Frank Miller's Sin City (the movie)

[Claire]

www.sincitythemovie.com

Is anyone else as geeked out as I am about this movie? My kids will be gone on opening night, so we plan to see it April 1st. As a comic-book/graphic novel reading, Rodriguez/Tarantino worshipping DORK, this movie has me really excited!!

Here's the full cast and crew:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401792/...dits#directors

Stylistically, it looks amazing and the casting is pretty good....a few too many "starlet" types, but the male leads satisfy me (I've missed you, Michael Madsen!). Heehee, Nick Stahl....perfect.

Will someone PLEASE geek out with me???

[Name]

geek

[Tref]

I admit to being very excited about the film. I hope its good. Yet, something deep down inside me says -- notachance.

Has anybody read any reviews?

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

I cannot wait. I dig Frank Miller. And the director chosen to make this movie is a perfect choice. He respects the comic book medium and seems to have really captured the style of the artwork. Love that it's in black and white, with a flair of color here and there (Yellow Bastard!). Should be fast paced and depraved. And the casting seems really well thought out.

Man, I really hope this doesn't suck. The preview practically had me humping my comic book collection.

Geeker geeker geeker!

[innerSpaceman]

Well, the trailer looks really good ... but I've seen good trailers of trash movies.

Either way though, the film looks to be visually equisite, and so I'll put my peepers to it regardless and hope for the likely best.

[Claire]

Originally Posted by Eliza Hodgkins 1812

Man, I really hope this doesn't suck. The preview practically had me humping my comic book collection.

Exactly. I'm really hoping it doesn't suck, basically. And if I'm able to watch it and not curse Rodriguez/Tarantino (OMGOMGOMG, how perfect is this combo?), I'll be happy. My husband thinks I'm a big ass flipping doorknob, but even he was blown away by the first trailer he saw.

I have a feeling opening night will be a big geek convention......sigh. Perhaps I can get my husband to stay home, so I can find a skinny guy in a faded t-shirt with astigmatism and perfect teeth, dirty shoes, floppy hair and who has memorized most of the dialogue in any given Tarantino flick (points for True Romance's alternate endings) who is willing to act out an Antonio Banderas/Salma Hayek scene in some seedy little cafe while we drink cold coffee and discuss about our mutual dreams to have down and dirty monkey love with Tarantino on the set of From Dusk to Dawn while Rodriguez films and Salma Hayek voice-overs. What. Of course my dream geek is GAY!! Hello?

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Originally Posted by Claire

I have a feeling opening night will be a big geek convention......sigh. Perhaps I can get my husband to stay home, so I can find a skinny guy in a faded t-shirt with astigmatism and perfect teeth, dirty shoes, floppy hair and who has memorized most of the dialogue in any given Tarantino flick (points for True Romance's alternate endings) who is willing to act out an Antonio Banderas/Salma Hayek scene in some seedy little cafe while we drink cold coffee and discuss about our mutual dreams to have down and dirty monkey love with Tarantino on the set of From Dusk to Dawn while Rodriguez films and Salma Hayek voice-overs. What. Of course my dream geek is GAY!! Hello?

I will most likely be seeing this opening night by myself, just as soon as I get out of work. Sometimes, when I want to see a movie this badly, I don't want to deal with the possibility of loving it while the people I'm with hate it, or hating it while my friends love it. I do love chatting about films, but sometimes when it's just a wee too close to my heart, I chose to see certain movies on my own. So I can just enjoy it or hate it...on my own.

I was on a date seeing Bubba-Ho-Tep (YES!), and Tarantino was in the audience, also on a date I presumed. My date was a huge Tarantino buff and shot a load off in his pants, whispering far too loudly about how he was sitting behind us and Oh His God, and look, look, look, which I refused to do. I do not gawk at celebrities. I look at them with sideways glances and slanted eyes, and pretend I don't care a fig about them. Because, usually, aside from seeing them, I don't care. I just want to ogle. I mean, I don't know Quentin Tarantino. So why should I care that he's sitting behind us. It was enough for me to, at the end of the film, turn around to leave and see him as I put on my jacket.

See him staring right at me. Ogling ME. A good long hard stare. It was unnerving.

I can only conclude that he fell madly in love with me because of my beauty and my evident lack of interest.

I bet he still thinks about that disinterested girl, so cool and collected, so adorable in her date clothes, who obviously has fantastic taste going to see Bubba-Ho-Tep and all. Le sigh. Where is she now, he wonders.

I'm here, Quentin! I'm right here! And I LOVED Kill Bill!!!!!! What a wonderful love story!

[Claire]

Originally Posted by Eliza Hodgkins 1812

See him staring right at me. Ogling ME. A good long hard stare. It was unnerving.

I prefer to think of him as visualizing a gruesomely sexual kung fu fight between you and his date, all done in anime, with a loungey 70's porn soundtrack.

[mousepod]

The fact that Miller was involved from start to finish is promising. His style has always been filmic, so hopefully Rodriguez wasn't silly enough to try and pull a "I will reimagine the comic for the screen" attitude.
It's gonna be an interesting year - Watchmen, V For Vendetta...

(I still get sad when I think of Tank Girl)

[Claire]

Originally Posted by mousepod

(I still get sad when I think of Tank Girl)

I (drunkenly) met Lori Petty while she was filming Tank Girl and I begged her not to screw it up. Bah. Apparently, my drunken ramblings didn't make a difference, as that movie sucked so intensely that it could have gotten its own pimp and earned $100 a pop.