its being called the Pulp Fiction of the new century, and it has the cast and the background for it. should be awesome:

The crime noir flick, which stars almost everyone, condenses several of Miller’s Sin City tales (“That Yellow Bastard”, “The Big Fat Kill” and “The Hard Goodbye”, the name assigned to the initial Marv and Goldie story), meshing them together in three distinct arcs whose characters cross paths throughout the film.

the cast:

Jessica Alba .... Nancy Callahan - hot
Devon Aoki .... Miho
Maria Bello .... Ava Lord - hot
Alexis Bledel .... Becky - I love her
Rosario Dawson .... Gail - big tits
Benicio Del Toro .... Jack Rafferty (Y)
Michael Clarke Duncan .... Manute (Y)
Rick Gomez .... Mr. Shlubb
Carla Gugino .... Lucille - hot
Josh Hartnett .... The Employee
Jaime King .... Goldie/Wendy - hot
Michael Madsen .... Bob (Y)
Jason McDonald .... Ronnie
Brittany Murphy .... Shellie - hot
Sherrell Murphy-Ramos .... Molly prince
Tommy Nix .... Weeval
Clive Owen .... Dwight (Y)
Mickey Rourke .... Marv (Y)
Marley Shelton .... The Customer
Nick Stahl .... Junior/Yellow Bastard (Y)
Scott Teeters .... Lenny/Benny
Makenzie Vega .... Young Nancy
Arie Verveen .... Murphy
Bruce Willis .... Hartigan (Y)
Elijah Wood .... Kevin (Y)


The Trailer:

http://progressive.stream.aol.com/aol/us/moviefone/movies/2004/sincity_019736/sincity_trlr_01_dl.mov

http://www.darkhorizons.com/2005/sin/sin2.jpg

http://www.darkhorizons.com/2005/sin/sin3.jpg

http://img129.exs.cx/img129/5752/sincity1.jpg

http://img129.exs.cx/img129/1049/sincity2.jpg

http://img146.exs.cx/img146/8749/sincitymovie019ou.gif

cool.

I wanted to see this, when is it out.

Whoa boy - that looks superb. Looks more like La Haine than Pulp Fiction, but hey, that's cool too :p

Lots of names I dont recognise in that cast, but hey, I like new faces, and Madsen and Del Toro guarantee atleast two good performances.

I cant wait for this.

AC/DC soundtrack? :p

looks like Max Payne - The movie.

Trailer isn't working for me :(

try here:

http://www.apple.com/trailers/miramax/sin_city.html

Thanks, wow this looks good I love these type of movies. What's the release date?

PS: Benicio Del Toro :rockman: what a perfect choice for this type of movie, he's one of my favorite actors too.

looks great (Y) BTW, wasn't Sin City a cartoon? I could swear I've seen characters and a plot like this before :confused:


I just hope that ugly crackwhore Brittany Murphy isn't in the movie too much, she'd just ruin it for me

Very hot lineup of chicks there (Y)

But.. after seeing the trailer.. only one word comes to mind: trippy :crazyboy:

I don't quite get the whole thing. Is is supposed to be some sort of cartoon style or was that done just for the trailer? Someone elaborate a bit. Looks awesome!

Sin City is a crime noir Comic Book but not like the regular ones, there are just around 7 or 8 books each with a different story. this movie portrays 3 of those books combined.

its mostly in B&W but it has some things in color (some eyes, some skins, wounds, etc).
the movie is going to be the same way, in B&W with some color to keep it like the comic :D

Could be great or terrible judging from the trailor. Im not sure about the "star-studded" cast. People like Owen, Del Toro, Madsen, Stahl, Dawson and Willis are good. But Brittany Murphy, Jamie King, Bledel, Hartnett, Alba and Duncan could ruin things.

the mickey Rourke character at the start of the trailor looks like Hell Boy.

To me, this movie reminded me of Dick Tracy, Last Action Hero and a superhero movie combined.

Originally posted by Mikey
the mickey Rourke character at the start of the trailor looks like Hell Boy.

Agreed. I was like, "Whops, wrong trailer."

