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Sin City Trailer
FrankMillerFan wrote in to tell us that there is a
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.
eh, "Honey" wasn't worth it...
"Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true." - Homer Simpson
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.
What isn't "edgy and stylistic" nowadays?
You had me at "dicks fuck assholes".
Frank Millar was alreayd one of the most important peopel in comicdom before Dark Knight. he came on and did Ronin whcih not only was one of the first introductions of Japanese style and flavor (ninjas!) to the West but was also one of the first limited series. He went on to write Daredevil and create Electra which reshaped the character and again was one of the first introductions of ninjas to the West, especially in comics. Where he really becomes important is with Teenage Mutant ninja Turtles which was originally a parody of Frank Miller's Daredevil. With the wild success of that book and the specualtion on others that it caused along with the blooming of non-newstand comic sales, spurred the market to a point where new, independant comic companies had a chance to succeed. The new breed of comicbook stores (and their patrons) couldn't afford to not order first issues of unknown comics and possibly miss out on the next TMNT success story. This paved the way for both indepednat comics and comic book stores. Then he wrote Dark Knight and just as he did with Daredevil rewrote the character with such a vision that the mainstream storyline had to march to his new beat. It also spwned the first Batman movie in style and probably gave the Hollywood another look at using comics as source materials for movies. Although his contributions may not be as great as someone like Stan Lee, without Frank Miller, the comic industry would be much different today. All of this was written up one year and explained in much more detail in one of the copies of the Comic Price Guide.