Sin City

I had only seen Sin City once, so when The Younger Son put in the DVD to watch it again I watched it with him. This film is unusual in many respects, particularly these 2: the color is mainly black and white, but a few scenes and particular elements in the scenes are in color; it's episodic, following different stories that cross or are tangential. There's only one place all the characters have in common. The cast includes Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis, Elijah Wood, Jessica Alba, Benicio del Toro, Clive Owen and Jude Ciccolella (who has a ST connection).

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Slant Magazine describes it this way:

Robert Rodriguez's Sin City (co-directed by Miller himself) translates three of these acclaimed novels (The Hard Goodbye, The Big Fat Kill, and That Yellow Bastard) verbatim, using cutting-edge digital technology and a star-studded cast decked out in racy outfits and outrageous prosthetics to precisely recreate Miller's illustrations and prose as they appear on the page.

DVD Talk says,

words cannot describe the visual quality of this film adaptation. Miller's style has been faithfully represented here, showcasing the series' trademark black and white style---with the occasional hints of color, of course. Through a combination of hard lighting and computer coloring effects, Sin City is easily the most faithful visual reproduction of a comic book to the big screen...ever.

Rolling Stone concludes, "At 124 minutes, Sin City is a hard, cold, relentless assault. It's also something Hollywood seems to have given up on: a bold, uncompromised vision." Salon.com calls it "brash, sick-as-hell comic-book noir" and says, "Blunt, devoid of metaphor and unapologetically depraved, it radiates a perverse kind of purity." Roger Ebert likes it and says, "It's a visualization of the pulp noir imagination, uncompromising and extreme. Yes, and brilliant." Rotten Tomatoes gives it a score of 78%.