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Do people not get it?

posted 15 years ago by god-king-kalu
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I don't know how people can't like this movie, I mean, it's a parody, you guys do understand that right? It's not meant to be 'good' just stylish with some cool visuals, hot women, funny one-liners and slapstick comedy. The only way I can see so many people not liking this is if they somehow thought 'frank miller! must be deep, shutting down amusement centers!' it's not particularly high energy, is it that you need a lot of loud people to make you laugh? dead-pan ..look it up...anyhoo did anyone else think the octopus's costume in his first scene looked suspiciously like alucard from the anime hellsing? what with the hat and the coat and the guns...no? I think there's something to it.

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i mean san serif is a font for jebbus sake!

[–] 11 years ago

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[–] sensdeath 9 years ago

I made a conclusion myself that this was a parody while watching it, despite not knowing it was supposed to be like that. I simply couldn't enjoy this movie, it was ridiculous and meaningless. Sure, I can watch these kind of movies, I do have sense of humour, but this movie haven't made me laugh at all. And moments after I've rewatched it, I gone to see movie genre, and apparently it's genre is not comedy. "Action, Thriller, Fantasy".. where's the "Comedy" ? This movie is meaningless with lame action scenes, general boring storyline.. maybe after all doesn't deserve to be based on comedy genre, but since it's a parody what's the point of fooling people into thinking this is some epicaly awesome action-full Blockbuster? Or, it is ironically mis-placed on purpose, considering movie is not funny... whatever it is, I haven't enjoyed this movie at all, it was an obvious disappointment. It's a shame how not that only it's generally terrible, but it completely wasten talents of good cast it has. Few weeks later, I've tried to watch Sin City, I tolerated movie for one minute, then I turned off TV like a boss.

[–] trainedwreck 9 years ago

Easily, it sucked horse genitals.

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[–] dalbrech 9 years ago

What is really, really, sad is so few people here have Read Eisner's "The Spirit" strips.
IF they did, you would understand why so many hated the movie. It is a total corruption of Will Eisner's brilliant creation. I am amazed that Miller talked about how much he loved and respected the Eisner creation, and then turned it into a third rate version of "Sin City".
If nothing else,the way several of Eisner's best charecters are raped in the film is reason enough to hate it.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Indeed.

[–] PaladinNJ (21510) 6 years ago

Sorry to say I fell asleep watching it. TWICE

[–] R_Kane (15828) 6 years ago

Her name was Sand Serif, but you are still right.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

I didn't like this movie because it had absolutely nothing to do with the original Will Eisner comic.