this film is VERY bad

"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..."

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



I'm the grim reaper, Lardass, and you're my next customer.

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


"Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man." The Dude.

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

Erm...no a movie is never supposed to have a bad story or a bad script...why 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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Really? I thought it had plenty of class man. But to each their own I guess.

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

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

What do you mean, "I don't believe in God"?

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.

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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.

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.

^strongly agree. People have lost sight of what real art cinema is. They are constantly bombarded by Hollywoods recycled bull$hit, that anything that doesn't follow a certain formula they are used to then they can't handle it. I can't fathom anyone expecting exactly what they got from this movie. Geez, it's called Hobo With a Shotgun! Sorry you mainstream directors you've known and come to love weren't behind the camera. This film is rated amongst the highest of films of this genera for a reason.


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(O) rlando

(B) loom

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Hobo With A Shotgun didn't look awful. To the contrary, it looked amazing. From the blown out technicolor presentation that had allowed for a deep color palette to the comic bookish stylized visual embellishments like the outfits for The Plague, you can tell a lot of care was put in to the visuals. And it made everything that much better because this is probably the best looking exploitation film ever made. Were the gore effects amazing? They were as close as you could expect, and it was nice to see a return to physical effects over CGI.

Basically, this movie is going to have a limited audience. If you don't like '70s/'80s trash action films like Rolling Thunder, the Death Wish sequels, or Class of 1984, this probably isn't going to entertain you. The people who praise Grindhouse and attack this aren't the audience this was intended for. Grindhouse wasn't a tribute to exploitation films despite the directors claims, it was sending them up using modern filmmaking techniques. Death Proof specifically set out to subvert the misogynistic overtones of the slasher genre by turning Stuntman Mike into a coward who literally got off on murdering women. Tarantino likes exploitation films but he's too self-conscious a director to ever fully embrace the genre and all the grime and nastiness associated with it. And Rodriguez seems to have no concept of it given how far off the tracks his portion went, which is sad because the first half of Planet Terror is almost pitch-perfect before it devolves into a dumb modern day action film.

Really, movies like this and The Taint are as close as modern filmmakers can get to the exploitation genre. Because they are exploitation films. You can't make a big budget exploitation film. It doesn't work. It loses part of the charm of the low budget trash film and all the unintentional faults that come with it. The biggest praise I can give to Hobo With A Shotgun is that the movie looks like it could've played on a double bill with The Exterminator 2 in some scuzzy "theater" on 42nd street during the early to mid '80s.

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I don't care if movie looks not-real or simplified or exaggerated. Normally I love all those rhetorical utilities that are used to make a movie stand out of normal Hollywood sh**. But if - while watching - you get all the time a feeling "No don't do that! you will get hurt!" then it is just made badly. I mean if there is no situations where you can't think up what will happen next, then it is pure crap and considers viewer as an idiot.

Certainly I could imagine liking a lot Hobo With A Shotgun if this was ~first this kind of movie I'd ever seen. But no this wasn't first, not even close. It had NOTHING unique at all. Is it too much to ask, to make scenes look even a bit like they could physically happen in real world?

I give 1 point for good main part actor who looks just like one hobo I know (:D), and 1 point for the whore who wanted to change her life: = 2/10 and I don't easily give less than 4/10.

Coming from a guy who thinks Gullivers Travels was a great film. Your opinion doesn't mean much.


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K (N) ightley

(O) rlando

(B) loom

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Exactly! Hilarious amazing trash executed to perfection. Oh and don't forget the outstanding synth score at the end.

You guys really don't understand this movie and its style. Go watch shaun of the dead or something, it is a lot easier to understand.

This movie was a masterpiece.

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