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El Sueno said:
I did. Then I read it in the Times, so I thought I'd confirm it.
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But it had already been confirmed in the press when I wrote it. In fact it was always sniders intention to do it and was mentioned in the fourth post on this thread.

So there. etc. I win etc.
 
tommers said:
Gritty, bleak, historically accurate investigation of the Ripper story, involving blake-like philosophical and spiritual meanderings into the nature of reality and the eternal struggle between order and chaos...

so why not have Johnny Depp fake the last prostitute's death and meet up with her later to settle down and have kids?

Although yes, even I had almost forgotten about it until just now.
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Although the whole thing about the Ripper killing the wrong girl was based on Moore's book. The annoying thing about From Hell was that Robbie Coltrane was clearly the right person to play Abberline, but he was relegated to a supporting role so that Depp could prance around.
 
along the lines of , it was one of the best comic book / sci-fi films out , the action scenes were great but all the rest was very drawn out which is good in a comic but transfered as almost boring in a film but the special effects were excellent
 
Stigmata said:
Ross has been wrong before.
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Very true although the guy is a long time and big comic fan (I remember going into Mega City in Camden years ago and him coming in often and spending easily a 100 quid or more a time) so he knows the source material very well.
 
True but as explained above he knows the source material better than most film reviewers so in this case I'm minded to take notice of what he says. It was pretty much what Quint said too...amazing that this even got filmed but it has some duff moments and some poor casting.
 
ruffneck23 said:
along the lines of , it was one of the best comic book / sci-fi films out , the action scenes were great but all the rest was very drawn out which is good in a comic but transfered as almost boring in a film but the special effects were excellent
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I found the very literalist interpretation of Sin City made it very dull (I never liked the comic either however). A Chandleresque noir comic book wrapped round cinematic cliches didn't work for me once it was turned back into a film.
 
I agree -- I thought that Sin City was bloody awful, albeit a fantastic looking piece of awfulness.
 
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