Warchild wrote:

> 'Sin City' is not film noir.  Being a black and white crime drama
does not
> automatically qualify a film as 'film noir'.  'Sin City' has comic
book
> style action and is set in a city that has no real world counterpart.
 'Film
> Noir' takes as it's underlying assumption that the film is set in the
real
> world.
>

Basin City has a clear real world counterpart--Los Angeles.  And two of
the stories, no matter how narrowly or broadly you define "film noir",
qualify as noir--the Mickey Rourke segment and the Bruce Willis
segment.  The Owen story is more of a nerd comic book fantasy in the
"wow, wouldn't it be cool if I looked that good and got to hang out
with hookers with machine guns?" realm.