Sin City

[ssampier]

It was good, but very bloody--some SPOILERS

I have never read of the comic books or knew anything about Sin City prior to seeing this movie. My interest in the movie was stylistic; I've loved the b&w interlaced with color. It reminded me of Memento when the memories where black and white, but the current day was color.

The acting was good, the dialogue was passable. I give that a 9. I loved the blending of color with black and white. It did remind me of an old comic book (even though it is set in the modern day). Visually a 9, since there were a few objects that I didn't see the need to color.

The plot and action I have to rate a 5. The movie was gory violent, I hadn't prepared myself for so much blood, much of which was colored. The excess of blown body parts seemed superfluous (

Spoiler

it seemed every five minutes someone was missing an finger, arm, or hand, especially the butch parole officer who lost her hand

.

Overall a 7, not bad movie by any stretch, but I'm not sure one I'd like to own.

BTW, what character did Elijah Wood play? I might have missed him in the movie.

 

[Jeremy]

Kevin. The boy with the angelic voice who only talked to the cardinal. Who had a few character flaws and a big wolfish dog.

 

[Gadodel]

Like the comic books, its good.

 

[Dark Jezter]

I loved it. Gave it a 10, in fact.

The movie even inspired me to create a hulking, hideously ugly half-orc NPC for my D&D campaign loosely based on Marv.

 

[ssampier]

Kevin. The boy with the angelic voice who only talked to the cardinal. Who had a few character flaws and a big wolfish dog.

oh, the maniac with the glasses,

Spoiler

the one who chopped up hookers, ate them, and mounted them on his wall

. An interesting character, lightening quick with razor fingers; flat, though, with no real motivation. A definite deparature from playing Frodo Baggins.

On separate, but related note, we should start a thread the on possible D&D alignments of our three Sin City "heroes".

 

[Dark Jezter]

On separate, but related note, we should start a thread the on possible D&D alignments of our three Sin City "heroes".

Just my own thoughts, but...

Marv: CN
Dwight: CG
Hartigan: LG

Don't want to threadjack, but those are just how I'd percieve the three of them.

 

[David Howery]

one of the topics on MSN homepage was "Can the stellar cast save Sin City?"... That doesn't sound promising...

 

[Crothian]

I haven''t seen the movie but a friend posted this else where:

Violence Says
There are several websites that report on movies with a desire to inform Christian viewers whether a movie is appropriate or not for their religious sensibilities. I'm sure it's quite useful, but occasionally their cold and precise rundown of inappropriate elements can come across as comedy gold. I don't know any hardcore Christian who'd consider Sin City appropriate movie fare, but in case you did... please keep in mind the following:

Wanton Violence/Crime (W):
• multiple bullet impacts with blood, splatter and body part loss
• multiple instances of slicings, lacerations, incisions, impalements, avulsions and amputations
• cartoon images of firearm and blade assaults
• child abduction by a pedophile
• fist fighting
• assault with metal pipe
• gunfire cutting off forearm and to the male privates
• scene of multiple gunfire injuries, graphic
• scene of multiple gunfire killings, graphic
• threat to kill, repeatedly
• action violence, repeatedly
• planning murder, repeatedly
• assault on police, multiple, graphic
• assault to eyes
• firearm threat, repeatedly
• pistol whipping, repeatedly, graphic
• gunfire to privates
• dragging man by car with face against the pavement
• attempted murder by car, numerous times with sight of victim being thrown and bouncing each time
• attempted gunfire murder, repeatedly
• surviving impossible gunfire injuries that would result in death, repeatedly
• assault with sledge hammer, graphic
• heads of five disembodied women mounted as trophies, victims of cannibalism, repeatedly
• woman speaking of man who had eaten her hand while she watched
• assault with a rock
• assault with axe to the private parts
• many gunfire injuries of varying severity, repeatedly
• gore, repeatedly
• beating assault
• man hitting a woman, repeatedly
• double amputation
• dog eating stubs of amputations
• severed head, repeatedly, sometimes talking/moving
• man kissing severed head
• beating with baseball bats
• talk of eating women
• arm breaking assault
• electrocution execution
• many threats of many kinds
• illegal flight to avoid lawful capture
• firearms for offense, many
• killing/injuring with slicing weapons, repeatedly, some graphic
• beheading
• more amputation
• gushing/splattering of blood, repeatedly
• impalement injuries, repeatedly, some graphic
• bodies strewn about
• slicing up five bodies to be able to fit them into a car trunk
• semiautomatic pistol slide rack impaled into forehead
• dead bodies talking
• assault by strangulation of woman
• another severed head, repeatedly, sometimes talking
• knife impalements, repeatedly
• gunfire to kill, repeatedly
• biting gore
• brutality, repeatedly
• victim joking with spear and arrows protruding through him
• blood lust
• extortion with wife's life
• beating gore, repeatedly
• severed finger
• admission of contemplating suicide
• threat to kill with broken window pane glass
• manually ripping male private parts off a man

Impudence/Hate (I):
• 76 uses of the three/four letter word vocabulary
• lusting for murder
• wish to kill
• lies, repeatedly
• stuffing head in toilet with feces to intimidate, twice
• calling murder an art
• "Power comes by lying"
• sadism
• torture with whip as "foreplay"

Sexual Immorality (S):
• graphically descriptive talk of rape and murder of an 11 year old girl
• making out
• intercourse with nudity
• nudity, upper female, repeatedly
• nudity, female rear, repeatedly, some close-up
• sex talk
• thong nudity, repeatedly
• homosexual reference
• ghosting of female anatomy through thin clothing, repeatedly
• translucent nudity
• woman as toys
• sensuous dance, repeatedly
• dressing to maximize the female form and/or skin exposure, repeatedly
• nude woman with appendages hiding gender-specifics
• anatomical references, repeatedly
• man and woman in bed together
• cohabitation
• sexual threats
• camera angle to force viewer on private parts, repeatedly
• prostitutes, many and prostitute dress, repeatedly
• soliciting prostitution, repeatedly
• talk of showing privates to each other
• offer of sex, repeatedly
• inappropriate touch
• pedophile
• threat of sexual torture
• full male nudity with privates hidden by shadows, repeatedly, many angles
• sexual innuendo

Drugs/Alcohol (D):
• smoking, repeatedly
• drinking, repeatedly
• drunkenness, repeatedly
• bar, repeatedly
• booze, repeatedly
• abuse of prescription medication

Offense to God (O):
• "Goldy [a prostitute] worked the clergy"
• speaking of eating not only flesh but souls as well
• name calling with "fool" [Matt. 5:22]
• eight uses of God's name in vain with the four letter expletive and six without

Murder/Suicide (M):
• gunfire murder, at least 13 individual plus a multiple, graphic
• axe to forehead murder, graphic
• neck twist murder
• beating murder, at least two, graphic
• squeezing head murder
• blade murders, at least six, graphic
• arrow murder, at least three, graphic
• murder by slicing off top of head, graphic
• gunfire suicide, graphic


All in just 2 hours 6 minutes.

 

[Fast Learner]

No kidding, how can you possibly pass that up?

(Ok, the pedophilia was really awful, as were some other bits, but otherwise I enjoyed all of that, even if I was squicked out by it. That's the kind of film that it is.)

 

[Tetsubo]

Kevin. The boy with the angelic voice who only talked to the cardinal. Who had a few character flaws and a big wolfish dog.

Jeremy - That was a beautiful act of understatement.