SIN CITY - SCORE CARD = You rate it

[Krell]

What did you think about the movie SIN CITY?

I thought it was Pulp Fiction meets Reservoir Dogs, comic book style. It was bloody, violent, sexy, more bloody, then more violent. I LOVED IT.

I only wish we got a little more of Jessica Alba's backside in that black thong with leather chaps, ooowe la la.




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[XtraNtnse]

It was ok, alot of top name actors don't make a good movie.. you'd think directors would learn from their mistakes (oceans 11)

its got nothing on Pulp Fiction. :)

[PiRaNeTuS]

I thought it was really good. Great movie overall.

[shawners]

Yeah, i watched it. Suprsingly it came out on DVD opening weekend =) thank you dvdlab/isobuster/and of course tmpgenc=)

[wingnut2600]

It was pretty--no, fucking beautiful, but the dialogue was awful. I really enjoyed the part w/ Clive Owen... it feeled plausible, yet the other portions just felt awkward and hampered by the words. Less words would have made it better.

I love the Dark Knight Returns, but that was far more for the vision. I think this movie would have been better if Robert Rodriguez had decided to keep the vision but alter Miller's words. What works in sequential art fails when said quite often.

[DwarfBaby]

I'd normally give it a 7. But Since Jessica Alba is the hottest woman ever I think I'll probably give it a 9.

[CRLocky]

I saw it on Saturday.. I had no idea what to expect.
Damn that was a violent movie! Holy shit! it was left and right!! It just didn't stop!
I loved the black and white, and though there were a ton of big names, I think they did a good job.
The girl I went with (the one who was itching to see it) didn't like it. "it was too long, and too violent"
Guess she didn't know what to expect either...
Jessica Alba is looking better and better, if only she were my neighbor.

gave it a 7

[Mels_Smileys45]

Alba looked better when she wasn't bleached white. I first noticed her in Idol Hands, lordy she looked good. I saw her on TV last week and wondered what the fuck happened to her. She was white as a ghost. Bring back my dark angel!

I have not had the time to see the movie yet, I started to go tonight but was too lazy so we grilled out some steaks and burgers, yum! I'm still itching to see it.

[SanDiegoKid]

The closest to true adaptation of a comic book yet; it's nearly identical to the original panels.
The dialogue as well, a few exclusions and additions, but copied nearly word for word.
If they had changed it or excluded larger portions, it would have been more of a standard comic to film adaptation. As it stands it, it breaks the mold.
The fim noir style of speech isn't supposed to sound plausible, but like film noir.

If you want to see the comics used in the movie, go for "The Customer is Always Right" (in "The Babe Wore Red" book), "The Hard Goodbye", "The Big Fat Kill", and "That Yellow Bastard".
(all widely available in .cbr format if you sniff around)

... it's said they're going to adapt all of the Sin City stories to film, notably Johnny Depp in "Hell and Back - A Sin City Love Story".

[Mels_Smileys45]

I found a Sin City story on IFilm the other day. http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2655362

Rats: A Sin City Yarn. "An emaciated war criminal lives in filth as Death comes knocking on his door. From Frank Miller's Lost, Lonely, & Lethal comes a bone-chilling tale of revenge."



Vedy strange

[SanDiegoKid]

Wow... that's really cool.

I had forgotten about that story... very similar looking to the theatrical release.

[CompuGeek]

There are basically 3 opinions of this movie:

I liked it
I did not like it for these reasons
I'm cool because I hate something popular


:hole

[Dark Messenger]

I held out on seeing this because I hate overhyped films. Through sheer luck of accident I happened to pop a dvd copy into the burner that I forgot I had made from a relative's disc and I must say I really enjoyed it. I followed the plot wholeheartedly and kept up with everything but I didn't understand the end scene where the prositute, Becky gets on the elevator and we hear Bruce willis in voiceover saying, "Walk down the right alley in Sin City and anything can happen...anything." I didn't understand the end scene at all where the doctor on the elevator offered her a smoke.

Was Becky supposed to be Jessica Alba's character reincarnated and or the doctor, Bruce willis's?

Great movie. Gets a 10 from me and please no bitching about bumping an old thread...it's just stupid.

