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Over an appetizer of squid cooked in its ink—which proved rather awful—I discussed comics with Elvis. I told him of my affinity for Alan Moore’s seminal series, Watchmen, and he suggested another book: Frank Miller’s Sin City. As it turns out, the latter was a fantastic comic book and made a pretty good movie...
...character Dwight (Clive Owen) snaps this demand halfway through Frank Miller’s Sin City, preparing for the need to avoid bullets, outrun the police, and carry a whole lot of bodies. What he gets, though, is a tired jalopy with a tiny boot and a near-empty gas tank...
Like that car, Sin City’s protagonists aren’t exactly prizes. They stand up for what they believe in because it’s all they have left. A tightly shot, doggedly-faithful comic book film, Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez’s movie will disgust and bore as many viewers as it excites. It is, however, excellent on two levels: one of adolescent thrills and another of refreshing noir innovation...
...Sin City, like last year’s pretty but boring Sky Captain, was shot entirely with actors against green-screens. Everything else was filled in later by computers; however, Sin City’s black-and-white sets have a gritty realism that the sepia-tinted Sky Captain lacked...
...murdered during the night, he goes on a rampage to punish those responsible. Marv sadistically tortures and murders at least a half-dozen people to get to Rutger Hauer, the Catholic Cardinal Roark. Marv’s other victims include Elijah Wood, playing a creepily mute cannibal, and Sin City’s creator Frank Miller in a cameo as a priest...