Sin City Movie Review SPOILERS

[Endur]

Sin City Movie Review (Spoilers)

I read the comic books and liked them.

I saw the movie and didn’t like it as much.

The comic books were full of sex, nudity, cruelty, violence, torture, and death.

The movie decreased the amount of sex and nudity and increased the amount of cruelty, violence, torture, and death.

This was the most violent movie I have seen, too violent even for me. Sin City was more violent than either Kill Bill or The Passion of the Christ. I liked both of those movies. The violence made sense there. In Sin City, however, the violence was so extreme it made the movie seem like a horror film.

The black and white and limited colors was ok as an artistic vision, but lacked the impact of the comic books.

I would have liked the movie much more if they had followed the original comic books closer. Increased the nudity and sex and decreased the cruelty, violence, torture, and death in proportion to the original stories.

The movie follows three of the original stories, Marv, Hartigan, and Dwight. Of the three protagonists, Dwight is the most sympathetic and heroic. Marv is superhuman in his ability to shrug off wounds and his strength and his single-minded pursuit of vengence. Hartigan’s motivations are the most complex and hardest to understand.

 

[KenM]

I find it interesting that you did not like the movie as much since they used the comic as the story boards for the film. I loved the movie but I never read the comic. Is there alot more sex in the comic?

 

[Tetsubo]

I'm a Miller fan from way back. But the Sin City books came out after I had basicly stopped buying comics. I loved the movie. It instantly made my Top Five list. I see it as the most perfect comic book translation to the big screen. I got to see Frank Miller's world come to life.

 

[Endur]

I find it interesting that you did not like the movie as much since they used the comic as the story boards for the film. I loved the movie but I never read the comic. Is there alot more sex in the comic?

Most of the women in the movie are wearing clothes in the movie and nude or partially nude in the comics.

Broadly speaking, the Sin City comic books seem like sex + violence = 50-50. The movie seemed like sex + violence = 20-80.

 

[LightPhoenix]

One obvious reason which may or may not be true is simply that gratuitous violence is far less likely to get you bumped up past an "R" rating than gratuitous nudity. Chances are had they stuck to the comic, it would have received an NC-17 rating, which is quite simply a death sentence for a movie. Many theaters, including most of the big chains, simply will not carry a movie with a rating of NC-17. The MPAA is much more critical of sex than violence, and NC-17 is typically (one could say, traditionally) the rating porn gets when they bother to have it reviewed by the MPAA. Was is guaranteed that would have been the case should more nudity have been involved? No, but the chances of that happening were pretty good. Thus, the imbalance between perceived sex (nudity) and violence.

 

[ssampier]

I loved the visual style of the movie, the yellow guy, the blue eyed "lady of the evening", and even the red blood, stark contrast to the monochrome scene.

That said, the violence shocked me a bit. This is from a person that normally doesn't care. I haven't read or heard of the comic before the movie.

 

[Joker]

One obvious reason which may or may not be true is simply that gratuitous violence is far less likely to get you bumped up past an "R" rating than gratuitous nudity. Chances are had they stuck to the comic, it would have received an NC-17 rating, which is quite simply a death sentence for a movie. Many theaters, including most of the big chains, simply will not carry a movie with a rating of NC-17. The MPAA is much more critical of sex than violence, and NC-17 is typically (one could say, traditionally) the rating porn gets when they bother to have it reviewed by the MPAA. Was is guaranteed that would have been the case should more nudity have been involved? No, but the chances of that happening were pretty good. Thus, the imbalance between perceived sex (nudity) and violence.

That is so weird.

 

[Welverin]

That is so weird.

We're american, and we're like that.

 

[Joker]

WE're american, and we're like that.

I'm American too and I still think it's weird .

 

[KenM]

WE're american, and we're like that.

American society is like that. Look at the GTA: San Andreas hot coffee issue. Its ok to have a video game where the main character is going around doing lots of violent things, starting gang wars, shooting cops, ect.. But if they put a sex scene in the game, most people get uptight and they have the game pulled from stores.