'Jaynestown'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
What did you think of Sin City ?
Never read the comic, found the film interesting visually, but the content? Pure OH JOHN RINGO NO.
"Which I still might ignore even if you're wearing an 'N' button!"
::snerk:: Def FTW.
I will admit I loved the Clive Owen story. Mainly for Nicky Katt's extended death by arrow, but also for Owen's VO commentary.
Actually, I enjoyed the whole thing, mainly for the stylization, but OTT doesn't even begin to describe the sensibility behind it.
I was really MEH on Sin City. In fact, it was so Thirteen Year Old Masturbatory that it has tainted other Miller stuff I liked. The Thirteen Year Old Masturbatory was there in the other Miller stuff, but nowhere near as noticeable.
ION, I just watched the two Hellboy 2 trailers in Hi Def on my Hi-Res screen.
WOW! Excited.
Actually, I enjoyed the whole thing, mainly for the stylization, but OTT doesn't even begin to describe the sensibility behind it.
Yeah, I really loved the movie myself.