<deering24@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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>
>
> Pumbaa wrote:
> >
> > By Joe Morgenstern --
> > See WSJ Friday, April 1, 2005 Section W1
> >
> > Final paragraph says, " If you're a fan of the source material, or the
> > genre, you'll probably want to see the film, if only for the force of
its
> > imagery.
>
> Funny--I would have thought a long-time critic like Morgenstern
> would be familiar with film noir.

'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.

>
>  Still know what you're letting yourself in for. While "Sin City" on
> > screen evokes the same feeling of bottomless decadence and dread that
the
> > novels do, there is one crucial difference - you can put the novels
down."

I have walked out of movies that i disliked.  Was this guy chained down?
All he had to do was to be willing to not review the flick.


>
> Heh--one of the best reviews of this movie I've seen notes, "This
> movie will be too much for Bush America, which is the best thing I
> can say about it." :)
>
> C.
> **