Sin City

[polkablues]

That's more like it.

Love the new avatar, by the way.  Chuck Close is the greatest portrait artist of our time (and I studied art at the same community college he went to, under one of his old friends from college.  Therefore, I'm, like, two degrees away from being Chuck Close).

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yeah, does it not have the stories can be viewed separately like rodriguez mentioned it would?   either way, this is not the last edition of this movie.  MARK MY WORDS.  i will buy this one though, atleast he was speedier than the Kill Bill: SE's.

[1976]

I enjoyed this movie greatly

I love how you can pretty much pause this film at any point and get a beautiful photograph out of it. This shot, for example, is my current desktop wallpaper:

[edison]

yeah, does it not have the stories can be viewed separately like rodriguez mentioned it would?

It does now

DISC ONE

• Original Feature Film Presentation

• Feature Commentary with Robert Rodriguez & Frank Miller

• Feature Commentary with Robert Rodriguez & Quentin Tarantino

• Feature Commentary of Austin Premiere Audience Reaction

• Behind-the-Scenes Featurettes

--A Hard Top With A Decent Engine: The Cars of Sin City
--Making the Monsters: Special Effects & Make-Up
--Trench Coats and Fishnets: The Costumes of Sin City
--Booze, Broads & Guns: The Props of Sin City
--How It Went Down: Convincing Frank Miller to Make The Film
--Giving The Characters Life: Casting the Film
--Special Guest Director, Quentin Tarantino

• Sin-Chroni-City Interactive: As the viewer watches Sin City, it becomes apparent that the characters and their stories are not isolated, but intertwined. It is also revealed that the timelines for these stories are not in synch - and yet not entirely independent. This interactive feature allows the user to get a timeline view of the happenings of Sin City. The user can see the overview schematic of the scenes in chronological order and then zoom in for more detail on any of the events.

• Teaser and Theatrical Trailers

DISC TWO

• Sin City Recut Extended Unrated Feature Film Presentation (with 23 added minutes) Full-length expanded cuts of each individual episode ("Customer Is Always Right," "The Hard Goodbye," "Big Fat Kill"and "That Yellow Bastard") split out into short films - each with their own title cards and in their own complete form; viewers can watch separately and in any order desired.

• 15 Minute Flick School - Showing how everything was done, including the development of the look of the movie before there was financing, plus early screen tests, rehearsal tapes, final effects. Narrated and cut by Robert Rodriguez.

• All Green Version - A high speed look at the entire movie with only its green screen elements.

• The Long Take - A full uninterrupted 17 minute take during the filming of Quentin's segment. Audience gets to see what it's like to sit in the middle of a whirlwind of creativity while the camera is rolling. They never call cut, so everyone is concentrating, working, experimenting and being creative for 17 minutes straight. Very interesting to watch, and hear everyone brainstorming and improvising. Clive, Nicotero,  Rodriguez, Tarantino, and Del Toro, Stevie J, all doing their thing at one point or another.

• Sin City: Live in Concert - Sin City filmmakers, cast and crew head over to Antone's restaurant one night after shooting "That Yellow Bastard" so Bruce Willis' and Robert's band Chingon could play a benefit show. Shows the full version of Bruce and his band playing the song "Devil Woman" and Rodriguez and his band playing the "Theme from Sin City."

• 10 Minute Cooking School: Sin City Breakfast Tacos - Rodriguez's meal of choice during the long night hours of making Sin City. Shows how to make Rodriguez's grandma's secret homemade flour tortilla recipe as well.

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with footage too sexy for theatres!

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Sin City: The TV Series
It's not a dream. It's real and coming to a television set near you!

Frank Miller's Sin City graphic novels were turned into a critically and commercially successful feature film earlier this year. Director Robert Rodriguez has already confirmed that a sequel is in the works for 2006 and will be based primarily on Miller's A Dame to Kill For. Variety is reporting that the Sin City franchise will continue on the small screen following the release of Sin City 2.

"Also in the works [is] a [series] based on Dimension Films' 'Sin City' -- which would follow in the footsteps of 2006's second pic in Robert Rodriguez's 'Sin' series," Variety stated.

Details on the series will likely remain nebulous for some time, but a 2007 release seems a likely target. Whether the series will be live-action or animated is also unclear, though it would be difficult for a weekly live-action TV series to follow the visual template laid out by Rodriguez's film.

It's also unknown if the series will translate the remaining Sin City graphic novels or be based strictly on all new tales. Considering there are only a handful of Miller's Sin graphic novels remaining, it's a near-certainty that the bulk of episodes will need to be original stories.

The level of involvement from Rodriguez and Miller is also unknown. More details should become available when Miller and Rodriguez begin promoting the Sin City silver screen sequel next year.

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unless this is for HBO, it will suck.  it will probably suck anyways and miller is going to be like 'whatthefuck?' cause he got to have all this control with the movie and he is going to have to relinquish that to some crappy studio for a tv show.  fingers crossed for hbo and good talent involved.

[squints]

an animated series would be cool

[polkablues]

It might make a good comic book.

[NEON MERCURY]

it might make a good nickname for a city filled with casinos and whores

[ᾦɐļᵲʊʂ]

The Uncut DVD is really nice.  Unrated implied to me that it was racier, but I think they just didn't bother to have it rated so they could call it that. 

The features are great, it's worth the purchase alone just so you can get The Hard Goodbye with it.  My big gripe about it: the box it comes in.  That thing is going to fall apart, I'm sure of it.  There had to have been a better way... and the way they overlap one DVD over the other shows it's almost inevitable to get fucked up.

I'll just be super careful, I guess.

I love the extra scene in the Yellow Bastard SPOILER When Hartigan is in the hospital and his fellow officers and wife come beg him to say it isn't true.  This was huge in the book to me... In the original movie cut we know he has to admit it, but in the comic, it shows his loved ones approaching him about it... I have no idea why this was ever cut anyway.

[Weak2ndAct]

Yeah, great dvd, ass box-- they should have taken a note from Criterion (Short Cuts).  I was shocked by the extra 'kills' at the end of 'Big Fat Kill.'  How could you not put that in the movie???

[grand theft sparrow]

First chance I get, I'm making that breakfast taco recipe.

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It's the kind of movie Harry Knowles will rave about loving in a week or two but not end up anywhere on his Best of the Year list.

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