Basin City

Now that Alex has seen it I feel I can write in relative safety. If you haven't seen it yet then get some genetics experts to grow you a new dick, go read the novels, and then go see the fucking movie.

Sin City was the best movie I have seen since the first time I saw The Professional. There. I wrote it.

And it's true. I was so totally lucky to have Phiz and Alex actually own, and let me read, all three books that the movie is based on and it rocked my damn socks.

We were lucky enough to over hear a group of young men leave the cinema ahead of us complaining that "they didn't understand any of that, hey." Now to put aside my dislike for the use of the word "hey" as some sort of proxy-punctuation, what I over heard made me very happy.


IT'S NOT FOR YOU!! OK!?! GO HOME AND WATCH SOME NICE SAFE REALITY TV, GO AND READ THE Da VINCI CODE. GO HOME AND KILL YOURSELF.


Now.
Merv...perfect. Totally and completely perfect.
Goldie...should have been Scarlet Johansson, but otherwise perfect.
Kevin...Oh My God. Perfect.
Dwight...I wasn't to sure at first (you weren't buff enough) but once you got your kit on - perfect.
Jackie-boy...for fuck sake! Perfect.
Miho...Perfect.
Gail...Perfect.
Hartigan...Perfect.
Junior...Perfect.
Nancy...oh Nancy.

What were they thinking with Nancy? I don't know who could have played her better, but not Jessica Alba. Look, I'd throw a fuck her way in a heart beat, but she wasn't sexy enough. The Novel devotes 13 pages to her entrance. 13 pages! 3 seconds in movie land was a joke. She needed to be harder, sexy, but hard. Softening her, making her into an exotic dancer rather than a stripper, making those books strewn across her appartment into law journals, that's not the Nancy I saw in That Yellow Bastard. I saw a Nancy that could have made Paris forget about Helen, that could have distracted Caeser from Cleopatra.

Fortunately Jessica Alba is damn hot, even with her clothes on, and Frank had so much input that the movie left me begging for more. And I don't beg easy.

Go out and find a friend who can lend you the graphic novels. Read them. Then see the movie.


I just watched a comic book come to life.