Luckily someone else can explain for me.

Here’s a slightly different take.

While it was a great movie, several of the “gags” were just out and out spoiled by tagging the punchline with a graphic depiction of what we already knew was happening or going to happen.

I saw the picture yesterday afternoon and later that evening on “Malcolm in the Middle,” Hal tells Francis to break Hal’s finger to cover up a misdeed. It was priceless. The soft crunch and the look on Hal’s face were more than enough to make me squirm.

It’s almost always better to let the fear stew in the watchers head than to abate it by showing what happens.

As for the mysogyny, well man it was there in spades.

What with “The Incredibles” Ayn Rand inspired story line and now this, I’m hoping some one comes out with a ground breaking movie I can get behind philisophically.

All that said, “Sin City” is an extraordinary picture.

I’m holding my breath for the animated version of Philip K Dick’s, “A Scanner Darkly.”

I read the first few installments of the Sin City saga way back when, and never expected amovie version of any of them. Much less a good movie. Miller’s antagonistic love/hate towards Hollywood (and by extension, even “mainstreamizing” comic venues such as my former employer WIZARD magazine) were legendary. I think it took the perfect offer for this to happen, and Rodriguez made it.

My wife (social worker, feminist and mother of my daughter) was aghast when I recently had out the old novels while working on a Sin City movie cover for WIZARD, and she made her distaste known. But you cannot just pick up the book and flip through the pages and understand. I think even without reading Miller’s other work before he reached Sin City, you cannot apprciate the evolution. How society will interpret the jump from niche serial comic to blockbuster will be interesting.

I am extrememely excited to see this movie, it looks like an exact replica of the gorgeous masterpiece that was the graphic novel.

Now, who will go see it with me, and how do I get my wife to understand I’m not a sadist…?

Women as objects? Check.
Rampant Vigilanteism? Check.
Honest men made to suffer for years on end? Check.

Hopefully the lesson filmmakers will learn from this is to RESPECT THE MATERIAL. Rodriguez brought in Frank Miller as a friggin Co Director, and based the movie on every single panel of the Graphic Novel. And it shows. The only compromise made was in Nancy’s clothing; she was supposed to be at least topless while dancing. I didn’t miss that, though I’m sure countless Alba fans, Oliver Willis included, did.

Good movie. I think the reactions to this movie are going to be parallel to the ones Pulp Fiction had when it first came out.