Comments on: Sin City—–Review

By: Erebus

Erebus — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:34:15 +0000

I do not know if you read responses to your older posts.I can understand your POV after watching Sin City and I respect and enjoy your reviews (Case in point: Gunda).Also I am saddended to know that you don’t enjoy reading graphic novels.Going by your taste in pop culture I can suggest quite a lot of graphic novels that you will enjoy.Take the case of Watchmen.A seemingly unfilmable classic of a graphic novel(it came out in 1985 as a 12 part limited series) which is so complex and provides such a multifaceted and multilayered storyline that is compelling as it is entertaining.Watchmen the movie is coming out in 2009 and is directed by Zack Snyder, the same guy who did 300(I may be wrong,you might already know about it) and a lot of fanboys (including me) are excited.I urge you to read this book.It should be available in any public library in the Us of A. Sin City is also somewhat of a classic in its own regard,a Noirish portrayal of a city from the dark mind that gave us one of the best (if not the best) Batman related graphic novel of our times- The Dark Night Returns.Drat. This has balooned into a huge comment so I’ll stop peddling here!

By: Ankit

Ankit — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:41:25 +0000

Every movie needs to be analyzed keeping in mind the context in which it is made and the message its trying to deliver. I don’t go in for a David Dhawan’s movie and criticize him saying “The movie is illogical”. At the same time the craziness and the brainless humor becomes its strength. Going by the same logic I am assuming Kill Bill must be a 1 year old’s painting according to you.
Sin city is definitely a piece of art and a classic example of dark movie making. The characters are over the top but they are meant to be. The movie is about the city, so every story reveals a shade of the city, but this doesn’t take away the strength of the characters which are so powerfully written that the viewer comes in complete awe of them.
No comparison with pulp fiction, which is one of the best movie of all time, but Tarantino himself directed some 5 min sequence and its hard to differentiate between his past and Robert’s.
If you really think that Jessica Alba was worth your 10 bucks than i guess you won’t mind paying 20 bucks for Prom Night.

By: thequark

thequark — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 06:54:21 +0000

errata:
* … book is transformed into a movie
* … abstract pRose

By: quarkLore

quarkLore — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 06:52:51 +0000

Well the argument is clash of the mediums. Similar arguments are put forth when
a popular book is transformed (or mutilated) into a book. The thing is they portray totally different things all together in a totally different manner.
e.g. A book portraying some abstract pose about scenery without using visual imagery then it becomes really hard to make a scene out of it
Similarily it is really tough to portray the same emotions, thoughts of a comic into a movie
I saw the similar fate in 300. Story, script, moving images make the core of movie just as the gap between still is important for a comic.

By: Somak

Somak — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:48:22 +0000

is there a universally recongnized way of assessing movies? which is a different way of asking do movies have a standard purpose (which could be many, just standard)?
To use your kid scrawls version modern art example, possibly what you and the producers of the show were implicity sugegsting is that a work of art should be consistently recognized as a rare and difficult accomplishment. If we agree to that, then Sin City is not analogus to the child scrawl example. Not too many directors anywhere can render a motion painting like that.
Liked sin city, but in a weird way, very different from liking Good Will Hunting, for example.

By: Amelie-Freak

Amelie-Freak — Tue, 24 May 2005 21:50:00 +0000

I have not seen this film, but: I can certainly attest to how a product can by hyped as a work of art without any agreement on what art is other than an egalitarian hope that art is simply what helps one "question" or "uplift." There's also the truth that art is not complete without the reception, but really, what can an audience that is not educated in anything other than pop psychology and television culture draw on? Perhaps I'm being too elitist, but Allan Bloom did not draw too fine a point when he wrote that "Indignation is the soul's defense against the wound of doubt about its own."

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 19:45:00 +0000

i have not seen sin city but i agree with your comment about critics. i am not saying that all critics are hopeless, but sometimes one needs to read critical reviews with a sense of detachment. recently, i saw “head-on”. it came highly recommended, having won several awards here and there, and critics (like manohla dargolis of the new york times – man, i cannot STAND the nyt critics) just wetted themselves all over it. i found the film interesting but undeserving of the lavish praise it received. i dont want to go into a long explanation of why i was not impressed, but i want to say that sometimes one has to deconstruct what the critics are saying, to try to understand what particular brand of intellectualism they are professing or indeed, where (in terms of sociological context) they are coming from, before one can make up one’s mind whether or not to follow their advice. anyway, liked reading your rakesh sharma piece. he showed it at wellesley college, where i watched it. i had similar thoughts, but had not articulated them so well as you did. keep it up.

By: Rantzalot (Sir)

Rantzalot (Sir) — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 07:39:00 +0000

greatbong can actually write Have I become dumbed down by watching Jessica Simpson eating chicken of the sea? Have I lost my sense of aesthetics and become a phillistine who is incapable of appreciating greatness even when it's thrust in my face? as well as other coherencies and that's damned good for a person living in the good ol' US of A. No, greatbong, you haven't become dumbed down. Rantz

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 23:30:00 +0000

Agree with greatbong’s review. Sin City was a deadly bore. Maybe I didnt get it too. I also like Jessica Simpson

Akshay

By: GREATBONG

GREATBONG — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 20:50:00 +0000

Well it may be because I do not like graphic novels—-though I cannot claim to have read a lot. I found nothing of interest in the stories of “Sin City”——whether a movie is the most accurate portrayal of a graphic novel is not my point of concern—it is whether Sin City works as a movie. Sometimes a movie like Kill Bill has a wafer-thin predictable plot but can be made to work by deft use of score and script. Where also I think Sin City fell short.