Sin City Movie Review SPOILERS

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Yep, this country is so screwed up.

 

[Gomez]

The sheer violence and relentless brutality really sunk this movie in my eyes. And hey I am not a prude or anything and I like my violence and action movies. But this just stepped over the line in a big way. It was like watching a guy getting tortured for a good hour and a half. I liked the Dwight story line but everything else was just too much.

 

[jcfiala]

The sheer violence and relentless brutality really sunk this movie in my eyes. And hey I am not a prude or anything and I like my violence and action movies. But this just stepped over the line in a big way. It was like watching a guy getting tortured for a good hour and a half. I liked the Dwight story line but everything else was just too much.

I so agree with you and the guy who started this thread - I remember really loving the comics as they came out, went to the movie with high hopes... and came out feeling rather brutalized. I liked the Dwight part best, and I thought a lot of moments were really well done...

But you know, there's just something different between a comic page and a movie, and this movie really underscored it for me. What was at a comfortable distance on a black and white still page, was uncomfortably too real in motion, 15' tall, in front of me.

 

[ShinHakkaider]

I've read each of the SIN CITY stories as they came out (the original story w/Marv was serialized in Dark Horse Presents then compiled in a trade, the rest actually came out as single issues then complied into thier respective trades later) and the violence in the books are almost EXACTLY how they are depicted in the movie.

The sex?

Marv has sex with Goldie and then her sister later on.
I really dont remember if Hartigan has sex with (the older) Nancy. I'll check when I get home.

I really dont think that there's an "on screen" shot of Dwight and Gail having sex in the book. Once again I'll double check when I get home.

The only SIN CITY I remember having a decent amount of sex in it would be A DAME TO KILL FOR, which is for lack of a better word, Dwight's origin story.

The lack of nudity, you can blame on Jessica Alba not wanting to go topless, because of the three stories that are in the movie Nancy is topless in 2 of them. Bruce Willis has gone full frontal before (Color of Night) so I guess the way his nude scene was shot was a creative choice, but still not far off from how it looked on the page.

So once again I hear what youre saying but I just disagree. I dont think that the nudity was tuned down intentionally, I just think that the SIN CITY stories as a whole have more violence in them than they so sex and nudity.Seriously, do a panel count in the first story alone you'll see there are more instances of someone getting, shot, stabbed, punched, thrown, ripped apart than there are of naked bodies or coitus.

 

[ShinHakkaider]

The sheer violence and relentless brutality really sunk this movie in my eyes. And hey I am not a prude or anything and I like my violence and action movies. But this just stepped over the line in a big way. It was like watching a guy getting tortured for a good hour and a half. I liked the Dwight story line but everything else was just too much.

Heh. If you ever a movie called ICHI THE KILLER on your cable listings, STAY AWAY.
It makes SIN CITY, KILL BILL vol.1 and THE PASSION look like an episode of the Care Bears.

 

[Nerak the Numb]

Loved it

Saw this back in April on the big screen and loved it. I would agree that it is also one of the most violent films to hit theaters in quite awhile, but I think that was kinda the point. Thought it a good adaptation of the comics.

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

Look at the GTA: San Andreas hot coffee issue...

Dork Tower.

http://archive.gamespy.com/comics/dorktower/archive.asp?nextform=viewcomic&id=1042

he he he...

All joking aside, this is an odd stanard in our society but it is not a new one. For as long as I can remember, the American people have objected to snuggling and canoodiling far more than to butchery and dismemberment.

I have no idea where it comes from. I don't thinking blaming the puritans is accurate.

In any event, I'm more of a fan of Robert Rodriguez than Frank Miller so I went to see it 'cause it was directed by another hooligan from Texas named Robert. And lots of skin from Rosario Dawson. I thought it was worth the ticket price and the heavily stylized nature of the movie took the edge off of the violence.

 

[Joker]

Heh. If you ever a movie called ICHI THE KILLER on your cable listings, STAY AWAY.
It makes SIN CITY, KILL BILL vol.1 and THE PASSION look like an episode of the Care Bears.

So very very true.