Sin City

I saw Sin City over the weekend. It’s fantastic. I’m not familiar with Frank Miller’s source material, so I didn’t have expectations. It’s hard to image anyone being disappointed by this though. Sin City is a nonstop rollercoaster ride of a movie. The pacing is relentless.

Of the movie’s three stories, the first is my favorite. Mickey Rourke is very good in this. Marv is one bad motherfucker. Rourke nails the character. It’s a blast to watch him tear through every scene. Marv’s confrontation with Kevin (Elijah Wood) is one of the film’s many highlights. Hopefully this movie does for him what Pulp Fiction did for Travolta and he doesn’t screw up by following it with 11 years worth of crappy movies.

Clive Owen (who i’m becoming a big fan of) and Rosario Dawson are great in the second story. The third story features Bruce Willis in the lead role. I like Willis, but i think casting an older actor in his role would have worked better.

The only thing that I really didn’t like about the movie was Brittany Murphy. She’s terrible. It seems like she does this nervous laughter and crazy yell speaking thing in every movie i’ve seen her in. Outside of Murphy’s five minutes of screen time, the movie is brilliant.

Posted by chuck at April 3, 2005 10:04 PM

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Looks mega-cool. There are so many of these movies that are mainstream now that seemed like such an improbability when I was a youth reading comics and such. A sin City or even a Daredevil Movie seemed like it could never happen. I remember there would be all these rumblings on proposed film projects in Fan magazines and marvel Comic news corners in the back of issues etc. It’s funny, that stuff was the internet in 1990. It’s so different with marketing and everything now. I remember first hearing of the 1989 Batman movie like 2 months before its’ release with a picture in the national Enquirer while I was grocery shopping with my dad. Not the most effective viral marketing campaign to target audiences back then…… Amazing. Here’s a 1990 news byte here on the almost 20 years in the making Spidey movie from the old days:

 Golan persuaded Marvel Entertainment to sell Cannon the feature film rights to Spider-Man, its premier character, for a fire-sale price of $225,000 (plus a percentage of the gross revenues). 

 At the 1990 Cannes film festival, Carolco wined and dined Golan on board its lavish chartered yacht. The studio was riding high on the strength of its hits "Aliens" and "The Terminator." While Schwarzenegger lounged on deck nearby, Golan said, studio executives Mario Kassar and Peter Hoffman pitched a plan to produce a $50-million live-action "Spider-Man."

Supposedly the names attached were Michael Biehn from terminator or Charlie Sheen as Peter Parker.

Pretty hilarious, not really a billion dollar crop industry back then.

Posted by: Andy Gorzalski at April 4, 2005 4:57 PM