Originally posted by Mikey
Could be great or terrible judging from the trailor. Im not sure about the "star-studded" cast. People like Owen, Del Toro, Madsen, Stahl, Dawson and Willis are good. But Brittany Murphy, Jamie King, Bledel, Hartnett, Alba and Duncan could ruin things.

the mickey Rourke character at the start of the trailor looks like Hell Boy.

To me, this movie reminded me of Dick Tracy, Last Action Hero and a superhero movie combined.

I agree about some of that, all the women are not reliable though:

- Alexis Bledel hasnt done anything yet. most of the people dont know her unless they watch Gilmore Girls in which she's awesome (plus I love her :D)
- Jessica Alba has a huge following. I dont really like though
- Michael Clarke Duncan is good (Y)
- Josh Harnett is not that bad. I liked some of his roles before.

- Jamie King and Brittany Murphy are annoying and not god actresses (N)

Originally posted by Mikey


the mickey Rourke character at the start of the trailor looks like Hell Boy.



Yeah same here, when I saw that big ass head the first thing that came to mind was hellboy.

Originally posted by Hakeem
I agree about some of that, all the women are not reliable though:

- Alexis Bledel hasnt done anything yet. most of the people dont know her unless they watch Gilmore Girls in which she's awesome (plus I love her :D)
- Jessica Alba has a huge following. I dont really like though
- Michael Clarke Duncan is good (Y)
- Josh Harnett is not that bad. I liked some of his roles before.

- Jamie King and Brittany Murphy are annoying and not god actresses (N)

- Alexis Bledel looks like shes 16, dont think shes right for this movie

- Jessica Alba is really hot, but theres a reason why she hasnt really taken off career wise.

- I like Duncan, but i didnt like him in 'Daredevil', and thats the kind of role i see him playing in this.

- Hartnett's alright, but id take someone like James Franco over him anyday

- I dont like King at all, but Murphys alright. Can really only play the same 'loud mouth' role though.

Im not sure about the black and white thing, it turns a lot of people off

Originally posted by Mikey
- Alexis Bledel looks like shes 16, dont think shes right for this movie

- Hartnett's alright, but id take someone like James Franco over him anyday

well, she's playing against type and she's never done it before, and at the same time, she basically hasnt done anything in movies before so she might just be good at it :)

agree with Franco, excellent actor. Ill even take Hayden Christensen which is also a great young actor destroying his reputation with those Star Wars movies :nape: :p

Originally posted by rony31


I just hope that ugly crackwhore Brittany Murphy isn't in the movie too much, she'd just ruin it for me


hehehe. same here.

She's an extremely hot crackwhore. This movie looks like it's going to rule, though.

EDIT: If that Jessica Alba pole dance routine were a couple of seconds longer it'd be instant fap material, for sure.

Benicio Del Toro is one of my favorites
...as for Jessica Alba, she's damn hot....i dont care if she cant act for sh!t....she's gorgeous(H)

...the rest of the cast is amazing:o

CANT WAIT:D

Josh Harnett is one of the worst actors in the business. It pains me to even remember his acting in Pearl Harbor and 40 days and 40 nights.

I like the rest of the cast though.

Watching Josh Harnett trying to act in Pearl Harbour was cringemaking. The castlist is so long though that I doubt any one actor has too much screnetime.

Looking forward to this movie!

Jessica Alba = yummy!!:hump:

From the looks of the trailor and the people behind it, theres no way this movie will be bad. You got Frank Miller, a legendary writer in the comic book industry, and Robert Rodriguez (Desperado(Y)(Y) co-directing. If movies like Underworld and XXX can get sequels, than this one will for sure


Hey Hakeem, i was looking at the upcoming releases, and there seems to be all garbage this month and next, what gives? Be Cool is the next good movie to come out, and thats in march. (N)

Originally posted by Virgo
Josh Harnett is one of the worst actors in the business. It pains me to even remember his acting in Pearl Harbor and 40 days and 40 nights.

I like the rest of the cast though.

The Faculty (H)

Originally posted by Mikey
From the looks of the trailor and the people behind it, theres no way this movie will be bad. You got Frank Miller, a legendary writer in the comic book industry, and Robert Rodriguez (Desperado(Y)(Y) co-directing. If movies like Underworld and XXX can get sequels, than this one will for sure


Hey Hakeem, i was looking at the upcoming releases, and there seems to be all garbage this month and next, what gives? Be Cool is the next good movie to come out, and thats in march. (N)

Imaginary Heroes is coming out in limited release in Frebuary 11. looks very good.

