++ [ originally posted by Altair ] ++
I saw Sin City a couple of weeks back, though a bit dragging it was pure enjoyable entertainment, Mickey Rourke's character was just bada**.
I saw it tonight. I wouldn't go so far as to say it was enjoyable entertainment, though. I can tolerate the violence in
City of God, and I could laugh at and love the violence used in
Pulp Fiction. But
Sin City used violence as a complete joke. The movie is a self-parody. Kind of like watching the Jerry Springer show.
The comic book visualizations were definitely interesting, and the cheesy dialog was tolerable (note that I didn't say anything good about it). But the violence was so much of a crutch and gimmick, that without it there would be nothing left. The movie lacked any "brains"...
Which reminds me of when a friend loaned me the DVDs for
Armegeddon and
Pi on the same day. The first was all budget and no brains, and the second was all brains and no budget. I hated the first (unless you can get a bunch of drunken friends together to mock it), and really liked the second. So that should give you a sense of my biases. I can sense that a lot of people will really like
Sin City... just not me.