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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gomez" data-source="post: 2137345" data-attributes="member: 20204">I saw it last night. First off I have never read the Sin City graphic novel and I liked Kill Bill and Dust til Dawn. I am a fan of film noir as well. Ok here is my review. It stank like a week old corpse. The dialogue and acting was in general pretty bad. I know that it is based on a graphic novel but that does not give it license to have corny or just plain terrible dialogue and acting. There are several different stories in the film like Pulp Fiction. Of the three different stories, I liked the one with Dwight, a killer with a new face helping out a group of prostitutes from the mob as the best of the stories. I can see Tarantino's hand in this part of the movie. I liked the Dwight character a lot. He was cool, tough, and very noir anti-hero. The story with Marv, the huge thug out to find the killer of a hooker he slept is interesting for the first 5 minutes. After that that it gets pretty repetitive with his torturing and killing people to get information. Marv's love scene with Goldie reminded me of Frankenstein and Fay Wray making love on a red heart shaped bed. Very disturbing!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> The film is a Sadist's wet dream. Lots of torture, heads in toilets, splattering blood, amputations, katana slicing action, hand axe action, breasts, cannibalism, and more torture. Oh and the torture is mostly done buy the heroes of the film. I bet there isn't five minutes of the film without someone getting tortured in this entire film. This film brings blood and guts to a new level. Don't get me wrong I like violence in a film but this is violence just for the sake of violence. The one scene in which a one of the heroes pulling the family jewels off a bad guy with his bare hands and then pounding the guy’s head flat was pretty disturbing. Visually, I liked the use of the black and white with hints of color. Red on some woman's lips, blue on one ladies eyes, etc. The CGI could have been better. It reminded me of Rodriguez' Spy Kids 3 (a pretty terrible film in it's own right). One scene with a car driving up a winding road looked like a Matchbox car with two stiff Lego made people in it. I think the movie could have used some more humor in it. There is only one small part of the film in which anyone in the theater laughed at all. It was a pretty funny scene by the way. But it lasted all of 15 seconds. Also I noticed several things that didn't add up in the film. I will not go over them now, as I don't want to spoil the movie. But the writing could have been tighter. This film had a lot of promise and potential in my mind. But with three directors I think they messed it up with too many cooks in the kitchen. I gave the movie a 4.</blockquote>

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