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Sin City Trailer

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the knock-your-socks-off dept.

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.

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  1. Saw trailer in theatre by Tlosk · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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.

    1. Re:Saw trailer in theatre by Z4rd0Z · · Score: 2, Insightful

      What isn't "edgy and stylistic" nowadays?

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  2. The burning question on every lonely geeks mind by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Does Jessica Alba take it all off? She is playing a stripper after all...

    1. Re:The burning question on every lonely geeks mind by John_Allen_Mohammed · · Score: 4, Informative

      Nope :( Ya, it's stupid...

      "Long story short, guys, Miller wanted her for the role, she liked the part but told them up front she wouldn't do nudity. Miller and Rodriguez said "no problem, we'll shoot around it", and BAM, there you go. "

      Quoting from a thread on imdb.com :(

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  3. high res by Kman_xth · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  4. Ummm... by beatdown · · Score: 2, Funny

    If Ron Jeremey is not in it, I don't watch it.

    1. Re:Ummm... by Graemee · · Score: 4, Funny

      If Ron Jeremey is not in it, I don't watch it.

      I think Mickey was the closest they could get on the budget. He's never looked better BTW.

  5. It was just me... by perdelucena · · Score: 2, Funny

    But I thought it was SimCity. That would be cool

  6. Sin City Trailer by vasqzr · · Score: 5, Funny


    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...

    1. Re:Sin City Trailer by jbarket · · Score: 4, Funny

      Trust me, that's not Sin City. That's Sim Arkansas.

      And before anybody starts getting defensive and modding me down for talking shit about their home state, I only say this as I roll out of bed with my sister/niece/third wife.

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    2. Re:Sin City Trailer by flikx · · Score: 2, Informative

      Try Trailer Park Tycoon. Quite a lot of fun.

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  7. Hardboiled? by lawpoop · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is all fine and good, but when do we get to see the Hardboiled trailer?

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  8. Re:Dumb question. by bje2 · · Score: 5, Informative
    here's the plot summary from the IMDB page
    A collection of interweaving stories all based in the corrupt, crime infested hell-hole that is Basin City. Heavily influenced by film-noir, the main storylines concern a hulking brute called Marv (Mickey Rourke), who is seeking the murderer of a beautiful woman who was killed while asleep in bed with him; an ex-photographer called Dwight (Clive Owen) who accidentally kills a hero cop and has to cover it up; and a soon-to-be-retiring policeman called Hartigan (Bruce Willis) who is incarcerated for a crime he didn't commit. All based on the brilliant graphic novels "Sin City", "The Big Fat Kill" and "That Yellow Bastard", written and illustrated by Frank Miller.
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  9. Slightly larger... by The-Bus · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

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    1. Re:Slightly larger... by The-Bus · · Score: 4, Informative

      That's what I get for not checking my links.

      Click on this link to get the larger version MOV. (About 14MB).

      (Oh, and if you want to see the art from Sin City, Amazon has some of it available).

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  10. Shoot me for my ignorance... by testednegative · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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...

    1. Re:Shoot me for my ignorance... by govtcheez · · Score: 3, Informative

      It's based on a comic that (AFAIK) predates Max Payne by awhile.

    2. Re:Shoot me for my ignorance... by Robotech_Master · · Score: 2, Informative

      If anything, Max Payne was inspired (in part) by the original Sin City comics. As many other cultural icons of the hard-boiled detective as Payne riffs on, I wouldn't be surprised at all.

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    3. Re:Shoot me for my ignorance... by The-Bus · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Likely the other way around.

      Robert Rodriguez has been kind to bring us the Mariachi trilogy (El Mariachi, Desperado, Once Upon a Time in Mexico) as well as Spy Kids and The Faculty (I almost did not name those).

      Frank Miller should be on anyone's top ten list for Important People in Comics. He has done an awesome job with Sin City, and an amazing job with Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, one of the top graphic novels of the past 20 years.

      If anything, Max Payne is influenced by both these two.

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    4. Re:Shoot me for my ignorance... by elprez · · Score: 2, Informative

      He also wrote the best Daredevil stories. He created Elektra (which will probably be another horrible movie) and IIRC Bullseye as well. Some of the Robocop movie scripts (which I could have left out) were written by him as well.

    5. Re:Shoot me for my ignorance... by painandgreed · · Score: 2, Insightful

      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.

  11. Love the style by gaijin99 · · Score: 5, Interesting
    The semi-black and white style really works well. It looks a lot like Miller's art, as does the makeup on Mickey Rourke. At first Elijah Wood as Kevin surprised me, but he's a damn good actor and he is pretty. Of course, unless they change the plot he won't have any lines. I wonder if Wood's presence means we'll have scores of Wood obsessed girls flocking to see Sin City?

