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I'm giddy from it's perfection. It is beautiful and noir and graphic in every sense of the word. The script is so witty and smart. Mickey Rourke is some kind of magical. It's a damn shame he won't possibly be nominated for any award for his performance. Benicio Del Toro, gold. He reminds me of Jack Nicholson when he played the Joker in Batman. Oh everybody was good, even stupid Jessica Alba. |
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but overall, it was great. somehow I don't think it will be so great on the small screen. |
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the GF saw it at the Cine Rama Dome in hollywood and said it was pretty damn good. i hear theres tons and tons of violence against women in the flic i also have seen cells from the comic that are translated nearly identical to scenes in the movie. |
I've read negative reviews that trash the movie for this (retarded) and then forget that there are no less than 5 scenes of guys getting their dicks shot, chopped or torn off. Oh but a women gets slapped in the face! OMFG!! There is a shitload of violence BY women. Oh, now I'm all upset. Fucking bullshit. --- Every single shot is an identical scene from the comic book. It alone was used as the storyboard. I saw it twice :) |
no sarcasm. compared to the violence against men, there really wasn't much violence against women. I guess my point is that there was a lot of violence PERIOD. but I think the way they portrayed the violence made it not too weird to watch. a lot of people, I think, are upset that all the female characters in the film are essentially strippers or prostitutes, but then...all the men are either murderers or rapists. I think that level of darkness is to be expected with Frank Miller. |
having not seen it i wont comment any further. no one i know is upset with the movie at all and i look forward to seeing it. sometimes i wonder if we arent so desensitized to what we are seeing, we dont really know what we are seeing. |
Y. has a pretty high tolerance for movie violence. She also didn't *trash* it because of this; she also said it was otherwise aesthtically beautiful and well done; it just personally left a bad feeling in her gut. That's all I will say about that. I know Sem liked it a lot. I don't know if/when I will see it since there are other movies I want to see, but I also don't want to watch it on a small screen and I'm mad curious now. We'll see. I like that the comic book was used for the storyboarding. It's too bad I can't watch the movie backwards ;) Comic books hurt my eyes. I read them backwards like I do magazines since I only really *look* at them anyway. Sem has one that I really like and am actually reading forwards when I'm at his house and going to the bathroom and I really only have time for the 1-2 pages I can read before getting a headache. It's called *The Filth* He also tried to get me to read Transmetropolitan but it hurt my eyes. I also couldn't resolve that Spider with our Spider. The printing in Knights of the Dinner Table is too small and the dialogue too difficult to follow, which is too bad because the illustrations are much easier on the eyes. |
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It's not disproportionate at all. For every chick that gets hurt, 20 guys die screaming with blood everywhere. good lord, why am i even typing this. It's a non-issue. It's not even a thing. I can't believe there are people that notice that crap. 30 cops get slaughtered as hatchet fodder, and then a chick gets punched in the face, and some people only see that last part as questionable. It gives me a headache, trying to understand it. It's all the same to me. Violence against people, people getting killed. i don't even register or notice movie violence anymore. I'd hear critics describing Kill Bill as being violent and i'd think- "It was? oh, yeah i guess maybe." A gun shoot-out might as well be a tickle fight. Unless it's unexpected or poorly done, like in Disney's "Atlantis". That was just a bad bad story decision. Kazu should read 'Kingdom Come'. You don't have to read it to love it. But the story is great too if you get around to it. Some of the most beautiful paintings I've ever seen in any media, not just comics. The Filth has the coolest covers, but i can't read it either. |
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I loved Sin City. I'd see it again. Mickey Rourke -WOW. Even Brittany Murphy was good. And Wisper, as usual, articulates it best about the violence against women. I thought that there were strong and weak characters of both sexes. Miller's art really informed the movie's use of black and white - you really see it in the glaring whites of Becky's jewelry and Marv's bandages. real nice. |
Devon Aoki Alexis Bledel Need I say more? |
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Plus? Clive Owen? Love him. |