I don't know about Sin City. I enjoyed the first Miller Sin City series, but the later ones were weaker. Miller's RoboCop movies were awful too.

Don't get me started on George Lucas again....

Coming out in April. Not a good sign. That's the dumping ground for overcooked turkeys.

Dark, B&W, crazy angles and characters. Has Burton ever done an 'R' flick? Poor bastard.

Unfortionately since it has too much black and white, it'l be released in arthouse cinemas.
I hope at some point they do a version of Frank Millers 'Hard Boiled' for screen.

(Actually after a bit of searching for a link, apparantly they are going to make a film of it, I hope they don't screw it up)

I have a family member that worked on Sin City. They used the books as the screenplay/storyboard and shot it digitally. Much of it was greenscreened, but not as extensively as Sky Captain.

"Coming out in April. Not a good sign."

April was chosen to get out of the way of the Star Wars juggernaut and some other "genre" films in the summer.

So, given that the trailer is something of an art in itself, and that with a young daughter I rarely get to actually go see the movies in question, what are the best trailers ever?

Two nominees:

1. Cliffhanger, the Sylvester Stallone movie. Thrilling trailer, with no spoken words, just classical music (was it Carmina Burana?) and gripping camerawork. (Note: This crappy movie, oddly enough, also has another distinction -- one of the most thrilling, edge-of-your seat opening sequences ever filmed. You might consider turning off the DVD player after that sequence, and just pretending that WAS the movie.)

2. Godzilla. Long sequence (longer that the actual sequence in the movie) of old man going down to dock to catch fish. You have no idea what is coming until the water starts to bulge upwards ...

I'd love to hear any other nominations.

- Alaska Jack

I have a 6 minute promo trailer of Sin City released at Comic Con. If you want to take a look at it either email me or come on over to my blog and leave a comment in my posting on Sin City.

Hmmm...I'm suspicious. I watch the trailer and yeah it looks neato but then I can't help thinking of "Dick Tracy" which looked kinda nifty too, but was a pretty lousy movie. Generally I'm pretty wary of film adaptations of comics, especially when they seem overly beholden to the visual language of the source material. Generally it makes for an especially glib and shallow film--all heat and flash--which is all one can really expect from Robert Rodriguez anyway. Finally there's the Mickey Rourke factor. Any movie with him in it is bound to stink. Why should "Sin City" be any different?