"Sin City". Again...

Sin City was a fun movie. It will not win any major awards (or probably any minor ones). No actor did a stellar job, although I think all the actors were, for the most part, fine.

I've read only one Sin City story, the newly titled The Hard Goodbye. It's an interesting story about Marv, the down on the luck yadda yadda yadda, gets girl loses girl, is violent.

I currently realize that describing Sin City sounds stupid. The story, when put into simplest terms, does not sound interesting. Frank Miller, however, makes it great. It's not a new story, but it's a fun story. The movie shows the same thing.

There isn't a whole lot to say about this movie. On his Bad Signal, Warren Ellis points out that the best thing about the movie is that, as an almost perfect translation, it will do good for comics in so much that comic companies will realize comics can be well-filmed, as comics. Marvel can stop creating comics with the intent of selling them to Hollywood. All they need to do is make great comics.

As it's been said, Sin City will generally be enjoyed by comic book people (I'm sure Chris won't, but that's because he hates things). [Note from Chris: Not everything. I like, um, Buffy. Sometimes.] Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, From Dusk til Dawn fans will probably enjoy it. And people that enjoy movies should. It's a fun movie, and I personally didn't notice any major violence. It went by too quickly as I thoroughly enjoyed getting into the entire world.

My wife and I went to see the movie and she took a good hour or more to figure out if she liked the movie or not. As a non-comic book person, I think that's how a lot of people will feel. There is little redemption in the movie. Good things happen but they come from bad people. No one in this movie, besides maybe Bruce Willis's character, does anything at all admirable, and suicide is hardly admirable, although the character's reasoning for it was justified.

This is going to be the biggest thing to come out of comics movies this year. Constantine was apparently a waste of talent. Or a lack of talent. Fantastic Four looks like a great sci-fi movie, but not the good kind of sci-fi. I will be interested in finding out how Batman Begins goes up against this one, as either it or Sin City will probably be the best ones. And at this point, it looks like Batman will be a good movie. But Sin City is the one that will make a difference.