Jonah Hex

I finally got around to watching this one. I was a little hesitant, as most of what I had heard and read about the movie was negative. However, feeling it duty to my interests in how the West is represented in pop culture, I watched it anyway. While it's not going to be winning any Oscars anytime soon, I didn't think it was as terrible as many have said. The dialogue was pretty bad, but some of the action was fun, and I kept reminding myself it was based on a comic book. There were a few allusions to our current political scene, including once when Jonah Hex, being questioned on why he chose to fight for the Confederacy, mentions that he believes both sides are "hypocrites." The movie also shows how the Civil War is not over for many people, even today. I am currently reading Tony Horwitz's Confederates in the Attic and it blows my mind how people are still fighting the war, day after day. Again, this is not a great movie, probably not even a good movie, but it was watchable, which I can't say for some other movies based on comic books. (Fantastic Four, anyone?) Those interested in the West in pop culture (although technically most of the movie is in the South and the Eastern Seaboard, I guess it still counts as a Western) should at least view it for that reason alone.