Sin City Hits The Media
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review of the new Frank Miller-Robert Rodriguez movie, Sin
City. This week, it’s hitting the media big time.
If you’re just
joining us and are wondering just what Sin City might be, it’s a film based on
the crime noir graphic novels of Frank Miller, set in the mythical Basin Sin
City. Three of Miller’s six Sin City graphic novels (The
Hard Goodbye, The
Big Fat Kill, and That
Yellow Bastard) and one of the short stories from his collection
comprise the backbone of the movie.
Chances are that if you’ve been
watching genre TV, you’re almost tired of seeing the commercials. They’ve been
everywhere, haven’t they? Now the wait is over. Sin City opens for the
general public today.
Here’s what some of them are saying:
IGN
Filmforce
http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/598/598322p1.html
Pure
entertainment with insanely cool visuals, Sin City is the most faithful
comic adaptation of all time.
Chicago Sun-Times
http://www.suntimes.com/output/entertainment/sho-sunday-sin27.html
Robert
Rodriguez isn’t about to do penance for “Sin City.” So what if his movie
features castrations, cannibalism, decapitations, limbs flying, whippings,
beatings and a man who likes to collect women’s heads and mount them on walls
like stuffed deer.
Rodriguez isn’t about to apologize for any of
it.
Winnipeg Sun
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/WinnipegSun/Spotlight/2005/03/27/973435-sun.html
Robert
Rodriguez calls his new film, Sin City, a comic book movie as opposed to
a movie based on a comic book. “It’s the real thing,” he says, peering from
beneath his trademark cowboy hat. “So many people have taken comic books only to
bring in writers who keep the characters and invent everything else. My
intention with Sin City was to put the comic book on film panel for panel.
That’s why the film is called Frank Miller’s Sin City as opposed to Robert
Rodriguez’s Sin City or just plain Sin City.”
Newsweek
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7306172/site/newsweek/
The
first dozen times Frank Miller got called about turning his legendary, and
legendarily violent, “Sin City” graphic novels into a movie, he didn’t flinch.
He turned them all down cold. “This was my baby,” says Miller, 48, nursing a
beer at his favorite pub in New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen. “And I know what
they do. They turn everything into a bromide with a happy ending.”
Director Robert Rodriguez (“Spy Kids”) was the 12th “no.” The Austin,
Texas-based auteur had been an early fan of the comic, often purchasing the same
issue twice because, in his excitement, he’d forget he already had a copy at
home. In late 2003 he chased down Miller at the very same pub to make his pitch.
Miller was impressed-and said no.
Cox News Service
http://www.rockymounttelegram.com
Here,
men are hulking blocks of superhuman violence; they growl. Women are slinking,
lipstick seductresses, femme fatales in eye-scratching revolt; they meow, then
bite. It is the deepest noir underworld, all black ink and blood, soiled in
crime, grime, slime. Vengeance is a worldview. Broken hearts lead to broken
bodies. The residents are hookers and hitmen, their tools samurai swords,
syringes, knives, axes, saws and razor wire.
Oregon Live
http://www.oregonlive.com/entertainment/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/entertainment/1111834621101541.xml
The
film — adapted nearly panel-for-panel from Frank Miller’s series of crime
comics — is a bloody celebration of pulp thrills, directed by Robert Rodriguez,
Quentin Tarantino and Miller himself. (Here’s a gesture of respect: Rodriguez
quit the Director’s Guild of America so Miller could share credit.)
Fangoria
http://www.fangoria.com/fearful_feature.php?id=3776
When
the actors of Sin City arrived on set for the faithful movie adaptation
(opening April 1) of Frank Miller’s stark, black-and-white graphic novels, they
not only got two directors (Robert Rodriguez and first-time helmer Miller), they
discovered that the “sets” consisted of a room filled with a green
screen.
Nashville City Paper
http://www.nashvillecitypaper.com/index.cfm?section_id=48&screen=news&news_id=40256
Frank
Miller’s comic book hits the big screen this Friday as a movie he co-directed
with Once Upon a Time in Mexico director Robert Rodriguez. It promises to
be one of the more unique movies of the year. Miller and Rodriguez assembled a
platoon of who’s who in Hollywood, shoved them in front of a green screen for a
couple of weeks, and came out with the most faithful adaptation of a
comic-to-movie ever.
It’s not just Miller co-directing that makes it
faithful (though that’s a huge part of it, even costing Robert Rodriguez his
membership in the Directors Guild for having two directors on a film); it’s that
they are using Miller’s artwork and dialogue, the actual comics, as storyboards
for the film, an almost-literal adaptation.
ObviousNews.com
http://www.obviousnews.com/breakingnews/stories/obviousnews-55648.html
That’s
only right for this visual feast, which uses cutting-edge special effects to
create a super-stylized film-noir world that looks almost exactly like the
dramatic drawings in Miller’s cartoons.
The Salt Lake Tribune
http://www.sltrib.com/arts/ci_2624306
But
Miller wouldn’t let Hollywood near his most personal work, the seven graphic
novels in the Sin City series.
“I had only worked at major
studios, the ones that are located in Hollywood,” Miller said over the phone
this week from his Manhattan home. “Everything was considered raw material,
subject to constant revision to the point of absurdity. They would spend the
money to buy a creation of somebody, and use the title – and then produce a
movie that bore no resemblance to it. And I couldn’t let that happen to my
sweetest baby.”
Orlando Sentinel
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/
Have
you see Sin City?” Bruce Willis wants to know.
Oh
yes.
“Pret-ty dog-goned cool, isn’t it?” he says, drawing out the
syllables for emphasis. “Amazing. Let me tell you, you’re going to go
back three times to see this just to get it
all.”
