Kevin,
I'm beginning to think you don't like Sin City.
I don't really see it as a parody or homage. I just see it as
pushing the genre to its extreme. leaving it to the viewer to
laugh with or at the conventions in stark relief. The
connection to Spillane is obvious, but I liked this and I'm
not a fan of Spillane. I'm not sure why, probably because I
could get lost in the visuals.
Sure, it's style over substance, but what style. Both the
movie and the comic. Sure, it's been done in comics before by
Alex Toth, Will Eisner, etc, but I don't see any Spirit movie
on the horizon (and the TV movie a decade or two ago was
pretty lame). So I'll satisfy myself with Sin City. I just
thought it was fun in its overblown comic booky way.
As for your rhetorical question about why it was labeled
Adult, you've lived below the 49th parallel long enough now
to know how we purtians freak out about nudity, and there was
lots of nudity, well, female nudity, in Sin City.
Mark
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