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Re:What I thought was the funniest line
majemi 8 Reviews 3047 reads
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I loved it when Marv would compliment the coats the guys were wearing. That just cracked me up.

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The film is nothing more than an adolescent male fantasy, but it is a very well mounted one.  

Providers feature very prominently in two of the three separate stories told in the film.  In one story, featuring Micky Rourke as tough-guy Marv, a provider named "Goldie" (get it?  - the hooker with the "heart of gold", an old stereotype in movies) gives him a perfect night of sexual bliss, and he resolves to avenge her murder.  Marv, not exactly a handsome guy, represents the adolescent male who feels self-conscious and unnattractive to women, and so is very grateful to a beautiful woman who is willing to sleep with him.  At one point in the movie, he laments "I can't even buy a woman, with the way I look".  Actually, this adolescent viewpoint is fairly common among the male members of TER, now that I think about it.  Anyhow, Rourke is barely recognizable under his makeup, but does a fine job.

In another story, starring Clive Owen and a very sexy Rosario Dawson as a provider, there are not one or two, but literally dozens of provider characters.  The idea here is that in the redlight district in Sin City, an area called "Old Town", the streetwalkers are completely empowered to run the neighborhood, without any interfence at all from cops, criminals, or pimps.  They are heavily armed (we're talking submachine guns) and administer their own justice too.  Think kickass hookers in leather.  Plus an incredibly deadly asian hooker named Miho who favors bladed weapons.

The most interesting part of this film is that it is a panel-by-panel reproduction of a "graphic novel" (actually, we used to call these comic books) by Frank Miller, who is co-credited as director.

Hard to know whether this sort of thing would appeal to any of you ladies, although I'm sure many of the men here will find it speaks to their inner adolescent fantasies, and will enjoy it either wholeheartedly or as a guilty pleasure.  I saw it twice - I like movies with visual style, which this one certainly has.

But anyhow, though I'd give you ladies a heads-up on the most popular movie in recent months to prominently feature providers.








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IkneadU3108 reads

I saw Sin City the day it came out and loved it. I was surprised because it's not the type of movie I would normally choose to see.

The whole Marv and Goldie storyline was great and I really enjoyed the way it was filmed. Maybe we providers should be running things ;o)

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stilltryin254666 reads

to get into a fee disagreement with a Miho like provider :-)). Seriously, I don't know what to think of the movie. I think that people that are Rocky Horror Picture Show type fans or Kill Bill fans will love it. But people that are into movies like Devil's Advocate, The Godfather Trilogy and Saving Private Ryan probaly will not.

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Anneke5178 reads

no pun intended. It sounds worthwhile.

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zinaval3023 reads


It's a 13-year-old boy's fantasy of how a hooker should look, with their figures digitally altered to impossible dimensions.

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zinaval3233 reads


I heard the movie is shot to look just like the comic-- which was all black and all white, with no grey tones.

Moreover, they digitally altered the hookers figures to give them-- impossible proportions.  Their costumes are also over-the-top.  True to the comic, again.  It might change some lingerie styles...

I also hear that it's really an urban nightmare in three parts, and terribly violent.  I did get a lot out of Marv, a poor devil in hell trying to bring justice at any cost, and without any reward.

I thought it was, deceptively, a very deep comic, but this movie would be a rough one to get through.  Not monotonous, but exhausting.    



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avalon_rose2860 reads

I decided after the day that I did like it. I actually found it very funny in many parts. One part might have been the most disgusting thing I'd ever seen in a film. I was thankful for the comic-book styling, tho, as I would have been completely COMPLETELY unable to view it were it done in a more "true-to-reality" style. I felt sort of beaten up after viewing it. Very visually arresting and deeply penetrating. Tho ultra-violent, the plot lines were so unbelievable that I was able to get through it, and I often have a very hard time with violence in film. Again, the style was helpful. I think if I watch it again, I will be less worried about the next violent occurance and more able to concentrate on style, nuance, and content.

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zinaval4316 reads


I didn't think about that.  But I don't think I would have gotten through the first 10 minutes if they didn't do that.  It's the first cinema "gallanty show" (a show given with the shadows of puppets projected on a wall) I've ever seen.  Like "Eraserhead"-- but good.

I didn't think about it, but with its over-the-top violence, episodic plotting, and digitally remastered live-action characters, it is also close to what Ralph Bakshi was doing in the '70s.

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zinaval2648 reads


Bright red, bright yellow, whiteout white.

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BstyBlndEscort2729 reads

I went to see it on the opening day and thought it was phenomenal. One of the best movies I've seen in a while.

