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Posted by GPR79 on 09/10/05 15:06
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FS: Today's Specials - Sin City £8, Bang Rajan £7 & Monster £7
**Buy 2 take £2 OFF, buy 3 take £3 OFF!**
Sin City R3 DTS £7.00
Cover: http://www.boomspeed.com/gpr79/sincity.jpg
"Brutal and breathtaking, Sin City is Robert Rodriguez's stunningly
realized vision of Frank Miller's pulpy comic books. In the first of
three separate but loosely related stories, Marv (Mickey Rourke in heavy
makeup) tries to track down the killers of a woman who ended up dead in
his bed. In the second story, Dwight's (Clive Owen) attempt to defend a
woman from a brutal abuser goes horribly wrong, and threatens to destroy
the uneasy truce among the police, the mob, and the women of Old Town.
Finally, an aging cop on his last day on the job (Bruce Willis) rescues
a young girl from a kidnapper, but is himself thrown in jail. Years
later, he has a chance to save her again.
Based on three of Miller's immensely popular and immensely gritty books
(The Hard Goodbye, The Big Fat Kill, and That Yellow *******), Sin City
is unquestionably the most faithful comic-book-based movie ever made.
Each shot looks like a panel from its source material, and director
Rodriguez (who refers to it as a "translation" rather than an
adaptation) resigned from the Directors Guild so that Miller could share
a directing credit. Like the books, it's almost entirely in stark black
and white with some occasional bursts of color (a woman's red lips, a
villain's yellow face). The backgrounds are entirely digitally
generated, yet not self-consciously so, and perfectly capture Miller's
gritty cityscape. And though most of Miller's copious nudity is absent,
the violence is unrelentingly present. That may be the biggest obstacle
to viewers who aren't already fans of the books and who may have been
turned off by Kill Bill (whose director, Quentin Tarantino, helmed one
scene of Sin City). In addition, it's a bleak, desperate world in which
the heroes are killers, corruption rules, and the women are almost all
prostitutes or strippers. But Miller's stories are riveting, and the
huge cast--which also includes Jessica Alba, Jaime King, Brittany
Murphy, Rosario Dawson, Benicio Del Toro, Elijah Wood, Nick Stahl,
Michael Clarke Duncan, Devin Aoki, Carla Gugino, and Josh Hartnett--is
just about perfect. (Only Bruce Willis and Michael Madsen, while very
well-suited to their roles, seem hard to separate from their established
screen personas.) In what Rodriguez hopes is the first of a series, Sin
City is a spectacular achievement. "
Special Features:
Anamorphic, DTS, 5.1, etc
"Behind The Scenes" - featurette
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Bang Rajan R2 Premier Asia 2-Disc DTS £7.00
Cover: http://www.boomspeed.com/gpr79/bang.jpg
Winner of 11 Surasawadee Thai Film Awards in 2000 including Best Picture
and Best Director.
"Against impossible odds, a small village of ordinary men and women with
extraordinary courage withheld the advances of a 200,000 Burmese
soldiers, over and over again. As the Burmese suppression of the
countryside grew more brutal, this small thorn in the side of the giant
slowly swelled with numbers of refugees who came to stand and fight when
they could run no more. They fought for their homes, their dignity and
their lives."
Special Features:
Audio Commentary By Bey Logan And Mike Leeder
Anamorphic, DTS, 5.1, Dual Language, etc
° Walking Through History Featurette
° Warrior Elite Interview With Vinai Kraibutr
° The Power Of One Interview With Jaran Ngamdee
° Daughter Of Courage Interview With Bongkod Kongmalai
° A Legend Reborn The Making Of
° The Impossible Dream A Project Retrospective
° Echoes Of Battle Celebratory Retrospective
° Trailer Gallery
° Bang Rajan Rescored
° Animated Menus
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Monster R2 2-Disc SE DTS £7.00
Cover: http://www.boomspeed.com/gpr79/monster.jpg
"Critics have universally praised Charlise Theron's performance in
Monster and the praise, for once, is astonishingly deserved. The
gorgeous star of The Italian Job and The Cider House Rules vanishes into
the character of Aileen Wuornos, a real-life serial killer and
prostitute who murdered at least seven men in Florida. Monster traces
her relationship with a young woman named Selby (Christina Ricci), which
intertwines with Wuornos's murder spree. This remarkable movie finds
compassion for Wuornos but unflinchingly faces her brutal crimes; Theron
expresses this woman's horrific life history without softening her
terrifying, dead-eyed stare. This is a gripping, devastating
performance, a physical and psychological transformation comparable to
Robert DeNiro's in Raging Bull. The movie's moral and emotional
complexity wouldn't succeed without this searing performance--but
succeed it does, and it will stick with you for some time afterwards.
Those interested in the back story may also want to seek out Nick
Broomfield's documentaries on Wuornos. "
Special Features:
Anamorphic, DTS, 5.1, etc
Audio Commentary by Director Patty Jenkins, Producer Clark Peterson and
Actress Charlize Theron
"Monster: The Vision and The Journey" documentary (25:28)
"The Making Of A Monster" documentary (21:25)
Deleted/Extended Scenes:
- "Dream Sequence" (2:11)
- "Welcome To My World" (5:37)
- "Newsflash" (0:37)
- "Job Interview Out Takes" (2:11)
- "Bus Station: Full Performance" (6:41)
"Film Mixing" Demo
Interview with Director Patty Jenkins and Composer BT
Theatrical Trailer (2:02)
US Trailer 1 (2:13)
US Trailer 2 (2:14)
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