Sin City

[Flyspeck23]

I don't know what I'd even spoil, really. I mean, describing the plot is one of the least interesting things you can read in a review, imo, and i fyou know which 3 stories the film is based on and you've read the books, there's no point in it anyway.

Sure. But what about changes? What's in and what isn't?

BTW, Elijah Wood is extremely creepy as a bad guy, and Del Toro's makeup changes him in a subtle but extremely effective way. And I still think Brittany Murphy is a lousy actress, and don't know why she gets parts: she certainly has the weakest performance in the movie.

Elijah Wood already looked creepy in the trailer, even though he was only shown half a second...

 

[Bobitron]

And I still think Brittany Murphy is a lousy actress, and don't know why she gets parts: she certainly has the weakest performance in the movie.

I still can't believe she was selected alongside the rest of this cast. I haven't seen a single thing she was even passable in.

 

[Mark]

I still can't believe she was selected alongside the rest of this cast. I haven't seen a single thing she was even passable in.

Clueless

 

[Fast Learner]

Ooh, great point, Mark! I actually liked her in that (and loved Alicia Silverstone in it). Hmm, ok, I guess I have to take her off of my "always bad" list and put her on my "very nearly always bad" list.

 

[Mark]

Ooh, great point, Mark! I actually liked her in that (and loved Alicia Silverstone in it). Hmm, ok, I guess I have to take her off of my "always bad" list and put her on my "very nearly always bad" list.

There was a while when I had assumed it was Bitty Shram in Clueless. Murphy has also aquitted herself well with her voice work on King of the Hill as Luanne Platter (and Joseph Gribble!). I think she is at that awkward age, like Jenna Elfman and Téa Leoni both experienced (about half a dozen and a dozen years back now, respectively), where the quality comedic female leads are few and far between and wind up going to women who will vamp it up more, like Alicia Silverstone (does pouty), Drew Barrymore (has no problem acting as a slut, but comes with her own production company), or Kate Hudson (over-rated, IMO, but connected). Like Leoni and Elfman, Patricia Arquette's star was on the rise in the early nineties and she's only now reamerging on the small screen after a string of poor scripts or critically-questionable movie choices. This could wind up being Murphy's fate, but I think we'll see Murphy find a way around it all (I think she's smarter than most), and keeping busy in the meantime. It's unfortunate that to keep busy and cashing paychecks she'll have to damage her potential reputation by taking some crappy scripts and roles along the way. Only time will tell and we'll have to see if the late-nineties female mega-stars who garnered the really big paychecks for their box office draws re-invest that cake (ALA Barrymore, who admittedly can do so good, potentially). It may well be that the door has been shut for so long on screen writers who can turn in a good female lead character that it's too tough to turn around.

 

[Fast Learner]

I agree with your general concept, good points, all. However, I will note that her role in Sin City was a pretty good one, and definitely could have been performed much, much better. It is a somewhat one-dimensional role, but so are most of the roles in the film, and imo anyway, she just didn't pull it off.

 

[John Crichton]

Clueless

You know, it's not nice to call others names.

Oh, wait...

Er, I like movies.

 

[jonesy]

Er, I like movies.

Paul Javal: "There's nothing like the movies. Usually when you see women, they're dressed. But put them in a movie, and you see their backsides."

 

[jonesy]

While browsing the Rotten Tomatoes forum I came across this Inside Look on the making of the movie.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

You know in the preview for this movie I could have sworn that I saw Hellboy in the background......