Sin City aka Boys Club, Dargis, Kael blah blah blah

http://www.laweekly.com/ink/05/19/film-taylor.php
The LA Weekly’s review of Sin City. It touches on many of the points we’ve been discussing of late.

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Mark Mauer likes movies cuz the pictures move, and the screen talks like it's people. He once watched Tales from the Gilmli Hostpial three times in a single night, and is amazed DeNiro made good movies throughout the 80s, only to screw it all up in the 90s and beyond. He has met both Udo Kier and Werner Herzog, and he knows an Irishman who can quote at length from the autobiography of Klaus Kinksi.

6 thoughts on “Sin City aka Boys Club, Dargis, Kael blah blah blah”

  1. More anger on the film here:
    http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/31/movies/31sin.html?hp

    yet…conflicted anger: “Filmmaking virtuosity aside,” the reviewer hastened to add, ” ‘Sin City’ is despicable.”

    The cable news channels are about to have a morality field day with this one. Sin City won’t be playing in Scarborough Country – except to exploit it and talk endlessly about the torture scenes.

    Perhaps this site should just review movie reviews.

    Why won’t they put the feeding tube back into Mickey Rourke?! He wants to live! Watch his eyes follow that balloon!

  2. why does mark say the same thing in slightly different ways in two different comments?

    (comments containing urls go into a moderation queue–to forestall “comment spam”–if you have a url in a comment and it doesn’t show up right away, don’t worry, i’ll approve it when i see it.)

  3. I’m not too excited to hear a) the bland upswell of righteous indignation from right and from left about “Sin City” nor b) the bland upswell of rah-rah shee-it blowed up real good chatter of comic book fans. Or is it comix? (I like my graphics graphic, but I never much cared for Frank Miller. Or comics. Or comix.) Still–I’m keen to see this. And I’m keen to talk about it. And I’m keen to see someone else talk about it–whether paid reviewers or unpaid shmoes like you all–say something interesting about it, as opposed to see above under a and b.

  5. maybe these films do tell us something about “the way we live”—only not in the way beloved of humanist oriented critics like Ella Taylor? can someone tell me something about this “real world” (invoked also by Edelstein) and what we are looking to learn about it? I can’t say I’m living in it–are you?

    anyway, I hope to wrangle someone into seeing Sin City this weekend. I’m going out on a limb and suggesting that Mickey Rourke has Oscar written all over him!

  6. we may see it tonight. will report when we do. if someone else gets to it first maybe start a separate topic for our own responses to the movie? later i can try to figure out a way to merge the two topics.

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