DID anyone NOT like Sin City?

**Tyeron** · 04-04-2005, 06:20 AM

Cause i didn't dig it

i mean seriously
i fought off sleep like twice in the theatre
i just didn't think the switch of mediums.. with hardly any changes between the comic to the movie...i think the film suffered mostly because of this.

i was bored, i didn't care about any of these characters.. except marv.. i just wanted to like marv.. but ya know.. even after all that.. i still couldn't fully enjoy marv as the ass kicker i know him as...

i love the books, i've read them and searched out lil one shots that came for like christmas and stuff, i love sin city stuff.. but man.. sin city the movie.. short of some small nifty things ... i just thought the film was lacking in alot of areas.. don't want to go into too many details.. i don't want to spoil anything for people that will see it.. and i know people really dig this flick.. i'm just having a hard time understanding why..

i think my favorite part was the bit Tarantino did, i felt that i could tell there was a genuine change in the feel .. and i dunno if it was just that the dialog lent itself to being a scene that tarantino could really pull out.. but after seeing the cardboard performance of say Michael Madsen, or the lines that felt that someone was typing them as they said them i just had a hard time going on.. i wanted the movie to end.. and i felt like i had a reprieve several times only to see that hartigan is still going, marv is still tickin', dwight never really got hurt.. feh...

did anyone have a same experience?
I'm just confused... everyone else seemed to really dig it

**WAKKAJAWAKKA** · 04-04-2005, 06:24 AM

I Dunno. I Liked It, But I Thought Alot Of The Stuff Looked Kinda Goofy In Motion, And Some Of The Lines, They Just Didn't Seem To Work As Well For Some Reason. Like The Movie Was Taking Itself Real Seriously, But It Wasn't A Serious Movie.

Everyone In The Theater I Saw It In Laughed Through The Whole Thing.

Wayno.

**Brian Defferding** · 04-04-2005, 06:28 AM

Originally Posted by WAKKAJAWAKKA

I Dunno. I Liked It, But I Thought Alot Of The Stuff Looked Kinda Goofy In Motion, And Some Of The Lines, They Just Didn't Seem To Work As Well For Some Reason. Like The Movie Was Taking Itself Real Seriously, But It Wasn't A Serious Movie.

Everyone In The Theater I Saw It In Laughed Through The Whole Thing.

Wayno.

See I didn't take it as a movie trying to take itself seriously. The melodramatic dialogue and over-the-top action kinda gave it away that a viewer isn't supposed to look at it like it's something real; but more that it's an escapist fantasy.

**Tyeron** · 04-04-2005, 06:30 AM

Originally Posted by WAKKAJAWAKKA

I Dunno. I Liked It, But I Thought Alot Of The Stuff Looked Kinda Goofy In Motion, And Some Of The Lines, They Just Didn't Seem To Work As Well For Some Reason. Like The Movie Was Taking Itself Real Seriously, But It Wasn't A Serious Movie.

Everyone In The Theater I Saw It In Laughed Through The Whole Thing.

Wayno.

ya know there was some laughter around us too
and i admit i had a few embaressed giggles.. at a few shots
there's one of marv driving with wendy (not goldie, unless she's feeling extra nice) and the two of them in the car looks like an old stop motion saturday night live skit.. i was just looking at it like.. DAMN Marv's head is friggin huge
i dunno.. well that makes me feel a lil better..

**JABSEN** · 04-04-2005, 06:31 AM

Iwent with six people.One of them thought it was Gawd-Awful.If that makes you feel better.

**Jew Mafia** · 04-04-2005, 06:32 AM

I liked it, but certainly don't love it like a lot of people have said they do. Madsen was terrible, especially at the beginning. The stories seemed to be really rushed too. I know they had to get them all in to make it at 2 hours, but while each individual story seemed rush, the movie it self seemed to run to long.

**Tyeron** · 04-04-2005, 06:33 AM

Originally Posted by Brian Defferding

See I didn't take it as a movie trying to take itself seriously. The melodramatic dialogue and over-the-top action kinda gave it away that a viewer isn't supposed to look at it like it's something real; but more that it's an escapist fantasy.

yeah i was trying to not take it seriously.. but there were some times where i think they could have pulled it back.. i mean there's lots of people watching this for the first time.. and they were laughing at the spots that weren't intended to be funny.. that's not a good sign.. they weren't laughing out of joy it was ridicule.. it was an "oh my gawd what the hell are they trying to fool us with here" kind of laugh..

i guess we'll really see what happens to it this next weekend

**Parker** · 04-04-2005, 06:33 AM

I mean I liked it but it felt a bit disconnected to me...like three separate short stories in Sin City and then a brief connection at the end with Hartigan which I felt was forced...

Overall I thought it was fun....I mean there were parts where people in the theatre were laughing when I don't think that was the intent

**Donal DeLay** · 04-04-2005, 06:33 AM

I had issues with it. It was a COOL ASS movie stylistically, and visually, but the dialogue from the comic didn't alltogether translate well into film. Specifically Micheal Madsen. Normally, I love him in badass roles, or underhanded roles, but the scen with him and Willis - before Willis decks him - was just too wooden. It sounded like a table reading.

It felt like they all knew they were doing a pulp crime noir movie and wanted to ACT accordingly, instead of just ACT the characters. Other things that irked me about it was because it was in front of a green screen, and they had to imagine what was in front of them, sometimes it showed.

What I don't get, though, is Rodriguez and Miller keep going on about how they had to do three stories to fill the film time. Um ... then why were scenes, cool ass scenes that show Marv's level of determination, cut out?

Climbing the wall to escape the cops. Going to his mom's house tog get his guns. Jumping into the steel door to break free.

Was it just me and my memory, but I could've SWORE Mr. Schlubb was fat, not built. I'm too lazy to go back and look in my trades.

Still an awesome movie, and it's going into my top 5.

**Gregory** · 04-04-2005, 06:34 AM

I was ready for the film to end at the close of Big Fat Kill. It felt like a great note to close on. The slow pace getting us back into the Hartigan story had me yawning, but I thought this was the story that made the most of the stark contrast (like when Hartigan leaves the jail) and color placement. My gal hadn't read the Yellow Bastard issues yet and practically demanded to see them when we got home. She also hasn't read To Hell and Back yet.

I'm convinced that I wasn't as eagerly fawning over it because it's so faithful an adaptation. I have these books. I know these stories (and where's the scene with Marv's mom, anyway?). I was watching the production more than the tales. I enjoyed it. I did. Just without the novel thrill newcomers will have.