Miho was one of my favorites. I defintely wouldn't want to meet her in a dark alley. Like Becky said to Jackie Boy: Oh, sugar, you just gone and done the dumbest thing in your whole life. If you've seen the movie you'll see what happens next. Definitely not for the weak stomached but very fast paced, action packed. I didn't see one person get up during the movie for fear of missing something ;-)~

Nikki

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I loved this movie, I'm going to see it again today. I adored the girls distributing justice, it really seemed very fair to me. I can just imagine how delicious it would feel watching the bullets go through some idiots and lamers, like the guy who shorted me a little while ago for example, hmmmm.

I love the outfits, the cars, everything. well except for Kevin. that whole part was gross.

Moira.

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zinaval2156 reads


Besides the costuming, that is.  I think I could handle that.

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zinaval3530 reads


For that reason alone, I love this movie.

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zinaval2628 reads

No modesty with her amazing bare rack in front of her highly unstable parole client, who has broken into her house!  She kindly dispenses his psychiatric medicine... casually topless.

Here's a guy who claims he's so ugly and dangerous looking that no woman would come near him, even if he paid them.  Yet, the rest of the story shows that isn't really true.    

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zinaval3398 reads

I forgot from the comic how good the dialogue and language is.  

My favorite line "Mine, always and never."  

How many relationships in the hobby, between client and ATF, could this apply to?  

I don't watch TV, and I haven't been to a movie in months.  When you've been "dry" of video that long, the effect of a movie like this could almost make you feel drunk.  

It's almost operatic, but I would say, its three stories drive home a very good theme, in a very rough way.  The three main characters really go all out for women, twice for providers, once for a stripper.  It's almost operatic, I think.  The voice overs sometimes work like arias; the language is almost musical.

**Things this world needs from the Sin City world.**

Yes, the universe of Sin City really sucks.  Yet there are a few things I wish we could transplant to this world:

1) The hookers costumes (I'm sure they're on their way in some form);

2) The hookers figures, and why not even the hookers?  (I'd save up money to see Wendy or Miho in a second);

3) The less than deadly bullets;

4) The ability to take hard unprotected blows to the head without brain damage;

5) Some guys who will go all out for providers the way these guys do! (Which is close to the theme of the movie, BTW.  Support your provider.)  

**The Only Line I Didn't Like**

When Marv tells Wendy to go ahead and shoot. Don't try to do this at home, or even in our universe; it's the most common thing homicide detectives hear from murderers: "He told me to shoot him."

(A note, these are, IMHO, the second dumbest last words, which I hope are never mine: "Go ahead and shoot!"  Especially when punctuated with insults.  

(The first dumbest last words are: "Watch this!")  :)

**My biggest qualm with the movie/comic**

I realize that cigarette smoke is visually very pretty, but smoking is still, IMHO, the stupidest action in the universe.   I wish smoking only involved how it looks, without having to inhale it, smell it, have it sting your eyes, linger on your clothes and breath, or have it make all that ugly residue.  Not to mention its health effects.  It's a great movie, but it is also the best smoking commercial Hollywood has put out in a long time.  But what can they do?  It was prominant in the comic also.    

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avalon_rose2477 reads

Was during Marv's electrocution when you'd think he's dead,"Is that the best you can do?" LOL.

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zinaval3198 reads


Strangely enough, I didn't remember Marv's that line from the comic.  

I don't remember what the lines or situations were, I just remember that I stifled it, thinking the other viewers around would think it inappropriate.  It was a very quiet crowd.  I think for the most part, they were astounded with the film.


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GLisHJ3416 reads

I was laughing uproariously from the moment Jackie began talking, but was the only one in the whole theater who was laughing!  A bit later, a few others caught on and began laughing too, but most of the audience seemed too stunned to "get" the humorous effect that Miller intended.







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avalon_rose3403 reads

But then when i could see there was not going to be any violence at that point, I started laughing. And laughing. It was really funny.

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avalon_rose4048 reads

I'm sort of one of those people that doesn't stifle much of anything... Surprising, huh? LOL.
Actually most of the crowd was cracking up through it, as well. I was also audibly saying "EWWWWWWWWWWWWW" through a great deal of it. Heh.

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zinaval4006 reads

And the way he stood there trying to get the attention about his serious condition, and they just ignored him.

I sometimes laughed at the absurdity of the violence, the surviving of hard blows to the noggin  (Ouch, I thought.  He isn't going to be using **that** brain anymore) or surviving bulletshots by the dozen, and even explosions.  If only the human body were that tough!  

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avalon_rose1965 reads

I was laughing for that reason as well.

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majemi3048 reads

I loved it when Marv would compliment the coats the guys were wearing. That just cracked me up.

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