If the film is as impressive as the trailer then I'm in!
Link: SCT2
Its looking really good from what i've seen so far.I've just read my first sin city tpb(big fat kill)and I think its quite fun seeing how they've transformed the panels from static to moving.
I think it looks hardcore. PLUS Rob Rodriguez is a certified dude, there's very little he can cock-up
It's also got the god of utter genius / total shite / no room in the middle Rutger Haure in it!
It has everybody in it!
'cept Jesus
Yes, because you know all the extras, don't you Shakara ?
...I have a very active night-life is all...
...and great thighs...
...and a picket fence...
...and no sense of grammar...
...or spelling...
...or joke longevity
Wow.
by all accounts this is going to rock.
even the colouration of the whole movie is said to resemble the comic book.
and as noted. EVERY BODY WHO IS ANYBODY is in this.
without doubt. this bodes well.
This just looks better and better, can't wait to see this one, it's just oozing style!!
style and incredibly sexy women ! I'm in !
The first Sin City trailer is better. But this is going to great. I hope.
Link: Both Trailers
damn this film looks good, but then why wouldn't it be, it's got the best director in the world working with the best comic book writer in the world.
Opens here on Friday. I will of course make a full report.
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Art - are you in the States?
Don't think UK gets it till mid June or summit.
Art - are you in the States?
Yup.
Any chance of pickin up some memorabillia from the cinema for this film?? (sometimes you get givaways like mini posters and whatever).
I'm a mad Frank Miller fan and love Sin City, your actions would be repayed with great kindness (probably beer at next DreddCon).
It's reviewing well - 92% on Rotten Tomatoes at the moment.
Apparently it's "Film noir on steroids; a movie so cool you?re not supposed to be concerned about its total lack of moral grounding. Nor its profound sexism. Nor its misanthropic nihilism." - So I'm definately up for it.
Link: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/sin_city/
Anyone looking for moral grounding in Sin Coty is lookin in the wrong place.
Film Noir on steroids - sound good to me.
"Film Noir on steroids"
I'd feel more comfortable if they were comparing it to film noir on acid but I'm still pretty optimistic.
I think Sin City comes out on the 28th of April in the uk.
It's film noir... on drugs!
"...absence of any content deeper than the pulpiest pulp..."
Man, this is going to ROCK!
Pretty good peice on Rodriguez and Sin City in WIRED...
Link: The Man Who Shot Sin City
Nice little article that.
I just reread SIN CITY, A DAME TO KILL FOR and a short collection of stories THE BABE WORE RED so I am quite looking forward to this.
I'm imagining that it will be pretty much PULP FICTION style (natch) with several different stories weaving together. I actuallynoticed some of this (done none too subtly) in A DAME TO KILL FOR.
Some of the dialogue Miller writes is unbelievably pulpy - sometimes it rolls over into parody but when he gets it just right - it's poetry.
I do feel a bit concerned, like Si, about how it will sound on film though - I often ended up saying each line to myself several times until I get a delivery that doesn't sound crap (TO ME) but obviously it's different strokes.
And hey, the ODEON gave me a two tickets for the price of one voucher in April so I can even take the wife along (lord knows what she'll make of it though...)
There's a telly review in last week's Guardian of Spy Kids 3 that reckons he only did it so who could get to play with all the cool tech for free that's he's now using in Sin City... I'm now actually getting excited by this despite always being let down by Rodriguez films in the past (always good... but not as amazingly good as their reputation)
Sin City opens with a swoony love scene culminating in a murder for the heck of it. From there it moves smartly to the promise of child molestation and, with the culprit having had both his face and his balls shot off by Bruce Willis, steams merrily along toward cannibalism, electrocution and the mounting of severed female heads on walls. Had enough? If not, then you are in all likelihood an adult male aging ungracefully, or a pimply youth with a pimply youth?s fondness for comic books about hell on Earth. If you?re a woman of any age who gets off on this stuff, even with its feeble stabs at feminist role reversals, I throw up my hands.
...an adult male aging ungracefully...
SCORE!
Art, you must have seen it by now, report, man, report!!!
Art - Sin City - report please.
Um, we had a change of plan and went and got drunk instead. Report will follow as soon as we see it...
