My impressions are formed of having watched 2/3 of it on Pirate-o-Vision two months ago, so may be a little blurred.
I came to the film almost totally cold, having seen the trailer and a little bit of discussion about what the noir nature was. To me, it was very obviously a Tarantino movie: the violence, non-linear story, and one-dimensionality of many characters. The runaway boxer thread from Pulp Fiction would fit right in, although it would be incongrously non-violent.
The attempt at replicating a black-and-white greyless angular comic book style worked very, very well and was one of the reasons I watched it in the first place. It's starkly beautiful. Bruce Willis and Micky Rourke play their parts well. Everyone is suitably fatalistic and anti-heroic. Beyond that it doesn't offer very much in the way of a lasting impression. In particular, I've completely forgotten whether there was a music track to the film, which is something Tarantino usually makes very memorable.
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Date: 2005-06-04 04:29 pm (UTC)I came to the film almost totally cold, having seen the trailer and a little bit of discussion about what the noir nature was. To me, it was very obviously a Tarantino movie: the violence, non-linear story, and one-dimensionality of many characters. The runaway boxer thread from Pulp Fiction would fit right in, although it would be incongrously non-violent.
The attempt at replicating a black-and-white greyless angular comic book style worked very, very well and was one of the reasons I watched it in the first place. It's starkly beautiful. Bruce Willis and Micky Rourke play their parts well. Everyone is suitably fatalistic and anti-heroic. Beyond that it doesn't offer very much in the way of a lasting impression. In particular, I've completely forgotten whether there was a music track to the film, which is something Tarantino usually makes very memorable.