Sin City (DVD)

...the right back alley in Sin City and you can find anything. You may even find a film that was very close to never getting made. Frank Miller, the author if the "Sin City" series of graphic novels this film was based on, is not a fan of Hollywood and promised that he would never sell the film rights to his graphic novels. This gave director Robert Rodriguez a bit of a problem, as he was a huge fan of the "Sin City" series and really wanted to turn ...
...get to meet Hartigan, a Sin City cop, who is nearing retirement, but on his way to rescue an 11 year old girl, Nancy, from the clutches of a paedophile, who just happens to be the son of a Senator. His partner tries to stop him, but Hartigan is going in regardless, caring nothing about his age, his heart condition or his foe and concerned only for the safety of the little girl. This is merely an introduction to a character we'll see more of later, ...

Soho_Black 25.06.2005 · Read full review
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Sin City is one of those films that I heard of and really wanted to go and see at the cinema but because it was technically a black and white film, nobody would come with me. Sad but true. Anyway I bought it the day it came out on DVD and let me tell you I was not disappointed. ----- What is it about and who stars in it? Reading from the back of the box. Based on Frank Miller's series of edgy graphic novels, co-directors Miller and Robert Rodriguez ...
...- Behind the scenes of Sin City. English subtitles are available on the DVD. ----- Verdict; Now this film is not from your average comic book. For those who were fans of Frank Millers graphic novels then you will know that the entire comics were in black and white. Strange for a comic book you may think but they were very violent. I have only recently just had a look at them due to being a fan of the film and was quite surprised in the content. ...

katygriff 02.11.2005 · Read full review
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...the BBC2 premiere of 2005's Sin City tonight with no aspirations for what the film should be like or for what the storyline should be, infact the only thing I knew about the film was that it was a pretty big deal and featured a very artistic taste of cinematography that I didn't think I would take to.. but more on that later on. I felt that the amount of promotion going into this premiere, and the fact that it couldn't make it on to a lot on BBC1 ...
...for the movie, however giving Sin City a chance I soon realised that this introduction had no baring on the rest of the movie. I soon realised that Sin City was actually a bunch of little stories set on a popular comic book series by Frank Miller that have of course been brought to the big screen by Quentin Tarantino. I think it would be very easy for someone to bring a comic book to the big screen and completely avoid bringing in any aspects of ...

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Sin City is just that. A city of sin. Most of the police are corrupt and those that aren't have a low life expectancy. Mercenaries come here, knowing there's bound to be someone who'll give them a job. Politicians run the mob. The clergy commit outrageous acts and get away with it. A portion of the town is run with an iron first by the prostitutes, each of whom is an expert with one or more weapons. Truly good people are thin on the ground. It's ...
...well worth checking out. Sin City the film is based on a number of graphic novels by Frank Miller, one of the comic book world's deities, ranking probably a little lower than Jack Kirby and Alan Moore. The comic books, graphic novels, books (call them what you like), have a distinctive visual style as well as a bleak outlook with a blackly humorous twist. Director Robert Rodriguez worked closely with Miller (plus a little bit of help from Quentin ...

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...the biggest, ugliest thug in Sin City goes on a rampage of revenge after the beautiful woman he's sleeping next to is murdered and he's framed for the killing. Chancer Dwight inadvertently starts a turf war by trying to protect the prostitutes that run the Old Town and good cop Hartigan is sent down the river after he takes down a corrupt senator's son who's responsible for kidnapping little Nancy Callahan. But when he gets out of prison he discovers ...
...was a time when comic book adaptations were primary coloured kid-friendly superhero tales with men in lycra slugging it out. But the times they are a changing and the adaptations have been getting increasingly dark. "Sin City" is the darkest to date and definitely one you shouldn't take your kids to see. It's a film with a heart of noir brought lovingly to life by Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller and Quentin Tarantino. Every image is a feast for the ...

