Sin City

[ragboy]

Miller's Batman and Daredevil were 100 times better than Sin City (comic
form). Every Sin City story's the same:

1) Hard-nosed ex-con protagonist that's also a homicidal maniac (check)
2) Effete serial criminal that's emasculated by a hooker.
(rapist/killer/cannibal preferred. Double Plus: If the criminal actually
looks like Frank Miller)(check).
3) Hooker. (preferrably dead, disfigured, and raped (check)

1 tracks down 2 in order to exact bloody revenge for the
rape/dismemberment/death of 3.

Rinse. Repeat.

Cinemotagraphy was great. Marv's story was epic. The rest was forgettable.

Here's my question after seeing the movie:

If the hookers in old town have cut a deal with the dirty cops to keep the
mob, drugs, pimps and cops out of Old Town, why are they still hookers?
Can't they go into like flower-pressing businesses and open ice cream
shops, engage in multi-level marketing schemes and whatnot?

 

[Capellan]

9. Everything except Jessica Alba (voluptuous, but vapid) was great.

 

[haiiro]

I started reading the comics 10 years ago, and I love them. That said, I think they did a nearly perfect job bringing Sin City to the screen -- it was fantastic.

 

[Desdichado]

9. Everything except Jessica Alba (voluptuous, but vapid) was great.

I was planning on seeing it just for Jessica Alba; she is teh h4wtn3ss.

Well, that's not true; I'd want to see it anyway. But Alba is a hottie alright.

Then again, so is Alexis Bledel, although I feel kind dirty calling her a hottie considering how young she is. Then again again, I don't know how young she is, but she looks like she can't be much over 20.

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

Then again, so is Alexis Bledel, although I feel kind dirty calling her a hottie considering how young she is. Then again again, I don't know how young she is, but she looks like she can't be much over 20.

She's 23. Practically an antique .

 

[Kelleris]

Miller's Batman and Daredevil were 100 times better than Sin City (comic
form). Every Sin City story's the same:

1) Hard-nosed ex-con protagonist that's also a homicidal maniac (check)
2) Effete serial criminal that's emasculated by a hooker.
(rapist/killer/cannibal preferred. Double Plus: If the criminal actually
looks like Frank Miller)(check).
3) Hooker. (preferrably dead, disfigured, and raped (check)

You do realize that only one arc of Sin City follows that pattern, right? They all involved prostitutes or strippers, but that does not a repetitive plot make. Can't speak much for the other Sin City graphic novel arcs, but they're pretty well-differentiated from what I have seen.

 

[megamania]

I have not seen it yet but really want to. I believe it will have a following like the Crow series.

 

[Teflon Billy]

10/10

I wish I could give it a higher rating.

I think it might be the best movie I've ever seen.

 

[Desdichado]

She's 23. Practically an antique .

Yeah, I looked her up on imdb after that -- not only is she 23 or so, she's half Mexican half Argentine (although with that last name, her father was probably German-argentine) and although she's a native Houstoner, her native language is Spanish.

I like her even more, as a Texas native who lived two years in Argentina who speaks (albeit very rustily) Spanish too...

 

[Umbran]

Meh. Not so good, imho. It washed over my graphic violence threshhold - I spent more time wondering who they bribed to keep it under an NC-17 rating than I did appreciating any of the actors' performances. And that's not good.