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Post by agent817 on Feb 18, 2013 11:56:22 GMT -5
I bought this movie yesterday and it was the second time that I have watched it. The first time was when I found it on Showtime On Demand about a year ago and I remember enjoying the hell out of it and finding the movie to be really "out there." I haven't seen a lot of Grindhouse movies or Troma movies for that matter, but I have read that this movie is similar to "The Toxic Avenger," which I will check out. I did find the movie to be really violent and gory, but it was supposed to be. I also noticed that Rutger Hauer still has it in him to play a crazy bad ass. I just wish it showed in my area when it was in theaters. I would have loved to have seen it. What did you think of this movie? I will say that I found this part to be in bad taste: {Spoiler}When Slick and Ivan torched the school bus full of children. Personally, I felt a little uncomfortable watching it but it wasn't all too bad. It was over the top.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Feb 18, 2013 12:40:13 GMT -5
it's very similar to a lot of Troma's output. if you liked it you should check out The Toxic Avenger for sure.
part of what makes the movie work, for me, is that Rutger Hauer played it completely straight. it made everyone else's camping it up work better by contrasting them against a guy who clearly believes he really is a crazy hobo.
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Post by willywonka666 on Feb 18, 2013 13:58:56 GMT -5
I found it really dark and kinda depressing. I don't think it's like a Toxic Avenger film at all except for the gore. I liked it enough, plenty of gore, but I don't know what kinda mood I will have to be in to watch it again
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Post by Blindkarevik on Feb 18, 2013 16:13:04 GMT -5
Hobo With A Shotgun.... Turtle Power.
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Post by twiggy101 on Feb 18, 2013 16:16:53 GMT -5
I keep reading the thread title as Hobbit With A Shotgun and Hobo With A Shogun.
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Post by Bishblast on Feb 18, 2013 16:24:16 GMT -5
Personally, my favorite of all these recent "Grindhouse" movies... felt the most authentic, the least forced, and it reminded me of Troma in a great way. Great, fun movie.
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Post by Glitch on Feb 18, 2013 19:01:00 GMT -5
I absolutely love this movie. I laughed my ass off and enjoyed the action. Everything was done exactly right in this flick. My favorite line was "You an me are going on a car ride to Hell. You're riding shotgun!" It is my second favorite movie ever(the first being The Machine Girl).
I see this movie succeeding where Machete failed. Both started as fake trailers, but HWAS tried to be what it was supposed to be. Which was cheesy,gory fun. Machete was a regular action flick.
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Post by agent817 on Feb 18, 2013 19:27:24 GMT -5
I absolutely love this movie. I laughed my ass off and enjoyed the action. Everything was done exactly right in this flick. My favorite line was "You an me are going on a car ride to Hell. You're riding shotgun!" It is my second favorite movie ever(the first being The Machine Girl). I see this movie succeeding where Machete failed. Both started as fake trailers, but HWAS tried to be what it was supposed to be. Which was cheesy,gory fun. Machete was a regular action flick. I agree with what you said on that last part, but I still liked Machete.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Feb 18, 2013 19:36:30 GMT -5
Machete was still pretty grindhouse-tastic compared to your average action movie.
another thing I like about Hobo with a Shotgun, and it's something some american/european viewers might not appreciate the same way, is it's a very Canadian film. you have one of the Trailer Park Boys getting decapitated at the beginning, lots of great shots of Newfoundland's scenery, George Strombolopolous as the newscaster (think a canadian Kurt Loder, only WAY cooler), and at the end of the movie they play the theme from The Raccoons (I know some of you american posters may have gotten that show but it's pretty much a staple of 80s canadian children's programming).
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Post by Glitch on Feb 18, 2013 19:36:58 GMT -5
I absolutely love this movie. I laughed my ass off and enjoyed the action. Everything was done exactly right in this flick. My favorite line was "You an me are going on a car ride to Hell. You're riding shotgun!" It is my second favorite movie ever(the first being The Machine Girl). I see this movie succeeding where Machete failed. Both started as fake trailers, but HWAS tried to be what it was supposed to be. Which was cheesy,gory fun. Machete was a regular action flick. I agree with what you said on that last part, but I still liked Machete. I will admit that Machete wasn't a bad movie, but it wasn't what I was expecting. Hobo just captured the feeling of the trailer it was based on more so than Machete did.
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Post by mjolnir on Feb 18, 2013 19:57:05 GMT -5
Machete was still pretty grindhouse-tastic compared to your average action movie. another thing I like about Hobo with a Shotgun, and it's something some american/european viewers might not appreciate the same way, is it's a very Canadian film. you have one of the Trailer Park Boys getting decapitated at the beginning, lots of great shots of Newfoundland's scenery, George Strombolopolous as the newscaster (think a canadian Kurt Loder, only WAY cooler), and at the end of the movie they play the theme from The Raccoons (I know some of you american posters may have gotten that show but it's pretty much a staple of 80s canadian children's programming). You forgot to mention that CAPTAIN Stanley H. Tweedle is the main villain of the piece too.
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Post by theryno665 on Feb 18, 2013 21:36:16 GMT -5
Am I the only one that likes Ivan more than Slick?
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Feb 19, 2013 0:04:33 GMT -5
Loved it. Hauer was incredible. It's almost like he was acting in a different movie.
Loved the line about the Hobo and his brain being brothers "... and brothers fight sometimes."
Great choice for music over the end credits, too.
I'd love to see a sequel about Abby and the Plague, too.
(And "Machete" was disappointing. I mean, it was OK but just OK. It felt more like a 90's remake of a couple of 70's movies and not a 70's movie itself. They should have just made the movie from the trailer and no tried to expand on the story like they did.)
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