I thought she was okay. You're probably a better judge of Japanese women since anime and cutesy shit is your bag.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sl1p
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I thought she was okay. You're probably a better judge of Japanese women since anime and cutesy shit is your bag.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sl1p
I seem to have touched a nerve. Sin City is not the worst film I've ever seen. I didn't walk out before the end, but there were times when I wished it was over. It's not very good. Mickey Rourke's section was the best by far and I was dragged along by the pace of it but still I was never fully comfortable with the it.
I've read a few 4-star magazine reviews and their praise for the film is the same: They defend the violent male protagonists and the fact that the women are strippers, prostitutes or lesbians that get killed (so what; I don't care if a film is 'misogynistic'), and they marvel at how a graphic novel has finally been represented accurately on film so that it looks like it "slipped off the page and onto the screen." So if that's the goal of cinema then why not just put the camera in front of the comic book and have somebody turn the pages? In other words, I don't care how accurately the filmmaker's goals have been achieved because those goals can be ill-advised. All I care about is the effect the film has on me.
But to re-iterate: I can understand why people like Sin City, in the same way as I can understand that if you asked a typical cross-section of young males to make a short film, their main theme would be violence, blood-letting and people being sliced in half with swords. (I've seen this happen)
Because watching someone turn the pages is stupid and not a movie. The creative decision was to keep the movie as close to the source material as possible. And when you look at the source material, that's a hell of a goal to shoot for. And they accomplished it. I'd say that it's the genre of movie that you don't like, so anything like this you wouldn't like. As for me, I eat it up. If they made a Max Payne movie and made it the same way (noir), I'd love that too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mikey
Please, leave your smarmy condescencion in your ass instead of shitting it all over my screen.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mikey
Some people can't say anything without involving bums or poo.
Like you.
I think where Mikey's going wrong here is that he's assuming that just because young males enjoy bloody violence it means that there must be something wrong with the subject matter on whole. This is a bad assumption. Violence and sex can be used for a reason, and made in to art just as much as a love story can. You were not going to like Sin City going into it because you don't like violence and that's fine.
Shooting something in black and white with hints of color hasn't been done in a full length feature film. It pushes the boundaries of film making in new directions. Not to mention the fact that it also broke the boundary of translating a written piece of artwork into a moving medium so gracefully and spot on. This is a great achievement, even if you dislike the content just think of how well this will bode when they try to translate your favorite book to the big screen.
The way you have to look at it is that Sin City does for its book what the Lord of the Rings trilogy does for Tolkiens books. It uses the art of film making and gives us a great story ripped from the pages.
Sin City's story is about bold, over the top characters in a bold, over the top world. Everybody is a murderer, a prostitute or (at best) a stripper. No this isn't a cheery story, but it is a good story about the nitty gritty aspects of revenge. All three guys go through a lot of shit in the end, but all of them have their hearts in the right place while doing it, even if their minds aren't. They told these stories extremely well, using some great visual touches along the way to do so.
You don't have to like it, but that doesn't change the fact that it's good (I myself find it a bit over the top. I have to watch a comedy after it).
Can't wait for Sin City 2, the first was awesome as fuck.
Let me put it this way. .Quote:
Originally Posted by Andrew
Devon Aoki
http://www.fashion-j.com/creation/img/Devon_Aoki.jpg
Rocky Dennis of Mask
http://www.thenorthend.org/tne/images/jrod.jpg
100% serious, Devon Aoki is the only woman on the face of the planet who makes me physically ill just by looking at her. 800 pounder porn? Tubgirl? Nothing on Devon Aoki's face.
:lol:
Such exaggerations.