http://comics.ign.com/articles/600/6009 ... ?fromint=1
He spends the first half talking about a comic industry-only screening in NYC but the more interesting part is the second half where he addresses the mainstream media reaction to the movie, both pros and con. Here's an interesting excerpt:
and here's another keeper:So far the grand prize for anti-comics invective in a review of the Sin City movie goes to an unexpected candidate: the usually mild-mannered Lisa Schwarzbaum in Entertainment Weekly. She begins by waving a red flag in comics' aficionados' eyes: "Faithfulness, a virtue in personal relationships, is overrated when it comes to movie adaptations of comic books. (Let the foaming from fanboys begin.)"
So here's step one: Schwarzbaum demonizes anyone who disagrees with her stand on whether a movie should be a faithful adaptation of a (ugh!) comic book: she sees herself as the mature, thinking adult, and those who disagree as immature, emotionally arrested children.
Also, Rodriguez talked a bit more about the upcoming DVD:Schwarzbaum's belittling of Miller extends still further. In attacking the use of Miller's name in the movie's title, she is also attacking the idea that it is really his movie. She next asserts that it "is first and foremost the cinematic work of Robert Rodriguez." She speaks of the "insistence" that the film was jointly produced and directed by Rodriguez and Miller, based on Miller's work: she seems to be implying that idea that the idea that the movie really was the work of a true partnership between Rodriguez and Miller is a gross overstatement, maybe even a lie. (So when the Directors Guild refused to let Rodriguez give Miller credit as co-director, he resigned from the Guild over a lie? I don't think so.)
http://dvd.ign.com/articles/600/600858p1.html
We shot the full stories of the books," Rodriguez says. "And I knew we could truncate it down, we weren't going to lose any scenes. Eventually they would all be available for people to see. The DVD will come out with the theatrical cut, and then there will be a separate disc that's got the individual episodes separate with their own title card and you could just watch The Big Fat Kill from beginning to end in its full cut as a single story and then switch over and watch The Yellow Bastard, and that's 45 minutes. It will have all the material back in, so it will be like the experience of picking up the books where you pick up one story and you read it from beginning to end and it will have all the material in it. So you can kind of shuffle your own version of the movie and just watch them all separately. The stories will feature additional scenes that will be familiar to fans of the graphic novels. "There were some things we had cut out from [Yellow Bastard] just to pace it for a feature because they weren't supposed to be three stories put together when he first wrote them, they were all separate books. So [there were] things to sort of pace it for a feature and keep it on a through line… Mickey Rourke doesn't go visit his mom now like he did in the book and get his gun, but we shot all that and it's all great stuff.
