Sin City

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Just watched about 45 minutes of Sin City. I started with the beginning, stopped right around the time we first see Jessica Alba's apartment, post wolf-eating-legs scene.

That's about when me, my mom, and my dad collectively decided we were

a) bored
b) bored
c) put off visually and as thinking intelligent people who expect something of value in dialogue
d) not getting anything whatsoever out of this experience
e) so willing to ridicule the idiocy on screen in front of us that watching anymore would be cruel & unecessary damage to our braincells and sense of judgement.
f) bored

Some of the comments thrown about during the timespan we did last:

dialogue: "I still don't know what she was running from."
commentA: "You asshole."
commentB: "This scene just proves that no matter what he does I can't take Josh Hartnett seriously."

"Is every woman in this movie a hooker?"

"Why is his head not concave after that?"

"Oh please."

"Is every woman in this movie a hooker AND in need of rescue by a big strong violent man?"

"Wouldn't the blood have washed off his face if he just went under water?"

"Okay, this show is starting to lose me."
"I don't think it ever found me."

"I thought Elijah Wood was supposed to be scary and creepy and stuff? This isn't scary, it's almost making me giggle."

"::derisive snort::"

"The wolf was the most interesting thing so far, and that's not saying much."

"You know, I appreciate the artistic effort that went into composing some of these shots, but the rest of it especially the script is so mindnumbingly stupid, boring, and annoying that I just don't care about watching more."


Rashaka: ::standing:: "Okay, I think I'm done now. I'm going to get ice cream."
ShakaDad: "Me too. ShakaMom, what do you think?"
ShakaMom: "I've had enough."
ShakaDad: "Where did you put our property tax papers? I want to look at them with you."
ShakaMom: "They're on the table. Here..."

Comments

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I had a whole essay in my head about why the movie worked despite the fact that it's almost, by definition, a bad movie. In a lesser director/editor/writer's hands, it would have been MST3K bad.

For that I'd have to know the parameters by which you define "bad movie", but I definitely agree that with a lesser director, and with a lesser script, OUATIM could easily have been MST3K bad. I mean, the fake third arm thing? By all rights that SHOULD have been horrible, but instead it was great.

Actually, when I watched it the first time, "Desperado" felt more cartoonish for me than when I later watched OUATIM, but that's a discussion for another day. :)

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

Robert Rodriguez's movies - no matter how over the top they may be - work for me. I'm pretty sure it's because he's not taking himself seriously, therefore, we understand this as a viewer. Look at the Spy Kids trilogy. I'm a HUGE fan of those movies, and they're by no means masterpieces of cinematic theatre. Just fun. You can jump onboard with the story/characters from the get-go, because they make it clear in the opening scenes they're not taking it seriously.

(And I use my Gerti Giggles icon for this comment.)

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

It's strange-- I really liked Spy Kids 1. I've seen about 80% of the movie, and I liked it. I thought it was funny and I loved the thumb minions. Just the idea of a person made entirely of giant thumbs was my kind of silly humour. But I tried watching the second movie and... it just fell flat with me. I stopped after about 15 minutes or so.

[sunlit5.livejournal.com]

And hello? Alan Cumming as Floop!


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