Sunday, July 31, 2005

fuelled with violence

Just home from watching Sin City. Oh My Gawd. All the blood! All the gore!! Oh, the horror!!!

... I like. *evil glint in eyes*

All the men who adore pure bloody violence in its goriest, this is SUCH a must-see. Characters in the show do not just kill. They like to torture. And the methods used to carry out such delicate tasks of tormenting their victims (or in some cases, their tormentor) as like in no way ever shown on local screens without having half the film censored.

Yes, you read me right. UNCUT. Well, almost.

But trust me, you still get BULK of the almost nauseating bloodfest. There were only THREE parts in the show that I felt was slightly "edited" (in actual fact, removed).

=== SPOILERS AHEAD. CHOOSE NOT TO READ IF YOU ARE TO WATCH THE FILM. ===

1) The scene where Marv (the big ugly guy with ENORMOUS strength and tact, played by Mickey Rourke) should have been chopping/cutting/sawing off the limbs of Kevin (a disturbingly calm and swift cannibal played by Elijah Wood).

2) A cut where Miho (Devon Aoki) erm, cut a bastard policeman somewhere. I think it should have been the neck.

3) Nancy (the delectable Jessica Alba) was probably doing/saying something sexual to Hartigan (our beloved veteran actor, Bruce Willis, with an amazing looking body). Pity we never got to see it. This is SUCH an obvious cut. And if its not, well, the film editors did a bad job.


I can't understand the mentality of allowing such highly violent films to be shown as R(21), and still end up removing some scenes. C'mon. If the bulk of the show is bad enough to "evoke violent thoughts" in young people, don't show it at all. Like what always happens to violent films. Why bother to bloody show it, and then waste time and manpower just to censor parts of it?

If films are given the green light, show the production as the way it was meant to be seen. Not with any part/s of it missing. Has anyone ever considered the effort the crew and cast put in for every single bloody scene? They didn't work throughout the nights just so that their film can be mutilated once it gets to our shores.

Show it in its full glory. Or don't at all.

And for fuck's sake, at least do a good job at the editing. The film shouldn't bloody JUMP at each cut scene.

Oh, and for the men, did I mention the bared tits and hot babes dressed in slivers of leather??