10 Reasons B-List Comics Make Better Adaptations Than The A-List

"Walk down the right back alley in Sin City and you can find anything"

Based on Frank Miller's iconic series, the film was co-directed by Miller himself, so 'faithful' is not just a buzzword to excite the core audience, it's a certifiable fact.

Armed with two infamous directors in Rodriguez and Tarantino, and a whole lot of green screen, Sin City trounced every adaptation that came before for accuracy to the source material.

This is a shot-for-shot remake more than an adaptation. The writing is Miller, the visuals are Miller and everything good or bad about the 2005 film is all Miller. The best you can normally hope for is faithfulness to a point - maybe costumes, maybe a few key shots, maybe some similarity to the key pages - but Sin City aimed for 100% and got it.

This was a huge undertaking that was years in the making, and the end product is visually and tonally impressive. The dialogue is quite cliche' but that's just Miller's noir chops showing in the script. Not everybody loved this film and, while it's easy to understand why, there is no doubt that it's a pretty perfect version of what it is.

There's no doubt that a "faithful" adaptation would never be tried of Superman or Batman first, and these films bested the 'safe' takes on more iconic comic book properties. As Sin City proved though, with great risk comes great reward.