Constantine doesnt look bad. February 18.

Ong Bak: The Thai Warrior comes out in February too in limited release.

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/images/news/sin-city/4sincity021105.jpg

http://img77.exs.cx/img77/5952/sin2pb.jpg

for all you Alba fans :p

Dammit I used to get that mag last year, don't get it anymore :(

Jessica Alba in leather:clapwap: (Y) :hump:

The things I would do to her...mamacita!!!

:evil:

super cool site.

http://www.sincitythemovie.com/


I already put the Alexis Bledel wall in my desktop :D

the new trailer is awesome (Y)

http://progressive.stream.aol.com/aol/us/moviefone/movies/2005/sincity_019736/sincity_trlr_02_dl.mov

There might be Too much stars/characters in this movie.

Looks amazing, but i could see the critics tearing it apart.

I cant see anyone tearing it apart... unless it completely sucks.

Looks brilliant!

"Special Guest Director Quentin Tarantino"

that should get more people excited :D

Very few Rodriguez projects are without a Tarantino input - this film looks like it should be what we've all be expecting from Rodriguez for a while now - a masterwork.

this is gonna be a good one

Damn, I'll have to check this out, looks amazing. (Y)

Originally posted by Virgo
looks like Max Payne - The movie.

I thought the exact same thing when i saw it

What is the deal, on the tv commercials, with Tarintino as a special guest director. Hakeem and Callum mentioned it there, but does anyone have anymore info? Is Rodriguez like Tarintino's protoge or something, or have they worked together in the past? I thought I saw tim roth in the preview for a second, but being that Madsens in it, could the connection be there?

yes, Robert Rodriguez is kind of QT's protege. for example QT wrote From Dusk Till Dawn and Robert directed it. and they've worked together a lot more.

and nope, Tim Roth is not in Sin City.


and this has nothing to do with Max Payne. actually, maybe max payne was inspired by Frank Miller's comics.


and about QT as a guest director, he directed the opening scene only, which is the story of Josh Harnett and Jamie King.
Robert Rodriguez directed the whole movie after that with Frank Miller (the creator of the comic) getting director's credit only because Robert wanted him. Robert even quit the Director's Guild of America for this because they dont allow director's to share the credit for the same movie :p

Desperado had a large Tarantino imput too, and they worked together on Four Rooms. Damn Rodriguez was lucky with his mentor :(

yeah, I think it was actually QT the one that saw El Mariachi and decided to get Robert Rodriguez over to Miramax to get them to make Desperado.

That was Lawrence Bender I think, a close friend of QT and producer of most Band Apart films, so I suspect QT had a big hand in it.

I just got back from a press screening of Sin City and WOW - AWESOME :D

some of the best visuals Ive ever seen on screen. it was truly amazing and I loved pretty much every little bit of it, specially Jamie King and Carla Gunino naked :D
but really, excellent characters, and the 3 stories were very well put together in a Pulp Fiction sort of way. great stuff (Y)(Y)(Y)

You lucky bastard:p

Wow! Damn your lucky to get an advance screening. Was it press for that site there in your sig, or can you not say? :p Glad to hear it measured up to the hype and all, and ill definately be going as soon as it comes out. The nudity doesnt hurt either!

God, we wont get it for months yet, sounds awesome though (Y)

Originally posted by TheBlueBalla
Wow! Damn your lucky to get an advance screening. Was it press for that site there in your sig, or can you not say?

nah, I dont get anything from the site. the passes I get them from radio stations and stuff like that but for press screenings like this one was I have a friend that works for a paper could get me in, and so I told my manager at work I had to go to the doctor and I wouldnt be working until after noon so it worked great cause this screening was at 10 in the morning :p

my full review :D

Robert Rodriguez had to quit the DGA so Sin City creator Frank Miller could share Directing credits with him in the movie, and he also got crazy mastermind Quentin Tarantino to be guest director and put a little of him the movie. The result is a masterful story filled incredible visual style taken right out of Frank Miller's violent and tragic books.
The movie combines 3 of the books and moves in a Pulp Fiction sort of way, giving us lots characters all performed perfectly by the great and talented cast. I won't get into much detail as how the stories go because with so many characters and crime and violence being the theme of the movie, I would be spoiling their faith, so I'll just name which characters form part of what stories and who they are.

