Sin City
Japanese B2 Poster, Rolled, 20 x 28 inches.
I find Robert Rodriguez’s Sin City film a curiosity. On one hand, I admire how he has stayed completely faithful to the source material (Frank Miller’s noir comic series Sin City), but other than the initial thrill of seeing the comic come to life, it’s rather a pointless exercise as it doesn’t really offer anything new and feels like a panel to screen remake of the comic. It’s stylishly realized (I can’t think of how it could be closer to the look and feel of the comic), but I prefer the comic…I think Miller’s hard boiled dialogue sounds better read off a page then spoken out aloud where it sounds a little clumsy. Perhaps I shouldn’t expect much from a comic that is pretty shallow. I still think the film is a massive amount of fun and I grinned all the way through it, the Marv segment is my favourite. |