Could not have sucked more

Rating: 1/10 (7 April 2005)

I soooooo did not love Sin City. I was appalled and seriously grossed out by the violence, and the attitudes towards women were very adolescent boy-ish - half naked hotties strolling the streets and they are all available because they are all hookers. Or they are getting beaten up by guys. Or they are being saved by the big strong man. As a woman and a feminist, I am deeply bothered. Argh. I am grinding my teeth.
"But didn't the women kick a$$?" I hear you ask.
All I saw was women who were allowed by the grace of the men in power to exercise some minor authority within their own hermetically sealed world, and that that leeway was subject to immediate termination if they did something the men in power didn't like. That is not kicking a$$. That is being allowed to kick a$$ at someone else's whim.
The black and white cinematography with splashes of color was pretty cool, but nothing in this world will ever make up for the institutionalized misogyny, and the complete dehumanization of virtually every character. The violence was so outrageous as to be nauseating. I do not need to see blood spurting from stumps or dogs eating someone's legs. That Frank Miller dude has some serious issues he needs to work out and I strongly suggest inpatient therapy at the locked psychiatric ward of his choice.