Comments on: Review: Righteous Kill http://bluemoviereviews.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/review-righteous-kill/ An Online Journal of Dissent Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:41:13 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Anil http://bluemoviereviews.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/review-righteous-kill/#comment-252 Anil Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:53:11 +0000 http://bluemoviereviews.wordpress.com/?p=762#comment-252 Exactly what I had been expecting - word by word. Didn't have the chance to see it yet but unless I plan the whole thing as a night out with a couple of friends and this is the flick that we see before a couple of drinks, I highly doubt it that I'll make the trip to the theater for this one. It's depressing though. Normally you wouldn't mind a bad film but one with such good actors is a new level of atrocity. Exactly what I had been expecting – word by word. Didn’t have the chance to see it yet but unless I plan the whole thing as a night out with a couple of friends and this is the flick that we see before a couple of drinks, I highly doubt it that I’ll make the trip to the theater for this one.

It’s depressing though. Normally you wouldn’t mind a bad film but one with such good actors is a new level of atrocity.

]]> By: Brian Wheat http://bluemoviereviews.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/review-righteous-kill/#comment-251 Brian Wheat Sat, 13 Sep 2008 05:30:31 +0000 http://bluemoviereviews.wordpress.com/?p=762#comment-251 Not to inadvertently fuel the hype machine, but I couldn't help but think of Watchmen while sitting through the perfunctory rough sex bits between DeNiro and Gugino. Here's the actress playing the first Silk Spectre with the actor that Alan Moore himself once envisioned as the Comedian. That besides, the resolution for Gugino's character was simply offensive. See folks, all trauma survivors need to heal is to go to a little league game. Don't get me wrong, it's because I'm a fan of Gugino as an actress that I was so disappointed. It wasn't as blatantly insulting or creepy as her role in Sin City, but then it's pretty much impossible to outdo Frank Miller when it comes to misogyny. (The man called Batgirl the c-word, for chrissakes. Batgirl!) Not to inadvertently fuel the hype machine, but I couldn’t help but think of Watchmen while sitting through the perfunctory rough sex bits between DeNiro and Gugino. Here’s the actress playing the first Silk Spectre with the actor that Alan Moore himself once envisioned as the Comedian.

That besides, the resolution for Gugino’s character was simply offensive. See folks, all trauma survivors need to heal is to go to a little league game. Don’t get me wrong, it’s because I’m a fan of Gugino as an actress that I was so disappointed. It wasn’t as blatantly insulting or creepy as her role in Sin City, but then it’s pretty much impossible to outdo Frank Miller when it comes to misogyny. (The man called Batgirl the c-word, for chrissakes. Batgirl!)

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