Raanraals
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Post by Raanraals on Jul 2, 2005 8:00:10 GMT
The Japanese chick was sooooo hot, though. Am I missing the point?
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Post by DangerousDoug on Jul 2, 2005 20:40:54 GMT
SPOILERS!
if the female characters in the film were'nt vunerable and needed help from the male lead, it wouldnt be a film noir. thats one main part of a film noir, the femme fetale who appears all helpless and then drags the main man down into the underworld to meet his ultimate demise (the Hartigan and Marv stories).
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Post by Smileadelic on Oct 5, 2005 17:39:18 GMT
Sorry to drag this thread's corpse out of the ground but I've just seen it on DVD and thought I'd add my two cents...
As an exercise in building mood and atmosphere it's amazing. Aside from the crap CGI bits, the visuals were utterly jaw-dropping. The narration was a bit cheesy in places (and not the kind of "cheesy in a good way" you get with some films), but worked well as an atmospheric tool. Ditto the slightly over-the-top, pervasive music.
But I found it hard to enjoy other than in a superficial way. I loved the veneer, the aesthetic side of it. But the complete lack of humanity and Roderiguez' usual failure to give the viewer any breathing space make this a very hard film to love. And I have to say, I do agree with Coastal - this is probably the most mysonginistic film I've ever seen, and whether or not "that's the point", Roderiguez' inability to put any sort of human spin on his subject matter renders that completely unacceptable.
Still, it can have four stars for being as stunning as it as. It will never gain its fifth because I could never form enough of an emotional attachment to it.
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Post by Raanraals on Oct 8, 2005 8:48:45 GMT
But would you bone the Japanese chick?
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