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Post by Scary Gary on May 2, 2011 22:32:08 GMT -5
This will air on HDnet Movies this Wednesday at 10:00PM EST.
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Post by Gilberto on May 4, 2011 16:08:57 GMT -5
No theatrical release? I'm disappointed.
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Post by Scary Gary on May 4, 2011 18:16:48 GMT -5
No theatrical release? I'm disappointed. Not sure. HDNet Movies occasionally gets films before they hit the theater or before they go direct to DVD. In my current anti-theater state of being, I haven't looked to see which of these applies to Hobo. |
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Post by Scary Gary on May 4, 2011 18:20:08 GMT -5
Per the Wikipedia...
Hobo With A Shotgun staged its world premiere at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. The film was released in Canadian theatres March 25, 2011. The film will have a limited release in the United States on May 6, 2011., the Netherlands on May 19, 2011, and in the United Kingdom on July 22, 2011. The film was also released via OnDemand services such as Xbox Live, PlayStation Network and iTunes on April 1, 2011.
Early reviews of the film were generally positive, and it currently holds a 87% approval rating out of 23 reviews on the review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes.
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wilson
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Post by wilson on Jul 7, 2011 12:02:08 GMT -5
I saw this at the art theatre in Atlanta a couple of weeks ago. It was pretty good. It definitely has that 80's action feel to it...like Robocop meets Troma.
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Post by Gilberto on Jul 10, 2011 18:57:08 GMT -5
I'm all for it. Doubt it'll be in a theater around here, though.
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Post by lynn on Jul 11, 2011 4:32:05 GMT -5
Yeah, I doubt it will even get to Australia. This is why I download movies, not to shit on the movie industry, but because it shits on me. Well, given the probable quality of this movie maybe it's saving me from shit...
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wilson
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Post by wilson on Jul 18, 2011 15:26:28 GMT -5
By the way, I bought this movie at our local Wal-Mart last weekend. They pumped this one out fast!
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Post by Gilberto on Jul 18, 2011 16:43:13 GMT -5
I must have it.
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Post by broox on Aug 26, 2011 14:08:10 GMT -5
It's streaming on netflix. An extravaganza of gory violence! What's awesome about it is it creates the ultimate dystopian city of the kind you see in 80's action movies. The kind of city that has you constantly asking yourself "Who would live here?? Wait a minute, a school bus?! There are kids this city?? Who would bring kids into this hell?!!" Kind of like the Crow city but worse.
And the bad guys are a fun cartoonish interpretation of the over the top 80's bad guy. They kind of remind me of the bad guys in "Rumble in the Bronx" (except these bad guys are much more violent, of course)
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Post by Gilberto on Aug 26, 2011 17:28:40 GMT -5
That's what makes it special. It's an endless onslaught of screaming and mindless violence with the artistic sensibility of a Gwar video, but then Rutger Hauer brings in this intense authentic performance right in the middle and becomes the shotgun-wielding voice of reason that actually makes the whole mess seem like a metaphor for something more profound.
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