Honestly, you meet the most appalling sort of people....

Giles ,'Chosen'


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§ 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.


reequeen - Apr 01, 2005 6:20:46 pm PST #1441 of 10002
"It's got to be the hair, Cotton. It's beautiful! Feathered and lethal. You just don't see it nowadays." Pepper Brooks - Dodgeball

Sin City = mmmmmm

Wowie, wow, wow. It was freakin' brilliant. I was a little too aesthetically overwhelmed to pay much attention to things like, say, dialogue and plotting, but oh well.

That being said, the dialogue was a little stilted in places, since it did follow Frank Miller's script almost word-for-word. Not that there's anything wrong with that.....And, sometimes, watching Jessica Alba trying to keep up with Bruce Willis's acting didn't bode well for comparison, but it was all so darn well-put together, visually, I found myself not really caring and enjoying her performance anyway.

Mickey Rourke - a-mazing.

Rutger Hauer - has aged more quickly than David Bowie in the past several years.

Elijah Wood - freaky-deaky.

Josh Hartnett - I never considered him much of an actor. I have changed my mind.

And, as usual, I found myself laughing alone at a few things. ;-D Probably because I am deeply weird.

As for blood-factor - well, there's a lot of it. Not in the drippings-wif-goo way, but in a highly coloured (as in, yellow, red, and white), very stylized way; not up-close and personal, but splashed around like someone was shooting a lot of paint pellets. Which was what I was reminded of, even when the blood was red. The use of color and composition allowed a distance, so even when something normally grotesque was going on, the "ew" wasn't quite there. In fact, I'd say the injuries/whatever were much more disturbing when there wasn't blood or graphic violence shown on-screen.


Thomash - Apr 01, 2005 7:12:13 pm PST #1442 of 10002
I have a plan.

Yes, Tarantino is the obvious direction for Preacher.

Sure but c'mon... any decent adaptation of Preacher couldn't be covered in a mere movie. Trilogy even, I think.

Nay, mayhap a whole season on some pay channel like HBO where the sex and violence doesn't have to be glossed over.


Gris - Apr 01, 2005 7:38:51 pm PST #1443 of 10002
Hey. New board.

I am Thomash on Preacher. Thus why the scared.

Though I do think there are some side-stories of Preacher that could be done as movies. Make a bloody series - if you don't try to do the whole thing the first time, then when the pacing is good and the money is profitable, you have automatic sequel stories ready to go!


Gris - Apr 01, 2005 11:49:39 pm PST #1444 of 10002
Hey. New board.

I am so very happy about this. It hurts how happy I am.


sumi - Apr 02, 2005 3:58:33 pm PST #1445 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!

Yikes! They're remaking My Friend Flicka and they're changing Ken to Katie!


Polter-Cow - Apr 02, 2005 5:03:11 pm PST #1446 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

My thoughts on Sin City. 'twas good, yo.


Invisible Green - Apr 02, 2005 5:22:04 pm PST #1447 of 10002

I saw Sin City earlier today. I also loved it. It was probably the best movie I've seen since Dirty Pretty Things , and that was a year and a half ago.

Also, I just realized that my campus is having a free showing of Showtime's Kristin Bell-starring Reefer Madness tomorrow night. Will try to get tickets.