Endless graphic violence - pointless, ultimately
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Mr-Fusion — 10 years ago(November 23, 2015 09:35 AM)
It's not boring, but the blood does get to a point where the stylized use of white ink (in lieu of) feels refreshing. It's extremely faithful to the comics, but this is also like marathoning Miller's stories. So yeah, it does kinda get old.
This is what Jerry sees when he closes his eyes at night: topless Leslie glued to a horse!
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IndyCelt — 10 years ago(February 15, 2016 10:06 AM)
Beautiful cinematography, beautiful womenhow can it get boring? I mean, how often do you see 'beautiful' or 'excellent' anything out of Hollywood?
If this movie had anything else going for it, it could be one of the greats. If they cut three of the episodes and tried to make a decent story from one, would that have worked? I haven't read any of Miller's work, but surely his work has more substance than what we saw here?
They should drop the whole film noir ambience they went for, it's really embarrassing if one has seen good noir movies. As presented with 4 cut-down episodes, they should have stayed straight forward like a summer blockbuster action or superhero movienoir needs substance and story over which to effectively layer its style and mood.
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Loganp812 — 9 years ago(May 09, 2016 06:15 PM)
I agree. Like Brian Michael Bendis, Frank Miller wrote some good stories earlier in his career, but he's since gotten progressively lazier to the point where even the protagonists act completely out of character.
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akingofcomedy — 9 years ago(August 21, 2016 05:34 AM)
it's very interest to hear all this b/c I remember right after first seeing the film, saying to my friends that all three protagonists here had the same type mission, conflict and backstory - whether on the right side of the law or not - and that whether you're following Clive Owen chase evil, Mickey Rourke chase evil or Bruce Willis chase evil - it all felt like the same rewarmed parable.
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witchkeygirl — 9 years ago(October 11, 2016 09:51 AM)
What's interesting is that everyone seems to have such a strong reaction to it. Nobody says "yeah, it's ok". Its either "I love it!" or "I hate it!"
I read the books. I loved them. I saw the movie. I loved it.
People who are insiders feel that this subculture of comics is very cool. They probably despise anybody who doesn't share their adoration for it.
I'm fine with people who don't like the movie (or the books). Super ultra-exaggerated violence isn't everyone's cup of tea. I get that. I personally dislike romantic comedies but I don't go to their boards and rail on and on about how much I hate those movies. Pointless. Agree to disagree and move on.
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Pozdnyshev — 9 years ago(November 29, 2016 03:58 PM)
Yeah I agree. I think it's awesome how they pulled off bringing Miller's vision to the big screen. I really do, it's such an accurate adaptation that there's some genius there.
But something about the way the story uses extreme violence to entertain, I don't know, it just makes me feel weird. It literally uses horrible things happening to people's bodies as a kind of eye-candy which feels very juvenile and dishonest to me. Violence and death is actually pretty horrible most of the time.
Even "Robocop 2" gave more of a sense of grief and horror around death. Here it's just like people are disposable.