Sin City on DVD today? Brown Bunny, too? Sure, I’m there.
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Jeez, that’s one doozy of a “films you don’t ever want to watch with your mother” double bill. I do trust we will get a review of Brown Bunny’s infamous oral sex scene.
While Vincent Gallo looks like he has serious hygiene and sanity issues, anyone who hates Ebert is okay in my book.
To be fair to Ebert, he did write Russ Meyer movies. And he hated “Caligula.” He hated that movie so much that I think he hated anyone who watched it.
I’ve been waiting for that one.
Saw the big Brown Bunny scene on the intarweb, and was very, very, disappointed. I guess I just used to assume that movie stars used to be more attractive than porn stars. You know, especially with a name like Cloe. I mean, c’mon, Cloe, what a great name. What you wouldn’t want to do with a girl named Cloe, then you watch and. . .meh.
Now Kira, there’s a name…, all the good porn star names end in the letter a.
Christ, I think I’ve said too much.
I found Sin City movie terribly disturbing, vivdly entertaining, and immensely appealing in the theater, as well as being very interesting just for what it is. This is another example of the kind of incredible movies Hollywood can produce these days, thanks to huge budgets, innovative technologies, and societal liberties: all the things that make America the greatest country in the world.
Of course, I’m a sucker for entertainment built around comic books or comic-like plots, with powerful, engaging villians and anti-hero heroes. That’s probably why I’m such a big fan of Glen Cook and Roger Zelazny novels.
The Amber Chronicles were kickass.
As for Brown Bunny, the point isn’t how hot Sevigny is, it’s that she isn’t a porn star, which makes the scene dirtier. And that’s how sex should be–filthy and shameful.
Actually, Sin City was a mid- to low-budget picture by Hollywood standards. (It was made in Austin, TX, BTW. my brother worked on it. Got a sweet autographed copy of Big Fat Kill from him for Christmas….)
But, yeah, it was pretty much a poster child for freedom of expression. It had hot babes, hot guys, big cars and lots-o-guns!
For Sin City there is definitely going to be a special edition with some extra footage before Xmas…
brown bunny, for me, suckled on just about every level imaginable. Vincent Gallo seems to be all about his ego. The BJ scene with Chloe was nothing you haven’t seen in porn 100 times before- and porn actresses at least seem to know how to give decent head.
Now if it was Angelina Jolie giving the head, I suspect my opinion on this movie would change dramatically.
I thought Brown Bunny sucked.
Amen! Can I get a witness?!
John Waters wrote in Crackpot how grateful he was to have been raised Catholic, and thus raised with the belief that sex was dirty, dirty, dirty – which makes it all that much better.
John Waters has the sensibilities of a red-state prude with the values inverted. That’s what makes his stuff so precious.
I read the movie info, and it looks like Winona Ryder or Kirsten Dunst might have originally been in the head role.
*** SPOILER ***
She’s dead.
A dead head job?
Saw Sin City on the big screen with the wife. On the way back to the car she asked, “What was the point of that?”
“Honey, it had pretty violence and topless women. You need more of a point?”
Anyway, I’m not buying the DVD. Not until the uncut, unrated version comes out (it’s rumored) this fall.
And Brown Bunny? Maybe I’m a philistine, but I’ve never enjoyed Gallo’s movies.
Christ, I think I’ve said too much.
Ha.
Dude. Dude. Love and devotion! The point was the power of simple, unquestioning goodwill toward another human being, how love and devotion and gratitude can sustain you, what it can survive, and how it can lift us beyond our fears and our inadequacies. That was the whole point of Hartigan’s story, at least to me. Marv’s story was I guess about how very precious perceived kindness can be to someone who hasn’t received much of it in his life, and I didn’t really get the story about Clive Owen and the whores… I tend to think that was just there for the pretty.
But dude, Sin City was about SO much more than violence and topless women! That’s what made the violence and topless women (or in my case, the pretty pretty Clive Owen and the agelessly hot Bruce Willis) so mesmerizing… the fact that there was a gorgeous human drama driving all of it. 
Or maybe I’m just naive.
Also, seconding the Amber love above. Love those fratricidal bastards (genealogically speaking, of course.
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Saw “House of Flying Daggers” yesterday.
2 word review.
Die already.
Will not see “Brown Bunny” or “Sin City”.
Well, I don’t know about you guys, but the last movie I saw was the sequel to xXx. It… wasn’t bad. As far as popcorn flicks go, I rather liked it.
Constantine made me like Rachel Weisz less because Keanu was so bad it made HER look bad.
Note: Making Rachel Weisz look bad is nearly impossible. She made the Mummy look not cheesy. That is how awesome she is.
Turing word: table, as in “A better actor than Keanu Reeves.”