How to Waste One Hundred and Twenty-Four Minutes of Your Life

Tonight, I friend of mine and I rented the movie Sin City, which turned out to be a very bad movie. Actually, bad doesn't even begin to describe the lack of quality in this movie. The movie was filmed to be the movie equivalent of a comic book, with color imposed on black and white scenes, and characters narrating their thoughts in a typical cheesy comic book style. I figured that the plot would follow a typical comic script pattern, and that the bizarre nature of the plot would eventually resolve itself. Alas, the plot succeeded in keeping us from turning the movie off because we thought, "it can't really be this bad". The movie plot makes me think that it could only have been produced by the collaboration of a fourteen-year-old boy and a forty-year-old repressed man. The fourteen-year-old contributed the guns and gratuitous violence, and the forty-year-old contributed women in outfits best suited to the West Village, along with a weird sideline where Lolita grows up. (Shudder.)

Anyways, this movie joins Revenge (starring Kevin Costner) on my list of really lousy movies. There are lots of bad movies out there, but sometimes there are movies like these that make you wonder how anyone could possibly think that producing them is a good idea. I think they're so bad that even Mystery Science Theater 3000 (anyone remember that show?) wouldn't touch these movies even to make fun of them.