very graphically showing vivisection. Also, its gobs of sado-masochistic torture and beatings personalizes violence in a manner much more disturbing than the gun-inflicted damage of, say, "Natural Born Losers."
We've already done the snuff movies, so that's passé.
Serial killer and rapist elegies... well, that's an ongoing genre but one that seems to be ebbing, fast.
So... what's next to titillate us?
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Topic - "Sin City" has taken mainstream to a new low by - tinear 23:53:17 09/28/05 (36)
- Re: "We've already done the snuff movies, so that's passé." - Rob Doorack 10:16:30 10/01/05 (1)
- I mean the faux snuff, silly. nt - tinear 11:27:04 10/01/05 (0)
- How about a sequel to Team America: World Police…nt - millen 13:25:03 09/30/05 (0)
- I beg to differ - Daryl Zero 11:26:54 09/29/05 (13)
- Would Films Like..... - AudioHead 06:29:57 09/30/05 (1)
- Re: Would Films Like..... - Daryl Zero 15:09:17 09/30/05 (0)
- Generally true, but category 6 is far worse than Cat. 5 on the "hurricane of violence" scale. - Audiophilander 12:45:53 09/29/05 (9)
- Explain how Category 6 is Different from 1? - Daryl Zero 13:26:16 09/29/05 (8)
- Re: Explain how Category 6 is Different from 1? - Audiophilander 01:00:53 09/30/05 (7)
- Re: Explain how Category 6 is Different from 1? - Daryl Zero 14:50:45 09/30/05 (0)
- Re: I thought Fight Club... - Jeff Starrs 02:43:11 09/30/05 (5)
- "...showed the cold, impotent & dehumanizing effects of violence." - That was not my impression; like PdL, I was bored. - Audiophilander 09:15:56 09/30/05 (0)
- Re: I thought Fight Club... - PdL 06:36:05 09/30/05 (1)
- IMO, Pitt, Like Cruise & Costner, Is Far Overrated. nt - AudioHead 08:31:22 09/30/05 (0)
- Well done. nt - tinear 04:46:41 09/30/05 (1)
- Re: Thanks... - Jeff Starrs 10:48:45 09/30/05 (0)
- Re: I beg to differ - Jeff Starrs 11:59:12 09/29/05 (0)
- No offense, but Sin City is not the dehumanizing experience you're describing. - Audiophilander 09:26:36 09/29/05 (5)
- The HERO of the movie cuts off a man's arms and legs.... - tinear 13:46:06 09/29/05 (4)
- But the hero's "victim" turned paraplegic & killed was the most vicious sado-masochistic serial killer ever depicted. - Audiophilander 01:53:29 09/30/05 (2)
- Many Heroes are cold-blooded killers - Daryl Zero 14:57:23 09/30/05 (0)
- Didn't see any torture in the list at the end. Killing and extremely - tinear 08:25:21 09/30/05 (0)
- Yeah, but . . . - Daryl Zero 14:07:03 09/29/05 (0)
- Re: "Sin City" has taken mainstream to a new low by - PdL 07:59:29 09/29/05 (0)
- Meanwhile... - Jabberwock 07:58:01 09/29/05 (0)
- Some Precursors.... - AudioHead 06:54:56 09/29/05 (0)
- Lighten up, would ya. It was an entertaining exercise in bringing comics to the screen. * - mr grits 05:48:31 09/29/05 (9)
- "Entertaining"? Not for me. I walked out. (NT) - jeffreybehr 11:04:39 09/29/05 (8)
- Really?! C'mon Jeffrey, where hard-edged & imaginative films are concerned you aren't one of those ..... - Audiophilander 13:11:19 09/29/05 (7)
- milqetoast - Tom Brennan 22:47:47 09/29/05 (2)
- What does directing a movie have to do with an unproven accusation? - Audiophilander 02:14:32 09/30/05 (1)
- Re: What does directing a movie have to do with an unproven accusation? - Tom Brennan 11:57:10 09/30/05 (0)
- Nope. While watching a movie with my wife in a theater a few years ago... - jeffreybehr 18:02:59 09/29/05 (3)
- "It was either 'Thelma and Louise' or 'Goodfellas'" - Both excellent pictures you apparently missed, BTW. (nt) - Audiophilander 02:18:21 09/30/05 (2)
- Thelma and Louise CounterPoint. - AudioHead 08:40:16 09/30/05 (1)
- I'll check it out. (nt) - Audiophilander 09:19:20 09/30/05 (0)