Sin City
 

I can't wait for this movie to come out next week. Has anyone read the comic from which it's derived? I hear the theatrical version is supposed to be a faithful interpretation, which NEVER happens with these.

It can happen when the author of the comic is the director of the movie. :)

I haven't read the comic, but I have read Miller's Dark Night series, and the man has some skills, and the movie looks amazing.

I read a few of them 'back in the day' as it were, damn grim comic.. I'm hoping for the best on this one. (unlike what they did to batman...)

My husband has read the comic, and also read previews of the movie's production and faithfulness online--and he is simply giddy with anticipation. I imagine it will be really good.

With the glaring exception of Brittany Murphy, and to a lesser extent Michael Madsen, the movie was awesome. Probably the best looking film I've seen, and an engrossing story from start to finish. Mickey Rourke was excellent, and Bruce Willis and Clive Owen were good.

Hopefully this will convice Hollywood that they don't need to Hollywoodize a story when making a movie.

Yeah, right. But I can always hope.

Movie was awesome. Total "eye-candy" even though it was very violent. I dug it. Sort of reminded me of Dick Tracy. A little.

If you like comic books, go see this movie.

If you like chicks, go see this movie.

If you like compelling antiheroes, go see this movie.

If you like guns, go see this movie.

If you like chicks with guns, go see this movie.

If you like compelling antiheroes with chicks and guns, go see this movie.

Pretty much no matter what you like, go see this movie.

I need to go see this movie again, so does the forksfriend I saw it with. Would there be interest in a GTG? Either at the theatre closest to Exton (East Whiteland?)

Wow, if you guys like this movie, it's good enough for me. It doesnt come out here for a little while yet though, which is a shame. Seen trailers, looks great!

Saw it. Amazing. Matinee so only 10 people in the theater. Chicks, smoking, guns, sex, and some serious fighting. Not to mention all the stars. Amazing flick, out looking for the Graphical Novel. There was a reference to the classification of the genre I had never heard before.

The story of how Robert Rodriguez came to shoot this film, and all the crap that happened during the pitching of the production.

Robert wanted to give Frank Miller (the creator of Sin City) a co-directors credit for the movie. Rodriguez is affiliated with The Directors Guild of America, who is the union for directors, directors of photography, and so on. The Guild said he could not do so, as Frank Miller was not "a member", and that if Rodriguez was to give this credit to a non guild member, they would interrupt the shooting and the distribution of the film.

Rodriguez relinquished his membership to the guild, created Troublemaker Studios, and shot the entire thing himself on digital video, in his studio.

So keep in mind this film is ALL VIDEO, and shot for probably 1/10 of the price that Hollywood would have spent.

A look at things to come. Hear a loud sucking sound from the west coast.....?

I don't read press about movies ... which segment is Quentin Tarrantino the "guest director" for?

Oh, and I ordered Graphic Novels 1-4 from Amazon last night.

Trailers have had me drooling for ages. For some fucked up reason they're not releasing it here till June so I'll end up watching a rip of the DVD first. And they wonder why piracy is going up....

It's only what, a six hour flight? Come on over, in case we can actually get a bunch of people together to see it ...

And each frame was edited by hand (digitally but by a person).

All the actors did very well. That said the reason I quote HM is because A) Brittany Murphy can barely be considered an actor. BUT at least she was poperly cast. The table to table meat at a dance club. As my wife but it" She plays a slut, isn't that type casting?" Dont get me wrong. I dont dis like her but she just doesnt appeal to me.
I LOVED this movie. I also applaud the director for telling the union what they can do with them self. These same kinda whoremongers are the ones that would not allow Prince Hussien of Jordan a speaking cameo on st:voyager since he was a forgien national.

THe move was made for like a quarter of the modern movie cost and nearly recovered its costs in the first weekend.

The Passion of the Christ, Sin City... is this a trend? No, not that kind of trend :-) but towards producers and directors doing their own thing with their own money leaving the studios out in the cold.

Gotta wonder what the studios are thinking about this.

With any luck, they are thinking about selling the $500000.00 McLaren, and cutting back the hooker/coke consumption a bit.

Guys like Rodriguez scare the crap out of the fatcats, and their investors, because they will not be able to make the calls they once did, and the idea of someone exposing one of the big houses to anything contraversial, or truly on the edge, and drawing the ire of the institution, is the opposite of how business has been done to date. (long friggen sentance. Sorry bout that.)

A friend of mine got a production credit on The Tuxedo, and swears that some Dreamworks exec had his 6year old critique dailies, and he'd then call set and suggest script rewrites on the fly. Aparently his son was "very bright" in his dads estimation.

