April 09, 2005

Sin City

Still need to give you the full run down on the Laughlin trip (did I mention it was GREAT?!?) but did want to chime in with my review of the movie we saw up there.

Sin City: Fan Boys fantasy come true. For the rest of us....eh. Kinda boring, way cheesy. SG seemed to like it, so maybe it is a guy thing. I'm sure SG Jr will like it, but he's 13, the perfect comic book graphic novel age. My nephews will probably like it since they are teenagers, male and into comics.

Can't think of anyone else I would recommend it to, so on the Word of Mouth scale it does poorly

Posted by Vox at April 9, 2005 01:53 PM | SG , movies
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I think I'm passing just based on the trailers. No socially redeeming qualities, glorifies sex and violence and the expense of anything remotely resembling morals, bad guys win (they're all bad guys, bad vs bad).

If you just want an excuse to oggle scantily clad women beating up people, though, this is your movie.

Posted by: Michael at April 11, 2005 05:57 AM

I thought it was one of the better comic book movies that I've seen so far. I absolutely hated Spiderman & Daredevil. Sin City was interesting because the movie was taken frame by frame from the comic & the dialog was taken word for word from there as well. No, I'm not into comics but the hubby is...

Posted by: yayaempress at April 11, 2005 10:11 AM

Yeah, the visuals were well done and comic book-y. Some computer animators were having some good fun for sure. I imagine there will be some sort of nomination in next years Oscars. But the story/acting/etc were just not really worth sitting through. If I hadn't been with SG I would have probably walked out. Who am I kidding, if I hadn't been with SG I wouldn't have been there in the first place

Michael - not a lot of scantily clad women beating people up. Lots of violence, though.

Kind of wonder how they got the names they did to participate in the film. Just because it was a new-ish idea? Or they liked the idea of working with Robert Rodriguez? or...? I don't know - just not my cup of tea.

Posted by: Vox at April 11, 2005 12:03 PM

one thing to remember about this movie is that robert rodriquez directed. he's very hi-tech. everything was shot digitally and he pretty much did all the effects and all the work on the film. he lets the actors act. that's why you've seen the likes of salma hayek, antonio banderas, johnny depp, and those in sin city do his films. rodriquez is completely out of the hollywood system. besides, you gotta appreciate a guy that gave the finger to the director's guild because they wouldn't let him run the movie the way he wanted to.

Posted by: monkey at April 16, 2005 04:18 AM