Taal is interested.... that means I will definately see this.
Not to mention Bruce Willis, in a stylishly done movie with elements that remind me of Dick Tracy... I will see this.
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I just, without relation to this thread, saw that trailer a few minutes ago beleive it or not. I'm a bit concerned about the level of violence and sexual exhibition, but if the movies anything like the trailer it looks groundbreaking(ly awesome ).
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I saw the 7 minute trailer last week, and from how it looked, concerns about violence and sexual content are well founded. Actually, the trailer had nudity in it, which was somewhat shocking in itself (I believe it was a German trailer, which made it less shocking). If anyone's interested, you can find that trailer at the official site I believe.
But yes, this move does look all around cool. I will be seeing it opening day most likely.
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If it's based on a comic, it's almost guaranteed hubby will buy it. I'm still waiting for the trailer to load. . .
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It's not only based on a comic, it's nearly scene-for-scene faithful to a comic. Frank Miller, the comic's creator, tends to write/draw in a theatrical way anyway and director Robert Rodriquez stuck to it doggedly.
Word is that Miller didn't want to allow any of his properties to be filmed. Rodriquez went ahead and adapted one of his Sin City short stories to film anyway, with Josh Hartnett and Marley Shelton acting, as essentially a demo tape. If Miller liked it, Rodriquez would use that as the first 10 minutes of the full movie and keep going. If not, Miller had his own short film for the heck of it.
Miller loved it. So did every other actor who saw it -- Rodriquez showed it to actors he wanted to cast and every one of them jumped at it.
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You have to look hard to find the heart in Sin City. But it's there. In the way the prostitutes are a family, the way that people still care about one another, even in that hell hole. Miho is the heart in Sin City. OK, now I'm just being dorky.
But that actress is perfect for Miho... Weirdly, even though all those guys are WAY too attractive to be Frank Miller characters, it works. And the lighting, and the awesome... and... (faints) So.....cool...
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Seen it, and though it was good, there was way too much information for it to be an effective trailer. I'm impressed with the concept, though I don't think it will ever be filmed.
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So, uhh. Looks like people are taking a hint from the "Sky Captain" book of special effects now. I wonder how many times we're going to see movies like this (This one is likely going to be skipped by me because of the nudity/violence)
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I don't think it was so much the release of "Sky Captain" as it was the advent of the kind of technology it would take to make the movie look exactly (and I mean EXACTLY) like the comic.
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Sky Captain book of special effects? Not so much.
This was shot almost frame by frame according to the comic book, it seems. The 7 minute trailer you skipped [edit: sorry, misread of your post on my part, you're skipping the movie, not the trailer] flitted back and forth between comic drawings and live scenes, showing just how faithful the film was staying to the original material.
Sin City was a dark comic, with brutal, sexual and violent characters, and was done in black and white. Then again, if you don't like that sort of comic, then you're not going to like this movie.
Now they just need to make V for Vendetta and Watchmen.
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I agree. That would be very easy to make and would be very interesting as there haven't been that many movies set in 'modern' Japan.
Of course, given that Lady Deathstrike is now dead, and Wolverine gave no recognition that he knew her, there would have to be some loss of continuity somewhere.
p.s. I've always disliked Lady Deathstrike and consider her a freaking abominable ripoff of the mini-series.
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Miller was involved in the Wolverine miniseries that had Wolverine travelling to Japan to see Mariko, getting involved with Yukio, and fighting the Hand and Mariko's father.
It's a great story, very tight. I'm not sure how much input Miller had into the story, but it's the series that took Wolverine beyond the psycho-killer charicature.
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Well, and let's not forget that Elektra is coming out quite soon.
Just looking at the imdb cast of characters for Elektra, it's very interesting, to me. They're clearly not rewriting Miller's take on it, but rather glomming many characters from Daredevil into the movie. Though, perhaps they did this in the comic book main series, too. I'm particularly looking forward to seeing what they do with Typhoid Mary....
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if elijah is in fact playing the dude with glasses from the first book then i don't think i will ever be able to fantasize about him again. at least not in any semi-healthy undestructive sort of way. ::shudder:: oh, and if you haven't read sin city before i do not suggest reading it at bedtime. the dreams i had...
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Do we really want a Watchmen movie to happen? They'll probably change the name of the team to "The Watchmen." Posts: 1515 | Registered: Feb 2002
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