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.

Corwood, did you like American Splendor or Ghost World?

Jessica, yes! There's two I liked a lot.

That makes me think: you know what would be awesome? A Love & Rockets movie.

I think top of my list for comics movies is Batman Begins. I also loved Hellboy, but I don't know the original to judge it against.

In related news, I read an interview with Mike Minghella, and he wants to find a way to do more Screw-on Head stuff. I could SO get behind that.

I adore American Splendor with a love beyond words. That movie also made me adore Paul Giamatti with a love beyond words, and John Adams cannot be put out on DVD fast enough, dammit.

A Love & Rockets movie.

That would be super awesome, Corwood. This so needs to happen, now.

That makes me think: you know what would be awesome? A Love & Rockets movie.

In the wrong hands, though, I shudder to think.

Oh, I loved Hellboy, though I confess to never reading the source material.

I think the Mickey Rourke storyline ruined the rest of Sin City for me. And the Yellow Bastard storyline didn't so much skeeve me in a fun way but just disgusted me. Not to mention the weird editing where the dead Elijah Wood character reappeared mysteriously at the conclusion of the Bruce Willis story.

I wanted to like the Bad Girls beat up on Benicio story but it seemed as if the 'heroes' were as brutal as the bad guys.