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...mixture of dry wit, far-far-out metaphors and opinions that sometimes seem designed to surprise and provoke, Elvis Mitchell is startlingly polite. While taking his film class last year, I visited his office hours in the Carpenter Center’s Sert Café. Interrupting our conversation about comic books, he jumped up, crossed the room and opened the door for a shopping-bag-laden stranger...
That is, it is filled with blood and boobies and shot using the gorgeous black-and-white line drawings of the comic book as a storyboard. The sex is typical Hollywood fare, but the violence, heavy on dismemberment—especially of male genitalia—and decapitation, brings the film dangerously close to NC-17 territory...
What’s truly disturbing, though, is that all three of the film’s antiheroes take a vengeful joy in the grisliness they inflict. It’s enough to make even the fans of the comic books queasy; violence rendered in artful black-and-white line drawings is very different from live-action carnage...
...fans of the cult-hit comic, the movie is a lushly realized dream. The dialogue, plot, and scene composition of every second of the story mirrors the original, and its casting is spot-on. Its structure parallels that of Pulp Fiction, and consists of three full-length story arcs from the comic...
...seems to fit right into the mold of a stay-at-home sci-fi fan who is completely happy communicating solely with his or her computer—my former roommate's worst nightmare. And yes, this nondrinker has a favorite online comic...