Sin City - a movie for Browncoats (the badass ones)
POSTED BY: WildHeavenFarm
UPDATED: Friday, August 19, 2005 14:24
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Your $.2?
Well you did ask...
My fiance and I saw this a few weeks ago.
While I loved and adored it stylistically (I think it was a gorgeous and beautiful movie visually) and I appreciate the fact that they tried to keep it as faithful to the comic as possible.
I just found it needlessly mysogynistic.
I know everyone raves about how well it portrayed women and how they were all empowered. But no, they weren't.
And that scene?
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With Jessica Alba tied up with her hands over her head and being whipped. Completely unnecessary. It was there only for the Male View.
I'm sure there was another way to get across to the audience that she was being terrorized by an evil, sadistic pedophilic rapist without so blatantly exploiting Jessica Alba.
We, the audience, were supposed to be titilated by the thought of and threat of her being raped until she screamed.
It ruined the movie for me.
And, no, this isn't me being squeamish about violent movies or violence against women, because some of my favourite movies are violent (Kill Bill Vol 1 and 2, Pulp Fiction, Natural Born Killers to name a few) and they managed to do a great deal of violence towards women without disempowering them.
Wow, sorry 'bout the rant. Little bit more than 2 cents, but... consider it a tip.
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"Your toes are in the sand."
"And your head's up your..."
"Hey!"
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It was a freakin' non-stop rollercoaster ride through the dark and slimy sewers of Miller's deepest psychosis.
I enjoyed it, from that perspective.
But exactly HOW many times can a person get shot, and live? I know I'm down after just one clip!
Only thing woulda made it better was if Jessica turned out to be Max in disguise, and kicked the crap outta EVERYONE!!!
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the heads on the wall thing went a little too far...
It looked awsome Chrisisall
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Quote:I got the same cover, and you're right, totally.
Originally posted by reginaroadie:
Speaking of which, my cover for issue 2 for the SERENITY comic is of Zoe. Now I know it's done by Joe Quesada, but am I the only one here who thinks the Zoe cover looks like it was done by Frank Miller? I always thought that the way Zoe was depicted made her look exactly like a Frank Miller character.
Miller Daredevil fan Chrisisall
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I have to say there is nothing that makes this a movie for browncoats. There is no witty dialogue to be found from what I remember. The plot is very straight forward with little to no thinking necessary. The action is more for show than it is intense.
I don't really see how this could be compared to the work of Joss Whedon.
I'll be the first to say that I'm not a fan of poetry. So, if that's what this movie was that could be why I had a take it or leave it attitude about the film. I walked out thinking I didn't totally waste my time and money but that I wouldn't have missed anything if I hadn't seen it.
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Quote:Well, you can't compare it to ANYTHING Joss has done, cause it's really just ultra-violent eye candy.
Originally posted by Zeek:
I don't really see how this could be compared to the work of Joss Whedon.
I walked out thinking I didn't totally waste my time and money but that I wouldn't have missed anything if I hadn't seen it.
A crazy comic book homage to 40's detective flicks.
I'd call it an excellent waste of time
Critic Chrisisall
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I loved Sin City. Because I'm 15 a lot of people thought the violence would be too much for me but I thought it was cool. The most difficult part was sneaking into the cinema to see it.
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I'll rape you to death.
I'll eat your flesh.
I'll sew your skin into my clothes.
If you're very very lucky, I'll do it in that order - TheReaver
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How funny, I just watched the DVD last night! I found it very entertaining, although I'll never look at Elijah Wood the same way again. Shudder.
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My wife and I went to see this in the theater. Very misogynistic and boring. Not even a group of decent actors could save this movie from the land of stupidity.
Just one guy's NSHO.
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Quote:Young man, you go back in time THIS INSTANT and stop yourself from sneakin' in!!!!(the official version)
Originally posted by TheReaver:
I loved Sin City. Because I'm 15 a lot of people thought the violence would be too much for me but I thought it was cool. The most difficult part was sneaking into the cinema to see it.
Kudos, dude (the un-official version) Chrisisall
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Aw come on. It's not like I robbed the cinema. I bought a ticket. Just for a different movie and then walked into Sin City when nobody was looking.
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I'll rape you to death.
I'll eat your flesh.
I'll sew your skin into my clothes.
If you're very very lucky, I'll do it in that order - TheReaver
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