I'm dying to go see Sin City! Who else is in?
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I'm dying to go see Sin City! Who else is in?
I'm seeing it later today... My friend "guarantees" me that I will love it! haha... we'll see..
Jessica Alba isn't the greatest actress, nor am I too fond of Bruce Willis
I'm seeing it tonight, I think. <Open call for others nearby who want to join me>.
Heard the NPR interview this morning. Interesting facts: The movie is apparently filmed so as to reproduce pages from the graphic novel; the largely computer-generated sets are black and white, not the grey you'd get with normal filming, which produces a startling effect.
Again--open call for folks downtown make a party of it (assuming you're not working).
I may go would really like to see this it looks bizare
I just was talking to my boyfriend about seeing it this weekend. We often have trouble agreeing on movies because he loves comics and sci fi and I love just about everything BUT comics and sci fi but occasionally we can agree on one. Hopefully this will be a good choice. He said it's got hookers in it and hookers make everything better.
Seen it. Well, read Millers, anyway. ;)
I might tonight!
I'll be seeing it tomorrow morning - trying to miss the crowd and rush those cheap seats!
I'm looking forward to it. The local paper's critic said he hadn't seen such a mixture of technical marvel with moral bankruptcy since Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will. So I'm there! I need some good nihilistic fuel.
Obviously this will sound like a tawdry question, but for those in the know - what's your opinions about the conflict between Jessica Alba's non-nudity clause and the character Nancy as portrayed in the comics?
-afx
I'm seeing anything and everything with my future ex-lover Clive Owen in it ;)
I went to see this tonight, and it's true: this movie is totaly unlike any other movie you have ever seen. The symbolism of the colors and the fact that it was black and white (mostly) was a big reason why it wasn't just a movie about some people. The movie apparantly was very true to its comic book counterpart, I'm told.
As for Jessica Alba not getting undressed I think that it was quite unproffesional because of the nature of her role. But then again, even though we know it was her decision to get naked or not, it kind of added to her character.
If anybody can explain to me the very first scene and the very last scene and how it all connects with the movie please enlighten me
No idea what it meant. But other than a few crusty lines straight out the comic this one felt to me like a 14 year old boy's dream film - violence on top of violence so we can feel more violence - especially toward women. Left me numb.
In the comic, Hartigan was kinda trying to save some part of Nancy's innocence. It's kinda hard to explain to someone who's never read it (Rather like trying to explain "The Dark Knight returns" to someone who's never read that one, and it revitalized comics, took it away from the kiddies and grew it up). She's kinda shown as being like an angel from heaven menaced by a yellow Demon from hell (And the yellow killer is one sick fuck in the comic). Alba probably should have at least taken the top off, but really who cares. Sure i wouldn't mind seeing Jessica Alba's tits, that'd be cool, but it's not a requirement. The story she's in ("That Yellow Bastard") works one way or the other. Frank Miller had several pages of nothing but Nancy's boobs and, uh, down there, it was gratuitous as all hell and that was really just for the juvenile fanbase. People that think that if a comic has a naked chick and blood in it, it must be cool.Quote:
Originally Posted by afxturnip
It doesn't. It's an anthology film, based on many years of comics (I think like 10 or so). There are a few short pieces in there (Like "The Babe wore red," that has Josh Hartnet in it shooting the chick in red), but largely, nothing connects.Quote:
Originally Posted by Meea
"Blue eyes" is my favorite Sin City story and that's a short one. It's about this chick that meets the guy she used to love, and she has to kill him to get inducted into this guild of assassins. It's a trip. She's all bummed out and crying, and then snaps this dude's neck. I don't think it's in this movie though (I have yet to see it), here's hoping for a Blue eyed sequel.
I have several Sin City graphic novels in ebook format, if anyone wants me to send them one drop me a line and i can do it through MsN messenger (one of them's "The big fat kill" that is in this movie, it's the story with Rosario Dawson and Clive Owen).
"Obviously it would have been more authentic if she was bottomless and topless [like in the comic], but I felt like dancing around with a lasso and chaps was sexy enough. Being nude, for me, would have been too distracting. Plus, I don't know what my dad would have done. He might have disowned me." - Jessica Alba told MTV.Quote:
Originally Posted by afxturnip
Daddy might disown you for that? Welcome to our world, honey.
-Ev
Juvenile fanbase? Is that how we're describing consumers of stripper nudity these days?Quote:
Originally Posted by Madcap
Funny that those two elements aren't received quite as well when combined on a SC stage.Quote:
Originally Posted by Madcap
-Ev
You're not getting me, i'm talking about a comic book. It's totally gratuitous in miller's work. It's like five pages of nothing but Nancy's tits and Hartigan looking menacing. Easily condense the same thing into five comic panels and it gets the same shit across, and probably be even sexier. "That Yellow Bastard" has been around awhile, this was an underground comic back when most people didn't know they existed (Up until they ruined Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by turning it into a cheeseball cartoon, that is, then everyone was on the lookout for underground comics to exploit. 'bout the only good that came out of that was "The Crow").Quote:
Originally Posted by evan_essence
I'm saying Alba really didn't HAVE to be naked at all, since that whole aspect of the source material has nothing to do with the rest of the story other than to establish that she's a Stripper. Something easily done in much less time (Like a couple panels).
MMMMM, Sin City. Frank Miller is a sick fuck and I fucking LOVE the comic.
