last weekend i caught parts of sin city on one of the movie channels. now i dream only in black & white, with dashes of color for heightened contrast. the movie is ultra-violent but no so much if yr into cheap italian exploitation, or postmodern asian horror flicks. the real pleasure was watching the gifted mickey rourke portray 'marv' an extreme anti-hero par excellence. the gleeful inventions of the violence, coupled with marv's noirish tuff-guy voice-over, had me spinning in its sheer audacity.
i've not read the graphic novels of frank miller, but he and director robert rodriguez has chops to spare. the movie was live action but as i replay some of the scenes in my head they appear as if the whole thing was drawn by hand. guess that was the intention. now i must see this movie from beginning to end.
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you mention asian horror... i caught oldboy on netflix. my first experience in that realm. i found it interesting especially that the bad guy, well, what the bad guy does in the end. that doesn't seem to happen much in hollywood.
jesse: i've not seen _oldboy_ yet, have heard good things about it. seems hollywood is doing a lot of remakes and downright copies of recent asian horror films, _the ring_ movies being one example. for an excellent example of hardcore asian horror at its best check out miike's _audition_ the last scene will have yr head spinning.
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