Be gentle.. :mrgreen: In 2 weeks when Amityville comes out, I will get even..

Well, a C suggests mediocrity...

By the way, BKB, one thing I wanted to ask you for a while. What's your all-time favorite movie?

So, I guess, Mav gets give you a sig for two weeks and then me for another two weeks

It was only "ok". The visuals were good, but after an hour or so they lost all of their novelty. Not the best comic book adaption in recent years, but its not the worst either.

6.5/10 (B)

The film is about as great as I expected it to be, but it wasn't as gory as I thought it was going to be (Obviously the gore seemed toned down because of the black and white usage). That's not a bad thing though.

The thing that I liked about the movie was that there was not one standout star. Everyone seemed to be in a supporting role here. For instance from the previews, Jessica Alba seemed to be in the film a lot, but really she only has about 20 minutes or so of screen time.

The stories are interesting, and the look of the film is fantastic. Out of the three stories, I would say the Dwight/Gail one was the best out of the three.

Great film.

A+

BJs Review: The Film was totaly outstanding. I went into the theater with high expectations that were all met. I loved every performance there was not one faulty actor/actress within the whole movie, everyone was top notch. My favorite story was The Hard Goodbye. Mickey Rourke was awesome, he displayed what I felt was the best acting in the whole movie along with the rest of the cast in his story.

The Style of this film was the best I have seen all year, maybe the best i have seen ever. It was topo notch nothing failed to impress me within each sceen. It was all very breathtaking because it was so perfect. I liked how each of the main characters narrated there part, it just made everything seem even better. The gory factor if this film I feel was blown a bit out of proportion, it was not realy all that bad, a lot like kill bill infact. Overall the best film of 05 so far as I expected it to be.

The Hard Goodbye: A+ / best and most interesting story of the three, with some of the best acting as well.

The Big Fat Kill: A / The weakest of the three but still highly entertaining.

That Yellow Bastard: A+ / Totaly awesome story though not as good as The Hard Goodbye is was still great, Willis displayed one of his best performances EVER, and Alba suprised me with her great performance. The Yellow Bastard himself was great.


BJs Grade:

A+

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Fucking Great.

Mickey Rourke OWNED this movie. All three stories were great, but the one with Marv and Goldie is where the emotion was and that made it the best for me. Orgasmic visuals that will take multiple viewings to appreciate, killer music, brutal and often comic violence, great characters and Elijah Wood as a kungfu-cannibal with a snazzy sweater. Seriously, what more could you ask for in a movie?


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Kudos to those involved

A great big A for Sin City.

What amazes me is that if it gets an R18 rating in New Zealand I, being 17.5, can't see it with or without parents. I own plenty of R18 DVDs (which I managed to buy myself because the music/DVD store I normally go to doesn't care how old I am, which rocks) but I will have to wait until the DVD release to see it despite prior exposure to R18s, the maturity to deal with it, and despite 4 year-olds watching it in America.

*Considers getting fake ID just for this one movie*

*Considers armed takeover of New Zealand ratings board*

*Considers myself too lazy to do either*

This was absolutely fantastic. A must-see!

9/10 (A)

I'll be gentle, BKB. Give me 24 hours to come up with something special for you.

I'm at a loss for words right now. Easily the best film of the year. Probably one of my favorite films of all time. I'm seeing it again on Sunday, and i'll know for sure. I'll write a full review later, but just know that there will not be a better film released this year. Period.

A+. Flawless filmmaking. Like I said, full review later. I just need to soak it in.

Was anybody else really impressed with Jessica Alba? I'm not talking about the fact that she is just such a good looking woman it makes grown men cry, but by the range of emotion she showed in her performance.

Jessica Alba? Good!? You're just trying to rationalize your hype for FF4 by complimenting her :razz:

Heh. She isn't that bad.

I hope to see this tomorrow.

She was awesome. Her performance totaly blew me away it was the best I have ever seen her perform her acting skills, she nearly topped Willis. Your right her range of acting was stretched further than it had ever been before, and she rocked at it

FUCKING A+ it's too cool for words, you mofo's gotta see it for yourselves.

A dark story, darkly told.

Loved the super stylish, post millenium, amped up, graphic flash and ooze. Definite re-viewing value here. Overall the terrifically dark storyline had one sequence too many for my liking, though I don't know which one I'd pull, the whole thing woulda been a lot stronger if it were 20 minutes shorter...

4 out of 5.

I give it a solid A... It was a terrific movie with a great style. It was the first movie to really wow me in a long time and would easily be in my top movies of all time. Really fun to watch. I especially loved the story with Marv (Mickey Rourke).

I know what you mean about the length... It did feel a slight bit long for the type of movie. The ultra violence started to lose it's impact after about 3/4 of the way through. But again, overall I really loved it and that was a very minor complaint on my end.

