I've never seen so many dead hookers.

hell yeah, it's dope. my favorite character has to be kevin.

Good flick

Sin City is the best comic book movie I've ever seen in terms of visuals. I loved looking at it even as I hated the story.

But the best comic book movie ever, ever, ever is Unbreakable by M. Night Shamaylan. That movie rocks, really gets into the psychology of being a super hero and someone outside of society. Beautiful.

my four year old great nephew has an imaginary superhero friend named-todd.

The Village by M. Night Shamaylan, on the other hand, does not rock. Especially when you see it in a theater where they used the wrong film gate so you can see the boom mic in every scene.

I actually thought the Village was a beautiful and well-done love story (and Joaquin Phoenix is gorgeous) but I saw the "surprise" coming early on.

Lb if you haven't seen 'Walk the Line' with Joaquin, go see it.

MKS hasn't done a decent movie since 'The Sixth Sense'. He's trying to hard to create an end of the movie shocker.

Did you ever see the sketch on Robot Chicken (Adult Swim) when they make fun of Shamaylan? It's hilarious. Something weird happens then he pops on the screen and says "It's the twist!" Rinse. Repeat six times. That is the problem with his movies. It's like 2 hours of build up for the twist. In Sixth Sense, you had no idea it was coming. Now, it's the point of his movie. I thought Signs was ok until the twist. It was kind of an interesting movie about how the unknown affects a family. Not the best movie ever by any means, but a few scenes were fairly intense.

Yep, very true Hasselhoff, re: the "twist" endings.

and to get back to your original post: since I have a toddler I'm up often in the middle of the night, and Sin City's scary visuals - especially how Elijah Wood's character was ended - haunt me while I sit in the dark trying to be a soothing presence. Very very effective image making. Felt the same way about 28 Days Later, though that movie I felt had a much more intriguing story along with some gorgeous visual effects.

ether I do intend to see Walk the Line, I've been looking forward to it since I heard it was being made!

Speaking of comic books and their movie adaptations ... for years I've heard that a film version of Alan Moore's/Dave Gibbons' Watchmen is in the works. Has anyone out there read it?

I'm still holding out for the movie adaptation of The Prisoner...

Smoke, The watchmen is one of the best comic book stories of all time. It realy gets into how superheroes are still real people in the end. And Rhoarch is a phenominal charecter. That, "kingdom come" and "the dark night returns" are my favorite graphic novels, but "fables" is a great storyline too.

another excellent comic book movie this year, oddly enough, was batman begins. waaay darker and waaaay more interesting than the rest of the series put together

another good comicbook movie is 'dark city' by alex proyas, who also directed the original 'crow' movie with brandon lee

m. knight shamaylan should make a movie where the twist at the end of the movie is NO TWIST!!

Shamaylan and Lucas should collaborate on the most twisted, smoked out, fogged up, lava'ed, computer animated, suspense filed pile of shit ever.

SUNBURNT
i agree that batman begins was good...with the exception of katie holmes.
PIXELWHORE
i agree about the prisoner. with hollywoods fascination with re-doing old stuff i'm suprised it hasn't happened yet. jc van damme did a movie (maybe double team?) a while back that ripped off parts of the prisoner. it was predictably bad.