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SIN CITY: Recut-Extended-Unrated

By: News Editor
Date: Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Source: Buena Vista Home Entertainment

Frank Miller's Sin City became one of this year's most stylish, hip and creative films. Now you will get to take another trip to the dark edge of Old Town with the much-anticipated SIN CITY: RECUT - EXTENDED - UNRATED, the complete, expanded and unrated version of the film with never-before-seen footage integrated directly into the feature by director Robert Rodriguez. This two-disc DVD is presented with hours of all-new bonus materials supervised directly by Rodriguez showing how the film was brought to life. Plus the complete reprinted first issue of Frank Miller's Sin City graphic novel The Hard Goodbye is included. SIN CITY: RECUT-EXTENDED-UNRATED will be available on two-disc DVD on December 13th for $39.99 SRP from Dimension Home Video.

Robert Rodriguez ("Desperado," "From Dusk Till Dawn," "The Faculty") and comics idol Frank Miller co-direct FRANK MILLER'S SIN CITY, based on a series of graphic novels created by Miller, highlighted by a special segment from guest director Quentin Tarantino ("Pulp Fiction," "Kill Bill" series). Sin City is infested with criminals, crooked cops and sexy dames, some searching for vengeance, some for redemption. Visually-stunning, the film has been translated from page to screen by remaining absolutely faithful to the look, feel and dialogue of the books.

DVD CONTENTS

DISC ONE
Original Feature Film Presentation
Feature Commentary with Robert Rodriguez & Frank Miller
Feature Commentary with Robert Rodriguez & Quentin Tarantino
Feature Commentary of Austin Premiere Audience Reaction
Behind-the-Scenes Featurettes
--A Hard Top With A Decent Engine: The Cars of Sin City
--Making the Monsters: Special Effects & Make-Up
--Trench Coats and Fishnets: The Costumes of Sin City
--Booze, Broads & Guns: The Props of Sin City
--How It Went Down: Convincing Frank Miller to Make The Film
--Special Guest Director, Quentin Tarantino
Sin-Chroni-City Interactive: As the viewer watches Sin City, it becomes apparent that the characters and their stories are not isolated, but intertwined. It is also revealed that the timelines for these stories are not in synchand yet not entirely independent. This interactive feature allows the user to get a timeline view of the happenings of Sin City. The user can see the overview schematic of the scenes in chronological order and then zoom in for more detail on any of the events.
Teaser and Theatrical Trailer


DISC TWO

Robert Rodriguez DVD introduction Sin City: Recut-Extended-Unrated Feature Film Presentation (with 23 added minutes) Full-length expanded cuts of each individual episode ("Customer Is Always Right," "The Hard Goodbye," "Big Fat Kill" and "That Yellow Bastard") split out into short films each with their own title cards and in their own complete form; viewers can watch separately and in any order desired.
15 Minute Flick School See how everything was done, including the development of the look of the movie before there was financing, plus early screen tests, rehearsal tapes, final effects. Narrated and cut by Robert Rodriguez.
All Green Version A high speed look at the entire movie with only its green screen elements.
The Long Take A full uninterrupted 17 minute take during the filming of Quentin Tarantino's segment. See what it is like to sit in the middle of a whirlwind of creativity while the camera is rolling. It's an up-close and personal view of the directors and the stars as they do their creative thing.
Sin City: Live in Concert The Sin City filmmakers, cast and crew head over to Antone's restaurant one night after shooting "That Yellow Bastard." Bruce Willis' band and Robert Rodriguez's band Chingon play a benefit show. Included are the full versions of Bruce and his band playing the song "Devil Woman" and Rodriguez and his band playing the "Theme from Sin City."
10 Minute Cooking School: Sin City Breakfast Tacos Discover Robert Rodriguez's meal of choice during the long night hours of making Sin City. This featurette shows how to make Rodriguez's grandma's secret homemade flour tortilla recipe as well.


Here are additional details:


- Rated: Not Rated
- Original Feature running time: Approximately 124 minutes
- Recut Feature running time: Approximately 147 minutes
- DVD aspect ratio: 1.85:1 enhanced for 16x9 TV screens
- DVD Sound: Dolby® Digital 5.1 Surround Sound
- DTS 5.1 Surround Sound (Original Feature Only)
- DVD Language: English




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• Nov 30, 2005, 07:00am •
Drooool...

