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"Sin City"-a movie that proves 'It's worth a dam'!
by Idolsmasher (movies profile)
Jan 22, 2008
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Six years ago (in '99) roughly around now "The Matrix" opened and blew people away with it's original style and story. The film prodigy behind "El Mariachi" & "Desperado", Robert Rodriguez has re-invented two genre's at once!(Noir and Comic Books) with the soon to be instant classic- "Sin City".
This film is Visually Illuminating! yet, Ironicly very dark!. It literally is Frank Miller's graphic novels come to life. Is should look that way cause the creator himself helped co-direct the film!. This film is what happens when Hollywood DOESN'T mess with the 'Original' vision and lets the artist simply paint!- Proof that the joys of 'Digital Film making' are just begining for young directors!.
The basic story is really a group a storys involving revenge, betrayal, devotion, chaos, and war in an urban center (Batman would have a summer home in this city) that are from the graphic novels of the same name which are strung together in much the way "Pulp Fiction" did. However this is the fictional noirish world where the characters are all walking to their own shades of 'Grey' and there is no real 'black or white' in this world and that's why the conflicts and confrontations are so beautiful to watch. Bruce Willis's character is about the closest thing to a hero in this dark world and that's only by process of elimination. Every character has a darkness and a story to tell that ties into the over-all arch be it Clive Owen's knife toting thug or the once heroic Benico Del Toro. Mickey Rouke and Nick Stahl play impressive roles that I won't give away but, bring a humanity to their roles that previously could only be witnesses in the mind of "the Reader".
The Ladies?- No wilting flowers in this city!. Weather it's Rosario Dawson's lethal fish-netted honey who just likes walk around with a Uzi, Jessica Alba's pole dancer and center of Hardigan's (Bruce Willis) affections, or Brittney Murphy who's character helps string most of the stories together. This is a Noir and cinematic delight unlike anything that has come before and as polarizing as "The Matrix" was (Some older and young people just didn't get it) this is next filmatic leap for American Cinema!. As a big fan of both Mature comics, anime, and movies I'm quite glad that Rodriguez has made a masterpiece that show's the world that comics made into movies 'are worth a dam!'.
Did, I mention the guest directing by Quentin Tarantino???- Get see the film knuckle-heads!. |
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