Sin City

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claptonlover

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Out on DVD today, and no fred??

In a week when Ritchie tries, and fails, to explain his ill educated effort at pretentious s**t (he did well, he produced prentious s**t) and gets utterly owned by Mr Kermode, it's nice to see a film that is completely without shame for what it is and doesn't try and complicate for the sake of it.*

Graphic violent film, based on graphic violent novels, with brilliant acting that has now convinced me that Owen could be Bond.

Simple and stunning. :)

* I have an issue with Revolver. :D

It's okay to be comical and laughable, if you are willing to let it go and not dress it up.
 
I did not for one minute think I would enjoy 'Sin City' as it's not my usual kind of film. How wrong I was ! Violent & shocking it can be but I still felt the story & the performances of the main cast were superb & the whole movie extremely watchable.
 
I couldn't get into this as I watched it in a baking hot UCI during the summer with no air con, on seats that wouldn't have been out of place at a bus stop - so couldn't really concentrate.

All though what I did follow seemed like style over substance. Loved the violence though!
 
For some reason I don't feel like watching Sin City -- probably TV shows keep showing me Jessica Alba doing that "shaking of the hips" for Bruce Willis thing in every clip -- yeah, yeah -- but what's the film actually about?
 
IMO plesentville captured the colors over black/white far better than sin city, which isnt a critisism just that it was far more intergral to the plot in pleasentville so hence finer detail.

I thought sin city was good but not great as guess it helps if your a fan of the comics.

There wasnt much chemisty between the willis/alba characters and i HATED britnny murphys role. I did love the opening and closing sequences though

(oh poor becky i guessing shes not going to make it out of the lift :cry: )
 
i think the film was the best film of the year i am going to buy the dvd soon from tesco i think thats the cheapest with out ordering i am going to watch and watch its just ace
 
The visual effect in Sin City is lifted directely from the comic book (the film and the comic are almost identical frame for frame) and that was first printed in 1991.
Frank Miller is pure genius.
 
Exactly.

I've read a couple of posts above mentioning that 'Pleasantville' did the effect much better....

...But 'Sin City' isn't even trying to replicate the look of another film.
If they tried to make it look like 'Pleasantville' they would probably have failed in their remit of the project.

To think like that is similar to feeling that a certain style of art is "better" than another one because it looks more realistic.

If they wanted it to look like 'Pleasantville' then they could have done so quite easily if they wished.
But it's not like either look has been done "better", it's just that they have been done differently on purpose.

In fact I'd say that it would have been far more difficult technically to acheive the 'Sin City' look, than it would be to create the 'Pleasantville' look.


Like you say, 'Sin City' was replicating the exact specific look from the graphic novels, and they acheived the look that they were wanting to portray precisely.
Trying to get more detail, or a richer colour range would have simply been wrong for the look they were aiming for.
It was probably harder work to actually remove detail.
 
Yeah, Pleasantville did it for purposes past artistic filming, and it was needed for the actual plot to develop. Sin City's was a replication of a brilliant style used by Miller.

And Murphy was excellent in her role. I think you have to have at least a little knowledge of the backstory of who these actors were playing, because she was spot on with her representation, as was Rourke.
 
i just watched it and it is amazing, i thought all three of the stories were brilliantly made and all the small things in it that interwine were brilliant. i put off seeing it untill now because of the black and white but i thought it was done brilliants (i think tarrintine (sp?) had something to do with it). although i am gonna wait for the special addition before buying it.
 
Tarantino is listed on IMDB as a 'Special Guest Director', which is a strange way of putting it, but that is what he was in some respects. He didn't work on the film with Miller and Rodriguez, but he directed one scene (for $1, in joke with Rodriguez over the score to Kill Bill :D ) which was Clive Owen driving Benicio Del Toro to the tar pits.
 
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