Manohla Dargis in the Times hated it, found it both boring and insulting. She was almost as entertaining as Elvis Mitchell at his best, and I say that advisedly.

Yes, Tarantino is the obvious direction for Preacher.

Heh. Another good Sin City review:

The year was 2005. It had been a long three months. Sitting in the dark corners of the movie theater, normally my safe haven, I was experiencing a horror that couldn’t be equaled even out on the mean streets of the night. Brute men, at a last gasp of their dignity, teaming up to babysit the wretched spawns of writers summoned by the devil. A vengeful God was doing his best to match his nemesis by frightening his minions with images of creepy children, wolves and Sandra Bullock sequels, but not so much to earn an “R” rating. I was sick to my stomach. I could taste the bile eating away at my tongue from the words I spewed to warn others of these atrocities. But nobody listened. I am alone. The only solace I could find was in my trip to Sin City. It was here I knew where pleasure would engulf me; where the blood spilled was not from the gaping knife wound in Uwe Boll’s chest but from the filmmaker and author determined to bring their vision to those dark corners I treasured. It was in Sin City where I was saved.

Metacritic has rated it a 74, higher than all but 4 movies currently in the theaters, and the highest rated movie so far this year. For the uninformed, Metacritic scours reviews (official critic reviews, that is) and, gives them a numerical value, then averages it.

Rotten Tomatoes is currently giving it a 77% fresh.

I want to see it, but I need friends who know me and my tastes to go see it first, and advise me if the blood quotient would leave me fainty and unwell.

Stupid delicate sensitivities. I'm weeeeeeeeak.

And I want to like Sin City so much.

I can't imagine why Julianna didn't come to mind

skimming causes me to drop an 'n', inducing doubletake

Right. I think Carrie-Ann would have made a kick-ass WW. I was just watching The Matrix as I ran on the treadmill like a good little gerbil. Made me all nostalgic for 6 years ago.

Sin City = mmmmmm

Wowie, wow, wow. It was freakin' brilliant. I was a little too aesthetically overwhelmed to pay much attention to things like, say, dialogue and plotting, but oh well.

That being said, the dialogue was a little stilted in places, since it did follow Frank Miller's script almost word-for-word. Not that there's anything wrong with that.....And, sometimes, watching Jessica Alba trying to keep up with Bruce Willis's acting didn't bode well for comparison, but it was all so darn well-put together, visually, I found myself not really caring and enjoying her performance anyway.

Mickey Rourke - a-mazing.

Rutger Hauer - has aged more quickly than David Bowie in the past several years.

Elijah Wood - freaky-deaky.

Josh Hartnett - I never considered him much of an actor. I have changed my mind.

And, as usual, I found myself laughing alone at a few things. ;-D Probably because I am deeply weird.

As for blood-factor - well, there's a lot of it. Not in the drippings-wif-goo way, but in a highly coloured (as in, yellow, red, and white), very stylized way; not up-close and personal, but splashed around like someone was shooting a lot of paint pellets. Which was what I was reminded of, even when the blood was red. The use of color and composition allowed a distance, so even when something normally grotesque was going on, the "ew" wasn't quite there. In fact, I'd say the injuries/whatever were much more disturbing when there wasn't blood or graphic violence shown on-screen.

Yes, Tarantino is the obvious direction for Preacher.

Sure but c'mon... any decent adaptation of Preacher couldn't be covered in a mere movie. Trilogy even, I think.

Nay, mayhap a whole season on some pay channel like HBO where the sex and violence doesn't have to be glossed over.

I am Thomash on Preacher. Thus why the scared.

Though I do think there are some side-stories of Preacher that could be done as movies. Make a bloody series - if you don't try to do the whole thing the first time, then when the pacing is good and the money is profitable, you have automatic sequel stories ready to go!