Sin City

[Marksman45]

Has anybody else seen "Sin City"?
I've seen it about fifty million times.

The visuals are absolutely amazing.
All the action segments are gloriously stylized, and all the non-action segments feature such beautiful lighting and shot angles.

It's also darkly funny. Especially a particular scene featuring Benicio Del Toro as a near-decapitated corpse.

Yes, it's very violent, but not as much as many other movies (or even television shows) have been. It's just that the violence in "Sin City" is so stylized and exaggerated that it's more striking.

And some of the supporting actors don't perform as well as those in the lead roles, never in any important way.

One friend who watched it with me complained that it was "random." I don't know what he meant by that. Perhaps he was expecting a single straightforward story, instead of three stories and vignette or two.


If you haven't seen it, go rent it. And get the letterbox version. You'll want to see every inch of the glorious cinematography

[singlemalt]

yeah, i like this quite a bit. i thought it started out a little slow, but it picked up quickly. mickey rourke was terrific. my future wife, jessica alba, is smokin' hot.

but, i'm not quite sure i got the ending. somehow it was supposed to be tied in to the intro, but it was just lost on me. whatever.

very true to the comic, i mean, graphic novels. i read one of them a few years back. good stuff.

[Marksman45]

I just noticed this reply. Dammit, I need to pay more attention.

As for the ending & intro, that man is known as The Salesman. He's a hit-man. In the first scene (and the story upon which it is based, "The Customer Is Always Right," from "The Babe Wore Red and Other Stories"), he was hired to kill that woman on the balcony; and in an intriguing twist, it is implied that *she* hired him to do it.

In the final scene (which was written for the movie; in the comic, Becky dies in that massacre in Old Town), the Salesman has been hired to take out Becky.


Finally got a hold of the complete collection of these. So far I've read the original miniseries (entitled simply "Sin City," but it has been referred to as "The Hard Goodbye"; the story about Marv that's in the movie), "The Big Fat Kill" (about Dwight and Old Town), "That Yellow Bastard" (about Hartigan), "Silent Night" (a one-shot story about Marv), and "A Dame to Kill For," which features both Dwight & Marv.

A sequel to the film is supposedly in the works. It's said that it will focus on "A Dame to Kill For"