That looks rockin', and a definate DVD purchase!
Huge fan of the comic series.
OK, saw it. It started off a little shaky, and I wasn't quite sure that what they were doing was going to work, but then the story of Marv the unstoppable lunatic started and the film really kicked in: It's horrifically violent, massively over the top and completely hysterical - I loved it. And it's very, very like the comic, down to a lot of the graphical touches, almost up to the point of parody. Perhaps beyond it.
And most importantly the most important message of the comic - that Frank Miller is a frightening maniac - remains intact.
Despite the film only just opening in the US IGN have some comments from Robert Rodriguez about his plans for the DVD.
Link: Sin City breakfast tacos
I agree, it looks awesome, it's not often i see a film i actually want to see in the cinema, but this is one of them :)
Might be seein this TONIGHT!!!
Some kind of advance screening, or are you on holiday?
Sin City Flash Site
Link: Sin City Site
This film rocks!!!
It's a total transition from book to screen, visually stunning and very brutal.
It just oozes style and is a joy to watch.
My only concern is that it so far removed visually from the norm, it may alienate the average cinema goer... I can just hear cries of 'what happened to the colour?' and 'why is his blood white??'.
Great stuff.
Seen it. Loved it. If you're a fan of the books then you'll find no fault in this.
Script is word for word perfect, visuals are panel to shot perfect.
Nice work Robert and Frank.
Well, I just read through THAT YELLOW BASTARD courtesy of BORDER's and a STARBUCKS (still cheaper than buying the thing).
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I'm not sure I enjoyed this one as much as the other SIN CITY stuff I've read. It could just be familiarity breeding contempt (never read John Irving novels consecutively) but there's a pretty dubious core to the story.
"NANCY is all filled out". It just seems all kind of wrong and creepy. Obviously women as sexual objects don't just fall, fully formed off trees and in a different kind of comic or book I'd have put this down to the author trying to get us to question the way we look at such things but, this being SIN CITY, I don't reckon this is the case. It all just left me feeling uneasy.
The reveal of who That Yellow Bastard (TYB) is is also a bit crap and clunky for my tastes. The well-spoken side kicks are a pretty cheap joke and I didn't get why we had a prison guards thought bubbles intruding on various scenes.
And is it just me or is there a gigantic big lump of logic missing from the plot.
Hartigan makes parole, and goes looking for Nancy by leafing through the telephone book. "Ooops, I've led the baddies to her" he says later. Didn't the baddies have access to a telephone book? My original thought was that TYB was after "Cordlia" (Nancy) but that doesn't ring true with some of the later lines he says at The Farm.
Anyway, definitely the least of the books I've read so far, probably because I didn't enjoy looking at the usual eight pages of Nancy dancing for some reason...
Or is it just me?
It's an entertaining movie, visually really engaging, with some great performances. It's three stories they vaguely try and link together, but there's no overall story linking them.
Worth a watch, it might be a bit depressing for a night out, as it's fairly grim, but if you miss it at the cinema, worth a DVD rental.
's in the news.
Sequel is in production.
Link: A Dame to Kill For
Interesting, as IIRC the Dwight character from the Big Fat Kill is the main character from Dame to Kill for post plastic surgery.
To fiddle with an Alan Moore quote (unrelated to this), it's not the best comic film ever, it's not the best film ever, it's the best thing ever!
But of course I haven't um, seen it yet and will be scuttling to the pictures to see it as soon as.
Seriously, it's feckin awesome. The Hard Goodbye chapter (as it's now called, the one with Marv, first GN) really is a film of the book, quite literally. I reckon about 50% of the dialogue must be used straight from the book, pretty much every major scene is replicated beautifully (or uglully).
Even if you haven't read Sin City, you'll love it (adjust for taste obviously but well, most of you would agree I'm sure). I could honestly state that it's the best film since Pulp Fiction for being seriously cool.
"Interesting, as IIRC the Dwight character from the Big Fat Kill is the main character from Dame to Kill for post plastic surgery."
Yes indeed, someone says to him "Like the new face", which hilariously inspired theories from a mate about the 3 characters being the same person, linked with Marv's delusions etc. Dear oh dear. I'll leave them to think that till the next film's out :o)