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learnedaxA bunch of us went to see Sin City last night. The cinematography was amazing. The writing was excellent. It was also vastly more full of grotesque violence than I expected. But then, I've never read the comic.
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mermaidlady pointed out, this is very much a movie of all three directors. The sequencing in particular was very reminiscent of Pulp Fiction, the gratuitous gore was very Robert Rodriguez, and obviously the look and feel of the scenes was exceptionally Frank Miller.
It's a very well-made movie, sometimes quite a fun movie, and when it's funny it's deeply funny. However, the gross-out nature of a number of scenes (notably Dwight and Jackie's meeting, a number of bits in The Hard Goodbye (Marv's story), and especially the yellow bastard's final scene) turned me off quite a bit. Obviously there's a high level of violence necessary to tell the story, but the way it's presented is sometimes Spielbergesque in its shock tactics. There's a fine line between necessary and unnecessary violence, and I think they went over the line a bit too much.
In particular it seems like Miller has an obsession with genital violence even greater than Garth Ennis's. He should get some therapy of a non-cinematic nature.
Elijah wood was a damn, damn creepy guy. I thought the Charlie Brown zigzag helped give him just that extra little bit of Wrongness. And, Frank Miller appears long enough to get shot in the head, so that's good.
Fairly early on in the film I thought I would walk out hating it, but overall I'd say it's a great film.
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mermaidlady pointed out, this is very much a movie of all three directors. The sequencing in particular was very reminiscent of Pulp Fiction, the gratuitous gore was very Robert Rodriguez, and obviously the look and feel of the scenes was exceptionally Frank Miller.It's a very well-made movie, sometimes quite a fun movie, and when it's funny it's deeply funny. However, the gross-out nature of a number of scenes (notably Dwight and Jackie's meeting, a number of bits in The Hard Goodbye (Marv's story), and especially the yellow bastard's final scene) turned me off quite a bit. Obviously there's a high level of violence necessary to tell the story, but the way it's presented is sometimes Spielbergesque in its shock tactics. There's a fine line between necessary and unnecessary violence, and I think they went over the line a bit too much.
In particular it seems like Miller has an obsession with genital violence even greater than Garth Ennis's. He should get some therapy of a non-cinematic nature.
Elijah wood was a damn, damn creepy guy. I thought the Charlie Brown zigzag helped give him just that extra little bit of Wrongness. And, Frank Miller appears long enough to get shot in the head, so that's good.
Fairly early on in the film I thought I would walk out hating it, but overall I'd say it's a great film.
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Date: 2005-04-04 12:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-04 02:30 am (UTC)Elijah wood was a damn, damn creepy guy.
Erin said that she read a review that said "And Elijah Wood trying really hard nto to be Frodo!" Which is not how I saw it at all. I can see audience members having to try really hard *not* to see him as Frodo... or just accpet that if Frodo had given over to the ring, this is what he might have become.
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Date: 2005-04-04 02:43 pm (UTC)The blame for the gore can be laid cleanly at Miller's feet. Almost every splatter (even down to the shape of the splatter!) was drawn line for line right out of the comic books.
I give it a 7 as a movie and a perfect 10 for reproducing the comic. I've never seen an adaptation of anything come this close to the original work.