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Nah, it's diabolical.
Compare it to Kill Bill - both have exaggerated characters that are extremely violent, and in fact lots of extreme violence throughout, often happening to people that don't deserve it. But Kill Bill is done with a light touch and you really like the characters; they're believable and interesting in the context. Also (and it's a word I fucking hate) the female characters in Kill Bill are "empowered" (even if they're exploited by Bill) whereas the happy prostitutes and table dancers in Sin City will murder clients that don't pay them, but they're basically happy to be whores. Well, I may be a fat lazy chauvinist, but I know the smell of misogynistic bullshit when Robert Rodriquez has shat in my sandwiches.
Oh, and think about some of the horrific bits in Kill Bill. When I watched it, some Sloane Rangers in the cinema had actually started crying by the time the Bride killed a guy by smashing his head in the door [which was ace, because they had talked loudly up to the beginning of the film and had obviously intended to continue throughout]. But the horror is kind of cartoony and it's entertaining. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing, Tarantino gets away with it, because he's actually a good director. But check out the paedophilia in Sin City, the bit where the hobbit has his limbs removed, or any of the other rank shit. It's just fucking disgusting, and the film-noir voice over makes it embarrassing to watch, rather than making it clever or ironic in any way.
There was a lot of talk about how it captured the "spirit" of the original graphic novel. I thought that was pretty accurate. As well as looking like a comic, it captured the meanness and the self-importance. Frank Miller has made a few reasonably decent comics (eg Dark Knight Returns), but mostly they've been awful and shown him to be a bit of a twat. I mean, the guy has been threatening to write Batman vs Al Qaeda for years now. WAC.
Sorry, been meaning to get all that off my chest for a while.