New Sin City Preview - The Orange Mane

Old Dude · 03-21-2005, 10:40 AM

Right here:

http://movies.yahoo.com/movies/feature/sincity.html

Taco John · 03-21-2005, 11:37 AM

Boy that movie looks cool...

Rascal · 03-21-2005, 11:38 AM

I've already told the wife to mark it down on her calender the day it comes out.

Old Dude · 03-21-2005, 01:40 PM

I think the movie is based on three or four of Frank Miller's graphic novels (by the same name). The stories should weave together, much like Pulp Fiction.

"Marv" is just awesome in the books - played by Mickey R. in the movie.

You do not want to mess with Marv.

Mile High Shack · 03-21-2005, 01:42 PM

What’s the deal with having Mickey Rourke has a bad ass………he is a total loser, I guess it’s the surprise of having him as a star in a big movie?

Old Dude · 03-21-2005, 01:59 PM

He plays a huge "loser" in the movie. They could not have picked a better guy to play the role of "Marv" IMHO.

The background on "Marv" He's a two-time loser, on parole, or just barely off it. Ugly as sin. Fairly strong, a deadly shot, and almost superhumanly tough.

One night he gets "lucky" with a gorgeous blonde. For the first time in his life, he's accepted, and in love. He wakes up next to her in the morning, and she's dead.

And the cops are on their way to his room, because he's been framed.

That's the kick-off.

Mile High Shack · 03-21-2005, 02:02 PM

Aaaaaaaa, ok, well that makes more sense for him……still I would’ve thought they would’ve picked a bigger star for this big movie

I plan on seeing it as long as it’s b4 the birth of my kid

Northman · 03-21-2005, 02:48 PM

This movie doesnt just look good, it looks tight as ****! woot!

Old Dude · 04-01-2005, 04:35 AM

SINFULLY SATISFYING: The violent, exhilarating 'Sin City,' based on a series of graphic novels, packs an unforgettably potent punch

- - Detroit Free Press

Sin City: The coolest movie since Pulp Fiction
(4 stars)

- - Sun Sentinel

Aesthetically exciting and sick as hell, "Sin City" is so disreputable that it practically turns itself inside-out into a spectacle of virginal innocence: Blunt, devoid of metaphor and unapologetically depraved, it radiates a perverse kind of purity.

- - salon.com

'Sin City' a graphic triumph

LJWorld.com

Old Dude · 04-01-2005, 05:04 AM

"A movie of such high style, done in such a spirit of electrifying fun and creativity, that it kisses the blood right off its own violent hands."
-- Michael Wilmington, CHICAGO TRIBUNE

"Rodriguez and company have so faithfully captured Miller's essence, there's something beautiful about the whole thing. It's an act of inspired reverence."
-- Desson Thomson, WASHINGTON POST

"Sometimes it all seems as schematic as a theme park attraction. Mostly, though, the movie comes across like the fever dream of a smart, put-upon adolescent who'd been up all night watching every black-and-white crime movie made since the sound era."
-- Gene Seymour, NEWSDAY

"So seduced by the visual possibilities of sin that style becomes its own vice."
-- Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

"Every now and then, a movie does more than gamely defend the status quo but actually advances the art form. So it is with Sin City, a stunning, brutal vision of a city gone mad."
-- Bill Muller, ARIZONA REPUBLIC

Old Dude · 04-01-2005, 07:01 AM

"Sin City has more severed heads, dismemberments and acts of cannibalism than The Silence of the Lambs and Freddy Vs. Jason put together. I loved it!"
-- Staci Layne Wilson, HORROR.COM

"A gloriously grim and terrifically nasty piece of escapist entertainment; a comic-book-noir masterpiece full of delicious dread, terrible temptation, and shady chivalry."
-- Scott Weinberg, EFILMCRITIC.COM

"Mickey Rourke blows me away with his acting and Elijah Wood creeps the hell out of me? I swear to God, I don't understand the universe anymore."
-- Widgett Walls, NEEDCOFFEE.COM

"Silence, fiend! The consensus here: One arm cannon up!"
-- Phil Villarreal, ARIZONA DAILY STAR

"Technically the film is a masterpiece."
-- Tony Toscano, TALKING PICTURES (U.S.)