The Hard Goodbye is the first of Miller's books, and follows the story of Marv (Mickey Rourke), a big, tough, covered in band-aids man currently on parole, and seeking revenge for the death of his true love, a prostitute called Goldie (Jamie King). His parole officer and friend is Lucille (Carla Gunino).
He also receives the help of Goldie's twin sister Wendy (also Jamie King of course) and the killer is a young cannibal called Kevin (Elijah Wood).
Marv's is the best character in the movie for me and his story is also the most satisfying to watch, and not completely because Jamie King and Carla Gunino are both naked most of the time. Mickey Rourke is a marvel to watch here and Carla Gunino puts a great supporting performance too.

The Big Fat Kill is the third book in the series, and the central story in the movie. Dwight (Clive Owen) protects his new friend, a waitress called Shellie (Brittany Murphy), from her crazy exboyfriend and cop Jack Rafferty aka Jackie Boy (Benicio Del Toro), who doesn't want to be her exboyfriend. The story takes them to the city' Old Town, ruled by the prostitutes after an arrangement with the cops that keeps them out of the place letting the women to protect themselves. They are led by Gail (Rosario Dawson), a former lover of Dwight's, and there's also the very young Becky (Alexis Bledel) and the deadly Miho (Devon Aoki). Jackie Boy's side is later led by a big black man called Manute (Michael Clarke Duncan).
Dwight is also one of the best characters, with very good work by Clive Owen. My beloved Alexis Bledel looks great, and the amazing Devon Aoki provides the best action.

Finally we have That Yellow Bastard, the fourth book, named after the deadly rapist called Junior (Nick Stahl), who trying to get to Nancy (Jessica Alba), an almost victim of his acts years ago, now a stripper working at Shellie's bar. John Hartigan (Bruce Willis) is the cop that stopped him that time and must Nancy again after getting out of jail. Hartigan's partner is Bob (Michael Madsen).
This story is split during the movie and it works great, with Bruce Willis doing a great job in the lead as well as Jessica Alba.

Besides those three stories, there is an isolated opening scene consisting of a dialog between a salesman (Josh Harnett) and his customer (Marley Shelton).

I haven't mentioned, though it's easy to deduct from the trailers, that the movie has the same style of the books, being all in black and white with just some objects in color like blood, lights, shoes or hair to name some. This style looks amazing, and was filmed like last year's Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, with the actors working against a green screen and then Robert Rodriguez added the backgrounds using today's technology.
These excellent visuals, smart and violent action stories, and the great work by the entire cast, make Sin City the movie an excellent adaptation from the probably excellent books by Frank Miller. I can't wait to read them and watch the movie again.

Excellent review, I really cannot wait to see this, I think this may be a revolutionary film in terms of cinema history.

thanks.
and yeah, this is one of the few movies lately that I had really had hopes, and the final result was on par or better than I was expecting :D

conan o'brien has had Sin City stars Clive Owen and Benicio Del Toro on consecutive days and has gone out of his way to say how awesome this movie. Something he rarely does unless its a really good movie, so thats a good sign.

Jessica Alba is on Fridays show :D

conan o'brien has had Sin City stars Clive Owen and Benicio Del Toro on consecutive days and has gone out of his way to say how awesome this movie. Something he rarely does unless its a really good movie, so thats a good sign.

Jessica Alba is on Fridays show :D


I love it when Conan sort of tells us the movie is utter crap, either by not making a single comment on its quality or by omitting his usual 'I saw this movie last night'.

Jessica Alba is on Fridays show :D This will make my whole day today. Seein this interview will be an amazing experience. :hump: :rolleyes:

I love it when Conan sort of tells us the movie is utter crap, either by not making a single comment on its quality or by omitting his usual 'I saw this movie last night'.

ya, like when he had Jamie Kennedy on for 'Son of the Mask'. Didnt comment about the actual movie from what i remember.

watched the movie again last night. fvcking awesome! :D

check out this page to film screens. prety impressive (Y)

and Carla Gugino :hump:

http://www.filmrot.com/images/sincity-comparisons/sincity.html

u always see movies before they come out, u lucky bastard

Just saw it, this movie is AWESOME

I really hope they make a sequel, all the theatres were jam packed so I hope thats a sign of good box office sucess.




