Sin City
I don't know what I was expecting going into this movie. It's gotten a lot of hype in the past few weeks about being a new style of movie-making, and some great reviews. And yet, it's a movie based on a comic book, and I think that particular genre has been getting overdone recently. However, it turns out that I was pleasantly surprised with Sin City, which exceeded my expectations and is one that might go on the "To Buy" list of DVD's.
Sin City is a gritty, action based movie that is done in the comic book style. I think making Frank Miller (the author of the comic book series) a co-director on this was a great move by Robert Rodriguez - I think it was his ability to control things that kept the movie true to the original, and therefore much better than it might have been. Instead of taking a comic book and making it into a movie, he actually manages to take a movie and make it into a comic book. It was really fascinating to see.
The use of black and white was a good touch. It wasn't the normal movie "black and white" (which is really shades of gray), but actually really black and white. The stark contrast, with a few particular uses of color, made for a very interesting effect. It borrowed from Pulp Fiction in that it had multiple storylines that meshed together at the end, and in this case it worked well, as the plotlines in this movie could not have been sustained for 2 hours if it was linear. I also greatly enjoyed the acting. I'm impressed that RR got such a good performance out of Bruce Willis and other big names in such a short period of time, especially shooting against a green screen, which I know is not normal for them. RR continues to demonstrate his ability to find the right person for the right role -- this movie was cast extraordinarily well.
All in all, a great movie. I would enjoy seeing it again, if I did not have to pay the exorbitant $10 for a movie here. I'll just wait until it comes out on DVD.
I don't know what I was expecting going into this movie. It's gotten a lot of hype in the past few weeks about being a new style of movie-making, and some great reviews. And yet, it's a movie based on a comic book, and I think that particular genre has been getting overdone recently. However, it turns out that I was pleasantly surprised with Sin City, which exceeded my expectations and is one that might go on the "To Buy" list of DVD's.
Sin City is a gritty, action based movie that is done in the comic book style. I think making Frank Miller (the author of the comic book series) a co-director on this was a great move by Robert Rodriguez - I think it was his ability to control things that kept the movie true to the original, and therefore much better than it might have been. Instead of taking a comic book and making it into a movie, he actually manages to take a movie and make it into a comic book. It was really fascinating to see.
The use of black and white was a good touch. It wasn't the normal movie "black and white" (which is really shades of gray), but actually really black and white. The stark contrast, with a few particular uses of color, made for a very interesting effect. It borrowed from Pulp Fiction in that it had multiple storylines that meshed together at the end, and in this case it worked well, as the plotlines in this movie could not have been sustained for 2 hours if it was linear. I also greatly enjoyed the acting. I'm impressed that RR got such a good performance out of Bruce Willis and other big names in such a short period of time, especially shooting against a green screen, which I know is not normal for them. RR continues to demonstrate his ability to find the right person for the right role -- this movie was cast extraordinarily well.
All in all, a great movie. I would enjoy seeing it again, if I did not have to pay the exorbitant $10 for a movie here. I'll just wait until it comes out on DVD.
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