Sin City

starring: Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller (II), Jessica Alba, Devon Aoki, Alexis Bledel See Larger Image List Price: $19.99 You Pay Only: $14.99 You Save: $5.00 (25%) Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: WILLIS,BRUCE EAN: 9780788860478 Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 078886047X Label: Dimension Manufacturer: Dimension Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Dimension Region Code: 1 Release Date: August 16, 2005 Running Time: 124 minutes Sales Rank: 2621 Studio: Dimension Theatrical Release Date: April 01, 2005 Related Items: Kill Bill - Volume One Kill Bill - Volume Two Pulp Fiction (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) From Dusk Till Dawn (Dimension Collector's Series) Jackie Brown (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) see more Editorial Review: Product Description: A collection of intertwined stories stemming from corruption, revenge and the criminal underworld. Genre: Feature Film-Drama Rating: R Release Date: 22-AUG-2006 Media Type: DVD Amazon.com: Brutal and breathtaking, Sin City is Robert Rodriguez's stunningly realized vision of Frank Miller's pulpy comic books. In the first of three separate but loosely related stories, Marv (Mickey Rourke in heavy makeup) tries to track down the killers of a woman who ended up dead in his bed. In the second story, Dwight's (Clive Owen) attempt to defend a woman from a brutal abuser goes horribly wrong, and threatens to destroy the uneasy truce among the police, the mob, and the women of Old Town. Finally, an aging cop on his last day on the job (Bruce Willis) rescues a young girl from a kidnapper, but is himself thrown in jail. Years later, he has a chance to save her again. Read our interview with Frank Miller. Based on three of Miller's immensely popular and immensely gritty books (The Hard Goodbye, The Big Fat Kill, and That Yellow Bastard), Sin City is unquestionably the most faithful comic-book-based movie ever made. Each shot looks like a panel from its source material, and director Rodriguez (who refers to it as a 'translation' rather than an adaptation) resigned from the Directors Guild so that Miller could share a directing credit. Like the books, it's almost entirely in stark black and white with some occasional bursts of color (a woman's red lips, a villain's yellow face). The backgrounds are entirely digitally generated, yet not self-consciously so, and perfectly capture Miller's gritty cityscape. And though most of Miller's copious nudity is absent, the violence is unrelentingly present. That may be the biggest obstacle to viewers who aren't already fans of the books and who may have been turned off by Kill Bill (whose director, Quentin Tarantino, helmed one scene of Sin City). In addition, it's a bleak, desperate world in which the heroes are killers, corruption rules, and the women are almost all prostitutes or strippers. But Miller's stories are riveting, and the huge cast--which also includes Jessica Alba, Jaime King, Brittany Murphy, Rosario Dawson, Benicio Del Toro, Elijah Wood, Nick Stahl, Michael Clarke Duncan, Devin Aoki, Carla Gugino, and Josh Hartnett--is just about perfect. (Only Bruce Willis and Michael Madsen, while very well-suited to their roles, seem hard to separate from their established screen personas.) In what Rodriguez hopes is the first of a series, Sin City is a spectacular achievement. --David Horiuchi More Sin City at Amazon.com The Graphic Novels and Books Films by Robert Rodriguez From Graphic Novel to Big Screen The Soundtrack Films by guest director Quentin Tarantino Crime on DVD Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - AWESOME AND DESTINED TO BECOME A CULT CLASSIC The acting is great , the movie is awesome for it's comic book style. I can't guarantee you will like this , but hey , i did. highly recommended. Rating: - A Grim and Gritty Modern Noir WARNING: This film contains graphic stylized violence including torture, as well as sexuality/nudity, coarse language, and disturbing themes. Only a sick and twisted mind could conceive of the warped stories that are found in the graphic novel series Sin City. Frank Miller is just such a mind. His morbid fascinations with corrupt authority figures, hypocritical religions, sleazy yet strong-willed women, and violent anti-heroes are thrust into the spotlight in his work. With his comic books and graphic novels, we are given a disturbing glimpse into his worldview. His characters are tainted with cynicism, darkened by madness, haunted by guilt, plagued by lust, and drenched in blood. Naturally his stories have been a commercial success despite their controversial subject matter, so it's no surprise that Hollywood producers, directors, and writers have sought to adapt them into films. This is something Frank Miller has always been reluctant to allow... up until now that is. Filmmakers and friends, Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino unite their perverse adolescent minds and together they bring Frank Miller's Sin City to vivid life in a stark and oppressing film, which will leave its viewers desiring a thorough shower in order to wash away the residue of the film's immoral characters. Basin City, better known to its inhabitants as Sin City, is a shady underworld of crime and corruption. It's a place where crooked cops patrol the streets, where serial killers and sex offenders ... Read More Rating: - AMAZON REWRITE YOUR DESCRIPTION! I recently wasted a sellers time along with my own because AMAZON provided the description of the DIRECTOR'S CUT on this page instead of the run-of-the-mill theatrical cuts description.. Now I am left with a useless DVD and a mailing fee that I do not feel I need to pay due to AMAZON'S complacency with their product descriptions. I DO LOVE THE MOVIE THOUGH... Rating: - Excelent Movie Great two disc set with graphic novel. The extras CD is the one to watch. Rating: - Let the unhelpful votes begin!!!!!! I'm sure this movie has its fanatics. I'm not one of them, sorry. I loved the way it was filmed. Tripped out color with black and white. The pretty colors aside, this movie is just one gross out after another. I had a hard time watching the entire thing. It's just one stupid story after another, with violence that is so graphic and unnecessary I wanted to turn the DVD off. I actually watched the entire thing and was grateful when it was over. I'm not new to gore, Halloween, Friday the 13th, etc........ But this movie was just so over the top gross I couldn't stand to watch it. Pretty visuals do not make a good movie. I can't in good conscience recommend this to anyone. AVOID!!!!!!!!!! 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