http://canadiancinephile.com/2008/05/12/sin-city/ "Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world." - Jean-Luc Godard Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:14:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://canadiancinephile.com/2008/05/12/sin-city/#comment-3277 Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:38:47 +0000 http://cinephile.wordpress.com/?p=740#comment-3277 [...] 5. Sin City [...]

]]> http://canadiancinephile.com/2008/05/12/sin-city/#comment-2613 Tue, 29 Mar 2011 10:14:50 +0000 http://cinephile.wordpress.com/?p=740#comment-2613 [...] look of 300 is fantastic. Snyder has obviously seen 2005′s Sin City and knows that you can’t just create a “comic book movie” when you’re [...]

]]> http://canadiancinephile.com/2008/05/12/sin-city/#comment-2570 Wed, 09 Mar 2011 11:53:46 +0000 http://cinephile.wordpress.com/?p=740#comment-2570 [...] to it, but it’s now been outdone by other more bleak, visceral experiences (Sin City, Watchmen). The hopelessness translates well enough, but Proyas doesn’t really go for the [...]

]]> http://canadiancinephile.com/2008/05/12/sin-city/#comment-1615 Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:03:30 +0000 http://cinephile.wordpress.com/?p=740#comment-1615 [...] All in all, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow was a film intended to be enjoyed on a certain level of style. That style, for me, was confined to sepia and soft tones that belied a few impressive action sequences. Those action sequences, however, become a whole lot less impressive later on when you realize that nobody was actually running from anything, no-one was in a real setting other than a factory in London in front of a blue-screen and nobody was really trying all that hard save for the computer-techs back at the office. While realism is certainly not to be the order of the day in a sci-fi film such as this, the style can’t really cover up for the lack of substance. For CGI backdrop magic, I’ll take the well-scripted, well-acted and more profoundly entertaining Sin City. [...]

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