Mordred11 said:
rocketpig said:
Ugh. "The dark side of humanity?" Sin City is a classic Frank Miller wankfest. I actually enjoyed the movie quite a bit (and I didn't call the movie mediocre, I said once you get past the visuals, it's a mediocre film... but hey, visuals still count) but it's the kind of "dark realism" that a juvenile thinks is real while adults roll their eyes. Hell, Miller's "dark and gritty realism" is what caused the early 90s to be called "the death of comic books". Miller does a decent job with Sin City but it's not even close to his best work and by the time the comic came out in the early 90s, I was getting tired of those kinds of stories because, well, because I was growing up.
Again, Sin City is stunning visually and a decent movie overall but it's far from perfect and it didn't receive anything close to the ratings of either TDK or The Avengers. It's currently sitting at 78% on Rotten Tomatoes compared to 93 for The Avengers and 94 for TDK. I don't put a lot of stock into reviews but when a movie is sitting over 90% on Rotten Tomatoes, you can almost be sure it's a quality film.
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The Avengers is getting all these good ratings because the majority are blinded by the action,visuals and humour , and can't see that what lies behind those components is a mix-up of crappy acting and a weak plot.
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Yes, reviewers are reknown for falling for quick visuals masking a weak story and acting, which is why the Transformers movies have a 57, 35, and 27 on Rotten Tomatoes.
Oh, wait. That's right, Rotten Tomatoes is brutal toward films, with very few getting over 90%. Even fewer of those movies are action-y type films.
Go ahead and find a movie on Rotten Tomatoes that has scored over 90% and is a bad film.
It's more than slightly ironic that you're talking about people being blinded by visuals and action while trumpeting the cause of Sin City.
