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Sin City thanked my BF's uncle, Joe Kubert, in the end credits. He has an email in to the uncle to find out why. Joe is a comics artist from way back, so we think that's the reason. Still, very unexpected and cool.
Joe Kubert is probably my alltime favorite comic, artist, Robin. Just a magnificent style, beautifully rendered and incredibly alive and dynamic. His Tarzan is definitive for me. Also a huge fan of his Enemy Ace stories.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie is bad. Really bad. You just won't believe how vastly, staggeringly, jaw-droppingly bad it is. I mean, you might think that The Phantom Menace was a hopelessly misguided attempt to reinvent a much-loved franchise by people who, though well-intentioned, completely failed to understand what made the original popular - but that's just peanuts to the Hitchhiker's movie.
Wow. That's really bad.
Joe is a comics artist from way back, so we think that's the reason.
Another Kubert fan here. He's a great artist.
However, I strongly concur with Vonnie's assessment that it had more in common with Sam Fuller's brutalism.
I'll buy that. Although classic noir and brutalism both come out of a pulpy, tabloid universe, their directions and conclusions are pretty different. I'm very much of the opinion that noir works best in a world of social stricture -- things that can't be talked about in polite company, a strict division between polite company and impolite company -- whereas brutalism posits the idea that there is no such thing as polite company.
mmmJack Kirbymmm!
I'm not sure if I will ever see Sin City or not. Iconic '80s: Footloose, Sixteen Candles, maybe the first Back to The Future I'm with Robin. I think the message to "Grease" is "What? I can't have layers?" I also remember how too cool I felt when I got the dirty parts at, like, eleven. Also, my mother is a "Beauty School Dropout"
Just saw Sin City tonight, and I agree with the Kirby homage comments. Marv is totally a Kirby character. Also, Joe Kubert was hugely influential for a generation of comics people.
1. Why did I just watch Rat Race?
2. Why did I laugh?
There's no shame factor with Netflix. None of that, "Please, don't let anyone see me in line with this movie in my hands."
However, cows remain funny.
So does driving Hitler's car into a veteran's medal presentation.
In White Heat Glen Ford goes after the mob after they murder his wife and kid.
BIG HEAT, Hec. WHITE HEAT is "Top of the world, MA!!!!"
I saw SIN CITY on Friday, and really liked it. I want to compose a few thoughts and post almost an essay, but I will say now that it had the funniest death scene since Paul Reubens in the Buffy movie (that would be the skin head with the arrows )
One other shallow note, disconcertingly, because of the photography or SOMETHING, Clive Owen kept turning into Dylan McDermott and, more interestingly, Bruce Willis kept turning into Mickey Rourke the way he was before he became Hollywood's answer to Keith Richards (admitadely, with less hair). The latter really kept throwing me since Willis used to get so much flak early on for "doing Mickey Rourke's schtick".
I find it intersting that so many buffistas have mentioned that the Marv segment was the weakest, because that was my favorite part of the movie (though not necessarily most enjoyable).