Violent

Rating: 7/10 (11 April 2005)

I saw "Sin City" last week. It was technically very exciting and innovative and I really enjoyed that part of the movie. I had a problem with the gun violence though and I had a problem caring about the characters in the cast. I really wouldn't want to meet or know any of the people in the movie, except for biblically knowing some of the women. The women were in the movie just as sexual diversions and their acting, besides maybe Rosario Dawson, was pretty bad. Jessica Alba is stunning but she can't act. This was a perfectly prurient piece with no hint of redeeming social value. I know it was meant to emulate a comic book and I think it did do that job extremely well but I can't help think that there should be some small bit of social consciousness raising in our entertainments. Why are we so surprised when a teenager takes a backpack of guns to school and emulates what I saw in this movie. I don't mind violence in movies just as I don't mind sex in movies. I do mind gratuitous sex and violence and this movie was gratuitous in spades. If the sex was more graphic it surely would have gotten an X rating but would it have gotten one due to the violence. Could it get too violent to ever get an X rating? I think Hollywood has this love affair with guns. Many, many, many Hollywood movie plots are resolved with gun violence. Moral dilemmas are solved with guns. I recently saw "The Hostage" and it was about guns, guns, guns. I think guns are a substitute for decent writing. I find it distasteful.