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Author Topic: SIN CITY (2005) Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 04-10-2005 11:44 PM                     I watched "Sin City" this evening and liked it quite a bit for various reasons. The story was pretty cool, true to its graphic novel roots and a bit unconventional. I think the movie did just enough to connect the three different storylines to establish proper sense of timeline and location. The non-chronological narrative reminded me a little of "Pulp Fiction." The visual look of the film was very cool. This movie and "The Incredibles" are the two most visually compelling movies I've seen in the last couple of years. The animated silhouettes, colorizing effects and other high contrast shots added much to the movie. The look of buildings and unusal choice of vintage cars and contemporary ones helped the show defy timing it to a given period. Even the opening titles for "Sin City" were cool. Helvetica for the closing ones -bleh, but everyone's leaving the theater then. About the only thing I can knock at all is the show being shot on videotape. Sometimes the imagery appeared just a tad bit soft, such as hairs on an actor's head. Overall, its a minor gripe. I'm still going to add this movie to my DVD collection a few months from now.  |  IP: Logged Christian Volpi Master Film Handler Posts: 349 From: Arlington, NE Registered: Apr 2004 posted 04-11-2005 12:13 AM                        It's Crap. Needed less shooting and more script.  |  IP: Logged Pravin Ratnam Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 844 From: Atlanta, GA,USA Registered: Sep 2002 posted 04-13-2005 11:03 PM                     Saw it at Regal Perimeter Pointe Atlanta. Top bottom masking. So I was glad this movie was flat since the screen size was reasonably decent. Movie seemed to be projected OK. Easily the best movie of the year so far for me. After a stiffly acted opening 10 minutes with Hartnett, willis and madsen (way too obvious comic book dialogue and delivery which seemed more forced) , the movie really gets to be an experience. Welcome back Mickey Rourke. He was the man in the movie. Nick Stahl plays probably one of the most disgusting villains ever. I wish his death scene was even more prolonged. The way they filmed Elijah's Wood's character was one of the best comic book looks in a movie ever. Watching his scenes was like reading a great graphic novel. Really these two bad guys were major filmmaking highlights in this movie. None of that DIck Tracy like cliched trying too hard to emulate a comic book shit. Carla Gugino's opening scene is proof that Robert ROdruguez hasn't lost his libido even after making those Spy Kid movies. They say Clive Owen's character had his face changed. So was he supposed to be someone else shown in the movie? Only downside was we had a bad crowd. Very dull people and two strangers in the audience and I seemed to be the only people laughing at some of the dark humor in the movie. MINI SPOILER: Too bad they show Alba's backstory first, so one would have a tough time ogling her ample assets and spend more time wondering how she ended up in the bar like that after what she went through. They should have shown the Hartnett opening, pan over to the bar with alba's dancing scene, then go back into the Willis-Madsen flashback.  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 04-13-2005 11:36 PM                    quote: Christian Volpi Needed less shooting and more script. quote: Pravin Ratnam (way too obvious comic book dialogue and delivery which seemed more forced) I watched a 15 minute segment on 60 Minutes 2 (Wednesday) tonight that talked about the fim and how they made it. Essentially there was no script. They took everything straight from the comic books. They also talked about how they shot the movie with just a green screen and no locations with just a few props. Everything else was created with computers. Yet they talked like that had never been done before. Guess they didn't see Sky Captain.....  |  IP: Logged Pravin Ratnam Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 844 From: Atlanta, GA,USA Registered: Sep 2002 posted 04-13-2005 11:45 PM                     Darryl, to be fair, my comment only referred to the first 15 min of the movie. There was more comic book type dialog the rest of the way too, but it seemed to fit in well in the movie medium . Madsen in particular was awful in his initial scenes.  |  IP: Logged Charlie Frisby Film Handler Posts: 58 From: Guymon, Ok USA, org. from DFW Registered: Dec 2004 posted 04-15-2005 07:56 PM                     5 out of 5 Best Comic adaptation ever!! As a comic freak I am bias, but the only line i noticed, not in the graphic novels was "You bet your ass" spoken by Marv. On the subject of scope Being completely Green screened helped the movie to maintain its comic look, and also kept everything consistent. I wonder if the flat issue is due to the rendering times. Don't be a skeptic. If I was rendering a movie, in which 7 reels(exception credits) had to be rendered in LightWave 3D, and had minimal bg plates, and i could cut the aspect ratio down. I would do it. I am not sure exactly what the ratio is from flat and scope, but thats a lot of polygons that don't have to be triangulated. What I am getting at, flat is more cost effective, as well as time affective in a movie with so much CG. That may not be the reason for it, but its a possibility. After regular FG, the film was had the best picture i had ever seen in a theatre, especially ours. Frisby  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-25-2005 12:09 PM                        I didn't like the movie (it's just not my kind of movie) but I agree, the picture sure did look great. Colors more vibrant than a lot of color films!  |  IP: Logged

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