Coolness. The trailer for Sin City is online. It's not the best quality, but you get the gist.
For those not familiar with the comic, Sin City was created by Frank Miller (he of The Dark Night Returns and 300). The stories are noir to a fault, and generally pretty grim. For those of you familiar with the comic, the movie's based on the stories Sin City, The Big Fat Kill, and That Yellow Bastard. I can't speak to the overall appropriateness of the casting, since I never read TBFK, but Clive Owen as Dwight(!), Mickey Rourke as Marv, and Bruce Willis as Hartigan don't make me want to claw my eyes out. Quite the opposite, actually.
And lookee at how all growed up Rory Gilmore (Alexis Bledel) is.
I really like the look of the film as well. Seems like Miller and director Robert Rodriguez are on the right track.
And then there's Steve Martin's Pink Panther remake.
John Fogarty gave an interview to Rolling Stone back in the late '80s, talking about how he was convinced to start playing old Creedence songs in concert because a friend told him, "If you wait much longer, people are going to remember 'Proud Mary' as a Tina Turner' song."
Something similar is about to hapen to Steve Martin. He's made so many lousy films in the last twenty years, that almost no one remembers the comic genius of The Jerk or The Man with Two Brains. I can't even begin to address the shittiness of this trailer, and it hurts me to think that crap like this and Cheaper by the Dozen are now the norm for the guy who gave us Cruel Shoes and "He hates these cans!"
And who can forget Steve's flaccid balloon animals and, dare I say it, King Tut? He's a terrific stand-up comic and playwright. I wish he'd abandon film and stick with theater work. I think that's his true metier!
Feh. I'm hoping they won't touch Being There because I thought the original was painfully boring. It was the Forrest Gump of it's day. Worse than that, I had high expectations because (unlike Hanks), I didn't know at the time that Sellers could make a bad movie.
I'm hoping they won't touch Being There because I thought the original was painfully boring.
I had the same reaction. Call it the curse of heightened expectations, but I couldn't stand it.
NO MORE REMAKES!!! Especially of any movies that starred the brilliant Peter Sellers. If they ever touch Being There... I don't know what I will do. Just be really really sad, I guess.
I love Steve (Cruel Shoes, The Jerk, LA Story, Picasso at The Lapin D'Agile) but really man, it's just plain wrong.