Sin City

An article by Don Quixote    2 Comments

This goes without saying (but then again when has that ever stopped me?), but I’m a movie fan.

Life just doesn’t always lend itself though to that passion. However, every once and a while a movie comes along where you just have to bend the very planes of existence to make sure that happens.

Sin City was one of those movies in my book.

I’m a sucker for all things comic book related, but rarely is a movie so aligned with it’s source material that you feel like you are actually watching the comic book unfold.

So I gathered 10 of my closest friends (or at least the ones who I know would want to sit through a movie like this) and we headed out to see it.

I haven’t decided what I think of the story of Sin City, but visually it was one of the most imaginative movies I’ve seen in quite some time.

Frank Miller has a very unique way of creating a comic book. His focus on negative space (my buddy Frank Pembleton wrote a nice entry about this a while back) and sporadic use of color to illustrate his story is a refreshing approach from the big busted spandex super chicks of say image comics.

Sin City caught that feel shot for shot.

It’s a rough movie. A very rough movie. I had to actually show ID to purchase more than 1 ticket at Coldwater. It’s violent, sometimes sexual, but always visually stunning in its approach. If you’re a fan of Frank Miller’s and Sin City, then you’ve already probably seen it.

If you’ve a strong tolerance for the content mentioned above, make sure you get a chance to check it out.