I'm at a loss of words. And, I'm not exaggerating, either. Sin City is, by far, one of the bloodiest, coolest movies I've ever seen. Everything about the movie is just pitch-perfect. The style of the movie definently won me over. I loved the black and white with the blotches of color mixed in. I loved the dark feel to it. I loved how there were three different stories in the movie, though all tied with each other in some aspects. Brilliant film making. Sin City displayed some of the best action movies I've ever witnessed. This was Kill Bill x 10. The performances were unforgettable. Willis was excellent. Mickey Rourke was the stand out performance of the movie. Loved his entire role. The Hard Goodbye kicked so much ass. Jessica, oh... Jessica. A beauty with some great skills, and a nice body to back it up. Makes me want to drool on my keyboard (anyone got a towel?). There's just too much to say about Sin City and it can't all be explained in a little review. it's a fantastic movie, and easily the best of 2005 thus far. A

1st Mav, then you..

I honestly didin't feel the length of the film at all. Actually, I wanted it to keep going. I was ready for three or four more stories. The film felt like it was twenty minutes long, if that.

Also, I don't get the people that are saying one story was better than the other. I seriously can't pick one as a superior piece. It's like trying to decide which of the last three ograsms you've had was the best.

I loved all 3 stories, but the Marv one was extra special for me. I was laughing my ass off at that one... Rourke was awesome as Marv. The length issue for me was an extremely small one. When it ended the Clive Owen one and went back to Bruce Willis, for the first few moments of that one I thought the movie lost some of it's momentum, but it picked up great by the end of that one. Again, it's easily one of my top movies of all time, and I can find 400 things I loved for every one thing I could nitpick about.

SIN CITY was definetely one of my most anticipated films of 2005, when I found out it was coming out so early in the year, I was pumped! With awesome trailers and TV spots, how could a film like this suck? Then the buzz ... wow ... the buzz surrounding this was amazing! Everybody was talking about it. The cast is another thing it has going for it, Jessica Alba, Rosario Dawson, Elijah Wood, Bruce Willis, Clive Owen, Benicio Del Toro, Brittany Murphy, Nick Stahl, and of course Mickey Rourke. It was really a cast for the adult crowd, but also had people that teens would be interested in as well. The film itself was amazing. While it wasn't as "terrible" content wise as I've heard, I wasn't disappointed at all. Sure it was gory and all, but it was so over the top, I never really realised how bad it was, and the nudity was only in the first twenty minutes. It definetely deserves the R rating it got, and it's a hard one at that, but I wouldn't have a problem with my 14 year old seeing it. The acting is amazing, and it's one of the most beautiful looking movies of 2005 so far. SIN CITY is definetely a movie that'll be on my top 15 of 2005 by the end of the year!

9/10 (A-)

For everything I'm about to say about Sin City below, I at least respect the fact that films like this are being made.

Sin City is an absolute mess. Sin City shows that when you translate comic to screen something is lost in translation, and without a slight bit of adaptation it absolutely falls flat.

The biggest problem with the film is pacing and the fact that it's split up stories (if Jackson ever needed confirmation that he made the right choice not splitting up Lord of the Rings by storyline, it's here). With a slight touch of adaptation, we could see Marv and Hartigan pulling together at the farm to dispose of the bad guys, with a slight touch of adaptation, we could have all three story lines meet at the center, which is apparently the senator, and have the story at least have some sort of coherence.

The thing that sticks out hardest, is the Clive Owen section of the film. After the heavy opening with both quality performances by Mickey Rourke and Bruce Willis we are subjected to this farce starting good actors performing in silly ways. This story, is in no way directed with the care and style of the "Yellow Bastard" and the "Goodbye" sections of the film.

From an editor's perspective, by the time the IRA got involved, the film had lost any ground that the otherwise great "Long Goodbye" (or Hard Goodbye?) sections of the film. It reaked, extended the film, and was mearly a fluff piece to make "Sin City" seem more interesting than what it was. But the fact is the movie died whenever it was pulled away from Marv, Hartigan and Nancy.

As for the Hartigan section, it was fantastic except the parts with the actual yellow bastard son guy. It leads me to conclude the following thing:

If this film is a direct adaptation of the graphic novels (and by all accounts, this may be the most closely adapted comic films of all time) then, the comic must not be as great as everyone says it is.

I'm so disappointed with the whole middle part of this movie that I'm actually being angry around this house this afternoon.. I really wanted to like this one, in the way which I want to like any cinema that really tries hard to do something unique. And Sin City is unique. It just can't find a way to completely function on screen.

And Goldie/Wendy. Thought Jamie King was stunning with a sexy body - loved the use of the red - especially the flashback scene with the blood.

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Also on another topic - didn't that Kung-FU girl belong in Kill Bill.

What did everyone think of her - did you like her?

Amazing and very stylish. I rarely talked about this movie and I wasnt that much hyped for it either so the movie went beyond my expectations. I didnt even recognize that Mickey Rourke was in full makeup in the first segment of the movie. To make a long story short, Im glad the movie was long, and quite violent and gory too, I guess Robert Rodriguez does it again and made another movie I loved (Desperaldo, Dusk Till Dawn, Once Upon a Time). The best performances were from Mickey Rourke and Nick Stahl who I recognize from the series Carnivale. Im not sure if I should give it an A+ but a solid A will do for it right now

I highly recommend the movie