Sin City
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- mattyd0
"cells" fucking rocks. thanks scarabin!
- superjuice0
scarabin wtf with the cannibal mouse? dont get me wrong, i saved it ;) but where is it from?
sin city rocked.. amazing in every way that they intended.
- TheTick0
saw it last night. It was good. Visually stunning - best adaption of a comic to date in that respect.
Dialogue probably works better ona comic page though - some of the acting wasn't too convincing.
Ran a bit too long...
Mickey Rourke was awesome.
Hot chicks galore.
Violence..and then more violence.
and Alba...alba..
I'll buy a copy just to pick up some zesty one liners to my already stunning array of verbal reparte..
Makes me wonder if you really can translate the soul of an artwork across mediums....this was the best comic adapt I have seen, but still doesn't work like it does on the page.
- 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..
- usrper0
overall i think its very nice. but i would say it wasnt as ground breakingly good as i thought, ONLY because my expectations were over the roof. i also pay too much attention to details... which screws most movies up for me. i.e. the women on the roof's shooting craze scene, i thought it runined the whole film.
i have more but i dont wanna spoil.
- GreedoLives0
It was shot beautifully, no doubt about that. The violence at first actually made me a little sick, but then there was so much of it, it just lost all meaning. The three stories were actually all pretty much the same (tough guy going through hell to help a girl).
The dialogue was so over the top in places it got laughs, maybe they even were intentional, who knows.
- tommyb0
I hope it will change the way an adaptation in CB style will (hopefully) be done in the future.
Superman done this way = a good thing?
- 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.:
- abstrakt0
i just got back from seeing it. it was awesome. i walked out of there not even remembering i paid $10 for the ticket. that's how you know it was good.
- handsomeboy0
i wasn't a big fan of the comics, mainly because most of the stories sucked. obviously frank millers drawings kick ass and the movie was no different. great visuals and so/so stories..
Alba was on fire
i'd say one of the best comic adaptations..
- mattyd0
the movie was fucking awesome. big fan. great job on the visuals by rodriguez. it was like nothing i have seen before.
mickey rourke was fucking incredible in it too.
- tGP0
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- mangosnot0
saw it last night, will see it again. So ruthless!
- devereaux0
I heard it was boring. The cinematics look really good though.
- Template0
I have yet to see it , but Im a fan of Miller. I read some Sin City (Dame Wore Red, Yellow Rat Bastard), but to me he never topped "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns".
- komodofrog0
any clue when the movie is coming out in europe?
- 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"