Ready For A Comic Fanboy Post? - justin_guber

Ready For A Comic Fanboy Post?

The other day I was chatting with a colleague about how there were no more movies coming soon to look forward to. Spiderman 2 was suberb. Shrek 2 was hillarious. I, Robot was surprisingly well done (towards the second half, anyway. The first half had the rhythm of a 40 year old white male attempting to dance to that 'hippy-hop' crap he heard about).

Then I saw the screenshots of the Sin City movie. I thought, wow, but I'd never read Sin City save for a single issue called 'The Lady Wore Red', which was kinda cool. So I knew the style of it, but wasn't too hyped up about it.

Then I bought 'That Yellow Bastard', part of the Sin City tales.

Then I saw these posters on the net and could only think one thing: Holy SHIT.

Rodriguez is working close with the creator, Frank Miller, to make the movie as faithful an adaptation of the comic book as humanly possible, with the aid of CGI and some stellar actors which include:

Bruce Willis, Jessica Alba, Maria Bello, Kate Bosworth, Steve Buscemi, Benicio del Toro, Michael Douglas, Carla Gugino, Josh Hartnett, Jaime King, Brittany Murphy, Marley Shelton, Christopher Walken, Elijah Wood, Rick Gomez, Jason Douglas, Nick Stahl, Makenzie Vega, Katherine Willis, Clive Owen, Rosario Dawson & Michael Clarke Duncan.

Erm... WOW, anyone?
The Jessica Alba and Bruce Willis characters are from 'That Yellow Bastard', Jessica Alba being a 19 year old stripper name Nancy who was once an 11 year old girl who almost got raped by the son of a wealthy man if it wasn't for Bruce Willis' character, Hartigan, a 68 year old cop who gets framed.

Number one, I love Robert Rodriguez's work. He's up there in the Top Ten directors who I wish I could meet and learn from.

Number two, Frank Miller's not just selling the rights, he's working on it with Rodriguez (Frank Miller also wrote Robocop 2, for those who were curious).

Number three, it's got so many bloody good actors in it that the only way it can screw up is if they accidentally deleted the entire film during post.

I finally have something to wait for, cinema wise. Sure, everyone else is waiting for Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith, and yes, I'd love to watch it, but the excitement isn't there.

Not as much as Sin City.

Don't get me wrong: I love lightsabers. I love X-Wings. I even loved Yoda's fight scene in Episode II. But it's a given. There are already 5 Star Wars films. It's gotten to the point of "finally, it's the last fucking one. Let's get this over with."

There's also the Christian Bale Batman Begins movie coming out, and that one looks pretty cool too, with a cast that includes Gary Oldman and Michael Cain, but then again, it's also turned the batmobile into a tank, which makes me wonder.

Bale looks pretty broody in the mask, though.

Then there's Constantine, which looks, well, a bit silly. Based on the comic book Hellblazer, Constantine's meant to be British. He's meant to be from up North. He's not meant to be Keanu Reeves wielding a crucifix-shotgun.

Still can't get over the Jessica Alba poster. So she's in Fantastic Four and Sin City: one PG superhero movie based on a comic book, the other a super violent movie centering around corrupt officials, tough cops, strippers and whores.

I am happy.

8.11.04 12:11

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