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Posted on 03/05/2005 11:51:13 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
New verse:
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Needless to say, we retired to the bathtub shortly after dinner.
I won't be doing much hiking or scrambling. The reason my adventure tomorrow is a driving-adventure, mostly, is because I have nasty blisters on my feet from my walk earlier in the week. Dunno how I got the blisters, but there you are.
And I'll be wearing my old half-dead adventure sneakers :-)
Well, first off, we went to see it at the Alamo Drafthouse cinema. That's the place that serves food and drink while you watch the movie. They're also known for staging live events to go with the opening night of a movie. So, when we showed up 45 minutes before showtime, I was not surprised to see a stage with live music being played set up in the lobby. When we stepped into the theater, however, I was surprised...
To help introduce the movie (which features lots of scantily clad exotic dancers, prostitutes, etc.) the stage in front of the screen was set up with a pole dancer on one end and a screen dancer on the other. Yes, a scantily clad woman was dancing around a pole on one end of the stage while on the other end another scantily clad woman was dancing behind a backlit screen. They were dressed... no nudity... just lots of tight leather revealing not quite enough to shut them down. Shortly after we sat down, the two dancers were replaced by two other dancers, and we realized that the dancers were actually the waitresses. Which I thought was kind of neat, because then they were walking among the seats taking and delivering orders while just as scantily clad. Very neat...
Where was I? Oh, yes, the movie itself. Well, it's violent. Extremely violent: shootings, knifings, beheadings, child rape, adult rape, cannibalism... serial killing, revenge killing, contract killing... executions, electrocution, accidental and deliberate death, dismemberment, mayhem of every sort. There's also occasional casual female nudity, but that's not why this movie got it's well-deserved "R" rating. The violence is the reason.
All that being said, it's an excellent movie. Yes, the violence is over the top, as is the film-noir-ish dialogue, but the acting is mostly good to great and the action is non-stop. The special effects are eye catching, and the editing does a good job of interweaving three stories (and two bookends at the start and end) which take place over a stretch of 8 years or so.
So, if you're at all squeamish, don't go. If you don't mind sick, violent stories about sick and violent people, then go and enjoy it. We did!
Oh... uhm, Elijah Woods is in the movie. He plays a very, very sick and violent person who fully deserves the grisly death he receives. And that's all I'm going to say about that...
Hmmm.... doesn't sound like I'd like it... I thought Rocky was too violent ;~D
"Adrian!"
It was ok except for the fighting ;~D
ROTFL!! Bittygirl looks like our #2 son after a lunch of Spaghettios!
Elfboy looks like such a scamp in that suit!
Is the violence in the 'comic book' style or in the live action sequences? I'd read a review in the NY Times today, and they didn't think much of it, but I didn't read the nitty-gritty of it. I'll go back and do that before I decide whether to take the kids or not.
Good Morning.
Try the Pepto.
Mornin'. Yep, more spicey food and likker than I've had in a while. The Pepto worked.
We've gotta be in Williamsburg by 9:00 a.m. for an appointment.
Oh well, at least it's raining...
Heh. I watched MST3K's version of "Wild World of Batwoman." I need to get a life.
Footloose did have a little too much Bacon ;~D
Ohfercryinoutloud!
Does she ever get any food actually IN her? LOL!
Good morning everyone!
Good Morning; just got back from the hardware store, got aromatic cedar mulch and cypress mulch. But needless to say Gypsygirl got her long saturday a.m. walk, beautiful, sunny and gonna be warmish today, Yeah. Gardening etc. is on tap for the daylight hours.
Need to investigate getting a new lawnmower..btw, what does Bay charge to do a lawn?
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