah Hex powers irks me quite a bit.

I own the Blueberry movie adaptation and I hated it. I have never read a Blueberry comic (as I can't find any here in North America) but the movie was crazy.

MikeM

If this review is anything to go on, it sounds like we can probably safely skip this one:

http://www.avclub.com/articles/jonah-hex,42236/

I didn't know that it was only about 80 minutes long (including about 7-8 minutes of end credits). I actually do like most movies I watch to be kind of short (somewhere in the 90-100 range is the sweet spot), but when you take the trouble to see something in a theater, something that short feels like kind of a ripoff unless it's either especially good or it's half of a double feature (which we don't really have anymore aside from occasional things like Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's Grindhouse a few years ago).

Well, when my employee called me after getting out of the movie (comic shop, he's a huge Jonah Hex fan, got me into it as well.) and said to save my money I was sorely disappointed. One of our customers that winds up at the movies with him a lot felt the same way. Ah well, at least Toy Story came out this week. I wanted to go to support comic movies in general, but money is tight, and I'd rather spend it on something I know I'll enjoy.

The most damning comment? He said it reminded him of Wild Wild west.