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.
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.
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!
I am so very happy about this. It hurts how happy I am.
Yikes! They're remaking
My Friend Flicka
and they're changing Ken to Katie!
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.
Having just read Book 1 of
Sin City
(The Hard Goodbye), I don't think I can handle the violence. It's not just extremely violent, it's sadistic, fucked-up, psycho violence. It was hard to read, which leads me to believe that seeing 3-dimensional people undergoing some of that nasty shit would be too much for me to handle.
Which is too bad, because I had really looked forward to seeing it. But -- no. I know my limits w/r/t violence on film, and
Sin City,
if it's as faithful to the comic as people say it is, blows past the limits almost immediately.
I'm not too worried about the violence in Sin City because it looks so stylized. I don't think it'll register like the ear cutting scene in Reservoir Dogs. It'll be more like the Crazy 88s fight in Kill Bill. I think.
Just watching
Tombstone
on cable. Damn the casting was good. Aside from all the people I do remember being in the movie, Thomas Haden Church, Terry O'Quinn, Michael Rooker, John Corbett.
Fucking love that Latin showdown between Doc and Johnny Ringo too.
From a Wyatt Earp timeline:
1878, July 26 - Three Texas cowboys hurrah Dodge before riding back to camp. One of their stray bullets smashes into the dance hall where Eddie Foy, a very famous performer of the day, is watching Bat Masterson deal Spanish Monte with Doc Holliday. Policemen Jim Masterson and Wyatt Earp give chase. In the ensuing volley of gunshots, one of the cowboys, George Hoy, falls from his horse, wounded. Even though he only is hit in the arm, he dies about a month later from infection.
Isn't it weird when famous historical names intersect like that? Eddie Foy and Doc Holliday and Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp all in the same room during a gunfight?
