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!

I am so very happy about this. It hurts how happy I am.

Yikes! They're remaking My Friend Flicka and they're changing Ken to Katie!

My thoughts on Sin City. 'twas good, yo.

I saw Sin City earlier today. I also loved it. It was probably the best movie I've seen since Dirty Pretty Things , and that was a year and a half ago.

Also, I just realized that my campus is having a free showing of Showtime's Kristin Bell-starring Reefer Madness tomorrow night. Will try to get tickets.

Having just read Book 1 of Sin City (The Hard Goodbye), I don't think I can handle the violence. It's not just extremely violent, it's sadistic, fucked-up, psycho violence. It was hard to read, which leads me to believe that seeing 3-dimensional people undergoing some of that nasty shit would be too much for me to handle.

Which is too bad, because I had really looked forward to seeing it. But -- no. I know my limits w/r/t violence on film, and Sin City, if it's as faithful to the comic as people say it is, blows past the limits almost immediately.