i am confused by this one part in the NYT sin city review

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i was just reading the other thread ("i loved sin city") and... i just can't identify with all the things that people have loved about this movie.... this movie obv pushes a lot of people's buttons but they just aren't my buttons. like, not at all.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Sunday, 3 April 2005 19:55 (nineteen years ago) link

well, the world don't move to the beat of just one drum. what might be right for you, might not be right for some.

as they say.

― kingfish van pickles (Kingfish), Sunday, 3 April 2005 20:00 (nineteen years ago) link

well, the world don't move to the beat of just one drum. what might be right for you, might not be right for some.

but, this is exactly the point i was making.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Sunday, 3 April 2005 20:03 (nineteen years ago) link

i should add that before i checked my watch after the film was over, i was confident that the movie had been like 3 1/2 hours long.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Sunday, 3 April 2005 20:05 (nineteen years ago) link

it doesn't appeal to me because there are no aliens in it. it might be nice to look at.

― latebloomer: AKA Sir Teddy Ruxpin, Former Scientologist (latebloomer), Sunday, 3 April 2005 20:08 (nineteen years ago) link

i dunno. i thought the flick moved along quickly, with it weighing down only in the later parts of the Dwight part and the 2nd half of The Yellow Bastard...

― kingfish van pickles (Kingfish), Sunday, 3 April 2005 20:08 (nineteen years ago) link

"The friend that I saw this with (milton) pointed out that a lot of Miller's lines read well on the page but sound corny when read aloud by actors- I haven't read the original comics- do other people think that this is true?"

The lines are pretty corny on the page too, but obv everything sounds cornier when you are actually hearing them read aloud. Both the comix and the movie kind of play the corniness for yuks too.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 3 April 2005 20:21 (nineteen years ago) link

The obviously clicked noir lines were hilarious! That's part of the point, it's got satire of noir built in. I mean, there is no universe in which "You kill him good!" can be delivered without laughter.

I'm still amazed that Frank Miller's leather/German fetish made it through intact. Not just the iron crosses, but the swastikas too! I've never completely unraveled what he's going at with it, and I don't think anyone's going to be able to analyze it through this film alone. His imfamous Batman story, "The Dark Knight Returns" has this element as well.

― mike h. (mike h.), Monday, 4 April 2005 00:05 (nineteen years ago) link

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