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I saw it awhile ago... For the record, I really liked the movie. But I have a skewed perspective on movies and things. What I am about to say did nothing to lower the movie in my esteem, only Robert Rodriguez.
The sound design in Sin City sucked ass harder than any theater-release movie I've ever seen. Now, maybe, just maybe, Robert Rodriguez didn't do his own sound design, which was my first assumption (there were people walking in front of us during the relevant part of the credits.) Maybe he somehow talked (read: drugged) a professional sound designer into giving him his particular vision of what constitutes "sound noir." But either way, the sound design sucked. The effects were mixed poorly, most were inappropriate to the action, and background noise was almost nonexistant throughout the film. Not only that, but most of the dialogue was echoey, indicating that it was recorded in a non-sound-proofed room, which makes sense given that I think I read somewhere that the whole thing was shot green-screen in Rodriguez's personal home studio.
Also, it should be a rule that directors don't get to compose their own music. That's like retailers starring in their own commercials, it's just bad business. There was exactly one scene's music that didn't sound horribly amateurish and out-of-place, and I'm willing to bet it was composed by one of the other two people who supposedly helped Rodriguez with the music composition.
But visually, it was nice. Story-wise, it was awesome. Robert Rodriguez can do both of those. He just needs to accept that he can't do aural.
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