afy9mab 19.07.2005 · Read full review
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...medium of film. Sin City is an adaptation of Frank Miller's comics (sorry, graphic novels) of the same name. It follows the stories of three people who live in the fictional town that seems to have degraded beyond redemption. Most interesting is that the entire film was shot against green screens, inserting CGI backgrounds into every shot. It is also shot mostly in black and white with the insertion of a couple of strong colours, in keeping with ...
...Rodriguez has not simply adapted Sin City from the original comics, but nearly cut and pasted them over, and made almost no changes to the script. The effect was a bold visual impression, which remained as two dimensional as the paper it was printed on. Part of this misguided relocation of style is the narration from each central character, which smothers most of the film. It may be trying to capture the inner workings of the protagonists mind as ...

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...ultra-violence and fast paced action, Sin City is a a modern classic, and certainly one of the best neo-noir films ever. Robert Rodriguez not so much adapts from Frank Miller's comic books of the same name, as directly transfer them to the big screen. A transition made with ease and one that works incredibly well. Sin City is set in Basin City, a gritty place with a dark underbelly of violence, police corruption and murder and is based on four of ...
...before any of the other Sin City stories. The story centres around the 3 main characters of Nancy Callahan (Jessica Alba), Detective John Hartigan (Bruce Willis) and Senator Roark's son. Protected by his Senator father Roark Junior is a paedohpile who gets away with raping and killing young girls for sexual pleasure. However this all changes come Hartigan's last day before retirement, when he decides in order to bow out in one last glory and goes ...

markyrisawesome 12.05.2007 · Read full review
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...unless they want to. In Sin City, the audacious characters are shot, run through, electrocuted, and after bleeding “white”, they just play an “extra life” and carry on with their rescue missions… And in the middle of all this “remix”, what most seduces in the movie is the absolutely faithful way that Robert Rodrigues transfers to the screen, Frank Miller’s comic-books. And I think that about this, even those that hate this movie, agree with me, ...
...the only honest cop in Sin City, is pursuing Roark Junior (Nick Stahl), a sick paedophile that while trying to rape the young Nancy Callahan (McKenzie Vega) is caught by Hartigan that teaches him some good manners. Eight years later, the same innocent little girl is now a sexy stripper (Jessica Alba) that agitates Hartigan’s sexagenarian heart. (3) Marv, the sensitive thug that hound the city to find the murderers of his dear Goldie (Jaime King) ...

octavio.teixeira 25.04.2007 · Read full review
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...the best has to be Sin City. Boasting a cast list of over a dozen 'A' list stars and the tagline, "Walk down the right back alley in Sin City and you can find anything" it was known this was a movie not to be missed. Hearing many mixed reviews about this film I decided not to go to the cinema to see it but wait until Katy bought it on DVD. So when she got it we sat down and watched two hours of pure brilliance. Sin City has also brought around a ...
...few decent cops left in Sin City. He is close to finding a man who has killed many young girls. When he saves one girl a dirty cop sets him up as the killer and he spends years in prison. Then one day he realises the girl he saved, Nancy, is in danger once more so he decides he must help her again. Marv is a big brute of a man who you would not want to meet in a dark alley. He is extremely strong and psychotic. He is an outcast and ignores everyone ...

mamba17 28.03.2006 · Read full review
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...of the damned… Sin City grips you like a vice from the understated, beautiful opening to the shocking finale, throughout it remain constantly imaginative and engagingly gripping with expert flourishes of style mixed with breathtaking visuals and solid performances from its all star cast. Each story that is folded into this piece is unique, brutal and violent with a strong narrative and driving focus. It is true that two of the tales are far more ...
...stutters, but Sin City's flaws are all but unnoticeable, rendered insignificant by the sheer intelligence and grit that is injected into this comic book adaptation. Although the film is displayed to us largely in black and white, the characters than inhabit this place of dread have all got genuinely interesting back stories and are all firmly in the grey, neither black nor white, angels or devils. This adds interest into their stories as we see them ...