[cheapprick]

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Try watching the very first scene again immediately after the final one. You'll figure out what happened there.

[Dark Messenger]

ah, it does make sense now. Thanks, cheapprick. :D

edit: I also get the pulp fiction connection in that it was a series of separate stories with interelated characters...but for some reason it seemed like to me when each of the main characters died they were being reincarnated into other characters.

Example the big ugly good guy with the razor wire that got electrocuted I thought he got reincarnated as the guy that shoved the guy's head in the toilet...and when the 60yr old cop died I thought he had somehow been reincarnated as that doctor whom I now know who the doctor is but don't want to give that bit of the plot away to anyone who hasn't seen it yet despite the two previous spoilers.

It was almost like that big bruiser guy with the bad face (my favourite character) was somehow interlinked with bruce willis's cop character like a reincarnation of the character after his electrocution..but hell it even seemed lke to me that the bad copy who got his head severed by the jap lady was a reincarnation of the bruiser character before he got bad or transformed into the musclebound character he would become ala some 'bane-like' (batman comic) character experiment.

But I so enjoyed the movie.

[Mels_Smileys45]

DooD! I wouldnt steer ytou wrong! I can't beleive you waited so long. Were you the one who said you wouldnt watch it because it was in black and white? Its freakin' Robert Rodriguez doing Frank Miller tales! How could it have been bad? Hype movies are shite like Saw 3. Not a RR flick, NEVER! Click on the GRINDHOUSE link below to see his next project, Its awesome!

There was not any reincarnion going down though as all the stories tie in together and mostly revolve around the whores from the bar. You will notice some characters pass through each tale making it one complete world.

Marv is the coolest but I also really liked Miho. Lovely Miho. Im so in love! She is simply bad ass and if youve read the comics you really know how bad ass she is. Elijah Wood as Kevin was also ass kicking. I wish he would of had more to do in the movie. If you can't tell, I love this movie but Roberts next film is going to blow the doors off the theaters when it drops.



EDIT: Sin City 2 and 3 are already in the works. 2 comes in in 2007 and 3 in 2008. Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller both return as directors for both films so don't worry! Oh yeah! Jessica Alba returns as Nancy and alot of other characters will be back too including Marv! Can't wait. 2007 is going to rock so hard.

[Dark Messenger]

oh yeah, elijah did rock as kevin...kind of had a wildchild feel to him from the first few issues of alpha flight at least that's the imagery that got planted into my mind..haha...his acting here was better than in lord of the rings...prolly coz he didn't speak much..lolz.

I'm familiar with frank miller only because of daredevil and the original wolverine mini-series 1-4....should I ask about this robert rodriguez fellow? was this movie great because of him or frank miller...at any rate I had to do an ed2k search for sincity as I wanted more and I found the complete sincity comicbook collection..was amazed at how true to the comic this movie was...also enjoyed reading frank millers thoughts in general on Jack Kirby and Neal Adams, censorship in the comics industry and creator's rights.

[nizrulesall]

Sin City is the best movie ive seen for a while... I cant wait for 2 and 3.

I cant wait for grindhouse and 300 too. i get so excited thinking about those movies

[Mels_Smileys45]

oh yeah, elijah did rock as kevin...kind of had a wildchild feel to him from the first few issues of alpha flight at least that's the imagery that got planted into my mind..haha...his acting here was better than in lord of the rings...prolly coz he didn't speak much..lolz.

I'm familiar with frank miller only because of daredevil and the original wolverine mini-series 1-4....should I ask about this robert rodriguez fellow? was this movie great because of him or frank miller...at any rate I had to do an ed2k search for sincity as I wanted more and I found the complete sincity comicbook collection..was amazed at how true to the comic this movie was...also enjoyed reading frank millers thoughts in general on Jack Kirby and Neal Adams, censorship in the comics industry and creator's rights.


Lots of credit has to go to Frank Millers vision but also Robert for bringing it to the screen in such a loyal fashion. Robert made sure Frank Miller got a directing credit even though he did not direct the movie. Without Franks comics though, the awesome scenes would not have looked so damn good. They didn't need to hire anyone to storyboard the film. It was all there already.