Every guy walked out of the theatre saying "Sweet" "wicked" "Dude!" "Wow" "F*cking awesome".

All the girls walked out saying, "that movie sucked and didnt make sense"

Thats the greatest compliment an action orientated film can get. (Y)

(Marv/Mickey Rourke stole the show)

Might go see this tomorrow morning.

I just saw it and wow ******* amazing. Best movie iv seen this year and last year by far. Mickey Rourke was amazing :rockman:

ya, like when he had Jamie Kennedy on for 'Son of the Mask'. Didnt comment about the actual movie from what i remember.

I felt sorry for Conan the last time Vin Diesel was there to promote his suckass movie...

Man, I'm getting all hyped up for this one, thanks to you lot and the awesome reviews. You get to see most movies like 2 months ahead of us over here, and that sucks millions. When I do see them, you've all jumped to another movie and I got nobody to talk about. That sucks.

i gotta give you respect for keeping that sig Infesta(Y)

I wish i could say more about this movie, but i dont wanna spoil it for you guys. Like Hakeem, im gonna see this movie again next week, and i never wanna see movies twice in theatres, but ill make an exception for this.



As for us being lucky, look at this way..

maybe we get the movies 2 months before you, but you get to see worldclass soccer live (if you make the drive to Spain of course ;) joke)

You got to see Euro 2004 in your backyard.

Is Conan dubbed in portuguese, or is it in English?

Hey Hakeem, you said in an earlier post that there are 8 stories overall, and 3 of them are in this movie. Are you definately sure thats true? because that could mean another 2 movies (Y)

do want to watch this movie! but it's gonna be shown only on the 1st of June:( some crappy movies like Constantine are shown just right after they were made...

Hey Hakeem, you said in an earlier post that there are 8 stories overall, and 3 of them are in this movie. Are you definately sure thats true? because that could mean another 2 movies (Y)

there are 7 books plus a kind of Frank Miller Bible (like JRR Tolkien's The Silmarillion)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/listmania/list-browse/-/2AEGTKV3LDIP/ref=cm_lm_lists/002-7813908-7965643


and actually, I read that Robert Rodriguez said that since he makes the movies in his house (he has the digital stull to make movies all in his house in Texas and he films everything there), he said he'd love to make all Sin city books and get them out on DVD even if the studios dont want to pay for distribution. he said he wants to have a huge DVD collection of Sin City with eveything there. that'd be awesome :D

Thats awesome news, but I doubt hed get the same all star cast if it didnt have a distributor.

It has an 8.7 rating at IMDB right now (Y)

Who doesnt love Robert Rodriguez? I think he kinda wasted his talents with those Spy Kids movies but whatever. Reading some of the previews of those books, they didnt lie when they said the movie is adapted directly from the books.

Some more good news about this movie, concerning its DVD release:

http://dvd.ign.com/articles/600/600858p1.html



For anybody wondering which scene Tarantino directed...

*** SPOILERS ***






(it was the one with Clive Owens character in the car with Del Toro's decapitated head)

yep, that was the one. no spoiler really :p

Sin City is based on three graphic novels by Frank Miller (who also co-directed the project). For the feature film, Rodriguez and Miller tied the three books together so that they could flow together as one movie. For the DVD, however, viewers will have the option of watching the whole film together or watching each book separately as they appeared in the novels, complete with new footage.

"We shot the full stories of the books," Rodriguez says. "And I knew we could truncate it down, we weren't going to lose any scenes. Eventually they would all be available for people to see. The DVD will come out with the theatrical cut, and then there will be a separate disc that's got the individual episodes separate with their own title card and you could just watch The Big Fat Kill from beginning to end in its full cut as a single story and then switch over and watch The Yellow Bastard, and that's 45 minutes. It will have all the material back in, so it will be like the experience of picking up the books where you pick up one story and you read it from beginning to end and it will have all the material in it. So you can kind of shuffle your own version of the movie and just watch them all separately."


awesome :D

Sin City Tops Box Office

$29M in first week, for an R rated movie.

