Hobo with a Shotgun : this film is VERY bad

it's not even 'funny' bad, just made badly.
if this is the new 'cult' material it's just sad.
how much did they pay poor Rutger to play in this?
i could understand if at least it had a low rating (5/10)

It really sucks. I've played video games with better stories.

"I've played video games with better stories."

It's called 'Hobo with a Shotgun'. You were expecting a good story?

"Time to find out"

lol. I didn't expect much considering it is based on a fake grindhouse trailer.

Sure, i didn't expect all the children and babies being killed, and that one kid obviously was going to be raped, and it wasn't fun to watch those parts, but I got the message. It reminds me of the film Super, which I believe the advertising tricked me into watching something way more gory and violent than I thought. Though I think now Hobo with a Shotgun is probably the most disturbing film I have ever seen. Gotta add it to my list.

Doesn't really mean anything. There are lots of video games with good stories.



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No way man! This movie is great. Its supposed to be crappy. Its homage to those Grindhouse films back in the day. ITs supposed to have a bad story.

^ and the movie is supposed to look badly made with cheesy and fake looking special effects, seems like some people are missing the point.


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Exactly brother! Thank you.

The problem is that most people complaining about this movie should not have watched it in the first place. They were misguided by some completely senseless comparising this movie to "Planet Terror" or "Machete". They expected flick of such kind, so I completely understand they may be disappointed. If I had to compare it to something I would compare it to "Braindead".

*beep* it, Dude, let's go bowling" Walter Sobchak

I loved Jackson's Brain Dead (Dead Alive)but in my opinion Hobo With A Shotgun made Brain Dead look like Saving Private Ryan by comparison.

UmMachete was a fake grindhouse trailer as well, so we should all be very comfortable in comparing the two.

Machete was cheesy, badly acted, but still great fun.

Hobo was uninspired and tragically lame. The bad guys looked more like Future Biff and his gang from Back To The Future 2. Shame, cos I had high hopes for some b-movie fun like Bad Taste or Braindead.

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The problem is that most people complaining about this movie should not have watched it in the first place. They were misguided by some completely senseless comparising this movie to "Planet Terror" or "Machete". They expected flick of such kind, so I completely understand they may be disappointed. If I had to compare it to something I would compare it to "Braindead".

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I'm one of those i really expected it too be a lot like planet terror (which I Loved) but I didn't like this one at all.

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"it's supposed to be crappy" is such a weak cop-out.

Yeah, also "intentionally bad" is completely missing the point. Bad movies are only funny/cult because they try to be good but fail.

Gotta laugh at these kids who think they know it all..

Ever hear of Troma?




Thats what this movie is about not failing at being good by being bad, but winning at being bad by being bad.

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Agreed

TROMA RULES!!!!

Poultrygeist, Class of Nuke 'em High, Toxic Avenger, Sqt Kabukiman All Classics I could go on for hours.

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"It's supposed to suck! That's what makes it brilliant!"

LOL.

i agree. they can't make anything watchable so they make a POS and wave the "Campy on Purpose" flag. everyone involved in this abortion should have their SAG card revoked. lol!

How so? It is what it says on the label and you picked it up anyway and now you're complaining that it is exactly what it said it was. That's like eating carrots and complaining that they taste carroty.

"Except it isn't like the Grindhouse films. They weren't that excessive, and they were bad because they had bad directors with low budgets. They were bad because they ended up that way, not intentionally."


Sooooooooooo people should hire established directors and give them massive budgets in order to pay homage to grindhouse cinema? You've obviously never been to Dartmouth, it's not Hollywood. And since IMDB doesn't list the budget I'd like to see how much you think it was made for.

finally someone who talks with knowledge thanks for the comment Jordan.

I'm less than a tank of gas away from Dartmouth, I speak from experience. Plus, I believe in judging movies on merits beyond just budgets so Spiderman 3 doesn't end up being considered classic cinema. Not ranking Hobo with Casablanca and Die Hard (I like variety), but even Coppola started under Corman. :D (and thank you for the compliment)

i have to say i liked spidey 3 but that is just me due to growing up reading comics at 70s so it was a guilty pleasure seen them come to life on big screen with a big budget as seventies versions were outdated from the first day, only one i did not like was the captain america it felt flat but that could be just me???

Ermno a movie is never supposed to have a bad story or a bad scriptwhy would anyone make a movie like that for, you fool? Granted it does not need to make sense or its supposed to be cheesy but not bad with intention that is just poor direction and casting etc this movie is just a knightmare of a movie, i loved the tarantino b movies etc but this director is a turd in comparison, try not to love a movie coz your friends do or its cool to like it
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It's supposed to be an emulation of the grindhouse movies of the 70s and 80s. I've seen some classic grindhouse movies, and when it comes down to that, Jason Eisner did a better job then both Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino. The smaller scale, over-the-top acting, lack of CGI, all he needed to do was shoot it on dingy 16mm film and it would have been a perfect emulation!

Just started watching and couldn't get past 30 minutes. Disappointed as I am a big fan of Grinhouse and Tarantino; this had no class

Really? I thought it had plenty of class man. But to each their own I guess.

agree - most entertaining flick I've seen in a while. I get exactly where its coming from. Its like a troma film in style, but somewhat different too, in that is watchable. And not sh1 t.

The Plague were superb characters - the hospital massacre scene simply genius.

Some might say the bus bit went too far - but in the context of the movie - and if you have a sense of humour - then its fine.

And I am a parent too.

