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Sin City, Kill Bill.
I had someone describe the scene where Uma Thurman kills Lucy Liu in the winter garden as 'patient' and therefore totally awesome. I either heard or inferred something about a warrior ethic in that same description, which made me want to vomit. I don't really like the Japanese blood-bath genre, and there was no samurai beauty involved in the movie.
I'm not a purist, however,and found some parts to be amusing,but those were few and far between. I found the Kill Bill series, as well as Sin City to be tedious and extremely childish. Which says a lot for my feelings on the original sources of inspiration for these flicks, whatever they may be.
I thought that we were past the kind of misogyny exhibited in the film, but apparently there is quite a market for it. It just exhibited a deep-seated fear of women in power, castration, and an obsession with dominating women and young girls physically and sexually that I really couldn't swallow. No offense to those who are, but I'm not a feminist, and find the whole ideology irritating, but this film was out-and-out ridiculous. I'm surprised womens' groups aren't up in arms over the content and attitudes towards women, and I'm ashamed that so many long-haired fantasy-world geeks got just as excited as Yellow Bastard during the flick. Rodriguez did an awesome job with the camera work (as far as I understood it in the current Wired Magazine article, at least) but it was a damned waste of my time.
I only hope the newest Batman doesn't end up in this heap of burning flesh and celluloid.
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