(Y)http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/boxoffice/weekend/

yep. it did a little bit more that expected (Y)

Saw it last night, very good film. Graphic as hell, I loved the latter two stories. The first one was not that great.

you actually didnt like Marv's story? weird. is the one everybody loves the most.
but cool :)

I wanna watch it, it opens here in my country only on May 26 and even then i'm 7 months short of the legal age. :nape:

you actually didnt like Marv's story? weird. is the one everybody loves the most.
but cool :)

Yea, I just didn't like it too much I'm not sure why. Didn't really make too much sense to me for some reason.

great Flick !!!! a must watch ! The creativity of frank miller is outstanding ... Had the tarantino touch to it as well .. Loved the movie

Just tell me what did the movie portrayed. I only got that there were 3 stories, running in different timelines. But why! What is their significance in the bigger picture?

just saw the movie, it was great.the best story i loved was about bruce saving nancy.

Awesome movie. Definitely looking forward to the DVD.

i have the dvd rightnow.

WOOOW!!!

One of the best movies I have ever seen...but, no nudity from Jessica. :nape:

(:/)

do you have to have knowledge of the comic to like this movie?

cause im quite interested from the previews

Not really.

not at all Id say. go see it :)

whoa.. this looks like an awesome movie.. can't wait to see it

actually this looks like ****, something similar to that movie with brat pit and kim besinger where shes cartoon character and she has to **** human (from real world) to become one (real woman).

LOL just coz Alba looks sexier eva .......

watching the movie as we speak. see that post just above, well i wont take it back coz half way through and its so boring im gonna watch hollywood homicide in 5 mins and have more fun :lui:

surely many peeps will like sin city but not me.

comic books fans will be extatic!

wasted my time.

what an idiotic two posts.

and Cool World rocks (Y)(Y)(Y)


and its nothing like this

seriously, i loved that movie, it was brilliant

thanks for the recommendations, for those who havent seen it, do yourself a favour and go see it

p.s. jessica alba is unreal, shes actually reason alone to go see this movie

I'm so gonna see this movie, it looks awesome!

Sin City 2 :clapwap:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4561547.stm

Hell Yeah, more Jessica Alba in chaps. :D!!!




...can't wait. :lui:

It's not in cinemas here yet but it's already out on DVD in the US. How unfair is that :(

nah, its not out on DVD here. I think we still need to wait like 6 months.

It's coming on DVD August 20.

Just got back from seeing Sin City.
I never read the comic books nor had I heard much about them but from what I heard and it being a Robert Rodriguez film with a guest direction of QT it had to be good. My expectations were high and it didn't disapoint.
What a movie! wow!

So unique and great storytelling, great visuals, great everything and special mention to Jessica Alba, dang! :jap:

I went to go see the movie yesterday. Got to say it was very entertaining, and it always kept you intrested. Good unique character's and concept, very good overall. I'd watch it more than once, and id advise it to anyone. Best movie ive seen in awhile. Alba was a good positive of the movie (H) The only negative about the movie was Brittany Murphy :nape: Her Phony accent was just :|

Yeah saw this film yesterday, im only 17 and dont really look that old so we bought tickets to watch mr and mrs smith and then snuck into sin city, it was timed perfectly so it just started when we walked in. I was very impressed by this film, it was entertaining from the start to the end. I thort the characters were very cheese along with the script but i wud expect that from a film based on a comic book. Rosario dawson is very fit not forgetting the stunning jessica alba. After hearing all the hype on this film, it for once lived up to it, i was suprised that josh hartnett didnt get a longer role in the film. It was quite violent and one of the first films i cringed at especially when bruce willis shot that guys dick off!!!. Excellent film worth a look definitley.


its out in america in august i already pre-ordered it on www.playusa.com free delivery

I dont know, I wouldn't buy that DVD. Robert Rodriguez said he's working on a huge spcial edition DVD where he'll have the theatrical movie PLUS a director's cut of each of the 3 stories in 3 different disks (but all in the same package).

oh i may cancel it then i dunno, if anyone sees this new special edition dvd of sin city then post a link plz!

One of the best movies I've ever seen.

Shame they didn't manage to find a way to blend all 3 stories in one or this would have been considered one of the greatest movies of all time, up there with Pulp Fiction.

