#Sin City Is One Of The Most Faithful — And Fun — Comic Adaptations Out There

One of the most divisive things you can ever put to screen is an adaptation of a book. Movies that have been derived from novels or short stories or comics or, really, any kind of literary source material will always be fighting to live in the shadow — or attempting to live up to the shadow — of their original counterparts. I don’t even really need to start listing examples because god, there are so many, and you probably have already thought of your own examples from your own cinephilic oeuvre anyway. The point is, when a movie comes along that does the original work justice, it should be celebrated and revered for its successes.

This, my friends, is why I’m recommending the gritty and gory “Sin City” as your Saturday stream of choice. The 2005 noir thriller combines three of Miller’s “Sin City” graphic novels — “That Yellow Bastard,” “The Hard Goodbye,” and “The Big Fat Kill” — into a dizzying, demented, and deeply enthralling anthology piece about some of the Basin City citizens and their messy, violent lives. If you’re into a good noir, this is a great updated spin on the genre that is very much still its own creative operation. It definitely doesn’t skew into the territory of other contemporary noirs, like, for example, the beloved Rian Johnson feature “Brick.”