Sin City
Someone expressed an interest in my thoughts about Sin City, and because this is almost like being on Parkinson, but with the added benefit that I can answer the question in my pyjamas, I will. The longer review isn't a great deal longer, because I didn't stay for very long. I can't, therefore, tell you, as lieutenanth does, that it has no redeeming features or even what the plot was like, beyond "sick as fuck", because that's when I walked out. I am pissed off that I paid £5 to go see a film which, although very pretty with the black and white with little bits of colour thing going on, was far beyond the level of violence I find acceptable as 'entertainment', which I suspect applies to most people.
It's true that I don't like violence in films, but the beginning of this one was an unrelenting barrage of violent images, in bizarre comic-book style, which didn't take the edge off (although, white blood? I mean, please, the guy looked like a giant bird was shitting him to death) the casualness with which the horror was portrayed. Moreover, bits of it didn't even make sense, unless this 50s-comic-book-detective world has supertech. And that pisses me off, too, because it suggests that the whole thing was just shoddy, based around a lot of blood (red and white) and a pretty gimick.
And now it's in my head. Arg. I really, really wish it wasn't. This isn't, after all, one of those clips (like, say, the news, Hotel Rwanda) where you can tell yourself that, OK, it's bad, but it's real, and someone needs to remember it. This is sickening violence dressed up as glossy entertainment, and I don't think it's justifiable.
Released: 2005
Watch it if: You want to see lots and lots of shoddily done gore.
Don't if: You're sensible
Rating: 0/100
It's true that I don't like violence in films, but the beginning of this one was an unrelenting barrage of violent images, in bizarre comic-book style, which didn't take the edge off (although, white blood? I mean, please, the guy looked like a giant bird was shitting him to death) the casualness with which the horror was portrayed. Moreover, bits of it didn't even make sense, unless this 50s-comic-book-detective world has supertech. And that pisses me off, too, because it suggests that the whole thing was just shoddy, based around a lot of blood (red and white) and a pretty gimick.
And now it's in my head. Arg. I really, really wish it wasn't. This isn't, after all, one of those clips (like, say, the news, Hotel Rwanda) where you can tell yourself that, OK, it's bad, but it's real, and someone needs to remember it. This is sickening violence dressed up as glossy entertainment, and I don't think it's justifiable.
Released: 2005
Watch it if: You want to see lots and lots of shoddily done gore.
Don't if: You're sensible
Rating: 0/100