The characters even the secondary ones that get like 1 or 2 min of screen time were all excellent.

Definitely the best Comic book movie ever.

The director try to use the comic as the guideline for this movies but the scenes bored me as they are always holding still

It doesnt matter if the movie is several mins long, but it is quite tired to watch it for two hours

several minutes long for a movie, must be well worth the money. :|

Just came back from the theatre and I got to say it's great seeing Rodriguez finally fulfilling the potential we all knew he had. Honestly, after all the crap he made in the past years I'd given up on him, so thanks Robert. :jap:

Not gonna repeat what everybody said about this film 2 months ago, but I was browsing the first pages and found out I never replied Mikey:

As for us being lucky, look at this way..

maybe we get the movies 2 months before you, but you get to see worldclass soccer live (if you make the drive to Spain of course ;) joke)

You got to see Euro 2004 in your backyard.

Is Conan dubbed in portuguese, or is it in English?

Well, we do get to see good football here in Porto, even more since FC Porto plays regularly in the CL, but it would be good to not wait so damn long to see the movies. :p

Actually I get Conan on 2 different channels: 1)MNBC or whatever its name is runs recent shows (usually one day after its shown on the US) with no subtitles, 2) Sic Comedy airs 1 month-old shows with subtitles.
We don't dub anything over here because we're not Spain. (Y)

Sorry to drag this thread up, but I have only just seen this film and thought it was absolutely AMAZING! I was just in awe of how incredible it is - I have always liked Rodriguez's films but never thought he could achieve anything like this! Everything about it was just perfect, the cinematography was just beautiful and I have never seen computer-effects used so well. The storylines were equally amazing, I was gripped from the start and the end left me desperate for more, the whole structure was so clever and each individual story was so good, aswell as so fantastically over the top, that it never stopped being perfect. The structure is, infact, essentially exactly the same as Pulp Fiction - the very first and last scenes containing one cool character who does not appear anywhere else but sets the first and last impressions (Tim Roth/Josh Hartnet), then going onto the first story which is split into two parts, one part being before the other two stories and the other after, then another two stories in between which actually take place considerably after the first one, even though you get the feel they are running parallel. It's obviously a structre that works and I expect to see it used more in fragmented narratives.

The acting was also incredible, not one weak cog. When the little characters were on stage with the big, both were equally class and everything was totally natural. I have always been a big fan of Mickey Rourke and I'm so glad to see him finally putting in the massive performance I knew he was capable of and getting the praise he deserved and I am so greatful to RR for giving him the chance. Willis also put in a performance as good as any of his past greats and Clive Owen proved my early dislike for him, after King Arthur, to be totally false and he knocked them dead along side Benicio Del Toro who never puts a foot wrong in any film. Some people have criticised the film for being unbelievable, highlighting elements like the sexiness of all the whores, but in a film like this you dont care about believability and I really liked the girls constantly on screen as it really added to the film.

Just a totally amazing film, I am so glad I have seen it in the cinema, best film this year by a long shot and already one of my all time favourites, I am still in awe of how good it was.

well its about flaming time that i got around to writing my Sin City review, so here it is:

Film Review: Sin City

Good god it's been a while since my last review, indeed it seems a lifetime ago that I sat down to watch the wonderful Revenge of the Sith, but as with life; cinema listings move on as the film I’ve been waiting for finally hits the British cinema; Sin City.

Frank Miller's Sin City takes place in a fictional world or pain based on his infamous graphic novels; directed by himself and Robert Rodriguez and with a massive array of Hollywood acting talent; this is definitely a film I’ve been waiting for. The story bases itself around 3 different narrative 'strands' that often overlap each other. Bruce Willis, Clive Owen and Mickey Rouke play the respective three lead roles accompanied by endless amounts of other big names. Willis is Hartigan, the tough, close-to-retirement cop on his last mission to save a girl from rape. Owen plays Dwight, a roughed up ex-detective whose part becomes ever more important as the film progresses. Finally Rouke plays Marv, the gentle giant who’s wrongly and deliberately accused of killing a prostitute.

