Bone Tomahawk (2015)
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Huh, I enjoyed it more than that. I agree it was VERY slow, but I thought it worked ok. It wasn't meant to be a shoot 'em up action movie. It was more like real life (in that situation) would be I feel, slow interspersed with bursts of extreme violence.
Still, I can see where the letdown is coming from, and I wouldn't argue too hard against it. It could have been better. But got damn Lili Simmons is fine.
Still, I can see where the letdown is coming from, and I wouldn't argue too hard against it. It could have been better. But got damn Lili Simmons is fine.
First half: Wow, this is a pretty great western
Second half: WHAT THE FUCK
Second half: WHAT THE FUCK
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the bump of this thread clued me into this being on either netflix or prime (I have both) and yep it was so I watched it. I really liked it. I got a soft spot for modern man meets their brutal predecessors.
Wish people would bump old movie threads when they hit the streaming services more.
edit: because of this movie I decided to watch Brawl on Cellblock 99 by the same director. Two thumbs up. I'm a horor fan mind you, and I saw a couple things in Brawl that I've NEVER seen before (well same goes for Tomahawk, so this director likes to get original with his violence). Brawl on Cellblock 99 is currently on Amazon Prime streaming.
Wish people would bump old movie threads when they hit the streaming services more.
edit: because of this movie I decided to watch Brawl on Cellblock 99 by the same director. Two thumbs up. I'm a horor fan mind you, and I saw a couple things in Brawl that I've NEVER seen before (well same goes for Tomahawk, so this director likes to get original with his violence). Brawl on Cellblock 99 is currently on Amazon Prime streaming.
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I actually really like this movie and its a go to recommendation for certain types of people. The last person i recommended it to said afterwards that movies like this are the reason movies are made. I'd say that sums it up pretty well. Good dialogue in the first half and a wild ride in the second half.
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I didn't like this movie. It is an entertaining enough Western, till the last 20 minutes where it goes off the rails. Kurt Russell does his best to hold it all together, but the director is more interested in shock-value and gratuitous violence than just telling a solid narrative.
Kurt's deputy is miscast. Too old, too fumbling, and too bumbling at this point in his life to think he could take up a career as a law man. It is almost like he is there for comic relief, but the movie doesn't need it. He is distracting and feels out of place from the beginning.
Cripple Husband. They conveyed quite well how bad of shape he was in. It looked like a compound fracture that was maybe a week or two old? I can buy his urgency and insistence on going out with them, until the point that he loses his horse and re-breaks his leg. That is not something you just sleep on and then continue to soldier on. The injury is too severe for the circumstances of the story. Just have him start with a badly sprained ankle and go from there. It is at least plausible.
Matthew Fox's character is baffling. Who is he? Why is he putting himself in the middle of this story and the danger. To start, his motivations were, "well I was in the wrong spot at the wrong time, so I am liable now for those people." Ok, that is some weak motivation, but maybe he is the Good Samaritan type? Nope... he is an asshole that makes it quite clear he doesn't care for anyone but himself. Then, as the story plays out, we find out that is it quite simple. He just hate Indians and wants to kill as many as he can. It reeks of a bullshit contrived story. If he is as good a hunter as we are led to believe that he is, he wouldn't want anything to do with this suicide mission, where is riding mates are a cripple, a senile old man, and an over-zealous marshal.
Why is the nurse lady holding it together so well? She got kidnapped by cannibals, saw them brutally murder and eat one of her fellow captives, and she seems to have all her mental faculties quite in order. She doesn't even seem that scared of these "man-beast-cannibals".
That leads me to the cannibals. I am quite certain they are men. But, if they are men, why can they howl like some unearthly demons? Sure, it is unnerving and scary, but either your story is grounded in reality or it isn't.
The "scene"... I bet the director made this entire movie just so he could get his rocks off on making the one "scene". It is repulsive and it defines the whole movie. Good job bro! You made something horrific and disgusting. Good job by you!
I didn't like this movie. It is an entertaining enough Western, till the last 20 minutes where it goes off the rails. Kurt Russell does his best to hold it all together, but the director is more interested in shock-value and gratuitous violence than just telling a solid narrative.
Kurt's deputy is miscast. Too old, too fumbling, and too bumbling at this point in his life to think he could take up a career as a law man. It is almost like he is there for comic relief, but the movie doesn't need it. He is distracting and feels out of place from the beginning.
Cripple Husband. They conveyed quite well how bad of shape he was in. It looked like a compound fracture that was maybe a week or two old? I can buy his urgency and insistence on going out with them, until the point that he loses his horse and re-breaks his leg. That is not something you just sleep on and then continue to soldier on. The injury is too severe for the circumstances of the story. Just have him start with a badly sprained ankle and go from there. It is at least plausible.
Matthew Fox's character is baffling. Who is he? Why is he putting himself in the middle of this story and the danger. To start, his motivations were, "well I was in the wrong spot at the wrong time, so I am liable now for those people." Ok, that is some weak motivation, but maybe he is the Good Samaritan type? Nope... he is an asshole that makes it quite clear he doesn't care for anyone but himself. Then, as the story plays out, we find out that is it quite simple. He just hate Indians and wants to kill as many as he can. It reeks of a bullshit contrived story. If he is as good a hunter as we are led to believe that he is, he wouldn't want anything to do with this suicide mission, where is riding mates are a cripple, a senile old man, and an over-zealous marshal.
Why is the nurse lady holding it together so well? She got kidnapped by cannibals, saw them brutally murder and eat one of her fellow captives, and she seems to have all her mental faculties quite in order. She doesn't even seem that scared of these "man-beast-cannibals".
That leads me to the cannibals. I am quite certain they are men. But, if they are men, why can they howl like some unearthly demons? Sure, it is unnerving and scary, but either your story is grounded in reality or it isn't.
The "scene"... I bet the director made this entire movie just so he could get his rocks off on making the one "scene". It is repulsive and it defines the whole movie. Good job bro! You made something horrific and disgusting. Good job by you!
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Fucked up inbred cannibals scalped a man quartered him like a game animal. So what? It's a western horror.
Did you miss the "jewelry" that the cripple cut out of that one cannibals throat? It was pretty integral to the plot of the final act, and not out of character for a tribe that maims, rapes, and eats their mothers.
Did you miss the "jewelry" that the cripple cut out of that one cannibals throat? It was pretty integral to the plot of the final act, and not out of character for a tribe that maims, rapes, and eats their mothers.
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Was the thing in the throat a natural adaptation/mutation or something they implanted in their baby boys?
I want more movies about human and near-human interaction. Eaters of the dead tried it, but was not primitive enough (he had them riding horses I think????). A movie about the last tribe of neanderthal trying to survive would be cool. The Quest for Fire movie was very good, had interactions between three different hominids.
I want more movies about human and near-human interaction. Eaters of the dead tried it, but was not primitive enough (he had them riding horses I think????). A movie about the last tribe of neanderthal trying to survive would be cool. The Quest for Fire movie was very good, had interactions between three different hominids.
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I watched that a few months ago. It's confusing to me, I don't know how to feel about it. The actors were all good. The plot was just weird and the action climax was kind of frustrating and drawn out. And then everything after the climax seemed to take a long ass time. I like the idea of the gritty crime story being told from multiple different perspectives, but there is something lacking in the execution there.
Brawl was bad fucking ass though. I never actually watched Bone Tomahawk, but based on Brawl I'd hope they let this guy make some more stuff, I think he has serious potential.
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