Sin City: A Dame To Kill For Out This August!
March 7, 2014 by brennon
Frank Miller's beast of a graphic novel series, Sin City, is coming back this year with A Dame to Kill For from Robert Rodriguez. Needless to say this is fairly hotly anticipated and the trailer is above.
The film has a mass of different actors in it, some you will know, some will be a surprise, but it looks insanely fun just like the first one. After a few watches the first film did lose some of it's flair but it was still a very good movie, a faithful recreation of page to screen.
I love the Dwight and Marv storylines so I will be keeping a pretty close eye on those!
What did you think of the original?
I love the art style and gritty nature of the first film. This one looks to be just as good.
I have to admit I did not like the first one. The cinematography and style was excellent, but I just did not enjoy how unrelentingly vicious it felt and the way men seemed to be superheroes when compared to the women.
I like the Sin City comics. They were the last good thing Frank Miller did. The movie adaptation suffered by being too faithful to the source material. Comic books and cinema are two different mediums and what works in one doesn’t necessarily work in another. It made for a somewhat uneven viewing experience.
Miller is one of the most overrated creators in comics. His stories use fear to manipulate the audience into drawing the worst and most pessimistic conclusions about human nature. He attempts to make his sick little contrivances seem like the most natural and unavoidable consequences of reality, when really he’s just putting filters over the lens he chooses to film through. There’s some value in reading some of his work, if only to get an inside glimpse of the kind of delusions that sometimes compel people. But I’ve seen enough of that now. I wouldn’t see this movie for free.… Read more »
Don’t sugarcoat it, tell us what you really think lol. I half agree with you, it’s a fair assessment of the Frank Miller of the last twenty years. There was a time he wasn’t a crazy reactionary and he did some genuinely good stuff.
I look at the old Frank Miller, and I see the seeds of the current model. I think we just didn’t know because:
A) He didn’t have access to things like blogs and facebook to share his unfiltered “thoughts”.
B) His editors had more control over his output before he became famous as “The Guy Who Saved the Batman Franchise”. Back then he couldn’t produce whatever he wanted without interference. Like George Lucas, he was at his best when other people told him what he couldn’t do.
I’m reading through these comments thinking “who’s Frank Miller and why should I care that this film has his name attached to it?” I saw the first Sin City film. It was interesting in that I could see what they were trying to do and the way it was shot held attention. The script and the plot certainly didn’t hold my attention though. An ultraviolent, misogynist pastiche of film noir. It could have been a good film if it had a different writer, someone who could have cut out all the misogyny and written better dialogue.
Unfortunately misogyny and bad dialogue is pretty much Frank Miller’s writing trademarks. To give you a background of his filmography, Frank Miller is the guy behind Robocop 2 (he also played the villain), The Spirit (his only solo directorial role as far as I know), 300, and Sin City. He is famous because he wrote some very highly acclaimed comics. Dark Knight Returns, along with Watchmen, often appears at the top of all time best comic series lists. Personally, I think his run on Daredevil was excellent. When I first read Dark Knight Returns I through “wow, this is a… Read more »
Yeah, it’s easy to think Miller is making some kind of commentary on society, and then you realize he’s not parodying anything. He means it. He actually sees the world this way. I don’t care how pretty his work is, it’s still crap. That’s doubly true for 300. Pretty and nasty is still nasty. I wouldn’t date a woman who was gorgeous but loudly espoused the tenants of eugenics. I see no reason to watch a movie that’s pretty and espouses the beliefs of statist nutballs whose only concern with Big Brother is what side of the camera they fall… Read more »
Watchmen is Alan Moore. I loved Sin City, but I can see how people get a bit tired of Millers uberviolence. I really liked the first Kick-Ass comic but the second one is way to dark for me, with the rape and the casual murder of children. I get violence in media, but this seemed out of place. The Motherf^&*er character went from kind of estranged kid of a mob-boss to superpsychopath for no good reason. I was happy the movie was a little more light hearted. I loved the origional kick-ass for the absurdness of the situation. The second… Read more »
Oh, I see you weren’t claiming watchmen was Miller. My bad.
Kick-Ass is by Mark Millar, not Frank Miller. Completely different styles, though they can be easy to mix up. I haven’t read much of Mark Miller so I can’t make much of a judgement on his stuff.
I’m just going to approach A Dame To Kill For in the same way as I did the first time. I’d read the graphic novels and watched the movie because it was pretty ace looking. Same as 300. It’s Sin City, practically the same as the first film, and will be good for one or two watches then will sit on my DVD shelf.
BoW Ben
Huh, I never noticed that….