It will come as no surprise that I’m doing no justice to Sin City's wonderfully complex plot, a crime-thriller that winds itself around a cast in beautifully constructed scenes that’s too hard to put down into just a few hundred words. Sin City's main thing is its multiple plot strands, using all three main characters allows it to use many other side characters endlessly as Miller clearly intended, this is a clever device that allows Sin City to weave all the magic it wants to, whenever it wants to.

The first thing anyone will notice about Sin City is its exceptional and utterly unique appearance, complex CGI and some brilliant creativity by Rodriguez allow the movie to look how it wants to without it ever being noticeably unrealistic, in a distinct parody of the old film-noir genre the film takes ideas from all other kinds of movies, from thrillers to comedies. Sin City's visual brilliance will blow even the heaviest skeptic away.

Sin City's acting is very good, all three leads are incredible in their parts and the leads have clearly been well cast by Rodriguez. Rouke is particularly interesting and deep as the ever-weird Marv, he plays a role that at first seems unrealistic yet as the film progresses becomes wonderfully written and subsequently well acted. Owen has some exceptionally well written narrations that make for some hilarious lines in some of the more serious parts of the film. The supporting cast in Sin City is beyond brilliant, Jessica Alba and Benicio Del Toro are superb in their respective roles and there's solid backup from the rest of the cast, the scenes between Owen and Del Toro are particularly well acted.

Sin City is a weird film, for all the things I’ve listed about how great this film is I simply can’t get away from some fundamental flaws. The plot itself is far too complex for most cinema fans, this isn’t a criticism of Sin City in anyway but I believe it will be far too complicated for most to enjoy, this will undoubtedly hurt its box office takings over the coming weeks. While this isn’t a major problem Sin City's real Achilles heel lies in the skeleton of how the movie has been made. In my opinion the film is poor as a serious movie, too many times an emotional and heart-aching scene is spoilt by a bout of violence or an unrealistically clichéd line, often some of the more sensitive issues such as rape are undermined by poor script writing that only helps to distant the audience from the films main message. On the other hand Sin City works well as a comedy, while it might not be totally intended to do so the script simply hands itself to a nice working black comedy reminiscent of something such as Breast Men (Daivd Schwimmer), making Sin City force you to smile even at the most demented of scenes.

So I arrive at my conclusion with a mixed head, I did enjoy this movie but not as much as I expected, it does appear to me that the intrusion of comedy onto an overwhelmingly serious plot only hurts the film in the long run, and despite the phenomenal visuals, great acting and superb originality, Sin City simply cant live up to it’s vast and inevitable self-inflicted hype.

4/5 - Still very good despite it's flaws.

TROD.

Very good and interesting review, although I disagree with your conclusions one cant fault you for quality of argument and having the balls to go against the run. You're wrong though :p

"The plot itself is far too complex for most cinema fans, this isn’t a criticism of Sin City in anyway but I believe it will be far too complicated for most to enjoy"

Are you sure you're talking about Sin City here?

About the rest of that paragraph I you missed the fact that it's a faithful comic book adaptation and therefore the dialog is exactly the same type as you'd find if you read the books. You may like it or dislike it but you can't slag it off as failed dialogs because they achieved exactly what they wanted.

I agree about the dialogue thing, though you guys did criticize War of the Worlds when it's the same thing only that it's based on a classic book (and of the best of all time at that) instead of a comic book like Sin City :| :(

thanks guys for reading the review. Virgo i dont think some of the dialogue worked, whether it be the films fault or the graphic novel's fault i just think in places it was misused, certain scenes needed to be more serious in places but were spoilt by cliched lines, thats EXACTLY what i mean.

Obviously i know all of you liked it and QUITE liked it, joking aside though is my review pretty objective or would you say its biased in anyway?

TROD.

I agree about the dialogue thing, though you guys did criticize War of the Worlds when it's the same thing only that it's based on a classic book (and of the best of all time at that) instead of a comic book like Sin City :| :(

I have nothing against the dialogs in War of the Worlds, just the plot

War of the Worlds was so poor that only the fact Steven Speilburg was at the helm managed to save it and make it entertaining. It's strange because, although not a fan of SciFi, I quite enjoyed the book but in the film it just seems silly. The dialogue is totally basic and everything explained very poorly - but, as I said, Speilburg managed to get enough out of it and to do enough with the effects to make it worthwhile. But anyway, why are we talking about WotW's here? :p