Great video, can't wait for part ii. Loved the little bw tribute at the end too. Any hints to the other channel that made a sin city video that almost caused you to shelve this one?

i never knew i would like this type of content, thank you for sharing your passions my guy

“Implicitly Pretentious?” A twin separated at birth and accent? A ‘Tyler Durden’ type scenario? If not, it’s evidence that the multiverse is real…. Great stuff

@@dirkdiggler.Nerdstalgic. They’re quite good, but it’s a pure content farm.

I hope you talk about The Spirit, which Miller directed without help and is one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen

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It's a modern classic, a high bar that a lot of films haven't risen to, since

Indeed Pure kino

The actors all did a great job too

Agreed

Plus he made mfing shark and lava girl for like 50 dollars

Snyder owes Rodriguez fucking royalties for some of his moves imo

Meh he's boring

he is a hack filmamaker. if one thing, he should make less movies

I was riveted. Every scene had me hooked. It was a singular cinematic experience for me that only a handful of other films have achieved. It's up there with the best of cinema.

Sadly with The Spirit - the style was ratcheted up to 11 but everything else was hollow, empty, flat.

Yeah. When I watched it, I gave it no credit because of the title(I thought it was gonna be the most edgelord. Everything is a dirty joke or gratuitous violence and sex). But was blown away by how engaging and endearing the plot was

The only movie I watched in the cinema more than two times. A masterpiece of pulp noir.

Even jessica alba acted well in this.. that is saying something

It's not so much humility, vut respect, when you absolutely love the source material and want to do it justice and want to present it as is.

Fans of the movie will hate me for saying this but little respect was given to GUNNM which was adapted to Alita Battle Angel. As he said he respected James Cameron’s script, but it seems he had none for the original. The script might have been a mess, but Robert also messed up the visual. Other than the few great night scenes, the rest were atrocious. He subverted the main conflict around Hugo by depicting the city as nice and sunlit. He also removed all of the environmental theme by showing the surrounding area as green and lush, when in the original it’s all sand and rock because the humans destroyed it. It’s a cyberpunk classic for a reason.

​@@lc9245 Thank God I am not the only person who didn't like those aspects of that adaption of Alita. And what was up with the EYES, like christ her lips were the defining part about her not her anime eyes.

I believe that was more of an artistic choice for the eyes. Because it would translate better to the audience on screen than her lips.@@samueljones3668

Yeah, He serves and prioritizes the work.. not his legacy… more people should be like this imo… you see too often in other professions, a DA refusing to admit they were wrong and persue the win, a cop having tunnel vision to support their own theory… a construction worker not using an easier method because it wasnt their idea… big flaw in the human condition with many.

@@BE.OFFICIALwhy, what do you mean?

​@@Chinintoo16The form of aphasia he suffers from is progressive. As his brain deteriorates, so will his mind and everything about him that makes him himself. Utterly devastating for him and his family.

@@Chinintoo16 He's ill (frontotemporal dementia).

Yup. I liked him since being kid. Moonlightning with Sybil Shepard was my first "criminal" series. His smile and jokes got me.

@@Chinintoo16 He was diagnosed with a form of dementia. Generally speaking, it's a slow death sentence with no options for recovery. He may live for many years yet, but he'll just continue becoming disconnected from the world around him. It's a terrible disease.

What disease?

@@notabannedaccount8362It's called "aphasia". I seem to recall it messes with short-term memory. He retired from acting recently since he couldn't remember enough of his lines to even act. EDIT: I was wrong, it CAN impact memory, but it's actually a speaking disorder. It's where you constantly misspeak and use the wrong words. Essentially you start speaking gibberish.

Alzheimer

Bruce is literally the frontman, singer, harmonica player, and frontman for Bruno, his musical persona.

@@delpullen730yeah, i know he made an album back in 80s/90s, not sure if he made more tho. surprised a lot of people don’t know this about him. i guess it’s cuz he didn’t pull the Johnny Depp and and try to weave “rock star” into every fiber of his public persona…

I agree, it’s also timeless in my opinion. This movie could come out in theaters today and I doubt anyone would have an issue. Lol In fact with the recent slump of good movies I bet this movie would do really well.

Scott Pilgrim changed alot of the story.

I will also add 300 to this list

@@NostalgiNorden Scott Pilgrim started production before the graphic novels were finished. Wright was working off of drafts and notes O'Malley made while working on the books. O'Malley was on board for the whole process, they made both together, and he even based some parts of the latter comics on the movie itself.

