[Movie] 300

Originally Posted by IdentikitOfEyes

I really love how people are saying that this is going to be tacky, yet it is shot in the same style as Sin City with color.

What if you thought Sin City's style was a gimmick designed to coverup plot, character, and direction flaws in the movie? I certainly hope this movie will be good, but the trailer doesn't give me a whole lot of hope (though in its defense it doesn't seem like a very well thought out trailer, and that is not the fault of the movie itself).

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Originally Posted by IdentikitOfEyes

If you thought this, then you obviously know jack shit about Sin City in terms of the movie and the graphic novel.

That "gimmick" style is taken straight from the book. A black and white style with small bits of color to give it a gritty look. That's what Miller was going for.

Now your opinion on the characters is fine by me because I don't like some of them either.

Using the "gimmick" to cover up plot and directional flaws is moronic. The entire Sin City series is more then 7 books long. All they did was take three of the books and turned them into a movie. There was no directional flaws because you don't have to read the novels in order.

...what? I'm not comparing the movie to the comic. I don't even care about the comic that much; I just want to see a good and interesting movie. I'm acknowledging that the visual style is done to mimic the look and feel of the comics, and I don't think that's inherently a bad idea. But watching Sin City, all I saw was a visual style, with a lot of forgettable directing and absolutely terrible dialogue. It wasn't a "one or the other" sort of thing; you can have a good visual look and still have decent directing and acting and plot.

That is what I'm fearing with 300; that it has this look to it and nothing to back it up. Style over substance, I believe the term is. At the very least, it should be entertaining, which I can say of Sin City as well.

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