I think I'm going on Wednesday. *prays for a babysitter*
Definitely going to see that.....there seem to be alot of good movies coming out this summer:)
I openly admit i've never heard of the comic but here's my chance to get to know a thing or two about it.It just looks awesome and the cinematography is unlike anything i've ever seen.
Speaking of summer flicks...i can't wait to see that War of the Worlds remake.
It's underground stuff. It's the buffs like me that kept it going. Thge writer is this guy named Frank Miller, who also wrote the Dark Knight returns. The single greatest Batman story ever told. That one saved the comic book industry from death in 1986 (And got them into the fix they're in now, since new readers, primarily kids, don't get them anymore). He's a hell of a writer, somehow manages to make SUPERMAN the villain of the piece.Quote:
Originally Posted by VismundCygnus
He started Sin City sometime in the late 80's (Though don't quote me on that), because he digs pulp noir like the Shadow, and Casablanca. That sort of thing. Comic books don't see a lot of writers like Frank Miller.
Tell, you what. Below i'll add some links to the three main stories in the movie, copy and paste their product descriptions, and then i'll add some links to other Sin City books.
They really are like no other comic book you have ever seen. Even if you're (ACK!) not really into comics, you may like them for the stories Miller tells.
(Mickey Rourke) Legendary artist Frank Miller opened a noir opus in Sin City. This critically-acclaimed triumph-honored by both an Eisner Award and the prestigious National Cartoonists' Award-combines the pulp intensity of writers like Spillane and Cain with the gritty graphic storytelling that only Miller can deliver. Sin City is the place-tough as leather and dry as tinder. Love is the fuel, and the now-infamous character Marv has the match ... not to mention a "condition." He's gunning after Goldie's killer, so it's time to watch this town burn! Frank Miller is one of modern comic's first talents to publish a comic book that he created, crafted, and owned. That book is Sin City, which grew from the wellspring of Miller's passionate desire to create a comic book with two distinct qualities - it wouldn't be a superhero comic, and it had to be a crime comic. Enter Marv and Goldie. And a psychotic killer. And a crime-drenched town. And a corrupted diocese. Sin City is a town like no other, but most places resemble it in one way or another. In real life, thugs live everywhere and women sell their bodies all the time, but if everyday life is a storm, Sin City exists in the eye of a hurricane.
(Clive Owen, Rosario Dawson, Benito Del Toro) Criminals have always called the shots in Sin City, whether bootleggers, gamblers, or politicians. But ever since the first dame set up shop in Old Town, those side-streets have been run by the women who walk the night. It's been a delicate truce, but now there's a messy body and the mob's looking to reclaim those licentious streets. They're going to have to put down a tight band of dangerous women and a guy named Dwight to do it. Now Dwight, he knows something that the mob's gotta learn the hard way: sometimes standing up for your friends means killing a whole lot of people...
(Bruce Willis, Jessica Alba, Nick Stahl) Just one hour to go. Hartigan's polishing his badge and working himself up to kissing it goodbye, it and the thirty-odd years of protecting and serving, tears, blood, and triumph that it represents. He's thinking about his wife's smile, about the thick, fat steaks she's picked up at the butcher's, about the bottle of champagne she's got packed in ice, about sleeping in 'til ten in the morning and spending sunny afternoons flat on his back. But with one hour left to go, he gets word about that one loose end he hasn't tied up: a young girl who's helpless in the hands of a drooling lunatic. Just one hour to go ... and Hartigan's gonna go out with a bang.
Of the three, That Yellow Bastard is probably the best one. Here's some more stories of these that might end up in the Sin City sequel.
(Dwight, Miho, and the Girls of Old Town. All of whom are in the movie)
(Another Dwight story)
(The longest Sin City Graphic Novel of all. All new characters, and it's a crazy love story)
(Anthology)
There's also "Lost, Lonely & Lethal" but that's out of print (Thank god i've got it, that one has "Blue Eyes" in it, the story i mentioned earlier).
I love the names of these things. "Lost, Lonely, & Lethal" is poetic and noir, but "Booze, Broads, & Bullets" takes the fucking cake for the coolest name ever for a Graphic Novel. Sorry, ladies, but fuck yeah!
Saw it tonight... It was fucking great!!!!
Apparently, you're not the only one...Quote:
Originally Posted by Muyaha
I hope there is a sequal that is as good or better as this installment of the sin city novels. Madcap... what's up with the one character Kevin, the one with the long fingernails looks kinda like harry potter glasses and all, but eats hookers for their souls, Elijah wood plays his character in the movie; is there a story that goes more deeply into him?
*jumps in - splash*Quote:
Originally Posted by Muyaha
Nah, I think that's pretty much it, except that Cardinal Roark says he has the voice of an angel. I love the Charlie Brown sweater.
Just a nice little enigma of a sociopath.
I forget where I heard this, but I read that Rodriguez and company had an interest in recreating all of the Frank Miller Sin City novels, even if they were straight-to-DVD releases. That would be nifty.
I will eat your soul.
-Come to Daddy, Aphex Twin
seen it..allstar cast, lots of action, upredictable with lots of monotone apocalypse-now style monologues. VERY interesting and mysterious characters to hold your interest for the entire movie.
MARV is my favorite guy..he kicks so much fucking ass. then the bruce willis one.. then the hooker one.