I remember watching the movie 'The Spirit'. A 2008 production also directed by Miller that was a flop but the style was beautifully done

@@cangooz2240And Watchmen.

I love his work on Sin City, but let's be honest, don't get that guy close to star wars again after his episodes in Boba Fett, that was horrible !

​@@ledernierutopisteanything owned by Disney is horrible nowadays, no matter who stars or directs. They're al hampered by Iger's vision and KKs egoism

@lyricalcleric8593 "A lot of people prefer Desperado because Rodriguez could go back and do it [bigger] with a [better] budget, but El Mariachi was special."

Once upon a time in Mexico is him at his peak then surely

@@derinum Johnny Depp was amazing in that movie. The rest of it was so-so. I like his grindhouse duology with Tarantino, Sin City is a masterpiece, even the Spy Kids series is great fun. Rodriguez is a fun director, that’s fine by me.

Under the boardwalk: watch?v=en9ZWmt5UxI

I actually love his rendition of "Under the Boardwalk"

I remember seeing him sing in Hudson Hawk. It seemed really odd to me, since I had been introduced to Willis via Die Hard. But not as strange as seeing Clint Eastwood sing a love song in Paint Your Wagon!

Bruce Willis’ musician alter ego isn’t related to a gay German fashion icon?

Right? Blew me away.

Bruce Willis actually started out as a singer I believe.

@FreakieFan He certainly performs with the confidence of someone who’s done it a lot.

@@CinemaStix His album The Return of Bruno (which came out 1 year before Die Hard) was quite a big hit in the 80s!

I wish all the best to Bruce Willis, he is just so an awesome actor.

Check out "a scanner darkly"

We're just lucky he was a fan and wanted that exact vision brought to life.

Marjane Satrapi's own movie adaptation of her comic novel "Persepolis" from 2007 is another great example. She had the hitherto almost lost art of hand-drawn film animation re-animated for this heartbreaking, lovely, melancholic, bitter-sweet (almost entirely) black and white movie that tells an autobiographical tale of a childhood in pre- and post- revolutionary Iran and a refugee youth in Vienna and Paris as an endearing coming-of-age story. If you can dig pulp comic strip stuff done the old school movie way of matte paintings and physical props in a studio town, there is also the idiosyncratically odd but endearingly moody "Dick Tracy" hardboiled detective fiction meets over the top grotesque facial physiques and cardboard comic characters adaptation released by Warren Beatty in 1990. It is a rare case of a real live action comic hero movie that doesn't use any type of animation effects whatsoever, just plain old prosthetics and other physically present special effects, and besides Warren Beatty as the titular character it also features Al Pacino as a villain and Madonna as a femme fatale.

Except for Jessica Alba. She is horrendous actress

Unbelievable cast!

In 10 years Disney will make a race-hustled version starring some minority women and lesb!an communist theme

Counterpoint: Maximum Overdrive.

I think the main difference is a comic author already understands storyboarding, vs a book author.

That’s why I really enjoy Japanese anime. A lot of authors either end up writing for films based off of their works or straight up adapt it themselves, the greatest example would be Hayao Miyazaki who adapted his manga into his first original work, “Nausicaä and the Valley of the Wind”.

tell me how much you loved Spirit then

Warms my heart, thank you :) I’m very glad I did, too. And I’m so glad you enjoyed it! -Danny

@@CinemaStixfantastic outro too btw

Thank YOU! The second part to the video comes out tomorrow morning, so your timing is perfect :) -Danny

that's a really cool interaction, and interesting analysis... thanks for sharing

well, he did the spirit later but between the box office failure and his sickness he is back at comics

i met flying lotus in a grocery store

@@TheJacklikesvideosThat’s pretty dope too.

Very interesting!

Soon as I saw it I was like, well, yep, that’s going in the video. Whether it makes sense or not.

It works great as an outro - excellent choice.@@CinemaStix

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Thank you! You got it :)

Thank you so, so much!

I know, just incredible. Soon as I saw it I knew I had my outro.

That’s amazing, thank you!! I uh.. do listen to a lot of NPR :) -Danny

@@CinemaStix Yeah, you sound a LOT like a younger Peter Sagal.

Eww!

