If you'd like to become completely disenchanted with Eva Green's breasts and the female form in general, boy have I got a movie for you.
Sin City: A Dame To Kill For is an ugly film from top to bottom. Soulless and lacking any of the thrills of its predecessor, it strands too many talented actors on screen with hackneyed dialogue and plots that go absolutely nowhere. There's no joy to be found anywhere in the movie. At least in the original film, you could tell that folks like Clive Owen and Brittany Murphy were really digging in and having a ball. Here, Josh Brolin and Jessica Alba feel completely lost in the wilderness. Not even a heroin-addicted Christopher Lloyd or Stacey Keach as a potato mutant (!) can save this grim, disgusting retread.
Bart and I were so depressed walking out of the theater that we decided to pair it with another movie for podcasting purposes. We landed on the opposite end of the Robert Rodriguez spectrum with Machete Kills, which is easily the director's best movie since the first Sin City. It starts out fairly straightforward, with Danny Trejo's ex-Federale character Machete getting drafted by President Charlie Sheen to track down a madman with a nuclear missile, but it eventually winds its way into a completely insane sci-fi revenge flick chock full of the kind of Itchy And Scratchy-level cartoon violence that I can't help but fall in love with. I found the first Machete film more than a little disappointing, but Machete Kills actually left me hungry-bordering-on-desperate for the promised third entry. This is a movie that demands to be seen with lots of friends and lots of beers.
Episode 28 of the podcast finds Bart comparing Eva Green's Sin City performance to the water level in Sonic The Hedgehog and hatching a scheme to bring Danny Trejo into the Expendables universe while I somehow end up lamenting the lack of full frontal penis shots. We also talk about Ant-Man finally starting production, The Rock as a possible Shazam and some potentially spoilery rumors regarding Star Wars: Episode VII. The news remains at the top of the episode for those of you who are still waiting to see the movie(s) in question, but at least when it comes to A Dame To Kill For I feel like our 30 minute discussion is probably more entertaining than the actual film.
Next Week: Ghostbusters 30th Anniversary Re-Release and another movie TBD.
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