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?

That IS weird.

I was trying to come up with some scientific explanation based on how fewer people = greater coincidence, but it's not even washing with me, so I'll skip it.

It's probably as simple as notable people increase their notariety by hanging out with notable people. Isn't that what fuels Page Six?

At any rate, the intersecting stories is one of the things I enjoyed about the first season of Deadwood too.

It'll be more like the Crazy 88s fight in Kill Bill. I think.

Because it's black-and-white, that's exactly how a lot of it comes across. Except unlike in Kill Bill, there are also guns. And people getting reamed with bullets.

Steph, don't go see it. I wish I'd been a little better-informed as to the full extent of the violence. I can handle a fair amount of blood and gore, but Sin City (like Kill Bill) definitely exceeded my limits about a half hour in. Not that it's not a good movie, 'cause I think it probably is, but I watched a lot of it through my fingers, so it's hard for me to tell.

I was just going to say that the violence is so cartoonish, I barely noticed it. But if you are on the sensitive side, stick with Kate.

I liked it in many ways, but nothing about it made me say "Yay!" But aside from one storyline being too long and Jamie King sucking like a Hoover, I have no specific complaints.

I do have a few theories...

Are you referring to her performance, or how she got the job in the first place?

Bwah! That would explain a lot.