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...to be released such as Sin City and it is based on that opinion that I have decided to write a review for it. The first thing that comes to mind when one considers watching this film is the rating, 18. It seems that recently, film making has been more about making money than producing something worth watching, and as a result ratings have fallen to the 15 and 12A categories far more than they used to An extremely obvious example would be the terminator ...
...of the franchise. However, Sin City has overlooked this money raking craze and rather than numb the film down to an unsatisfactory and boring level, have chucked in all the juicy details to enhance the already brilliant story, resulting in a film that I can only describe as near perfect. *STORY* Certainly far more complex than one would expect, this film delves into a number of subplots and is actually quite hard to follow. Similar to the Pulp-Fiction ...

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Given Sin City (released in 2005) received a LOT of praise (and largely has done well from the reviews written right here on Ciao too), I felt I had to spend a few moments casting my own views on the film for you. Largely because my views differ from those who've rated this film as "5/5 - superb piece of cinematography!", etc, etc. YES, this film features some superb cinematography. Certainly like nothing I've seen before. It's new, its different, ...
...my books, it is. Sin City was flagged as being the first film shot with "cartoon strip" style cinematography. Now when I first heard this, I wasn't sure what that actually meant. Did that mean it was essentially a cartoon in feature film length? Was it all drawings and animation? No. It features real actors. However, the real actors are doing unreal things. Sure, maybe they're "superheros", not disimilar to those in films such as "The Fantastic ...

Sarah_Louise 19.02.2006 · Read full review
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...sleazy world of Frank Millers Sin City and offer that up for movie audience. Thankfully it was the creator himself that drove the project and the result of a comic book mind behind it has created not only a great film but also something very different. Whereas the films that I have mentioned above are, as I said, adaptations, this is something more. Its not a simple adaptation, it's a comic book brought to life, the way it is filmed, the use of false ...
...It's all about style and Sin City delivers that in spades. The first obvious thing you notice about the film is that it is shot in black and white, but like everything about this film has its own take on that. Whilst 99% of the film makes the most of the dramatic contrasts that only black and white can offer it uses colour highlights to add to the effect. Blood is red, eyes are dayglo' and neon lights backlight the characters. It may have been a ...

steerpyke 02.07.2006 · Read full review
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This is good. It's tough to believe some of the actors never met each other even though their in scenes together. Right, we'll talk about the cast 1st. Benicio Del Toro - wasted. Could have made so much more of this guy. I liked the scenes where he's "dead", their very surreal. Bruce Willis - very good, comes across a bit too "Die Hard" in certain scenes (I think the director should have told him to act, not pretend to be in another Die Hard Film). ...
...to believe though. Nick Stahl - Damn, I had to look up to see where I remembered him from - Terminator 3! He was pretty average, nothing to write home about. Even as the Yellow Guy he was difficult to watch. Micheal Madsen - I figure he was doing this for Quentin Tarentino as he barely appears at all, and the scenes he IS in he loses to Bruce Willis every time. Michael Clarke Duncan - I will apologize for mistaking this guy for Ving Rhames every ...

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...the screen. The result is Sin City, a visually stunning movie but one that's not as good as you may have heard. Sin City is an urban sprawl of dark alleys, seedy bars, violence, disturbing characters and general nastiness. The film takes several stories and puts them up on the screen. Each one of them follows characters that are off the beaten track. You have a bear of a man all disfigured on a violent rampage of revenge. A burned out cop looking ...
...Needless to say I found Sin City to be one of the most violent films I've ever seen on the big screen. Read the majority of reviews and you'll find that the general consensus on Sin City is that it's an original cinematic experience. I can't disagree with that, the visuals are not conventional and some the general look of the film is outstanding but it's also a flaw of the film. Spending two hours in this visual feast get's quite tiresome after ...

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