Far better than deathproof - and the correct running time too - where both machete and planet terror fail.

The film was what it was, without caring for what people thought. It was a story about a Hobo with a shotgun and a moral conscience placed in an incredibly messed up world that led him to take extreme action.

I think the extremely bad crimes and acts that were committed by Drake and his followers were both entertaining graphic violence as well as relevant to why the Hobo took the action he did.

*SPOILERS* On several occasions, including the scenes where the guy in the manhole cover has his head ripped off, the scene with Abby having her neck sawn into, and when Drake feeds her hand into the lawnmower blade I was pleasantly surprised that we got to see it in full effect. I'm really tired of either miraculous saves by a hero just in time or gutless cut-aways by the camera to keep censors pleased. *SPOILERS*

This was one of those films I hoped would deliver uncut violence with an extreme angle and it delivered.

Really enjoyed it.

I agree, and since I cared about her character, it made the last two scenes you mentioned extremely effective in my opinion.

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You either get it or you don't, it's as simple as that. I found this movie hilarious. If you're a fan of Planet Terror you'll most likely appreciate this film and if you don't like it that's okay too. Lets all hug.

yea, that's what I mean.
Definitely not cult material.
Sam Raimi for example, could have made it work..

The lot in here that come has come with such arguments like "This movie is supposed to look cheap" are dead wrong themselves. No it's not supposed to look cheap, IT is a low budget flick. And they did the very best they could with the budget they had, and I applaud them not to resort to cheap CGI blood just because it would cost a lot less.

And for the fella who played videogames with better storylines, videogames are not getting inferior scripts as opposed to movies, I mean some writers dabble in both mediums, do they purposely deliver bad scrpts to videogames? It's narrative where videogames seem to be lacking behind, not storylines.

I think this was way more Grindhouse than what Tarantino put out in regards to DEATH PROOF, which was way too long, way too talky, and just absolutely boring.

HOBO is exactly the kind stuff that came out of the 70's and 80's with low budget cinema. It pretty much capture the essence to the last frame.

People are entitled to their own opinions, but those who says this isn't GRINDHOUSE don't really know true GRINDHOUSE. Sorry to burst your bubble, but if you think a $97,000,000 movie, like GRINDHOUSE is real GRINDHOUSE HA HA HA HA

It took RR and QT almost a $100,000,000 to capture what GH filmmakers did on a few thousand, maybe $100,000 tops. Why, because both felt it necessary to add in CGI (Not from GH days), Helicopter stunts (again not from GH days) and other stuff that was never present in terms of GH films.

RR's Planet Terror is clearly the better of the two films. QT's is just boring when Kurt Russell is not on screen, and honestly could have been summed up in 60 minutes, like a majority of true GH flicks were back in the day.

HOBO, captured every essence of the GH vibe, feel and color scheme. Not too mention the filmmaker gave a list of films that inspired HOBO, and he delivered on just about everyone of them so again, pls do not say this isn't GH cinema while it is newer age GH, it is still GH.

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I read as far as your post, thought, "this guy is exactly right." All I'll say is that: 1, this and Black Dynamite are the best grindhouse-like films that have come out in years; and 2, why is there another two pags after this post?

Time to blow

I read your post and you know what? You got it to a T! That is exactly right. RR and QT spent $97mil making "Grindhouse" and what did we get? A big budget FX bomb and a boring, slow-paced road/revenge movie, the only attempt to make it look cheap being the adding of all the "Film" scratches and crap, and even that's ruined when on the Blu-ray they include a pristine version of the film to go with it. Jason Eisner had only $7mil, no CG, or big stunt work, the red-yellowish tint to the movie, the only big(ish, well notable, at least) name being Rutger Hauer. The opening credits scene in particular was perfect, it was more authentic to the grindhouse genre, then every moment in "Death Proof" or "Planet Terror" put together.

I thought this was better than any of Rodriguez/Tarantino's Grindhouse movies.

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I talk to him every day.

bwahahaha. what kind of class were you expecting by a movie titled "hobo with a shotgun"

This movie *beep* rocked. Anyone who disagrees is stupid.

That's the idea! In the old days you didn't go to the grindhouse cinemas for classy films, you went to them to see excessive gore, sex and language, with a thin story to tie all the scenes of gore, sex and language together. And this movie did a better job of it than "Planet Terror", "Death Proof" and "Machete", all it needed was to be shot on cheap 16mm film, rather than digitally, then you'd be able to take it back in time and pass it off as a grindhouse movie of the era.

Here they go , the snobby clueless dorks and their idiotic responses on how a terribly $hitty movie is "supposed" to be terribly $hitty, my God what true idiots you guys are
Once again for this hopeless dorks, even when you intentionally want to make a movie with a camp approach you still have to deal with the basic stuff that make movies good, if you write and direct an atrocious $hit with no redeeming value whatsoever that is what it remains.


"I'm a Hero Hunter, I hunt Heroes. Haven't found any yet."

Well, I don't htink that the film makers of this went out to make Gone with the Wind. Have you ever seen a real Grindhouse film, and I don't mean the film of the same name, on the big screen? Did you ever live in that era? Did you ever see a exploitation film in an old-school theater and experience what that was all about? Or did you just hear of a movie title that someone told you about, like Cannibal Holocaust, and you went out and rented it and didn't see the big deal?!

Watch more movies and come back with a critique. The movie looks *beep* but it doesn't make it *beep* (most 80's movies look *beep* nowadays, it doesn't mean they sucked). It's also not because it looks *beep* that people enjoy it.