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Review: Jonah Hex

Jonah Hex [Photo - Warner Bros.]

Just about the only thing Jonah Hex has going for it is its running time: discounting the credits sequence, the movie’s really only about 75 minutes long. Please don’t take this as a recommendation. Standing outside in the sun’s harsh ultraviolet rays for the same amount of time is much more entertaining, and you save a few bucks to boot. Nothing in Jonah Hex works, from the characters to the action to the writing and the special effects: it’s all a boring, stilted mess. READ MORE!

Playing the Numbers Game

M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender [Photo - Paramount]

Everyone seems to be buzzing about The Last Airbender’s Rotten Tomatoes score of 7%, asking things like “is it really that bad,” “is it actually worse than Marmaduke or Twilight: Eclipse,” or “is it really that bad?” It really is interesting to see how much discussion there is out there about scores and numbers and percentages alone on this movie compared to what discussion there is out there on what exactly made the movie so shitty. The Happening is quite possibly one of the worst acts of cinema ever perpetrated on the world, but knowing its Tomatometer score is 18% does nothing to clarify that. READ MORE!