Sin City - a movie for Browncoats (the badass ones)
POSTED BY: WildHeavenFarm
UPDATED: Friday, August 19, 2005 14:24
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Those of you with moderate to strong constitutions should run right out and rent or buy the movie Sin City. As I watched this unique and manly film, I thought to myself over and over "This is a film for Browncoats." There's one character that's very Jayne and one that's fairly Zoe. I might even "borrow" some better bits of monologue for another one of my unrelentlessly unfinished fics.
Those persons who complain of certain Firefly eps being too violent to watch (and you know who you are) might want to watch something else, like the remake of Where the Red Fern Grows, or something.
Your $.2?
Mary
Always a beast, never a burden. 
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I just happen to be watchin' it right now. It's Pulp Fiction on acid. Strong constitution necessary, but it's like nuthin' else I've seen.
May be too intense for younger viewers. Parental discression is advised.
Reality is applied at the film-maker's discression. Which is minimal.
Cool.
Sin-filled Chrisisall
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I would just like to say to everyone: don't buy it right now!
It is an amazing film based on some amazing graphic novels, but this current DVD release is extremely barebones. Robert Rodriguez has said in a recent interview with IGN that the "real" DVD is coming out pretty soon:
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I told Frank [Miller], let's do three stories. I know it doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but we'll cram three stories together. We'll shoot the full books, but in editing I'll just figure out what stuff we need to cut to make it flow as a feature for the theatrical release so people can sit there and in under two hours see sort of a resemblance what the movie is. But when it goes to DVD, we can do a special edition where the second disc can have the stories separated out in the full cuts so that you can see it the way you would read the books. You just watch "The Yellow Bastard," the full cut, or see "The Big Fat Kill," and that's the way you're supposed to read the books.
The real DVD should come out fairly quick, [and] it's the one that will be obviously the double-disc set with all of the goodies on it. I mean, it has all kinds of stuff on there - I have a 20-minute Film School, a new Cooking School, Sin City Breakfast Tacos, and my favorite feature: when people watch DVDs, they complain 'oh, the only thing about home entertainment is you miss that audience experience.' Well, the best audience is in Austin, especially for a movie that was made there. We showed the premiere with the actors there in a 1500-seat theater, and they would go crazy and Sin City got a big reaction. I recorded the audience in 5.1 so if you're watching the DVD and you want to see it with an Austin audience on premiere night, you just click a button and they're all there going 'aaaah!' so it's really cool.
Personally, I'm going to hold off and wait for the edition Rodriguez is putting together. He knows what he's doing when it comes to extras. And, I love cooking, so I really enjoyed his "Ten Minute Cooking School" (puerco pibil!) on the Once Upon A Time In Mexico DVD, and I'm glad to see him continuing the tradition with Sin City.
Anyway, buyer beware. It's a great movie, but I'd rent it for now unless you honestly don't care about any of the extras or anything.
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"You've just gotta go ahead and change the captain of your brainship, because he's drunk at the wheel."
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Done, M, thanks.
Frakin' amazin' flick Chrisisall
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Here's another fan of SIN CITY. Without a doubt, the most faithful comic book adapt ever done. And it's more than a comic book film. I'm a big fan of those old 40's and 50's Humphrey Bogart noir movies. And this is those movies coming back to life gloriously. Some people complain that the dialogue is too pulpy and baroque. Personally, I think it's poetry.
Speaking of which, my cover for issue 2 for the SERENITY comic is of Zoe. Now I know it's done by Joe Quesada, but am I the only one here who thinks the Zoe cover looks like it was done by Frank Miller? I always thought that the way Zoe was depicted made her look exactly like a Frank Miller character.
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And wow! Hey! What's this thing suddenly coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like ... ow ... ound ... round ... ground! That's it! That's a good name - ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me?
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I fail to see the appeal in a piece of superficial nihilism for fans of a character-based drama. An individual may be attracted to both works, but surely for different reasons?
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Originally posted by PurpleBelly:
I fail to see the appeal in a piece of superficial nihilism for fans of a character-based drama. An individual may be attracted to both works, but surely for different reasons?
I was going to say very nearly the same thing. While they're not mutually exclusive, adoration of one doesn't predicate the same of the other.
Though, they both RULE!
Liz
Nathan sat next to me.
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Originally posted by PurpleBelly:
I fail to see the appeal in a piece of superficial nihilism for fans of a character-based drama. An individual may be attracted to both works, but surely for different reasons?
Wow, PB, that was really deep and .... and I have no idea what that means. Everything I know about nihilism I learned from "The Big Lebowski".
Mary
Always a beast, never a burden.
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I friggin' hate when the movie people do that, issue a baseline dvd before issuing the really good one. If you listen to the commentary on Hellboy, the director talks about all the cool stuff that will be on the special edition dvd, the hairy bastard.
Mary
Always a beast, never a burden.
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Originally posted by PurpleBelly:
superficial nihilism
As opposed to that deep, meaningful nihilism?
"Invader's blood marches through my veins like giant radioactive rubber pants. The pants command me! Do not ignore my veins!"
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