base, banal, despicable in almost every conceivable way

Rating: 1/10 (13 July 2006)

Typical nine dollar Hollywood detriment that reels in a lot of soul gutted fish to the theater. I got this movie for Christmas, and I quickly exchanged it for about ten bucks. My sister bought it for me for 30, but I was more than happy just to get some little amount for itjust as long as I was making some kind of effect, a motion, a protest to the three people I was negotiating with to hopefully get the point across that this is less than 0 dog plop(And I do apologize on behalf of all dogs' excrement everywhere to belittle it by comparing it to this, because excrement can be used for fertilizer, so then this decrement is more like mad cow diseased hamburger burned to ash.). I think it's a most terrible, damaging, oversight to comment only on the depiction of women in this film. What about the MEN!!! Yes women are often (but not always) seen as sex objects of desire (even though the nudity is toned down from the comics while the violence is all there and then someand of course the violence is almost ALWAYS inflicted upon men, those of you who comment on the violence against women in this film need to watch A LOT more closely once more, but no I would never actually suggest such a stupid thing to do!). However, the depiction of men is juat as bad if not worse. There is hardly a scene where there isn't some man being mutilated, castrated, or cut up and lopped up in every degrading way possible. A fair amount of this old hat and mindless gore is perpetrated by female characters (but that's o-k because they're hookers, right?)against only men; a scene where a woman gets slapped (a slap in this film is by far the lightest account of violence) is not even shown in full display, but as a shadow on the wall. I'm sorry but after seeing the gratuitous, pointless, trite violence in this film, I'm not seeing how this slap should be shadowed (perhaps Rodriguez and Tarentino didn't want to upset women because then they'd might get less "tail") In a similar degrading fashion, almost all the women are hookers or strippers (with the exception of the parole officer for the Marv character), yet the depiction of the vigilante hookers in Old Town is obviously seen in a positive light, no men in the film are treated with such reverenceand everyone complains just about the depiction of women?! I abhor the depiction of both men and women in this film. One might say that "well, all the men who got killed are bad" but that's below the point; the violent images themselves have an affect on an audience just as much as they have an affect in the context of something.
Another upsetting thing about this movie and together with certain misguided, thoughtless reviews is the chivalric dogma in which it wallows. Again, everyone talks about the sexist depiction of women (it's 2006 folks, let's start looking at the sexist depictions of both men and women, shall we?), well has anyone noticed the number of men who have sacrifice their lives solely for women in the film? For example that wretched, awful, gut-wrenchingly sickening character of Marv (and I ain't just speaking about how violent he is but that's definitely a part of it) who goes on a wild killing spree in the name of a one night wham bam with a hooker named Goldie? Really, if men weren't so cowardly to speak up about this, or weren't so incredibly deluded, there would be protests to this dogma. Sacrificing life and limb for women who show nothing but contempt or indifference to men is called oppression, too bad most men have not YET realized this. Clueless director Rodriguez(of, ya know, Spy Kids fame!!) obviously has no talent; look at what he "accomplishes": carbon copying something almost bit by bit from graphic novel stories from the early to mid nineties and this tricks a lot of suckers (re: this web page) into believing that he is a "good" director. He's a hack folks, pure and simple hack. And Tarantino hasn't made a good film since Pulp Fiction. The reviews here stating that this film and its positive reviews is an indication of how low our society has sunk are among the most perceptive and accurate ones; it is beyond passé to say that this kind of thing has no effect on how an audience reacts to real life. Films like these play well to all kinds of bad people, or latently bad people, and because there are so many deluded, delusional,bipolar, schizophrenic, lost,angry people, films like this prove to be a success (but don't worry we'll soon see that this will ultimately not be a success, ha, ha). It's not even a far stretch any more to say that maybe demons are infiltrating this "realm" at an alarmingly speedy pace when this film gets top ratings by so many so-called "film critics" as well as an 8 out of 10 rating on this website (fortunately though, there are a lot of no-nothings at this site). Even just five years ago I would have called someone a nutter for saying that thing about the demons, but really. Since this universe started with good and good has always won, I hope all the evil ones getting satisfaction out of their brethren reading this are not too satisfied(well, their brains are probably well liquefied or evaporated at this point, let's not be so cowardly to face it), because they will, of course, lose again in the short and long run, and good, quality, original films with integrity and a moral outlook will return sooner than later, let's just hope the littluns who "loved" this film are still young enough to learn the error of their tenuous beliefs, otherwise we'll have to wait another generation; oh well, I'll survive.