barebones...that is so f-in weak. regardless, i'll prob get it.

I'll probably just wait for the special edition.

While you wait, let us know how the Spy Kids Director's Cut is.

I will wait for the special edition.

I will wait for the special edition.

*Twitch*

Ok, probably not.

from the bits

Here's a bit of cool DVD news that we figured some of you guys might be interested in: Buena Vista and Dimension have let it slip that Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez's neo-noir Sin City will hit our favorite format on 8/16 (SRP $29.99). It looks like this is going to be a fairly bare-bones version (extras will reportedly include a production featurette and storyboards), with a more elaborate special edition DVD set to follow later in 2005 or 2006.

I'm waiting for the deeluxe, just like I am for Kill Bill. And it's lonely here.

Sounds like Rodriguez has been hanging out with Tarantino too much. Shoot off your mouth about a great special edition, only to have the actual DVD be bare-bones.

With his busy schedule, I predict the hyped up 2-disc edition will be vaporware.

Bare bones eventually, maybe as a pre-viewed disc; but going to try to wait for the special edition to materialize.

*sigh*

Anyone want to mount an assaul-- er, march on Rodriguez's house if that ends up being the case?

Can't wait for this... Jessica Alba mmmhmmm good

from dvd answers

Title: Sin City
Starring: Bruce Willis
Released: 16th August 2005
SRP: $29.99

Further Details
Buena Vista Home Entertainment has announced a barebones release of the Robert Rodriguez directed Sin City, which stars Bruce Willis, Jessica Alba, Mickey Rourke, Clive Owen and Brittany Murphy. The film, based on a series of graphic novels created by Frank Miller, will be available to own from the 16th August this year. Retail will be around $29.99. The film itself will be presented in 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen along with both English DTS 5.1 and Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround tracks. No extra material will be included.

NO extras = NO sale. This time I will wait for the SE and no double dip. I MAY rent it but I dunno now.

i feel ya...I have a feeling this may be the only way to own the theatrical cut...next edition will be a director's cut...

and from davis dvd

Sin City

Buena Vista Home Entertainment has announced Frank Miller's Sin City for release on August 16th. The film will be available with a 1.85 anamorphic transfer, along with Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS Surround tracks. Retail will be $29.99. Be aware that an extensive multi-disc special edition is in the works.

also on davis dvd...but you'll have to wait


Just like the movie itself, the Sin City DVD is going to rock. Here's Robert Rodriguez talking about his plans during a recent press conference hosted by Dimension Films:

"We shot the full stories of the books, and I knew we could truncate it down, knowing that we weren't going to lose any scenes; eventually they would all be available for people to see. So the DVD will come out with the theatrical cut, and then there'll be a separate disc that's got the individual episodes separated with their own title card, and you can just watch The Big Fat Kill from beginning to end, the full cut. That's a single story. Then switch over and watch That Yellow Bastard and that's forty five minutes. It'll have all the material back in. So it'll be like the experience of picking up the book, where you pick up one story and you read it from beginning to end. And it'll have all the material in it. You can have, you know, shuffle your own version of the movie and just watch them all separately.

It's not going to feel like, when you watch the separate disc with these materials back in, like, 'Oh, I can see why that was cut.' It's a really terrific themed action scene. A lot of the stuff that people will find? I think it's going to be somewhat revolutionary to see those kind of scenes that were cut out, be put back in another format because they seem perfectly fine and they work, they just needed to be taken out for the long haul of the feature. I think it really gives another life and another experience, more akin to reading the books by doing that. That's what makes it easy for us to say, 'Let's just shoot everything with a variety of effects, and then if we edit stuff out, we're not really cutting it out and people are never going to see it, they'll be able to see it in a purer form, in a different format.'

And then I'm gonna add on another? it'll be a twenty minute film school, probably for this one, cause there's so many things that - and I want another ten minute cooking school to be 'Sin City Breakfast Tacos,' which I'll make a home-made flour tortilla and it's the best meal you can probably ever learn, so yeah." (thanks to joblo.com)

Now we have proof he's over-hyping his own DVDs. That's what he said about the last 10-minute Cooking School.

I'll be buying this. I'm still waiting on Kill Bill but I didn't enjoy those movies as much as Sin City.

think i'll wait for my local videostore to sell these off cheap before i pick it up, or wait for CH to offer it. Then I wont feel so bad double dipping later on.

I can honestly say I won't buy it until a SE comes along. Money's too damn tight. I'll get it other ways to hold myself off...

I'll hold out for the SE. No reason to piss away twenty bucks on this when a better version will be out eventually.

I am going to try to wait for the SE.

I already saw this in the best format to see it: the movie screen (with only 3 other people in the theater to boot!). A barebones DVD would be useless to me, unless I want to see it over and over again on a TV. I do not (though I did enjoy the film, but I can wait to see it again). I would like to see more scenes, how they made the movie, etc. in a special edition. It makes sense to me to wait.

I thought CH was no longer offering Disney/Miramax/Buena Vista titles.

DTS makes it somewhat quenchable and i will get it because i want to see it again in te and then will wait for the incredible dc!

As I said above I'll wait for the SE. I liked the flick, but it's not an absolute must have for me, so no problems waiting months or years for the SE for me.

Same with Kill Bill. I've had no temptation to buy the barebones of those yet.

Yup, it's a waiter.