Sin City
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- canuck0
classic comic book dialogue, totally worked.
- Rand0
NYT: "I bring up E.C. because "Sin City" has been made with such scrupulous care and obvious love for its genre influences that it's a shame the movie is kind of a bore. In recent years, Mr. Rodriguez has been a careless craftsman, but he went to great lengths to honor Mr. Miller's vision, even quitting the Directors Guild because it wouldn't allow the two men to share the directing credit. But in an effort to make a faithful adaptation, Mr. Rodriguez put his own movie sense on hold, not even bothering with a real script. He didn't just try to make his "Sin City" look like a graphic novel: he tried to replicate the private experience of reading one too, slowly turned page after slowly turned page. The problem is, this is his private experience, not ours.
The soporific vibe isn't helped by the fact that "Sin City" has the muffled, airless quality of some movies loaded with computer-generated imagery. The film feels as if it takes place under glass, which makes conceptual sense, since the characters don't bear any resemblance to actual life: they don't have hearts (or brains), so there's no reason they should have lungs or air to breathe. At the same time, Mr. Miller and Mr. Rodriguez's commitment to absolute unreality and the absence of the human factor mean it's hard to get pulled into the story on any level other than the visceral. When stuff goes blam, you jump like someone who's landed on a whoopee cushion. But then you just sit there, wrap yourself in the dark and try not to fall asleep.:
- devereaux0
I heard it was boring. The cinematics look really good though.
- komodofrog0
any clue when the movie is coming out in europe?
- scarabin0
it was anything but boring, and the violence wasn't all that shocking because the blood was white.
scenes were over the top because miller's novels were over the top.
sucks that people who have never read the original work or even appreciate the genre are giving it poor reviews...
it's not fucking x-men
- fate_redux0
I just came back from watching it. it was decent, if only a little empty. I went in knowing it was a comic book adaptation and not expecting much, but like the NYT said, it's hard to really "get into" any of the stories.
It is a beautiful movie with great action. It's like a sweet, custom truffle that's delicious in style, but not filling in the story department.
- GreedoLives0
i thought the white blood looked like spooge in a lot of places. also, there's still lots of red blood in the movie.
- sauerbraten0
i agree that it was the best adaptation of a comic to date. it WAS a live-action graphic novel. great movie.
it definitely was not X-Men.
- nLHb0
sucks that people who have never read the original work or even appreciate the genre are giving it poor reviews...
it's not fucking x-men
scarabin(Apr 2 05, 12:39)
exactly
- 3rr0r4040
i Loved it.. every minute of it..
dont think of it as a movie, think of it as a comic book turned into a movie...
compared to spiderman1 and 2 it fucking ROCKS...
- fate_redux0
It kicked Spiderman's ass. I really didn't like the spiderman movies. This I liked. This felt like I was reading...no, experiencing a comic book.
- canuck0
I have to rewatch this movie on mushrooms.
- TheTick0
Right - it's not Xmen. But it is still a major motion picture with millions invested in creation, marketing, etc. So on that level it better BE Xmen.
That said...in reflection about 24 hours after seeing it...it was cool. And I mean that both in slang terms and in emotional content.
I had no emotional connection to the movie. I was intellectually intriqued, artfully impressed, but emotionally empty.
Lots of love went into making it, but I didn't get any love coming across the screen to me. I had nothing or no character to latch emotionally to. That's where the movie failed for me.
Worth seeing definitely, but it won't go down on my top ten sadly, as I was hoping it would..
- fate_redux0
When Bruce WIllis first sees "Nancy" dancing, what is that techno song playing? I used to have it downloaded and it repeats something like "Everybody with a high volts love"
- cosmo0
damn wat a movie! loved it.
- version30
"Everybody with a high volts love"
fate_redux
(Apr 2 05, 15:34)
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hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...ok sorry now thats thats over
without seeing the movie but reading that you can only be referring to:
artist: Fluke
album: Risotto
song: Track 01: Absurd"anybody with a heart votes love"
I'd upload, but mines damaged and someone stole the disc.
thanks for the laugh though
:)
- version30
das saint.
from one approved human to another
- fate_redux0
Thanks version3, scarabin. My ears have misheard quite a few lyrics in time.