monday ramble

are taxes due today? businesses file GST today (at least, the cool ones) and that results in quite a lot of work when there are 9 or so ones to do that for. nonetheless, it's all in and good. exciting!

now everybody here has seen Sin City, as I caught it yesterday, but not before reviewing the oft-compared to Pulp Fiction the day previous. For the record, most of the people I know who responded badly to the former also didn't like the latter, so I was keen to see how they resembled each other.

Though both films contain an intertwinding trifecta of stories, Sin City ties them together much more loosely than Pulp, and frankly provides too much story for the time given. Perhaps if they had focused on the Bruce Willis and Mickey Rourke(!) sequences and saved the Clive Owen one for later...

Stylistically the movie is cool, but not mind blowing. The green screen techniques are sly, if repetitive, and I'm sure many people who saw it didn't realize it was done sans sets. Yow!

The film certainly has been a conversation piece in the past few weeks, but hardly seems apt to make waves in the long term as Pulp Fiction did. the movie has made back its production budget, but has a long way to go to match marketing. if there is a sequel, it may be of a smaller scale, or not at all! we shall see.