yeah i was also bored, it was highly stylized but lacked any depth...and if you say, thats the point it was comic book, then its a cop out because i doubt comic book people would say that themselves.
this is from the other sin city post, i'll paste it in here (its what i though):
i thought it was crap. i thought the aesthetic was really well done and i understood and appreciated its intentions. but i thought it was really just an excuse to showcase gratuitous violence through an ensemble cast (who i was mostly dissappointed with). although they established the comic style, they were not succesful at taking the story beyond that. everything appeared as fluff, all aesthetic no value.
i'm all for non linear story lines (i always appreciated 'slacker' and tarantino of course), but i thought in this case none of the individual stories were well rounded. i thought all of the girls roles were just mundane, rourke, del toro and wood were all interesting though.
but really my main complaint was that the violence was waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay over the top and i never complain about violence in movies. from my point of view, the violence seemed to be the main focus of the film, not what the director was probably going with: the violent nature of the characters, the violent nature of the environment and how these create violent intentions. it just seemed tacked on and sloppy, a lets show em what they've never seen before. instead of distracting me from all the other weak points of the film, it just bored me. i was over it not long after it started.
the worst part is that i was really really really excited about seeing this one. i've been waiting for it since i saw the original trailer months and months ago.
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