Sin City

[jack]

I definitely enjoyed it. I don't know anything about the books, so I don't know how faithful it was, but it worked pretty well as film. It was funny in good places, and interesting, and lots of the effects were cool, as were the charactersor, or creepy as appropriate. It did seem too gratuitously gorey in many places, but I suspect that came from scenes in the book so had to be there, whether or not it worked better or worse than the book.

I did have a nagging feeling that someone had seen Resevoir Dogs or Pulp Fiction and Schindler's List and decided to do their version, in that at places all of the gore, and black and white, and playing with time all seemed slightly as if they were there for the sake of it rather than a reason; but as in the last para I think a lot of that was unchangable, so I don't think that is what happened. Though perhaps putting in a 'n years' message or something would have helped.

I think Sonicdrift summed it up with "Um, yes" and then "It was cool, but would have been a lot better with a crowd of friends who could mock the most extreme bits."

Comments

someone had seen Reservoir Dogs or Pulp Fiction

[ewx.livejournal.com]

You, er, didn't notice QT's name in the opening credits then? (Yes, the gore was pretty much exactly from the comics.)

Re: someone had seen Reservoir Dogs or Pulp Fiction

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Oh, dammit, yes I did but I forgot. And ok, it was obvious. But it doesn't really matter, because that's what I thought it was *like*, and its entirely possible for an author to write a second book that seems like an imitation of the first, even if falsely.

[sonicdrift.livejournal.com]

Well mock or go "Ewww!".