Sin City

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Loki

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I figured I'd start new thread solely around the film and not it's premiere..

It was ****ing awesome... absolutely amazing.. oh man... can't say enough about it...

it it gruesome.. grotesque and twisted and I loved every minute of it.


The creepiest performance I have ever seen... definately Elijah Wood as Kevin...

*shudder*

oh man.. can't say enough good things about this film..
 
Damn you Loki. No one will read my post about the premiere now :(.

But yes, the movie was amazing. Visually, nothing will match it for years. I'm jealous of all the technology RR used for it, not to mention getting the rights to such great stories.

Marv is a badass. Mickey Rourke played the part so ****ing well!
 
Sin City looks amazing. Looking forward to seeing it tomarrow.

It also reminds me of the game max payne, if you have ever played it.
 
Yes, Max Payne has a very film noir-ic look. Wasn't that game based off of Sin City? Has the same feel and dialogue to it.
 
This movie is the ****!! Will probably watch it a few more times over the next few weeks.

I have no idea if the voice overs were direct dialogue from the novella, but they were brilliant, 21st century poetry if i could so far as to say that...

I freakin loved Marv, Mickey Rourke has definitely revived his career.

And the women... wow!!

On top of that we've been treated to an eye candy extravaganza of cinematography that will set the bar for years to come(don't quote me on that). I highly recommend this film to anyone who loves movies and loves gratuitous violence... and yes Frodo is officially one creepy dude(possibly will give me nightmares)!!!
 
The dialogue stuck very true to the graphic novels. RR had the books sitting next to him when he was writing the script!
 
I'm bored at work and read a little blurb out of People magazine (yes, laugh if you want, but this night job is the boring of the boring) about Sin City.

It gave Sin City two stars! TWO!!!&%&**(#)@)!!!! WTF!

It says "Sin is visually wham! bam!, achieving a distinctive comic-book look, but it's more of a homage to Miller's work than a full-fledged movie."

No **** it's a homage to Miller's work. Considering the full title of the movie is "Frank Miller's Sin City". Those bastards.
 
Justin_Kirch said:
Yes, Max Payne has a very film noir-ic look. Wasn't that game based off of Sin City? Has the same feel and dialogue to it.
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I'm not sure on this but i don't think it was based off sin city, just supose to be based off a comic. Now every time I play it i want to see sin city ( but i guess thats a good thing).
 
I don't know if It could even be called a homage when Miller was so involved in the film himself...

I loved the film. I still thought it could've been better, I don't know... but it's definitly up there in my top films of 04/05....
 
A bunch of friends and I snuck a handle of vodka in (divided among a bunch of water bottles) and got drunk while watching the movie.

Needless to say, it was both hilarious and awesome, though I'm not really sure what I thought of the movie since I don't remember it too well now....I know it had an amazing visual style, though. Even cooler than Sky Captain.

Still, both prove that it takes a lot of desaturation and post production to get HD video looking like film. Did anyone else find it odd that the first HD production shot in 4:4:4 color space was almost entirely black and white?
 
Policar said:
Did anyone else find it odd that the first HD production shot in 4:4:4 color space was almost entirely black and white?
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Not really... RR is devoted to HD(film is dead in his world), so whatever projects he is attached to is inevitably gonna be HD.

Came across a brand new book "Sin City - The Making of The Movie" online.

http://www.amplifier-store.com/tmpublishing/

I'm gonna see if it's available at a Chapters tomorrow(can purchase thru chapters online for sure).

RR loves letting filmmakers in on how to, so this book is a must for moi!
 
Policar said:
Did anyone else find it odd that the first HD production shot in 4:4:4 color space was almost entirely black and white?
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I was going to ask him this question at the premiere, but he was too busy being horrded by other fans.

In all honesty, I think the 4:4:4 color space helped him desaturate the colors even more than anyone would be able to in 4:1:1. There was so much color volume in what he shot that it was easier for him to pull out whatever colors he wanted in post and keep the ones he did want because of this new technology.
 
Policar said:
A bunch of friends and I snuck a handle of vodka in (divided among a bunch of water bottles) and got drunk while watching the movie.
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Tell me you're not those obnoxious bastards that hoot and holler and make noise the whole time? Say it isn't so?

:( :thumbdown
 
I just don't understand the point of going to a movie to make a bunch of noise and be a dick to people who pay $$ for a night out... I mean, if you really want to be social go to a bar, go to a movie and then to the bar.... ???
 
John_Hudson said:
Tell me you're not those obnoxious bastards that hoot and holler and make noise the whole time? Say it isn't so?

:( :thumbdown
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We were careful not to make too much noise. With some of the more gruesome moments, it was hard not to groan every once and a while, but we were about as quiet as the rest of the audience. The whole audience was pretty vocal, though. A lot of laughing and a lot of gross out-moments (the second castration? yuck!) I don't think anyone even noticed us (it was a big goup--maybe ten people--so we had to try and be inconspicuous.)


The guy behind me taking vicodin (whom I didn't know) made more noise....
 
I saw it for the second time last night, I liked it even better the second time around. The first theatre that I saw it in wasn't the biggest screen, the acoustics SUCKED and it wasn't that good of an audience.

Last night I saw it in digital projection, the audio was crisp as hell, and the audience actually got the jokes, and was generally awesome.

What sucks is that when I was walking out of the theatre I overheard a lot of people not getting that the Salesman (Harnett) was a hitman, and that he was there to kill Becky. I don't know how you could miss it, but somehow, people don't get the ending.
 
People are dumb and they like simple movies. This one you actually have to pay attention the whole time to understand. But it's not even that hard to understand.

That's why movies like Are We There Yet get millions in the box office. It's a stupid easy movie to watch. People are just retarded.
 
Here's what Rodriguez is saying about the DVD:

Just like the movie itself, the Sin City DVD is going to rock. Here's
Robert Rodriguez talking about his plans during a recent press
conference hosted by Dimension Films:

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

It's not going to feel like, when you watch the separate disc with
these materials back in, like, 'Oh, I can see why that was cut.' It's a
really terrific themed action scene. A lot of the stuff that people
will find I think it's going to be somewhat revolutionary to see those
kind of scenes that were cut out, be put back in another format because
they seem perfectly fine and they work, they just needed to be taken
out for the long haul of the feature. I think it really gives another
life and another experience, more akin to reading the books by doing
that. That's what makes it easy for us to say, 'Let's just shoot
everything with a variety of effects, and then if we edit stuff out,
we're not really cutting it out and people are never going to see it,
they'll be able to see it in a purer form, in a different format.'

And then I'm gonna add on another it'll be a twenty minute film school,
probably for this one, cause there's so many things that - and I want
another ten minute cooking school to be 'Sin City Breakfast Tacos,'
which I'll make a home-made flour tortilla and it's the best meal you
can probably ever learn, so yeah." (joblo.com)

That's so awesome.
 
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