Frank Miller's Sin City

Robert Rodriguez set out to direct a near-perfect adaptation of Frank Miller's crime-noir yarn, so much so he actually hires Frank Miller to co-direct. The story of this is actually 3.1 stories from Frank Miller's comic series: "The Hard Goodbye" (originally titled simply as "Sin City"), "The Yellow Bastard", "Big Fat Kill", and the short "The Customer is Always Right". The movie is shot all on green screen, and with some exceptions, strictly in black and white (to follow the palatte of the comic). The general stories follow revenge, justice, dames, and killing. It's a wild ride and fun (but not for the whole family) (more review...)

The Good: Because Miller is on hand you know this movie is going to follow the source material to a "t". It does, and in spades. From the near perfect casting, to the word for word script, to the black, white, and subtle splashes of color (or purposefully in your face), you could not be any more on point. And just look at the work they did to create Marv (look at the comic cover up top). And that's not even a profile view. Wow.

The Bad: Not as much tits, ass, pussy, and (I hate to say it) dick as the comic. But then again they were aiming for a rated movie, not NC-17 so I guess some compromise was neccessary. But seriously don't you all wish we had this in it's full, as originally intended, nudity? Oh, and Bruce Willis as Hartigan? I think he's too young for the part, but any older might leave me traumatized.

The Ugly: Sometimes on paper the lines say cool, but once someone says them out loud you go "ah, fuck, that sounded lame". In some case this happened because it's not the 1950's and people don't talk like that, and the other part is just bad acting (I'm talking to you Brittany Murphy).

How Close to Perfect: 10/10 I just don't think any more better could be done with a live cast. Animated, sure, but for live this is perfection. Every detail was taken into account, and SO many angles from the comic were directly translated to the big screen. Face facts, this is the bench mark, and in some ways and exception. Put simply I doubt you'll ever see a movie this directly translated ever again.