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DVD Movie Review: Sin City
by Ogami
Long after the hype has faded, my brother and I managed to watch the latest flick to lower Hollywood's standards, Sin City. I had read the graphic novel some time ago, and was not impressed. The movie, heavily advertised as being "true" to Frank Miller's creative genius, is more of the same.
In several documentary pieces on the DVD, we are told how much trouble the director went to enlist the aid of the comic book artist/creator in the making of the film, to get it right. I'm happy for them to have achieved their vision, but Sin City looks like any other sort of lowest-common denominator rubbish that Hollywood has churned out in recent years.
Sin City focuses around criminals and cops in a futuristic Los Angeles, which of course is Sin City. If you like movies focused around chopping women into itty bits, this is the movie for you. This is what all the hype was about?
Ostensibly the movie is about preventing such gruesome deaths, but all of the crimes are dangled before the viewer like a tantalizing treat, as if we should be thrilled at the focus of the movie. I was not, I was disgusted. And if this is a tour inside of Frank Miller's imagination, I'd as soon not take another peek.
There are two trends in Hollywood I despise as a viewer, the over-use of CGI and the movie-as-music-video. I don't care about CGI movies on ants or cars, and judging from this summer's box office, the public is starting to catch on to the same vibe. Over every CGI artist's workstation should be a Commandment: "Just because you can do it on a computer doesn't mean you should."
Probably the thing that disgusts me the most after viewing Sin City is that movies like this are exported in bulk around the world, so that the rest of the world can watch this and see what America and Americans are like. And that's the rub.
When we Americans watch a movie like Sin City, we consider it a fantasy land of sleazy amoral people and we forget about it afterwards. When we ship movies like this globally, they look at this and see ugly Americans. Thanks a lot, Hollywood. Keep churning out the violent masochistic crap. And I'll keep trying to avoid future crap as I put off seeing this alleged masterpiece.
-Ogami
by Ogami
Long after the hype has faded, my brother and I managed to watch the latest flick to lower Hollywood's standards, Sin City. I had read the graphic novel some time ago, and was not impressed. The movie, heavily advertised as being "true" to Frank Miller's creative genius, is more of the same.
In several documentary pieces on the DVD, we are told how much trouble the director went to enlist the aid of the comic book artist/creator in the making of the film, to get it right. I'm happy for them to have achieved their vision, but Sin City looks like any other sort of lowest-common denominator rubbish that Hollywood has churned out in recent years.
Sin City focuses around criminals and cops in a futuristic Los Angeles, which of course is Sin City. If you like movies focused around chopping women into itty bits, this is the movie for you. This is what all the hype was about?
Ostensibly the movie is about preventing such gruesome deaths, but all of the crimes are dangled before the viewer like a tantalizing treat, as if we should be thrilled at the focus of the movie. I was not, I was disgusted. And if this is a tour inside of Frank Miller's imagination, I'd as soon not take another peek.
There are two trends in Hollywood I despise as a viewer, the over-use of CGI and the movie-as-music-video. I don't care about CGI movies on ants or cars, and judging from this summer's box office, the public is starting to catch on to the same vibe. Over every CGI artist's workstation should be a Commandment: "Just because you can do it on a computer doesn't mean you should."
Probably the thing that disgusts me the most after viewing Sin City is that movies like this are exported in bulk around the world, so that the rest of the world can watch this and see what America and Americans are like. And that's the rub.
When we Americans watch a movie like Sin City, we consider it a fantasy land of sleazy amoral people and we forget about it afterwards. When we ship movies like this globally, they look at this and see ugly Americans. Thanks a lot, Hollywood. Keep churning out the violent masochistic crap. And I'll keep trying to avoid future crap as I put off seeing this alleged masterpiece.
-Ogami
