Sin City is one of my favorite comic book films, it is perfect. Its one of the most stylized films out there, everything about it screams film noir, the jazz music, the black and white color palette, the ultra-violence, it is 100% Frank Miller's Sin City and it is one of the most accurate adaptations of a comic book out there.
The film is told in an anthology style with loosely connected threads throughout and each segment is enthralling and beautifully written, when Miller is at his best his work reads like poetry.
The cinematography in this film is brilliant, there isn't another comic book film out there that captures the spirit of the original work like this film does, which is why director Robert Roderiguez describes it as a translation rather than an adaptation. It is literally Frank Miller's comic put to screen, unedited, unfiltered and as dirty and as nasty as it was intended.
I love this movie.
Sin City II: A Dame To Kill For, I remember when this movie came out and I was extremely disappointed by it and due to that I hadn't seen it for several years until today and I have to say its a lot better than I remember, but It is admittedly nowhere near as good as the original. I'll get the low points of the film out of the way first, the key segment "A Dame To Kill For" is the weakest out of the stories and that's a bit of a problem as it takes up a large proportion of the runtime.
The film looks 5% cheaper this time around, and i'm not sure why, maybe the same amount of work wasn't put into the cinematography, its a minor detail but one that I did notice, this might also be because Micky Rourke decided he didn't want to apply the prosthetics to his face when playing Marv.
Now onto the stuff I liked, and there's a lot of it. Its Sin City, the tone and feel of the original film are still to be found here. I love Joseph Gordon Levitt's story and Nancy Callahan's revenge plot, they should have been front and center, they are by far the best parts of the whole film. Overall, a dame to kill for stays true to the soul of the original but admittedly it never surpasses it and falls short in a few ways.
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