Once again, wolf nails it. See. This. Movie. In the cinema, if possible, dvd if not. I just saw it tonight, at the last chance theater for three dollars! I'll probably go see it again tomorrow. What a fucking grim show. I dug it.

So, wolf, how are the novels? I had not seen anything but the trailer online, 20 minutes before the movie. NO preconceptions, and it exceeded them spectacularly. Kind of reminded me of Pulp Fiction meets Kill Bill. The Dick Tracy connection works for me too.

I originally tried to entice young SonofV to attend with me, but his desire to play with his cousin exceeded my desire to have him with me. Well. THAT worked out nicely *shivers* NOT a kid movie. His "graphic novel" speed is stuck in Calvin and Hobbes gear, which is A-OK with me for the foreseeable future. Hell, I never grew out of Calvin.

Awesome film. Awesome. Will be added to my corner of the home library of films. The small corner that is inhabited by films no one else in the house knows or cares about. Films *I* get because *I* like them. Hehehe...bitchin movie.

The Orphanage handled the VFX, those guys rock. I've been a Miller fan for ages, I own most of the Sin CIty books, I got one signed when he was over here quite recently so I knew what to expect. Silly me, couple of friends who it appears are a little more squemeish than me and didn't know what to expect (or thought they did) came. By the time Marv had removed all of the guy's limbs they were curled up in the fetal position.

I loved it of course.

The stories they chose to weave together were interesting, I suppose the deaths of two lead characters helps add dramatic height to the film but I'd love to see them do the Blue Eyes ones or just to get the moralists really screaming, Daddy's Girl.

Wolf - make sure the version you get has all the original cover art in the back if you're not getting originals.

I have the graphic novels up to vol 6, and they do have the cover art.

I don't hang at the comic shop the way I used to, and don't have the damndest clue of what's cutting edge or up and coming any more.

I read the stories after I saw the movie, and felt that the movie was a fantastic adaptation.

It's like the graphic novels were used as storyboards.

They were, literally.

O.o

I have got to see this. The trailers were so... cool. XDDDD

Saw the movie again, last night (weeknight, late show, pass the coffee :zzz: ). Day-umm. What a rockin flick. I spent the hour following the movie (12:05 am- 1:20 am) standing in front of the theater, just talkin about the show with my friends who came along to see it for the first time. Described by my (movie PRO) friend as "post-post modern nihilism" or some shit like that. Awful, harsh, jarring, shocking. A technical tour de force. Makes me want to break out the HeavyMetal collection in the basement.

You should not have friends who use phrases like "post-post modern nihilism".

Even if you live in Seattle.

If that bastard ever uses "deconstruction" or "deconstructed" in a sentence that doesn't refer to building demolition, shoot him.

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.

C--I saw the movie in the local "last-chance-before-video" theater, not a the pinnacle of cineplex evolution (smallish screen, ?? sound, and seats purchased from a Spanish Inqusition yard sale), but hey, it was only $3. Acceptable deal for me, I'm cheap.

Anyhoo. My question, I actually did notice the sound/music at at least one point and that was the opening credits. I noticed it enough to want to buy it. Did you notice it too? What was your opinion of this segment? Who performed it, what's the title?

Sorry, got a little carried away with the Inquisition image. heheh. carry on.

Sorry, I saw it so long ago, I can't remember what the opening track sounded like. I just remember my overall impression of it.

I think that your critique of the sound design is probably quite accurate ... and therein lies the problem. You're a professional at that sort of thing, and so you naturally key into the flaws because you wouldn't permit that in your own work. It is entirely possible that the rawness you perceived is as much a part of the film's effect as was the harsh and even sometimes grainy black and white photography.

How shall I say this ... you don't want to be sitting next to me whenever there's a movie about a nuthouse on ...

movie=suspension of disbelief

take a deep breath.

Hey that gives me a thought about a new thread! What movie, movies, kinds of movies do you find hard to suspend disbelief while watching.

*sets off to new-thread-land*

I didn't think the sound was awesome, some bits were good, when the chopper lands in the farm there's a great bit there but the sound wasn't overall, that good. Whether it's like some of the dialogue, ironically cheesy I don't know.

That would wipe out entire suburbs of inner london.

Probably would benefit society.

off topic...but question.

How old and sprawling does a city have to be to have suburbs in the inner part of the city?

undoubtably.
Half a milennia and inner city pop nearing 8m, metropolitan pop around 14m.