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Gilda · 04-11-2005, 08:58 PM

Loved it. I was just a bit disappointed with Jessica Alba. The point of the character is that she's a stripper, and Alba, of course, couldn't do a topless scene. In a movie like this, it makes no sense whatsoever to have a stripper who never takes her top off.

You get so much more out of it if you've read the graphic novels. Many, many of the scenes are direct grabs from the graphic novels. By the way, if you're getting them, you want the latest printing, and you want to get The Hard Goodbye (Marv), The Big Fat Kill (Dwight and Miho), and That Yellow Bastard (Hartigan).

I've seen it twice already, and the woman who plays "Deadly Little Miho" Devon Aoki, has now knocked Halle Berry off my top ten most beautiful women on the planet (Grace Park, Aishwarya Rai, Linda Park, Grace Nakamura, Monica Belucci, sweetpea, Devon Aoki, Michelle Yeoh, Yunjin Kim, and Ming-Na Wen)

What I found impressive was how little the green screen effects were evident. Had I not known, I never would have guessed that most of this movie was actors in front of a green screen.

It's a gorgeous looking movie, a sure bet for an Academy Award nomination for cinematography, or I'm not the wife of of one of Batman's arch enemies (geek test).

I also didn't quite buy Bruce Willis as Hartigan. I didn't quite buy him as as 59 in the opening scenes, and there's no way he's pushing 70 in the later ones. He plays younger than he actual age; he looked like a guy in his 40's not his 60's.

On the other hand, Devon Aoki, Jaime King, Clive Owen, Brittney Murphy, ah hell, the entire rest of the cast nailed their characters.

04-11-2005, 08:58 PM	#81 (permalink)
Gilda 32 flavors and then some Location: Out on a wire.	Loved it. I was just a bit disappointed with Jessica Alba. The point of the character is that she's a stripper, and Alba, of course, couldn't do a topless scene. In a movie like this, it makes no sense whatsoever to have a stripper who never takes her top off. You get so much more out of it if you've read the graphic novels. Many, many of the scenes are direct grabs from the graphic novels. By the way, if you're getting them, you want the latest printing, and you want to get The Hard Goodbye (Marv), The Big Fat Kill (Dwight and Miho), and That Yellow Bastard (Hartigan). I've seen it twice already, and the woman who plays "Deadly Little Miho" Devon Aoki, has now knocked Halle Berry off my top ten most beautiful women on the planet (Grace Park, Aishwarya Rai, Linda Park, Grace Nakamura, Monica Belucci, sweetpea, Devon Aoki, Michelle Yeoh, Yunjin Kim, and Ming-Na Wen) What I found impressive was how little the green screen effects were evident. Had I not known, I never would have guessed that most of this movie was actors in front of a green screen. It's a gorgeous looking movie, a sure bet for an Academy Award nomination for cinematography, or I'm not the wife of of one of Batman's arch enemies (geek test). I also didn't quite buy Bruce Willis as Hartigan. I didn't quite buy him as as 59 in the opening scenes, and there's no way he's pushing 70 in the later ones. He plays younger than he actual age; he looked like a guy in his 40's not his 60's. On the other hand, Devon Aoki, Jaime King, Clive Owen, Brittney Murphy, ah hell, the entire rest of the cast nailed their characters. __________________ I'm against ending blackness. I believe that everyone has a right to be black, it's a choice, and I support that. ~Steven Colbert