I will have to step up and admit that I loved the Bruce Willis story in Sin City. I have no idea whether it was, objectively speaking, good, but I really do dearly love Willis's acting, and two tropes that will always break me are the bone-deep decent man or woman who holds tight to a code of honor and is punished brutally by THE MAN for it, and the person who lays down his/her life for another. If a movie has even one of those tropes, let alone both, I'm going to fall for it unless it's actually aggressively shitty. This had both, and Willis played his brokenness and stubborn core and hauntedness beautifully. So, there I fell.

What did you think of Sin City ?

Never read the comic, found the film interesting visually, but the content? Pure OH JOHN RINGO NO.

"Which I still might ignore even if you're wearing an 'N' button!"

::snerk:: Def FTW.

I will admit I loved the Clive Owen story. Mainly for Nicky Katt's extended death by arrow, but also for Owen's VO commentary.

Actually, I enjoyed the whole thing, mainly for the stylization, but OTT doesn't even begin to describe the sensibility behind it.

I was really MEH on Sin City. In fact, it was so Thirteen Year Old Masturbatory that it has tainted other Miller stuff I liked. The Thirteen Year Old Masturbatory was there in the other Miller stuff, but nowhere near as noticeable.

ION, I just watched the two Hellboy 2 trailers in Hi Def on my Hi-Res screen.

WOW! Excited.

Actually, I enjoyed the whole thing, mainly for the stylization, but OTT doesn't even begin to describe the sensibility behind it.

Yeah, I really loved the movie myself.

ION, I just watched the two Hellboy 2 trailers in Hi Def on my Hi-Res screen.

ooooooooooooooooh

SO PRETTY, JESS! Yes, very excited indeed.

I liked Sin City a lot, actually. The style mostly, but I also liked a few of the storylines. I'm very much not a comics person, though, in that I've never read them, so I don't know if that matters.

Miller's OTT, yes, and a whole lot of it is anvilicious, but it sort of seemed intended to me.

I really disliked Sin City, too, for the reasons MM and Sean mentioned. I didn't like Hellboy, either, so it might be possible that I just don't like comic book adaptations that much. I mean, I liked the first two Spiderman movies alright and the first two X-Men movies pretty well. And Persepolis, although I didn't love it. But I can't think of anything else that's been a good movie of itself, rather than a comic-booky movie overly focused on visuals and underconcerned with characters. I didn't even like A History Of Violence all that much. This isn't to say that I don't think comic adaptations could be done well, because I like the medium and think it often lends itself to movies, but I just don't think it has been done well, at least in general.