It's up there with Spider Man and X-Men for comic book movies and it's probably the best thing Rodriguez has done.

I was hoping for this one killer scene with Marv to be in it and it totally was. I almost jizzed my panties.

so by "up there" with those two. it's the best comic book movie ever for me, because i HATE spider-man. spider-man 2 was alright. X-men was weak, X-2 was pretty rad.

I know don't know the comic, so (edit, doy) I'm going to have to research this a bit before I get excited.

X2 - awesome
S2 & X1 - very good
S1 - pretty good

You should enjoy it even if you haven't read the stories. It's pretty faithful to the comic book versions.

I have to say that both the Spiderman movies were terrible. Spiderman 2=UNWATCHABLE even on a flight. X-Men was alright. Have not seen X-2.

Ebert gave it 4 stars in yesterday's Sun-Times.
Sounds fucking awesome, and I'm a big Rodriguez fan anyway. So, I'm sure I'll see it at some point.

i'm going tonight.

I'm going tommorow.

i'm thinking of skipping out of work early to got see it this afternoon...hmmm....

KPH

I just read Ebert's review, sounds pretty Awesome! I've been looking forward to this since I heard about it.

I'm not familiar with the graphic novels but I think I'll pick them up tonight. I'm leaving for vacation tomorrow so I won't be able to catch the movie until I get back.

i really want to see this. i know nothing about the comic though.

I went last night at midnight, only having read through one of the three Sin City stories they used for the movie...

It was pretty incredible. I'll probably be seeing it again sometime soon...

And, dare I say it, but even Elijah Wood kicked ass in that movie...

Going tomorrow

Nothing's unwatchable on a flight. I even watched Shall We Dance on a recent Seattle to Atlanta trip.

just got my tix on fandango for show tomorrow at 4:15... hooray!

I'm seeing Sin City this afternoon with my dad.

I just got back from seeing it and it was fantastic. Tremendously entertaining. Mickey Rourke is just great in this movie. Highly highly recommend this.

I'm changing my opinion and stating that this is the best comic book movie ever.

I can't believe how enjoyable it was, I'm genuinely surprised. I don't know the original work though, so I can't comment on how true it is in terms of adaptation. But it was pretty damn cool.

I'm going to say it right now...

This is one of the best movies of the decade.

5 years in, I'm definitely willing to agree with you here.

Haven't seen it yet. The trailers make it look visually interesting, but everytime a character opens their mouth a cliche pops out.

I just got home from this. It was awesome! Though a little on the gory side... I have never read any of the graphic novels, so I had no background on any of the stories, but I went with a friend who's read all of them and he said that the movie is very faithful, even down to the dialogue. It was a little strange to see the girl from "Gilmore Girls" as a hooker.

alright, so...i'm really not a fan of graphic novels. not because i have some sort of massive problem with them, just that i've never read one and only perused a few here and there. and i didn't outright *dislike* Sin City, but i left the end of it wondering - a good hour after the movie had really lost my attention - what was really achieved other than presenting a "live action graphic novel"? don't get me wrong, if someone went and did a stellar job translating Crying of Lot 49 to the screen, i'd love them for it, but also recognize that the film might be excluding folks who haven't actually read (or understood) the novella from truly enjoying it.

is that pretty much the same for SC? is this a perfectly imagined world or nostalgia for a bygone idea of an era in american history on Rodriguez/Tarantino/Weinstein andro? is there more backstory to guys like Marv or the "evils" of SC? it's like evil is a given in the moral universe of SC and "good" is pretty much a matter of circumstance or who's side you happen to be on (although Hartigan seems pretty for real "good," even if seemingly walking dead), but *why* things are one way or the other isn't examined; it just is.

i felt like i had visited the world of Frank Miller and got about as much out of it as i do during a lengthy killing spree in GTA3, just without the sense of control/getting away with it element that comes with actually playing the game.

i also ached for the rich character detail and backstory of Tarantino's character sketches, particularly Jules, "the Bride," and Butch Coolidge (as well as the myriad Reservoir Dogs and Elmore Leonard's characters brought to life in JB). i actually felt something when Vincent was killed in PF, even though i was also way concerned for Butch getting that damn watch back.

and what, if any, comment is there provided about "reality" via the imagined reality of SC and Frank Miller? is it just really well-done escapism and that's all we should really expect?

anyhow, i'd recommend seeing it, as it definitely has a lot going for it in the "wow" department, but i'm disappointed that the style of it really, really, really dominated much of the potential substance, at least from my uninformed, unitiated perspective v-a-v graphic novels.

KPH