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So, I gather this is yet another comic book adaptation, but the impression I've got from the odd article I've read on AICN is that it's darker than your average Fantastic Four type summer film.
Anyone heard anything about it? With Agent Elrond and Bald Portman in it, I'd expect something a little bit different, but you never know, from the trailer it sort of looks like Smithy in a comedy mask throwing slow-mo Matrix daggers at people, and Portman getting her head shaved in a 'This is a serious film, honest' statement.
So, I gather this is yet another comic book adaptation, but the impression I've got from the odd article I've read on AICN is that it's darker than your average Fantastic Four type summer film.
Anyone heard anything about it? With Agent Elrond and Bald Portman in it, I'd expect something a little bit different, but you never know, from the trailer it sort of looks like Smithy in a comedy mask throwing slow-mo Matrix daggers at people, and Portman getting her head shaved in a 'This is a serious film, honest' statement.
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I think Rodriguez is doing 'Grindhouse' with Tarentino first, which sounds absoloutly superb.
Stryke wrote:
> So there'll be another movie set in the Sin City world, but with
> completely new characters that I assume already have major comic back
> story?
Yup. "A Dame To Kill For" is the only definate story that I know about.
> So there'll be another movie set in the Sin City world, but with
> completely new characters that I assume already have major comic back
> story?
Yup. "A Dame To Kill For" is the only definate story that I know about.
Pandaemonium wrote:
> Stryke wrote:
> Made a tidy pile of coinage, didn't it?
>
> It paid off. A Noir movie? A huge amout of voice overs? Black and
> white? ambigous at best characters? That's some faith that you can
> make a good jobhs of transating the source material..
>
> Worked though, and now we have more of the stories being translated
> (not a sequel) to look forward too.
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So there'll be another movie set in the Sin City world, but with completely new characters that I assume already have major comic back story?
Sounds excellent. Maybe a cameo from Alba though. I wouldn't complain.
'What Nancy Did After Hartigan Died:Stripped Some More'
> Stryke wrote:
> Made a tidy pile of coinage, didn't it?
>
> It paid off. A Noir movie? A huge amout of voice overs? Black and
> white? ambigous at best characters? That's some faith that you can
> make a good jobhs of transating the source material..
>
> Worked though, and now we have more of the stories being translated
> (not a sequel) to look forward too.
--
So there'll be another movie set in the Sin City world, but with completely new characters that I assume already have major comic back story?
Sounds excellent. Maybe a cameo from Alba though. I wouldn't complain.
'What Nancy Did After Hartigan Died:Stripped Some More'
mattributé wrote:
> Yeah, if you haven't seen Fantastic Four yet, don't. My god, it's the
> epitome of average. And it's only that because of Alba...
Ouch. F4 is one movie that I
1) don't care for the "superhero" element of
2) have cringed at each still, photo snippet or spoiler leaked.
It looks terrible to bne honest.
What I want to see is an animated version of "Maus". With the artists relationship with his father intact, and not just the camp element. That'll be a movie and a half.
> Yeah, if you haven't seen Fantastic Four yet, don't. My god, it's the
> epitome of average. And it's only that because of Alba...
Ouch. F4 is one movie that I
1) don't care for the "superhero" element of
2) have cringed at each still, photo snippet or spoiler leaked.
It looks terrible to bne honest.
What I want to see is an animated version of "Maus". With the artists relationship with his father intact, and not just the camp element. That'll be a movie and a half.
Stryke wrote:
> Made a tidy pile of coinage, didn't it?
It paid off. A Noir movie? A huge amout of voice overs? Black and white? ambigous at best characters? That's some faith that you can make a good jobhs of transating the source material..
Worked though, and now we have more of the stories being translated (not a sequel) to look forward too.
> Made a tidy pile of coinage, didn't it?
It paid off. A Noir movie? A huge amout of voice overs? Black and white? ambigous at best characters? That's some faith that you can make a good jobhs of transating the source material..
Worked though, and now we have more of the stories being translated (not a sequel) to look forward too.
Yeah, if you haven't seen Fantastic Four yet, don't. My god, it's the epitome of average. And it's only that because of Alba...
Alba...
Alba...
Made a tidy pile of coinage, didn't it?
I don't really follow comic book movies, I'll go see the big ones and if they're good, then it's all rosy.
I just stumbled across V for Vendetta on AICN and thought it sounded spiffy.
I don't really follow comic book movies, I'll go see the big ones and if they're good, then it's all rosy.
I just stumbled across V for Vendetta on AICN and thought it sounded spiffy.
Stryke wrote:
> Alrighty, get what you mean. I enjoyed Constantine mostly, was a bit
> like Buffy in places, heh - just wasn't as good as Sin City.
Yeah. I wanted to *hate* it, but I still found myself enjoying it and thinking "That's lifted from (that storyline)"
Sin City is almost a frame by frame lift from the comic, down to lighting, dialogue and composition. It's the benchmark for a comic to movie adaptation, but suffers from that it offers nothing new to peopl familure with the original. For a movie audience that's dangerous. Please the geeks, but alienate joe public? That's thin ice.
> Alrighty, get what you mean. I enjoyed Constantine mostly, was a bit
> like Buffy in places, heh - just wasn't as good as Sin City.
Yeah. I wanted to *hate* it, but I still found myself enjoying it and thinking "That's lifted from (that storyline)"
Sin City is almost a frame by frame lift from the comic, down to lighting, dialogue and composition. It's the benchmark for a comic to movie adaptation, but suffers from that it offers nothing new to peopl familure with the original. For a movie audience that's dangerous. Please the geeks, but alienate joe public? That's thin ice.
Alrighty, get what you mean. I enjoyed Constantine mostly, was a bit like Buffy in places, heh - just wasn't as good as Sin City.
Well, I'll be quietly hopeful for V for Vendetta then.
Well, I'll be quietly hopeful for V for Vendetta then.
Stryke wrote:
> You're rating Constantine on the same level as Sin City?
>
> Really?
No, but I'm saying that it's not a kick in the nuts and a stamp on the head to the fans of the original as League of Extraordinary gentlemen was. It's substantionally changed, but if a reader of 200+ of the comics, not to mention his appearences in Swamp Thing, the books of magic and all the other spinoffs (I.e. me) can get a kick out of it, anyone can.
It was written bu a guy that was a fan of the original, and it shows. He might have had "you MUST do this (change the nationality)" but it was worked into, and a huge amount of references exist for followers of the comic.
> You're rating Constantine on the same level as Sin City?
>
> Really?
No, but I'm saying that it's not a kick in the nuts and a stamp on the head to the fans of the original as League of Extraordinary gentlemen was. It's substantionally changed, but if a reader of 200+ of the comics, not to mention his appearences in Swamp Thing, the books of magic and all the other spinoffs (I.e. me) can get a kick out of it, anyone can.
It was written bu a guy that was a fan of the original, and it shows. He might have had "you MUST do this (change the nationality)" but it was worked into, and a huge amount of references exist for followers of the comic.
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