Pug, I'd love to read your view on this if you see it.
I've been known to love a movie solely on the way it looks - this is one of those movies. With dialogue straight from the pages of a graphic novel, Sin City was exactly like watching a comic book. The plot was light, the movie was long, but Robert Rodriguez (one of my personal favorites) garners some serious style points. It's raw, it's violent, but it's groundbreaking and it's stunning to look at.
As is the case with most art, many will have a BIG problem with this movie. I liked it quite a bit, and will be buying the DVD solely for the extra features on how it was made.
I've been known to love a movie solely on the way it looks - this is one of those movies. With dialogue straight from the pages of a graphic novel, Sin City was exactly like watching a comic book. The plot was light, the movie was long, but Robert Rodriguez (one of my personal favorites) garners some serious style points. It's raw, it's violent, but it's groundbreaking and it's stunning to look at.
As is the case with most art, many will have a BIG problem with this movie. I liked it quite a bit, and will be buying the DVD solely for the extra features on how it was made.
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Any predictions on what I thought of it?
I'll see if I can muster up a longer review of the movie, but I'm just swamped at work this week(s). The short form is that I loved, LOVED the look of this movie, the feel of this movie. Some shots look like they are just ripped from Frank Miller's comic, which makes sense as he was a co-director.
The Mickey Rourke section was fantastic, he was great. Surprisingly so, but I don't know much about Rourke. But, overall, I didn't really care about the characters or what was going on. It looked good, and was fun to watch, but I didn't care.
At times the language felt clunky, but that's the neo noir style Miller worked with. It's going to throw a lot of people who might be expecting the Tarantino style slick dialogue.
For a movie I expected to be completely polarizing (some would love, others would hate), I was in the middle.
I'll see if I can muster up a longer review of the movie, but I'm just swamped at work this week(s). The short form is that I loved, LOVED the look of this movie, the feel of this movie. Some shots look like they are just ripped from Frank Miller's comic, which makes sense as he was a co-director.
The Mickey Rourke section was fantastic, he was great. Surprisingly so, but I don't know much about Rourke. But, overall, I didn't really care about the characters or what was going on. It looked good, and was fun to watch, but I didn't care.
At times the language felt clunky, but that's the neo noir style Miller worked with. It's going to throw a lot of people who might be expecting the Tarantino style slick dialogue.
For a movie I expected to be completely polarizing (some would love, others would hate), I was in the middle.
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