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Trailer for Sin City available on Apple's preview site. The film is being co-directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller himself. The video is kinda small but I gotta say that I'm pretty blown away- it really looks like they somehow took Miller's comic style and made it into a movie. High contrast, sometimes looks like line art, cool sparse use of color. This is a must-see trailer for any fan of the comic. Hopefully a higher-res version will be available soon.
WTF is "Sin City"
This weekend I saw the trailer at the theatre and at first the style really threw me off, especially with all the big name stars in there, you just don't expect them to be in something so edgy and stylistic.
Does Jessica Alba take it all off? She is playing a stripper after all...
Looking forward to opening day
Some of the trailers on the apple site adapt their size and quality to your quicktime plugin's bandwidth setting. Just set it to LAN and you'll get bigger and higher quality video.
If Ron Jeremey is not in it, I don't watch it.
But I thought it was SimCity. That would be cool
When I first read this, I thought Maxis was making a white trash Sim game. Get your cousin pregnant, work at Wal-Mart, buy a 1985 Trans Am...
Had they adapted Darwyn Cooke's excellent "Selina's Big Score" for the movie, it wouldn't have been the disaster it turned out to be.
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This is all fine and good, but when do we get to see the Hardboiled trailer?
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There is a trailer in Windows Media format here that is slightly larger, however you need to install "AOL Music Player" which, honestly, is not worth it.
The trick above, to change your preferences to "LAN" in your Quicktime player settings, does work.
Or feel free to right-click and download the MOV file.
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
but is this film/director in anyway related to the making of the PC Game series "Max Payne" ? because i found a lot of resemblance...
a movie about city planning! ... oh wait, not really.
I do have to admit that when I first saw the "black and white for everything but a few splashes of color" stile it reminded me of that cherry 7-UP commercial...
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From the Internet Movie Database's Sin City trivia page:Some of the other trivia on the page shows what a character Rodriguez is as well...such as the way he handled Miller's reluctance to allow an adaptation. And, like Sky Captain, this is one of the world's first "fully digital" pictures--digital cameras, digital backlot.
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I won't watch it if it's not digitally signed.
Look again dork. It has that "Pleasantville" effect. Like REDS on black and white...
Here direct link to trailer 14.5Mb
Yes, but slashdot hadn't inked their contract to promote it yet. Not they're being paid to link to it so they will.
another: http://progressive.stream.aol.com/aol/us/moviefone /movies/2004/sincity_019736/sincity_trlr_01_dl.mov (do a save target as)
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Music theme from the trailer: The Servants: Cell
Lets hope a server will survive
No, it has that "Sin City" effect. SC was out long before Pleasantville.
This reminds me of how they came up with a 'look' for the movie Dick Tracy. Unfortunately, everything else sucked.
I used to have more faith in Frank Miller's tallent, but crap like Dark Knight Strikes Again and RoboCop II have seriously altered my opinion of his skills as a writer. And now he's Co-directing with Mr. Spy Kids.
I'll wait for this one to hit HBO.
is available here .
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Pleasantville was a remake of an earlier film, of which I can not remember the title, that had the same black and white and colors affect.
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..-Hollywood Stars putting themselves below the result of their combined effort. With "Die Hard" for instance one gets the impression of a movie built all around Bruce Willis. With Pulp fiction on the other hand you get the impression that he was born to play in it. Could be very much the same with this one. And some other artists involved.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
Remember the promises of broadband? 'No more postage-stamp sized video...' Why do they keep posting stuff this size? Shouldn't this be a 'rich media experience' instead of something that makes me look around for a loupe so I can see it?
Pole dancing ... they have my $10.50 already.
... Frank Miller was also responsible for Robocop2.
Yes, he does write some good comic books, but his ventures on the silver screen haven't been quite as reliable..
Well, I'm sold.
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This is gonna be lame...
Looks like a Max Payne rippoff to me. Those scriptwriters get all of their ideas from games!
I love Miller's work in comics (bought Elektra, Ronin, DKR, etc on the shelves as a teen), but I'm rightfully worried about his film work.
His last major projects were Robocop 2 & 3. 'nuff said.
...the style is a Film Noir with a Selective Desaturation Twist... and a Comic Book High Contrast effect thrown in for good measure...
Anyway, the "Semi-Black and White Style" is called Selective Desaturation in the film world and typically revolves around highlighting one color in a 'scene' (At least in photography). Stylistically, it works excellently in comic books and hopefully in this movie as well...
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I recall that there was a high quality of the clip shown at Comic Con. Google for it.
when will we see a http://www.jerkcity.com/ movie?
There's a much longer, better trailer for this movie out on the net. I saw it a few months ago via the Ars Technica forums. Supposedly it was shown at a comic convention and subseequently leaked onto the net.