    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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    1. Re:Love the style by absolut_kurant · · Score: 2, Funny

      [...]the makeup on Mickey Rourke. That's no makeup, that's an improvement on his Botox'd face.

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    2. Re:Love the style by BigFire · · Score: 3, Funny

      One wonders how far they'll present Wood's character Kevin... If fangirls went to see a second coming of Frodo Baggins, they're really in for a surprise.

  12. "Technically" not directed by Miller... by Robotech_Master · · Score: 5, Informative
    ...at least, not in the strictest sense of the word.

    From the Internet Movie Database's Sin City trivia page:
    Rodriguez, who credits Miller's visual style in the comic as relevant as his own in the film, insisted that Miller receive a "co-director" credit with him. The Directors' Guild of America would not allow it. As a result, Rodriguez resigned from the DGA, saying "It was easier for me to quietly resign before shooting because otherwise I'd be forced to make compromises I was unwilling to make or set a precedent that might hurt the guild later on." Unfortunately, by resigning from the DGA, Rodriguez was also forced to relinquish his director's seat on the film John Carter of Mars (2006) (at the time "A Princess of Mars" after the book on which it was based) for Paramount. Rodriguez had already signed-on and been announced as director of that film when the DGA situation took place, planning to begin filming soon after wrapping this film.
    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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  13. I dont care.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I won't watch it if it's not digitally signed.

  14. Music from trailer by af_robot · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just to add
    Music theme from the trailer: The Servants: Cell
    Lets hope a server will survive /.

  15. MMV and MMVI = The Miller Years ? by mirko · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Funny how many movies made by Miller or inspired from his works are about to come in 2005/6 :
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    1. Re:MMV and MMVI = The Miller Years ? by Ubergrendle · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Don't forget that Batman Begins is based on Batman: Year One, also written by Frank Miller.

      I think Elektra will be crap (given that Daredevil was crap). Have no idea about 300. Batman Begins has a good director (Nolan) and strong casting...I have high hopes for that one.

      Although Rodriguez work has been uninspiring to present, the fact that this is his 'dream project' may inspire him to greatness -- the trailer looks promising, and I couldn't pick better casting myself.

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  16. It's allways a refreshing thing to see... by Qbertino · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ..-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.

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    1. Re:It's allways a refreshing thing to see... by lobsterGun · · Score: 2, Informative

      I think you're wrong about Die Hard. The success of Die Hard made Bruce Willis' career, not the other way around.

      Before Die Hard, Bruce Willis was known to the world as the quirky detecitve David Addison on the television show Moonlighting. That he had no 'tough guy' creds to his name is what made him such a compelling John McClain.

  17. Jessica Alba... by Dharkfiber · · Score: 5, Funny

    Pole dancing ... they have my $10.50 already.

    1. Re:Jessica Alba... by bje2 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      eh, "Honey" wasn't worth it...

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    2. Re:Jessica Alba... by kaedemichi255 · · Score: 2, Funny

      I rented it on DVD, muted the TV, and it was a much better experience.

  18. Re:hopefully his screenwriting has improved by Brendor · · Score: 2, Informative
    Miller said he would never let Sin City be adapted to film after all his ideas about robocop were cut out of the final products (probably by the studios).

    Rodriguez only got his ok by filming a scene without permission and showing it to him. I think his writing on DKR was fantastic.

    Of course I'm a bit partial because I went to the same high-school as him, U-32 jr-sr high in central vermont. As recently as 1996-7 they still had some of his early comic narrative work in the Journalism classroom. Supposedly there was a lack of news writers at the time so he got a whole page for his strip. I believe it was called "The Shadow."(?) The inking was similar to Sin City. I remember a page with a brick wall that had a shadow cast across a diagonal section and the bricks that were covered in shadow were pure black with empty page to represent the cement lines.

  19. Re:max payne rippoff by dastardly_villain · · Score: 2

    I'm gonna give this guy the benfit of the doubt and say he was being sarcastic. Because Max Payne was a blatant rip-off of Sin City.

  20. There's a MUCH better trailer floating around... by jerkychew · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.

  21. another trailer by Zatic · · Score: 4, Informative

    and much longer: http://hal9000.ots.dk/~kurgan2/Public/sincity.mp4 [55MB]

  22. Re:Wood as Kevin by LaminatorX · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Am I the only one who shuddered at the sight of those glassas?

  23. Re:Yet another shoot-em-up by darkitecture · · Score: 4, Insightful


    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.

  24. Re:Dumb question. by ninji · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Only one of the greatest and most violent while still holding a grand storyline comics ever written. I've had the entire set of Sin City's on Dark Horse comics for as long as I can remember, and When I heard Frank Miller was directing it, I was greatly content... I love how they use a comic book style CGI animation, and how the movie is black and white yet with certiant elements of color on things like lips, certiatn clothes, blood, some lights etc, just like in the comic...