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Sam is right, but he misses one key point: it's stylish as all get out.
In his review Roger Ebert referred to Sin City “like a comic book brought to life and pumped with steroids.” I call Sin City so far the best symmetry of celluloid and the drawn page. The use of green screen gives the film the over-the-top and not-quite-real feel of graphic novels. Sin City is not without humor when a number of characters say “yeesh” before the viewer is able to during particularly gruesome scenes. The setting already mirrors our society in some ways like when the police officer dressed in heavy protection pulls over Clive Owen/Dwight that recalls the recently heavily armed police in Ferguson, Missouri. Sin City is neo-noir at its darkest and most brutal; a cautionary tale of a dark cityscape we do not want to see.
Scott, maybe its like the guy that stood in front of the tank at Tiananmen Square.
I'm struggling to figure out how a film can have an "amazing sense of inertia." That's like saying that something refuses movement in the most spectacular way. I think we better get thee to a dictionary before this debate resumes...
It's only nine years old, but I remember nothing about it, other than it is black and white, and I was pretty bored throughout the film. Was never able to recommend it to anybody, not even my teenage brothers. Not sure the world needed the original, let alone a sequal.
PS: What is the Ballgame up to these days?
I am more on Adam's side. So he got my vote. But I would definitely say it's misogynistic. Like anything Frank Miller does. At least this one wasn't racist (I think) like a lot of his other comics.
I voted for Adam's take but I would really agree with a happy medium. I love the noir atmosphere and the movie is a lot of fun, but "complex in the way it handles violence and revenge"?, I don't know about that, Adam.
It's weird because I am very split on this movie with the two options you guys me. On one hand, I do see the horribly sexist way its depicts the films female characters. They really are nothing more than characters to threaten men with violence and wear skimpy clothes while doing it. On the other hand, the revenge tales which it weaves throughout the whole film makes it interesting to the point where I don't know how to feel about it. You should have given us an "Other option." There always needs to be an "Other."
This is a case where my opinion of a film has shifted significantly over time. In 2005 - when I was 18 - I loved Sin City, and sided with Adam, despite agreeing with Sam that the film's approach to its female characters left a lot to be desired. But still, it was an exhilerating ride, so I gave it a pass on that front.
But as the years pass, the film seems increasingly juvenile and sexist, and I find myself wishing that Robert Rodriguez hadn't recreated Frank Miller's worst tendencies so faithfully on-screen. It's still a striking, beautifully-directed film, but Miller's content isn't aging well in my eyes. So I'm siding with Sam this time.
My vote in the poll went with Adam, but my honest reaction is more like this: I enjoyed "Sin City" so much on a visceral level, so much as sheer entertainment, that I never felt the need to analyze it too much. I didn't feel like it was trying to say anything meaningful about violence or revenge; it set out to be unique, one-of-a-kind, visionary entertainment, and as that, I thought it was a complete success.
I have only one positive comment about Sin City. It looked good. The film is totally amoral and for you kiddies out there that is not a complement. I hated it.
I lean more toward Sam than Adam, but my actual answer is probably somewhere in the middle. Miller/Rodriguez deserve some credit for "bringing the comic to the screen" in a way that no other film had, (for better or worse). Its look and feel is striking, but may have found more success as a short film or series of shorts (or miniseries?); sustaining it for two hours became pretty overbearing, for me.