So...you're saying the 3 (4? 5?) castrations were a bit much?
Hey, Frank Miller really really really doesn't want his balls cut off, okay? And he just wants to make sure everyone understands that.
Wash: Well, I wash my hands of it. It's a hopeless case. I'll read a nice poem at the funeral. Something with imagery. Zoe: You could lock the door and keep the power-hungry maniac at bay. Wash: Oh, no, I'm starting to like this poetry idea now. Here lies my beloved Zoe, my autumn flower, somewhat less attractive now she's all corpsified and gross...
'Shindig'
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Jessica - Apr 24, 2008 5:12:42 am PDT #5134 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Aims - Apr 24, 2008 5:15:38 am PDT #5135 of 10000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Make him a button. "Balls cut off? Y/N?"
beekaytee - Apr 24, 2008 5:18:43 am PDT #5136 of 10000
Compassionately intolerant
Noirnoirnoirwhoreswhoreswhoresnoirnoirwhoressplat.
I really wanted to love Sin City but the above was exactly my experience of it. After the first 5 minutes of whizbang, I was bored. And annoyed with the character's choices. So i blamed both the material and the adaptation.
Steph L. - Apr 24, 2008 5:24:25 am PDT #5137 of 10000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Make him a button. "Balls cut off? Y/N?"
"Which I still might ignore even if you're wearing an 'N' button!"
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 24, 2008 5:35:07 am PDT #5138 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Hey, Frank Miller really really really doesn't want his balls cut off, okay? And he just wants to make sure everyone understands that.
If it were just once I'd say we should give him credit for actually broaching the subject, whereas most writers would shy away and just throw another dead hooker on the barbie to fill the fetishized violence quota. But yeah, multiple revisitations leave me with the impression that castration anxiety is what keeps Frank awake at night.
Nutty - Apr 24, 2008 5:35:47 am PDT #5139 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Steph FTW!!
Really, not having seen said movie, I am wondering who is so gosh-darned precise in their ultraviolence that castration, rather than death, is the result? I mean, okay, maybe one of the situation was up close, and involved a knife. But the rest: look, I don't care what kind of sniper scope you have, you are going to make a great big mess of guts no matter what you do. Possibly some testicular material will go flying as well, but it's the large intestines and the descending aorta I'm worried about.
SailAweigh - Apr 24, 2008 5:59:43 am PDT #5140 of 10000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
laughably crack-headed
I am addicted to that particular strain of crack. That is one messed up duo and I can't stop reading it.
Steph L. - Apr 24, 2008 6:01:32 am PDT #5141 of 10000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
laughably crack-headed
I am addicted to that particular strain of crack. That is one messed up duo and I can't stop reading it.
See, I stopped reading right around "I'm the GODDAMN BATMAN."
Totally crack-headed, bless him.
JZ - Apr 24, 2008 6:11:39 am PDT #5142 of 10000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I will have to step up and admit that I loved the Bruce Willis story in Sin City. I have no idea whether it was, objectively speaking, good, but I really do dearly love Willis's acting, and two tropes that will always break me are the bone-deep decent man or woman who holds tight to a code of honor and is punished brutally by THE MAN for it, and the person who lays down his/her life for another. If a movie has even one of those tropes, let alone both, I'm going to fall for it unless it's actually aggressively shitty. This had both, and Willis played his brokenness and stubborn core and hauntedness beautifully. So, there I fell.
Vonnie K - Apr 24, 2008 6:17:19 am PDT #5143 of 10000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
What did you think of Sin City ?
Never read the comic, found the film interesting visually, but the content? Pure OH JOHN RINGO NO.