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[font=Arial][color=darkred]Sin City - Like film noir on steroids. Director Robert Rodriguez has made the most faithful comics adaptation ever; giving life to Frank Miller?s striking black and white… More
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[font=Arial][color=darkred]Sin City - Like film noir on steroids. Director Robert Rodriguez has made the most faithful comics adaptation ever; giving life to Frank Miller?s striking black and white art. The visuals are sumptuous but the storytelling is just as involving, a perfect mix of noir/detective elements and subversive, highly memorable characters. [i]Sin City[/i] may be the most violent studio film ... ever, but the over-the-top tone keeps the proceedings from becoming too nauseating, even after limbs are lost, heads roll (and talk), and dogs pick away at living bodies. This is a very ball-unfriendly movie; [i]lots[/i] of castrations. The blood even looks like fluorescent bird crap. The stories become somewhat repetitious (anti-hero saves distressed woman), but Miller and Rodriguez keep their tales tight, pulpy, comic, and unpredictable. My lady turned to me after it was done and said, ?That was a [i]great[/i] movie.? I can?t argue.[/color][/font]
[font=Arial][color=darkred]Nate?s Grade: B+[/color][/font]
[font=Arial][color=darkred]Hostage - A tense thriller that turns the hostage genre on its ear with a brilliant personal twist. Not only must the sherrif (Bruce Willis) try and talk a group of disturbed kids (led by the freaky Ben Foster) out of holding a mob accountant and his family hostage, but he must also try and recover soemthing inside the barracaded house because HIS fmaily is being held hostage by the mob. It makes for some gripping decisions, as every move has two to three intentions, and Willis looks like he's being put through the wringer. The movie is a great modern turn on the genre, until, that is, it all goes to crap in a preposterously violent showdown. Still, Hostage is a nice turn for Willis and a smart turn for the thriller genre.[/color][/font]
[font=Arial][color=#8b0000]Nate's Grade: B[/color][/font]