Stop taunting me, American people on my friends list! =P

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And it's not out in Australia until... August 11.

August! Why in these days of widespread broadband telecommunications does it take so long to fling a bloody movie over a little puddle? Now we have to put up with four whole months of rave reviews, spoilers and furry toothed geeks quoting all the good lines before we even get the chance to sit in a multiplex cinema chock full of teenagers yakking on mobile phones and sticky seats that smell of Coca Cola. And people *wonder* why movie piracy is so widespread...

Damn you Americans and your smug already-seen-it-ness :P

*ahem*

I mean I'm glad you liked it :)

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August? your serious?

heck i am in New Zealand and i only have to wait till may the 12th
i really would have thought that you guys in aussie would get it before us.

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It's because they want you to download bootlegs of TV shows and movies over the internet.

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Hee.

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Not everyone thinks so. [usatoday.com]

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that might be the worst article i've ever read.

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Sin City broke the formulaic fucktardation of the monotonous Hollywood shitfestery. This is somehow a bad thing?

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Always a pleasure to see you gush.

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I had Sin City inspired dreams two nights running after seeing it. It's the best movie I have seen in years, and so not PG-13 that it made me do a little dance in the theater.

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I thought the film was great: almost too faithful an adaptation of book to screen. One negative I noticed from audience reaction were some people snickering at some of the lines because they're not familiar with the noir genre Miller was writing in. Me, I'm going to see it again.

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my boyfriend complained about this exact same thing. Now I will admit to snickering a few times at the same time or at least smiling and I know the genre and love it.
Both time I saw it the snickers where at the same points.
Line that could fall under a very stereo typical film noir style. Personally my snickering was more of a joyous "oh that is so perfect" kinda of way. Especially at some of the delivery for Brittney Murphy and Mickey Rourke.

I can't speak for the rest of the audience but I know for myself it wasn't a laughing at it more laughing with.

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Oh good, I'm not the only one who thinks so.

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I actually walked out of it with my girlfriend, as she was crying from disgust and nausea. As for me, I felt about the movie the same way I felt about the comic: yeah it was pretty and stylish and groundbreaking, but I didn't feel there was any substance to it. There was no plot, the violence was the plot. Don't get me wrong, I like a violent movie once in a while, I'm a big fan of the Godfather, John Woo, etc. But I didn't feel that the stylishness of Sin City was enough to carry it.

So, maybe I lose my geek cred, but I just don't really like Sin City. Much like I lost interest in the comic and never finished it, now I will probably not ever finish the movie. I just got bored.

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Gorgeous visuals and adaptation. . . but of a plot that is far too forgiving of its own mistakes. Tidy, clever, but frustrating.

Spoiler:
('spoiler': eg, why couldn't a man who runs the entire Sin City keep track of an 11 year old girl? One whose parents his cops had roughed up? Did they _really_ think 'Cordelia' was just some random girl? One of several rather glaring and annoying plot holes.)

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And what have you done with Jamie? The real Jamie would never love a comic book movie because every comic book movie ever made gets royally fucked up by Hollywood.

This can only mean one thing...

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This movie was made outside of the Hollywood system. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.04/sincity.html

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I was disappointed that Marv and Lucille got out of their room at the Farm differently than in the book. I really wanted that long slow zoom with the quiet sound effects getting louder, but you can't have everything.

Nonetheless, this movie kicked seventeen kinds of ass and hopefully demonstrated to the studios that your heroine doesn't have to be a Good Girl, and your hero doesn't have to be The Good Guy, and that violence can be artistic. Hopefully it also demonstrated to them that Alexis Bleidel is a hottie.

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...and hopefully demonstrated to the studios that your heroine doesn't have to be a Good Girl, and your hero doesn't have to be The Good Guy, and that violence can be artistic.

Please see Raging Bull, The Godfather, and Natural Born Killers.

Also, the studios aren't concerned with what is artistic. They're concerned with what people will buy. If this (along with the Kill Bills) demonstrates that people will buy plotless violent revenge-fests, then we'll see more of them.

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I remember when they had the preview clip and I found the editing quite craptacular.

I was pleased to discover it had tightened up considerably - I really enjoyed the whole movie.

However, by far the standout performance was Mickey Rourke as Marv. My god, he just kept getting better and better, all the way to the end - like he was born to play that character. They could have made a whole movie just about him alone. Fantastic.

I need to go see it again.

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After watching this last night, I find it hard to disagree.

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I loved it. I found myself most irritated by the discussion of how it's just violent, infantile, and one-dimensional.

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Okay. But that article doesn't actually proffer any rebuttal to the point that the movie is monotonously violent, infantile, and one-dimensional.

I mean, I think you have to like the movie in spite of those problems. And perhaps you could argue that the whole eye candy brain-fuck couldn't be possible if there were more depth to things.

But ultimately I found myself thinking two things during the movie. First, "You know what's going to happen next? Someone is going to get tortured, killed, or both." Second, I couldn't help wondering if the experience of reading the comic would be more interesting (or less monotonous) because you can take it in measured doses. Around about 75 minutes into the movie I started getting a bit antsy, hoping there was more to the remaining hour than just an escalation of the violence and revenge. Oh well.

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hey, we actually agree on a comic book movie for once. craziness.

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This movie makes it easy to spot the people who love violence and misogyny, so I like it for that.

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Ok, I'll bite.

This is the third or fourth time I've heard the movie called "misogynist" - care to explain?

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This Good Christian™ Movie Review site gave Sin City a worst-possible zero-out-of-100 score. What makes their review so great is that list of all the specific acts that they find distasteful; scroll down the page a little, read the column on the right.

I'd reprint parts of the list here, but I don't want to spoil the film for anyone who hasn't seen it. On the other hand, I don't think these give away too much plot:

• multiple instances of slicings, lacerations, incisions, impalements, avulsions and amputations
• severed head, sometimes talking
• nudity, female rear, repeatedly, some close-up
• torture with whip as "foreplay"
• stuffing head in toilet with feces to intimidate, twice
• ...

I like the attention to detail, e.g., the "twice" in that last item.

-Spike

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I love CapAlert! I haven't checked it out for a while, but a really good one is their review of Scooby Doo.

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So out of the ordinary and so good that it was just great.

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agreed

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I loved it also!!! I put it right up there with The Crow as far as movies based on comic books go. :)

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I thought it was stylish and liked the filming in black/white/color, but I always get a creepy feeling about serial killing of women and predators of children. It seems like it is saturated in our TV shows and movies. That is disturbing to me. I never read the comic, and went to the movie with a friend who wanted to see it. This type of violence always leaves me with a bad feeling.

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