The story of the trailer goes like this: Miller refused for years to allow anybody to make a movie based on his graphic novels. Robert Rodriguez took it upon himself to make a very short (less than 5 minute) film based on a situation from the comic, and sent it to Miller. The film was very well done, and had Josh Hartnett in the leading role. Rodriguez sent this to Miller and said something like, "This is the kind of movie I want to make. If you like it, give me a call. If not, here's a nice gift to show your friends." Miller liked it, and the rest is history.
That five minute short is at the beginning of the leaked trailer. I'm sure anyone with some google skills could find it. Otherwise you could get a membership to the Ars Lounge and ask somebody in there.
and much longer: http://hal9000.ots.dk/~kurgan2/Public/sincity.mp4 [55MB]
Am I the only one who shuddered at the sight of those glassas?
I was blown away by the trailer. It really has all the details that made the comic serie so outstanding. But as always, im doubtful that they will have all the nastiness in the comics in the movie. For those wondering what SinCity is, here is a good page for its artwork http://hem.passagen.se/fm4/sincity.html (And stupid me, who thought Wood was burned after the Ring movies)
Wow. Congratulations on a completely naive and ignorant post.
If you'd ever actually done any homework on the Sin City graphic novels the film is based on (Sin City renamed recently to The Hard Goodbye, A Dame To Kill For, The Big Fat Kill, That Yellow Bastard and The Customer Is Always Right), then you'd realize this is probably one of the best and detailed plots ever conceived in comics to be translated onto the big screen.
Frank Miller single-handedly turned around the comic Daredevil when he took over and has been won countless awards and prizes for both his art and his writing. Not to mention he's one of the most respected artists in his field.
They used a digital backlot because of Frank Miller's extremely stylized artwork, which was never intended to mimic reality. It's meant to create a specific 'film noir' atmosphere which is intensely more gritty than real life. Frank Miller's Sin City has always been drastically drawn for deliberate effect and it's unlikely that one could achieve that with conventional filming. Personally, I think this is the one film in a very long time that actually can *justify* the use of CGI and the digital backlot process.
So either take back your words, see the film and realize it's not what you think it is, or sit down, shut up and don't see the fucking film. I guarantee it will survive just fine without your ten dollars.
this sort of style has been around for ages. Schindler's List, for example, or pretty much any desaturated movie (6th Sense) uses saturated splashes of color to make a point as a motif. its been around for ages, since the silent film eras (by hueing certain scenes or characters) so this was not first done in the original "Pleasentville" movie.
Watching this trailer, I'm imagining a movie version of Miller's timeless The Dark Knight Returns done in the exact same style.
Holy shit...if Sin City is a blockbuster...it just might happen!
Consider: the upcoming Batman Begins was inspired by the Batman: Year One graphic novel / series. I'll bet the inside story is that they wanted to adapt Dark Knight first, but decided the public might not "get it" (they're still living in Adam West-Bataman land), so they went with Sin City and Batman: Year One instead.
I would rather he do
The Dark Knight Returns and the best work Frank Miller has ever done
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It's a hoax, people. Release date: April 1st. Sorry to disappoint.
You had me at "dicks fuck assholes".
Back when he made good movies?
Wow!
I was there at the 2004 San Diego ComicCon when they showed the original trailer/preview and had the panel discussion about it. To be honest, the only reason I went to see it was because Jessica Alba was going to be there in person. I had never heard of Frank Miller or Sin City. But what I saw in the original trailer blew me away. I have been waiting and waiting since then (so for about 7 months) and am really excited that a trailer has been released for all the world to see. Even more exciting is that a release date has been announced (4/1/05)! WOO WOO!
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So what part of it do you think is a hoax? Do you think a fan film somehow got footage of all of those actors, in costume and makeup, and generated the cg and music themselves? Uh-uh.
If so, then the San Diego ComicCon event I attended earlier this year was the location of a supreme hoax, as it had the directors, Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller, talking about the making of the film and showing clips. Ballsy grift, pretending to be Frank Miller at a comic book convention.
Looks like they also added Miller's terrible, angsty writing and threw in some unbelievably bad acting just to spice it up. Ugh. Miller has a pretty nice graphic artistic sense.. but I can do without his Film Noir by an unhappy seventeen-year-old writing style.
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...will it make any money? I'm always surprized when movies as different looking as Sky Captain and Sin City get created. They look amazing, stylish, and different, and that usually equals box office failure.
Why do I care if a movie like this makes money? Cause I hope to god studios take more risks and make more like it. In the day and age of XXX, Paycheck, Tomb Raider, and hundreds of sequels, I think that would be a wonderful thing.
It's Miller time.
Are you joking? He makes some damn good points. Daredevil, along with the Kingpin fight scene being utterly stupid, had too much CGI for me. I couldn't help but notice and be annoyed by the CGI during the fight scenes, especially the one with Bullseye in the church.
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Since I can't seem to get to the one that was mentioned here.
http://www.google.com/search?q=sincity.mp4
... here!
