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| Nelson_Mandela 05/23/19 1:44:42 PM #139: | #205. Sin City https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9e/Sincitypostercast.jpg Dir: Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller Genre: Action, Crime, Film Noir Year: 2005 Sin City came out at the beginning of the hyper-stylized movie boom of the mid 2000s. This boom created some genuinely cool movies (Kill Bill) while also inspiring a bunch more that do not hold up nearly as well (300). Sin City captures this essence, for better or worse, but catapults itself out of the fray and turns into a classic. A lot of people seem to hate this movie. I get that it's obscenely stylized. But, you know what, they made it look fucking cool. The art direction alone negates any bad feeling about its campiness. The monochromatic black-and-white scenes and the addition of color in certain sequences are pulled off with more grace than anything coming after it. It's one of those movies that, if they held back a little bit, these scenes would look forced and pretentious. But because Rodriguez went balls-to-the-wall, the extremism actually feels consistent, and it remains the one single film I've ever watched that truly feels like it's a live action graphic novel. --- "A more mature answer than I expected."~ Jakyl25 "Sephy's point is right."~ Inviso ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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