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Sin City
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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
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed),
Manufacturer: Dimension
MPN: 786936291568
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Dimension
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 16, 2005
Running Time: 124 minutes
Studio: Dimension
Theatrical Release Date: April 01, 2005
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Editorial Review:
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
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Films by Robert Rodriguez | 
From Graphic Novel to Big Screen | 
The Soundtrack | 
Films by guest director Quentin Tarantino | 
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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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
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 ... Read More
Rating: - Sin
Great quality DVD, Though he package was a little damage (due to the post office), all was great
Rating: - Needs better packaging for shipping
Everything was great, except that the product was a little damaged in shipping. It needs to be packaged better.
Rating: - Sinful city
The nights are cloudy, the alleys are dark, the men are dangerous, bars are smoky and femmes are fatale. "Sin City" is a thing of dark, bloody beauty.
It certainly says something if a graphic novel author helps out with a movie... especially if that creator swore he'd never let it be adapted. That is only one of the things that makes "Sin City," the adaptation of Frank Miller's comic, such a fascinating film.
"Sin City" is actually made up of three stories: In the depths of ... Read More
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