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Wow. Just saw this for the second time tonight and I must say it was awesome. Rather like Pulp Fiction with all pretense at reality taken out. And Mickey Rourke looking like Spencer Tracy on steroids. And Elijah Wood doing his best Hannibal Lecter impression. Yeah.
I never read the comics, (er...excuse me...graphic novels) but from what I hear the film follows them very closely. The production design was certainly quite impressive, akin to my beloved Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow but yet completely of its own style---darker, grittier, and several helpings more badass. The cast was great. I wasn't exactly convinced that Bruce Willis was in his sixties, or that he looked any older after his character's eight years in prison, but that's pretty much my only gripe. (At first I was cynical at just how nimble Marv/Rourke was after being hit several times with the chick's car moving at what seemed like appreciable speed, but then I reminded myself that "hey, this is *not* reality!")
A friend of mine commented that the film made him "feel like going out and smoking cigarettes and killing people," with which I concurred. All in all I enjoyed it thoroughly. I get the impression that this summer will be a good one for movies, what with Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Revenge of the Sith right around the corner. Now if Speilberg and Lucas could just get their asses in gear on the next Indiana Jones flick...
-MMoM
P.S. Jessica Alba, Rosario Dawson, and company are all quite hot. Not to mention Clive Owen. Indeed. -MM
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I really like it....except for three things:
They went to extreme lengths to make it true to the comics (down to reproducing the odd, clownish look of the Yellow Bastard and the makeup job on Mickey Rourke) but Miller draws his hookers...pretty "street looking" and not like the perfect supermodels of the film.
Jessica Alba's really crappy acting: she's being whipped with a fucking bullwhip but never loses her breath or breaks a sweat, then a few minutes later, she's fine as she drives away...
Bruce Willis' character's death: seemed kinds useless to me. Nothing says he could not have split town with "Cordillia" and started over somewhere new. As pointed out, he does not really age at all in eight years: neither does Powers Booth (some creative casting of has-been actors in this movie!)
I did love the movie overall though: particularly the middle part with (the very cool) Clive Owen and the hookers defending their turf and the hitman at the begining and end of the movie.
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I don't know about Jessica Alba's crappy acting... then again even I was distracted by the women in the film.
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Frank's lesbian parole officer was the most bueatiful woman in the movie...possibly in recorded history.
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The topless lesbian parole officer... makes some of my straight friends want to be cuffed by her and my lesbian friends want to be naughty.
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She actually looks a lot like a girl I used to be (platonically) tight with: she did the fetish parties and her sister was a dominatrix.
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The movie is based closely on three of Frank Miller's graphic novels. I can only recall two of their titles: The Dame Wore Red and That Yellow Bastard. No clue what the story with the hookers is called.
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The Hard Goodbye, The Big Fat Kill, and The Yellow Bastard.
While Spider-Man maybe a great comic book movie, Sin City feels like you're actually watching a comic book.
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So awesome. I liked the Marv story best. I like it the best of the graphic novels so far too. Though I'd hope that "A Dame To Kill For" might be included were there to be a sequel.
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I saw Sin City about a week ago, and I really enjoyed it. I think it dragged in a couple places (especially the middle of "The Hard Goodbye"), but it pretty tight (as the kids are wont to say nowadays). I really enjoyed the visual style of the film. I liked the comic book effect and the use of black and white with just a hint of color in places. It made an impact on me.
I didn't realize Marv was played by Mickey Rourke until the credits ran. The makeup artist did a good job on him. I think he did a pretty good job; he managed to play the character just over-the-top enough without making it cheesy. Elijah Wood was really, really creepy as Kevin. It's kind of amusing; he had no lines and most of his screentime was just standing or sitting there looking creepy, but he pulled it off. I was also entertained by the militant prostitutes (both for their parts and their, ahem, parts).
I liked The Salesman being bookends to the movie. The first scene with Hartigan and Bob on the dock was kind of awkward, but after he punched Bob out it was better. I got a little of the ick factor going with some of the gore (Lucille's stump, Kevin's dismemberment, and Hartigan ripping off Yellow Bastard's genitals), but it didn't detract that much from everything else.
I think my favorite segment was "The Big Fat Kill". There's just something cool about militant prostitutes. I liked Clive Owen, Rosario Dawson, Alexis Bledel, and Devon Aoki the most in this. I kinda felt that Michael Duncan Clarke and Brittany Murphy were wasted in this part of the movie. Oh, yeah, Benecio Del Toro was pretty cool was a corpse and bodiless head.
Overall, yeah, good flick. I'm in love with Alexis Bledel now. I may just have to start watching Gilmore Girls. Maybe.
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