Another funny Sin City review excerpt: ""Mickey Rourke blows me away with his acting and Elijah Wood creeps the hell out of me? I swear to God, I don't understand the universe anymore."
Now you can luxuriate in a nice jail cell, but if your hand touches metal, I swear by my pretty flowered bonnet, I will end you.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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Kathy A - Apr 01, 2005 9:06:49 am PST #1431 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Lee - Apr 01, 2005 9:10:24 am PST #1432 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Elijah Wood creeps the hell out of me?
When I was visiting Teppy and SA, we watched Eternal Sunshine. During the first part of the film, when we were still trying to figure out WTF was going on, one of SA's first comments was "Elijah Wood is a sick little fuck, isn't he?"
Tom Scola - Apr 01, 2005 9:34:05 am PST #1433 of 10002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
From Slate:
I loved it. Or, to put it another way, I loved it, I loved it, I loved it. I loved every gorgeous sick disgusting ravishing overbaked blood-spurting artificial frame of it.
Nutty - Apr 01, 2005 9:46:48 am PST #1434 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Manohla Dargis in the Times hated it, found it both boring and insulting. She was almost as entertaining as Elvis Mitchell at his best, and I say that advisedly.
Gandalfe - Apr 01, 2005 10:35:34 am PST #1435 of 10002
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
Yes, Tarantino is the obvious direction for Preacher.
Kathy A - Apr 01, 2005 10:43:46 am PST #1436 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Heh. Another good Sin City review:
The year was 2005. It had been a long three months. Sitting in the dark corners of the movie theater, normally my safe haven, I was experiencing a horror that couldn’t be equaled even out on the mean streets of the night. Brute men, at a last gasp of their dignity, teaming up to babysit the wretched spawns of writers summoned by the devil. A vengeful God was doing his best to match his nemesis by frightening his minions with images of creepy children, wolves and Sandra Bullock sequels, but not so much to earn an “R” rating. I was sick to my stomach. I could taste the bile eating away at my tongue from the words I spewed to warn others of these atrocities. But nobody listened. I am alone. The only solace I could find was in my trip to Sin City. It was here I knew where pleasure would engulf me; where the blood spilled was not from the gaping knife wound in Uwe Boll’s chest but from the filmmaker and author determined to bring their vision to those dark corners I treasured. It was in Sin City where I was saved.
Gandalfe - Apr 01, 2005 10:54:07 am PST #1437 of 10002
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
Metacritic has rated it a 74, higher than all but 4 movies currently in the theaters, and the highest rated movie so far this year. For the uninformed, Metacritic scours reviews (official critic reviews, that is) and, gives them a numerical value, then averages it.
§ ita § - Apr 01, 2005 10:59:16 am PST #1438 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Rotten Tomatoes is currently giving it a 77% fresh.
StuntHusband - Apr 01, 2005 2:19:25 pm PST #1439 of 10002
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
I want to see it, but I need friends who know me and my tastes to go see it first, and advise me if the blood quotient would leave me fainty and unwell.
Stupid delicate sensitivities. I'm weeeeeeeeak.
And I want to like Sin City so much.
juliana - Apr 01, 2005 3:29:56 pm PST #1440 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
I can't imagine why Julianna didn't come to mind
skimming causes me to drop an 'n', inducing doubletake
Right. I think Carrie-Ann would have made a kick-ass WW. I was just watching The Matrix as I ran on the treadmill like a good little gerbil. Made me all nostalgic for 6 years ago.