I'll wait for the release on Netflix months from now and see if I can
stay awake through it. I wasn't that impressed with the first one.
I watched "Divergent" last night on BD. It's not a bad film but seems a
bit of social engineering aimed at teens. It's about a future dystopian
society (seemingly existing in the shadow of a ruined Chicago) where
people are divided up by their strengths as if they did it by Meyers-Briggs.
Hollywood has had it's worst summer season since 1997. Perhaps it's
time for that factory to close. Most of anything worth watching is done
out of town.
On 08/31/2014 05:52 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com
[FairfieldLife] wrote:
Even though I'm not a big fan of the comic book/graphic novel genre,
or movies made from them, I loved the original "Sin City." It look the
look and feel of Frank Miller's dark, twisted world and rendered it
onscreen faithfully. "Sin City: A Dame to Kill For" continues the
tradition. It is rated So Not For Buck, being full of even more sex
and violence than its predecessor. It provides four prequels to the
events portrayed in the original movie, and one sequel.
"Just Another Saturday Night" features Mickey Rourke reprising his
role as Marv, trying to figure out how what started as just another
Saturday night watching Nancy Callahan (Jessica Alba) dance ended up
with him standing over a wreckage of cars and bodies, essentially the
only one left standing. It's not the best story in the bunch, but it
sets the scene and provides a great lead-in to the title sequences,
which are as stunning as they were last time.
"The Long Bad Night" is in two parts, and features Joseph Gordon
Levitt as a cocky young gambler trying to teach evil senator Roarke
(played again by Powers Booth) a lesson. He wins the poker game but
gets the crap beaten out of him by Roarke. He'll have another shot at
Roarke in part two, but this part is really here to show us Nancy
dancing again, this time building up to trying to shoot Roarke herself
for what he did to Hartigan (Bruce Willis) in the previous movie. She
doesn't go through with it, but we're startin' to get the idea -- this
whole movie is really about Nancy, and what she's building up to.
"A Dame to Kill For" gives us a little back story on Dwight McCarthy
(played in the original by Clive Owen but here by Josh Brolin) and how
he got to know Gail (Rosario Dawson) and Miho (played this time by
Jamie Chung) and the girls who run Old Town. This is the most classic
film noir segment in the movie, and it's stunning visually, all black
and white with splashes of red where the blood is (and a flash of
red-haired wig on Nancy, dancing again). And they couldn't have picked
a more film noir woman for Dwight to be in love with. Eva Green was
*born* to be a film noir femme fatale, and she's *great* as Ava. She's
also naked a lot, which makes this movie more than worth its price of
admission in itself.
And yet, after the concluding segment of "The Long Bad Night," it's
not Eva Green who sticks with me as the best actress in the film. That
would have to be Jessica Alba, in "Nancy's Last Dance." She takes the
character of Nancy Callahan that she created so carefully in the first
movie and then shows what she's like four years later. Bitter, still
obsessed with Roarke for what he did to Hartigan, now angry with
herself because she couldn't even shoot him when she had a chance, it
all boils over and she performs one last dance and then teams up with
Marv for one of those revenge-fests that both Robert Rodriguez and
Frank Miller are famous for. Alba is tremendous in this movie, and
especially in this segment. Eva Green may be the perfect femme fatale,
but it's Jessica Alba who gets to show off the acting chops she's
gained since that first film and become the titular dame to kill for.
If you didn't like the original movie you probably won't like this
one. But I thought it was pretty cool, especially for a home movie.
That's literally what it is -- Robert Rodriguez made this entire film
at his home studio. The actors flew into Austin, drove out to his
house, and did all their acting in front of green screens. As usual,
Rodriguez himself did all cinematography and editing, and he wrote
most of the music. CGI artists created the virtual "sets" of Sin City.
Altogether it works to create a pretty unique film experience.
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