5 Reasons Sin City: A Dame To Kill For Was A Huge Flop

5. The Gimmick Is No Longer Exciting

Part of the charm of the first Sin City was it's unique visual style, which incorporated a dark-and-gritty approach and a black-and-white color palette with pepperings here and there of color and over saturation. In 2005 the concept was bold, fun, and exciting. In 2014, it's old news. We saw a bit of this when Frank Miller's The Spirit hit theaters in 2008. That film failed even more miserably than A Dame To Kill For, and likely turned audiences away from Miller's style altogether. Miller and Rodriguez managed to imbue the film with a few cool new methods of implementing the visual style, and gave it some flashy upgrades, but all-in-all it just wasn't enough to get people to demand seeing the idea again on the big screen.