Saw Sin City this weekend....

[Dookus]

and ... um... feh.

Absolutely beautifully shot. Amazing. A delight to watch.

But an incoherent mess - almost painful to watch. I'm reminded of the early Batman movies and other big-budget extravaganzas where they spend tens of millions on special effects and visuals, but hire a college sophomore to write the screenplay.

But Mickey Rourke was great, to my surprise.

[tuvor]

1. Sky Captain was like that.

Maybe it's a new era.

[Dookus]

3. I thought Sky Captain was better...

it least had a story to tell - not a great one, though, but it was coherent.

[lenidog]

5. I would have liked Sky Captain better if it didn't have the lizard

Gweneth Paltrow in it.

[Dookus]

7. agreed

I really can't stand her. But she was fine in that particular role - it didn't require much. She just had to look good and not stutter.

[lenidog]

11. She drives me crazy and for some reason every time I see her

she reminds me of one of those frilled lizards. I guess because it looks like her skin is just hanging off of her.

[Dookus]

14. My main gripe with her

is that she won an Oscar for Shakespeare in Love over Cate Blanchett. That's unforgivable.

I call her Gwyneth Paltry. She's pretty enough (although too thin) and she doesn't OBVIOUSLY suck while acting (unlike Daryl Hannah), but she's just a big MEH.

[lenidog]

15. I remember that it was a rip off

That was also the year I got pissed off that SPR lost to Shakespeare. I mean the movie wasn't bad it just wasn't great. For that matter any of the other movies except "Thin Red Line" should have won.

[tuvor]

13. I got bored, it moved so sloooowly in the second half.

Even Angelina Jolie couldn't make up for it.

[coloradodem2005]

2. I saw it too.

It was quite interesting.

[lenidog]

4. I saw it too a couple of weeks ago

what did you think of the violence in the film. Incredibly for me I thought there was almost TOO much violence in it. Now don't get me wrong I am not the type that runs out and buys the doctored versions to protect my sensibilities but the body count was starting to get higher than the first 20 minutes of "Saving Private Ryan."

[Dookus]

8. oddly, the violence didn't bother me a bit

but I don't mind movie violence much. It just doesn't seem to affect me, especially cartoon-violence. I loved Kill Bill and the like, but I do get queasy at more realistic violence. But it still doesn't make me like or dislike a movie.

I found the violence in Sin City comical.

[lenidog]

9. It didn't bother me either it. There just seemed so much of it that it was

starting to get monotonous.

[Dookus]

10. but oddly

a lot of it was comic relief. I mean, when he was dragging the guy along the road while driving at full-speed - it was just a gag.

[lenidog]

12. The best was when the guy got shot with the arrow

and then is talking about it with everyone else in the room.

[autorank]

6. Agree, and Rourke is all the way back. But he started in "Rain Maker"

What a great character that was.

[fujiyama]

16. Gotta agree

I loved how it was filmed. It had a great look to it.

I also like non linear story lines (Pulp Fiction for example), but this one seemed a bit too disjointed and disconnected. The different storylines had some connections (perhaps a common character), but there was maybe 1 or 2 storylines that I cared about.

[Dookus]

17. Yeah

I agree. I love a well-done disjointed storyline, but this one wasn't.

[Dr Fate]

18. I don't like Frank Miller too much, but the movie was fun...

"Year One" and some Dare Devils being exceptions, most of his stories are kind of shallow and always about "tough guys" kicking some ass...Sin City being the prime example.

Having said that- the movie is a hoot- I'd LOVE to see them give a similar treatment to Alan Moore's "Watchmen"- almost frame by frame and all...