sin city unrated and extended shocker !!

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 26 Nov 2005, 12:13

ok this is out in a few weeks on region 1 (mine is on preorder love the movie) however it's now out through "unofficial" sources and apparently of the 23 minutes of new footage 19 minutes are credits leaving only 4 minutes of new footage

what a swizz :shock: apparently as the 4 episodes have been reedited as 4 seperate stories each story has opening & closing credits hence the extended running time

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 26 Nov 2005, 14:24

Yup I read it too and well putting it mildly its a joke.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 26 Nov 2005, 16:13

Still 4 minutes is better than nothing.

Surely that means only 1 minute is dedicated to each story???

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 26 Nov 2005, 16:55

You can guess that if you like, but I am sure it wont be as even as that.

it could be 1 second in all but one for all we know

time will tell on this one.

The thing is there is a lot of footage as the cast have spoken about the scenes, it looks like they are nor adding in much then and are just scrapping the rest of the footage, sad if you ask me that they are allowed to lie like this in the dvd advertising, they should say how much real footage there is.

The thing that gets to me is seperate credits for each film

totally pointless of you ask me, unless there is a play all button which plays all segments with no credits until the whole lot have finished, looks like I will just be borrowing the normal cut to normal people as they wont want seperate films with seperate credits that for sure. As its one film, and if they have seperate credits then its not one film.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 26 Nov 2005, 17:14

How are they lying? Credits are also footage (technically).

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 26 Nov 2005, 17:21

brad all 4 segments finish with identical end credits upping the running time-it's a swizz surprised you are defending it.

gojensen · Post by **gojensen** » 27 Nov 2005, 12:55

all segments can't end with the same credits as not everyone participated in the same segments... as far as I know there's also supposedly at "play all" option... the disc is also supposed to include the original theatrical cut... on disc 1... and the "recuts" on disc 2...

I find it odd that they didn't use branching for this, as has been done successfully on other discs... that way they could have 3 versions on disc 1... original, extended and single episodes...

personally I'll withold judgment untill I can see the disc myself.

edit: I went and had a look at this "unoffical" thing... and counted the mins of actual footage sans credits (which are different for each part though!) ...

Actual footage in this is 122:56 mins. The original theatrical release clocked in at about 124 - so if we guess that credits and intro for that would clock in at 6 mins (?) there's "just" about 5 minutes of footage added. Now, since it's "recut" and "extended" that may mean some stuff may be missing from the the "new" version as opposed to the edited version.

But I guess we can conclude that they lied abit about the amount of new footage

If I remember correctly the extended versions of the Lord of the Rings trilogy posted extended runtimes sans credits. Which really is the way to go...

Still, I only look at the runtimes, I didn't look at the actual content to see how much was new... that I won't do until I have the retail version of both editions in my hand. (It's sad they included the original version on this 2 disc set though :-/).

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 27 Nov 2005, 14:07

Heres the pics of new footage, seems ok

but still a massive disapointment.

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/showthread.php?t=446656

biguy · Post by **biguy** » 27 Nov 2005, 17:51

Hey...They gotta save some extra footage for the ULTIMATE edition that they will release once all the suckers buy this one....

Ive got the first release and that will do me thank-you-very-much....

Ive been burned too many times before....There are FAR MORE films I have to pick up than this one now.... :twisted:

sky75 · Post by **sky75** » 28 Nov 2005, 17:16

I didn't really like Sin City all that much anyway so it doesn't bother me however I doubt they would include credits into the category of new footage. I would be very surprised if it was only a few minutes longer. I reckon there will be 20 odd minutes of new scenes not including credits but only time will tell.

One thing I did think it was daft was that the theatrical version is DTS yet extended version can only be watched in Dolby Digital 5.1

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 28 Nov 2005, 18:37

Its been confirmed by early reviwers with early copies that it is 4 minutes only, look at the link above for proof and pics

Its still a load of crap if you ask me I want a lot more than 4 minutes

still it is the best version by a mile as I wont go near the barebones rip off 1st release even for pennies!

gojensen · Post by **gojensen** » 29 Nov 2005, 11:48

I did go near it... just for the Alba cover

... (and yes because I'm a Miller completist - which can be quite expensive

)

sky75 · Post by **sky75** » 29 Nov 2005, 17:56

I also bought the theatrical version with a very nice special edition on region 3 but I didn't enjoy the film enough to warrant the cost of the DVD and sold it on.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 29 Nov 2005, 23:09

Sin City is a stylish and fun popcorn movie, but also very soulless. I have no desire to own it at the moment - maybe when they do a trilogy boxset with Sin City 2 & 3.

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 16 Dec 2005, 17:35

got my copy today-will give it a watch at the weekend