I’m really happy to hear that. It felt risky to me making this call. But also like a pretty important experiment. Because I’m sure it won’t be the last time I’ll have more to say about a movie than I can reasonably fit in a 10 minute video. -Danny

@@CinemaStix seems like a no Brainerd specially because, as you mention, you dive into diferent things on each video. It's not like a 2 part extended Ramblin of what you said in the first part (:

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It is my favourite movie of all time

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There's a sequel, lol

Frank Miller went on to direct The Spirit movie using the exact same style as Sin City. It looks great and features an amazing cast, but it's not a great movie.

well... hate or like it there are 300 and Watchmen directed by Zack, yep Zack

@@Nightie_Nightskies I'd agree that 300 is done in a similar style, but Watchmen (even though it's a good movie) is nothing like Sin City. The only thing they have in common is that they're both based on comics.

@@carlgibson285 welp.. i mean, take Watchmen of little from the style, let say 1:1 comic frame, so then yes i see Watchmen have it, some scene of it. you don't see it, thats ok, i just listed some of similar with slowmo 1:1 frame and color to look like a comic in a film, for the OP commentor above

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With Miller’s reverence for Will Eisner, I really expected The Spirit to be just as good as the comics. The best we got was Samuel L Jackson and Scarlett Johansson in a movie together years before the MCU.

Success brought sycophants. They then influenced the new films. Miller probably didn't understand he was dealing with untalented locusts miming success.

​@@timothymarkin4481it's really hard to see all that reverence for Will Eisner when he turned The Spirit into just another Sin City character, and not a good one at that. As someone who *actually* reveres Will Eisner, I hate that movie with a passion.

@@timothyblazer1749...Or he just doesn't have any real film-making experience and doesn't know what the hell he's doing.

@@ImVeryOriginal I disagree.

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I can’t speak on sound design, but music.. seriously, so good. There were three composers. One for each major section of the movie. And one of them was Rodriguez himself!

Thank you! Those are my goals exactly :)

Thank you! I’ll keep doing my best :) -Danny

Which one?

@@rashedulkabir6227 all of it

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First job of any union is to protect the interests of the union itself. The members are (hopefully) the second priority, but those two priorities clash from time to time like in this example.

Every Union's purpose is to protect and enrich the union.

@@asmosisyup2557 I almost wish that people read the reasons as to why they have this rule, instead of promoting the automated response as to why "union bad"

@@nokeechia(a curious question, not at all in a provocative tone:) what are those reasons?

That’s not just unions, it’s all institutions. That doesn’t mean we can abandon the idea of institutions.

be sure to watch the correct version. Not the recut and extended or the one where every story has an intro and credits.

Really glad you enjoyed it! And then I popped up. I’m relatively new, so I’m still making my rounds :) -Danny

I've been introduced to a few young channels around or since xmas. Some of them had less than 200 subscribers at the time. 44 vids in over a little over a year with 300k subscribers, it's pretty solid. Been insanely busy lately so have a large list in my 'watch later' slowly working my way through them but will definitely check out more of your work. Looking at the thumbnails for your older work, the images are well chosen and are recognizable or evocative. Same with the titles, you get a sense of what element of film you are breaking down but it also sparks curiosity. The one from two weeks ago is a perfect example 'When the director forgets to call cut' I've watched exactly 8:42 of your channel, I'm not just curious I'm impressed. Keep doing what you're doing.

I left a reply but it looks like it replied to my own comment, I didn't want you to miss it by not getting a notification @@CinemaStix

I remember those days, batman begins, sin city and 300 in a 18 month span, was so confident the comic book era was gonna be great. Genre peaked and descended for 15 years straight.

@@dixonhill1108 05-07 is a blur to me. Jay-z Kanye 50 Cent was dominating the music industry and Seth Rogen was pumping out comedies left and right.

​@@dixonhill1108dark Knight? Watchmen? Kick ass? Sure buddy sure

because people that crave and achieve power without talent or merit are narcissistic morons, i.e. studio heads.

Well that’s mainly just an adaptational question. Sin City and works like it kind of have to because they’re so style over substance that it would be pointless to do it otherwise, but most of the time, they’re not doing 1:1 adaptations of things, this goes for other book to film adaptations, for instance. Art styles are also usually hard to replicate in live action, unless you do something like Rodriguez did with Sin City (which personally I’m glad they don’t do, I didn’t really like this movie). And anyway, most comic films are stuff like Civil War, which only really take the concept of a story and adapt it to the already established cinematic universe.

Because deep in your soul you realized that it was always overrated and that includes the 2005 original. Honestly the books are a lot better. Read them.