Sin City

[triskellian]

I think that's the first time I've walked out of a cinema during a film and not gone back. I made it as far as the bit where Elijah Wood is tied to a tree with the stumps of his limbs oozing blood, and a dog is summoned to eat him alive before deciding that, no, I really wasn't enjoying this, and the gorgeous design in no way made up for the content. This morning I still have a nasty taste in my brain.

I'm trying to work out how Sin City's relentless, vicious violence is worse than that of Kill Bill, which I liked. It may be something to do with the constant nudity and helplessness of all the women and the fact that even the one woman [in the part I saw] who stood up for herself ended up knocked unconscious by the hero 'for her own protection'; it may be something to do with the fact that none of the characters seemed in any way human or real. It may be simply that the section I saw contained several vignettes which were insufficiently linked and none of which made me care what happened next. Which is a shame, 'cos I usually like the interlinked vignette form.

But on the upside, the film may have distracted me from the lure of a permanent account and 100 icons and therefore saved me $150. The fact that the upside of Sin City is that I've got 50 icons less than I might have is probably as big an indicator of my opinion as the fact that I walked out.

Comments

Humanity

[a-llusive.livejournal.com]

Um, there are signs of humaity later. accasha was down on it for being entirely humourless, but again I think that comes from the comics.

Re: Humanity

[liriselei.livejournal.com]

accasha was down on it for being entirely humourless

she was ? there were several moments when i went to see it last night where pretty much the entire cinema was laughing out loud !

though admittedly some of that was more at the dialogue than with it...