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Wonder why they are incorporating three stories in one? At least "The Yellow Bastard" seemed long enough to merrit its own movie...
Je ne parle pas francais.
I noticed that both Batman Begins and Sin City have quite a few big names in their cast (plenty with critical acclaim as well- Del Toro here, Michael Caine in BB) However one thing I felt by watching this trailer (many times) is that some times I get distracted by the actors. Perhaps seeing the movie on the big screen in its entirety (until they release the Extra Special Bonus Edition DVD at least) will ease that. Bruce Willis and Jessica Alba in particular seemed to have this "Whoa that just changed the whole tone this thing had going." when they showed them on screen. Hopefully I'm wrong, but perhaps a few more unknowns would have "worked" better.
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But - Hollywood and the tapeworms who run it have no guts. I'll be very surprised if they're not overruled by some beancounter.
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If you don't like Miller's touch then you'll be VERY disappointed with the film, its CO-DIRECTED by Miller! He and Rodriguez shot every scene together, matching them to the comic panel by panel. I doubt Miller's going to be the guy who thinks his writing is angsty, so get used to it!
Sin City is co-directed by Frank Miller, and most of the shots match the comic EXACTLY, so I wouldn't worry too much about the darker stuff getting in.
Also, Rodriguez has big plans for the dvd; he shot each story to interlock together to make the movie whole, but he also shot them to be completely stand alone stories, with extra scenes for each. So on the dvd, there should be even more nastiness too ugly for even a hard R.
The casting is quite awesome! On top of the pretty well known actors they got some nice hot actresses! The casting is almost as good as Ocean's Eleven/Twelve! (Btw, did Ocean's Twelve really stink? That's what I read in the reviews atleast!)
The video automatically adjusts it's size based on your connection speed set in your Quicktime preferences.
FWIW, there's a "Sin City" FAQ, as well as a behind-the-scenes look at the film, and a trailer that was first shown at the San Diego Comic-Con this past summer.
Is it that much already? Glad I stopped going to the theaters, any more and you'd be better off buying a DVD for every movie you wanted to watch.
just from the Trailer,
Big FLOP!!!!
looks like a movie slapped together, in a hurry,
lost my attention mid way through the trailer.
hope im wrong. but we will have to see.
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The much longer comic-con footage was put online in high-quality/high-res MPEG4 format.. search for "sincity.mp4" on Google.
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Why does this look like it was shot in someone's basement with a $3,000 camcorder and the backgrounds composited in afterwards with an iMac? Rodriguez seems to have this jones for making movies as cheaply as possible, even when they end up looking awful (for example, the horrible CGI in Spy Kids 2, which Rodriguez made for the same cost as Spy Kids 1 even though he was offered a much larger budget). I don't give a shit if Rodriguez wants to do another Mariachi movie in crappy HD for $30 million, but I can't for the life of me fathom why Miller would let him within ten million miles of something as visually arresting as Sin City. Between this and The Dark Knight Strikes Again, I'm beginning to suspect that the man is quite literally suffering from brain damage.
Oh, and Elijah Wood as Kevin? Somebody kill me now. Judging from the trailer it looks like they're doing an almost completely literal panel-for-panel recreation of the comic, so at least I know I can skip the movie and not miss out on anything.
Found it . . .
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That was great. It looked remarkably true to the original Frank Miller work.
I dearly admire Frank Miller.
How can the ultra-violence of Sin City make it to the movie theaters? It will be rated triple x for sure.
Doesn't matter I guess. The world and I would pay big bucks for a dvd movie like this.
On a related note, there is no way one movie can cover the three major stories hinted at in the trailer.
This looks to be like an introduction. Perhaps full length movies of each Sin City book will follow.
By your logic Dago and Polack should all be fine to use, because they refer to a subset of White people.
Hmmm....
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Pure comic genius! You must have stayed up incredibly late working on that!
Here's a hint though, what I stated actually did add to the conversation as it provided useful information to the parent poster.
What great irony, all you added to the conversation was what you had in fact accused me of doing in the first place! That is what is so funny here.
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OK, I admit I hadn't considered nationality slurs. I don't count Polak as a slur, given that in Polish it means merely "Polish person". I could handle the Italian slurs beginning with W and D by expanding my definition of "slur" to apply to any disparaging term that applies to all of one variety of H. sapiens, nationality of parents, religion of parents, or any other aspect characterizing a large group of people which is determined by birth rather than by free will. Thus, "white trash" is any white person who chooses intolerance and a lower standard of living.
WOW! If the trailer isn't just the best scenes of the movie spliced together, that movie is going to rawk! That's the best comic-book-like presentation I think I've ever seen in a movie. Each scene looked like a frame from a comic book.
And the special effects are incredible -- did you notice Bruce Willis had *HAIR*?
What will CGI be able to do next?
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