IN CITY didn't get its name by mistake, this movie is raw to the core, and from bad men to bad women it has it all, holding nothing back. Any fan of the comics already knows all this and can't wait to see the stylized blood fly, but others may be shocked when arms are lost and several characters suddenly find themselves without a head and other necessary extremities.

While the film is rated R questions are sure to arise as to the violent and graphic nature of the film, but director Robert Rodriguez doesn't back down and proved he is certainly a filmmaker after the heart of his audience.

"You see, everything's the same, and when you see something like this you realize just how much movies are very much the same, this is just a real breath of fresh air and I think it is just very pulpy and very stylized and it's just something different, new and entertaining. I think people are looking for that, they do realize they have seen a lot of the same thing."

So what does Robert think of anyone that may criticize the film's grit? "Part of it was I didn't really care, when Frank wrote the book he purposely went and made something that he wanted to see himself. He'd been through the Hollywood process, got screwed around and never got to make a movie, he went back and said, 'I am just gonna do what I do best. I'm just gonna draw, in fact I am going to draw something nobody probably wants to see, it's gonna be black and white, it's gonna have really cool hardcore women, cool vintage cars, tough men, it's called 'Sin City' and nobody will probably buy it but this is what I want to make.'

"It became successful and I thought that is the purest way to make something... and that's why I wanted to do it, and stay true to the book and not even rethink it."

At a press conference for the film one journalist wouldn't back off the subject and still pushed the subject and asked about the "over the top and brutal violence in the film."

"I guess that's what it is, it is so over the top and it is so stylized; like it is in the book, it's still black and white and so abstract, so representative that it's easier to watch. It's the tone of it that really changes it, I never got any flack for Desperado at a time where people would criticize people like Quentin for cutting an ear off, off camera. I was mowing down people in my movies and nobody ever said anything about the violence because of the tone, and I think that's the same thing for this because as violent as it is, like in the comic, it felt tempered by the stylization and I didn't have any trouble with the MPAA or any of those people because is was so stylized they just went, 'You don't have to cut a frame of this.'"

Didn't have to cut a frame, lucky us, he continued when asked about young people seeing it, "Young people shouldn't see it, it's an R-rated movie, you know, unless you let your kids go see it. I'm not making it for that audience, I make those kinds of movies, PG movies, and that's what I kind of like... Studios go and make PG-13 movies that are really R, they just do that to get more audience in, I made this an R, I didn't try and trick people into making it a PG-13, it's a Restricted movie, now I can make the movie I want and not have to worry about it. I know that there are parents that let their kids in, that's their decision but that doesn't mean I am going to change how I am going to make the movie. Frank made this thing in a vacuum, what he wanted to do, and I wanted to do the exact same thing for cinema and suffer the consequences. If people don't go see it because it's R that's fine, it's not about appealing to the mass audience, it's really about making the movie we want to make and telling the story that we want to do."

Talk about a statement that hits home, this quote touches on everything wrong with movies now days and Rodriguez has put himself on the line with Sin City in more than one way.

He went into production for Sin City with Frank Miller set as his co-director, unfortunately that didn't sit well with the Directors Guild as it was against their rules to have co-directors on a film, to which Rodriguez solved the problem by quitting the DGA.

"I didn't know that it was against the rules until a week before we were about to shoot it and they came and said, 'Well, you know you can't have two directors.'

"But, hey, we were just about to shoot and it felt so right and it was such a new thing, that it wasn't going to fit into a lot of rulebooks. So I just thought, rather than have them change their rules, which then someone might come and take advantage of, I thought it would be better if I leave anyway because I was already thinking of bringing on Quentin [Tarantino] as a special guest director and that would never fly; it felt better just to leave and it changes nothing really. I mean, I can't do a picture that was developed by a studio now, which just means I should be doing my own material. George Lucas wanted to do Princess of Mars at one point, and couldn't get the rights so he wrote Star Wars, so that's what I should do anyway."

It's so refreshing to hear a filmmaker talk about making the movie he wants to make and stop at nothing to get it made. Just how gritty is Sin City and what are you in store for? Let me leave you with a quote from Clive Owen, which I won't explain in depth so as to not ruin the film for you.

When asked about the logic behind a particular scene Owen chimed in saying, "I love the fact that only in Sin City could somebody ask the question, 'Why didn't he take her to eat her? I don't understand that.'"