Easily the most faithful comic book adaption. Ever. Can't wait for the sequel.

Now if we could just get the Hollywood exec's to understand that "The Watchmen" cannot be made into a single movie and instead break it up into a hyper-faithful mini-series adaptation...

lracors • Nov 30, 2005, 08:34am •
Good call raithen on the Watchmen... too damn bad they just don't get it. Sin City was awesome, too bad Jessica Able didn't get fully into Nancy's character and get naked... that would have rocked.

• Nov 30, 2005, 09:18am •
They had to know I wasn't going to fall for that initial edition. This is what I have been waiting for. Why can't all comic adaptations be this faithful. There's really no excuse for it. Sin City proved not only that this type of film can be incredibly profitable if made as close to the source material as possible, but it also showcases how effective involvement by the original creators can be. Elektra, Fantastic Four, the Theatrical version of Daredevil, and Catwoman all made the mistake of deviating from the comics they were derived from. With a little bit of time, effort and respect for the fans all of those could have been as good as Sin City. I'm a little worried about this talk of a Sin City show though. After the second film, really what's going to be left to tell?

• Nov 30, 2005, 11:32am •
Glad to see they did not waste time getting this out, but with it coming so soon, why even put out the original in the first place? I did not buy it, but someone bought it for me knowing I wanted to see it. Now I'll have to find someone to palm that off to.

• Nov 30, 2005, 12:32pm •
CRAAAAAAP! I hate it when they do this. The new edition is going to be great, but I bought the first dvd the day it came out. Why? Because I loved the friggin movie...

• Nov 30, 2005, 12:34pm •
Okay, first off let me say that I have not seen the new FF movie or Catwoman, and I saw Elektra because a friend wanted to go see that on his birthday. That said, I personally have given up on, and actually don't really care about, movies that follow a comic faithfully to the end. I think we all got lucky with "Sin City" because A.) The source material had a much more mature target audience, and B.) the involvement of the creator, Frank Miller. But here's something that not a lot of people think about when they start bitching about comic movies not following comic books: Most of our favorite comic book characters were being written and created in a much different time than right now. The government used to come in and censor comics that they thought decent people in general shouldn't read. It's due to the evolution of the industry and the art that makes masterpieces like "Sin City" or "Watchmen" possible. Personally, I don't think a FF movie can ever be good because the source material is so goddamn cheesy to begin with. Cosmic rays give superpowers to 4 people, 3 of who probably shouldn't be in space in the first place, and their powers sort of manifest via their personalities. Sorry to any die hard FF nuts out there, but that is lame ass to the Nth degree. That is my theory on why no comic book movies are made just like comic book movies...at least the classic characters. I still think all the makers of "Spawn" should be bound, gagged, eyes forced open, dipped in honey, and dropped onto a nest of fire ants. Thank you.

• Nov 30, 2005, 02:17pm •
I always thought that the best and probably only way to really do Watchmen, would be to do it as a 12 part HBO miniseries, ala Band of Brothers. put it on a channel that can treat the material in an adult manner and give it the exact same pacing as the original 12 comics.

• Nov 30, 2005, 02:18pm •
How did Spiderman and SinCity get it right? That's the question I wish Hollywood would ask. The X-Men (1 & 2) was a nudge in the right direction towards the comic book but somehow couldn't catch on--the problem being all the subplots and characters that needed issues to flesh out and they tried to cram in as much explosions as possible sacrificing storyline and character (I've been an X-Men reader pre John Byrne). The Batman series got sillier until Batman Begins--Burton should have done what Rodriguez did and consult Miller about Batman. And I know I'm gonna get flamed for that last statement. But without Miller's Dark Knight popularity, I don't think the movies would have gone the way they did. So what makes a good film adaptation of a comic book?

• Nov 30, 2005, 02:35pm •
The DVD issue is a pickle, but it's a solvable problem. I've been burned before and as such, new release DVDs are simply not a priority.

That being said, this new Sin City DVD will be mine...

• Nov 30, 2005, 02:53pm •
shandor55, I'm still waiting to buy a better release of Spider-Man 2. No, this crap is called "multiple bites of the apple", and studios do it on purpose. It would be more accurate to call it "multiple bites of the consumer's ass".

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