"I found the movie every bit as sickening as its creators intended it to be, minus the kicks they so palpably got out of making it."
-- Ella Taylor, L.A. WEEKLY

"The film retains not just the look of its source material but its tone, too -- its dark mood swings, its hard-boiled love affairs, its grimly funny violence."
-- Eric D. Snider, ERICDSNIDER.COM

"An exhilarating tapestry of valor, selfishness, deceitfulness, and martyrdom."
-- Nicholas Schager, SLANT MAGAZINE

"‘Classic’ isn't word enough to describe this unflinching look into the dark side of the comic book world."
-- Alex Sandell, JUICY CEREBELLUM

"Breathtaking to look at, but its core is without a pulse."
-- Dustin Putman, THEMOVIEBOY.COM

"Pure entertainment with insanely cool visuals, Sin City is the most faithful comic adaptation of all time."
-- Jeff Otto, IGN FILMFORCE

"A pointless wallow in sadism... Willis, Rourke, and Boothe have all done way cooler tough-guy movies for Walter Hill."
-- Chuck O'Leary, FANTASTICA DAILY

"You know you’re gone beyond run-of-the-mill movie violence you need to use the plural for 'castrations.'"
-- Jeffrey Westhoff, NORTHWEST HERALD (CRYSTAL LAKE, IL)

"Film noir on steroids; a movie so cool you’re not supposed to be concerned about its total lack of moral grounding. Nor its profound sexism. Nor its misanthropic nihilism."
-- Brian Webster, APOLLO GUIDE

"It's a visualization of the pulp noir imagination, uncompromising and extreme. Yes, and brilliant."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES

Old Dude · 04-01-2005, 07:04 AM

Old Dude · 04-01-2005, 07:06 AM

Old Dude · 04-01-2005, 07:23 AM

"Violent, filthy, sexist and nasty, mesmerizing, inventive and awe-inspiring."
-- Angela Baldassarre, SYMPATICO.CA

"I don't believe in censorship and I but do think that a film like this, especially one made by a major director under the flag of artistic integrity, adds something ugly to the air for which critics must hold it accountable."
-- William Arnold, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER

"Gorgeous and gory, a graphic film noir taken to the nth level, Sin City is not just for devotees of Frank Miller."
-- Rebecca Murray, ABOUT.COM

"a meticulously-crafted weapon of a movie that will please, disgust, and inspire loyalty among comic fans and strong-stomached general audiences alike"
-- Eric Meyerson, FILMCRITIC.COM

"filled with stylistic violence, over-the-top acting and action and is completely deserving of its "R" rating. In other words, I loved every minute of it. "
-- Jeffrey Lyles, GAZETTE (MD)

"What happens in `Sin City' feels like what might have been going on in those 1940s and '50s crime pictures when no one was looking."
-- Josh Larsen, SUN PUBLICATIONS (CHICAGO, IL)

"Sauvage, sexy, violent, cool, unique, sadique, extrême, politiquement incorrect, et j’en passe."
-- Nicolas Lacroix, ENPRIMEUR.CA

"At long last, here is a film that fully justifies why we still love going to the movie theater."
-- David Keyes, CINEMAPHILE.ORG

"Sin City is jazzed by excess, by the thrill of crafting a sharp-edged, high-contrast shadow world where it's hard to tell the difference between cartoons and reality."
-- Chris Hewitt (St. Paul), ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS

"The most deadly thing in Sin City is the crushing boredom that sets in after the novelty of the visual style has worn off."
-- Jurgen Fauth, ABOUT.COM

I can't endorse the content, but I can't dismiss the presentation. Sin City is superlative filmmaking in service of a poisonous view of humanity. It's a dangerous work of art."
-- Colin Covert, MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE

"It'll be interesting to see how time treats City's novelty value once live action/computer screen hybrids become more common. Right now it looks like one of the movies that will define its year even more than the Kill Bill duo did."
-- Mike Clark, USA TODAY

"There's something to appreciate around every corner -- the gritty characters, the uncompromising story, and, most of all, visuals to astound and amaze."
-- James Berardinelli, REELVIEWS

"A grand experiment... It exists merely to see if it can -- just to find out if a distinct looking comic book can be duplicated on screen with live actors."
-- Jeffrey Chen, REELTALK MOVIE REVIEWS

"Probably the cheapest, most juvenile and awesomest movie ever, it's a young, dumb and full-of-come fantasy/noir, fanboy nirvana extravaganza. "
-- Sean Burns, PHILADELPHIA WEEKLY

"Innovative and dazzling in its absolute loyalty to the visual style of its inspiration...brings comic book pages alive to a degree that is unprecedented in movie history."
-- Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDWIRE

"... a pastiche of the most naively macho extremes of brutal pulp fiction, lovingly rendered as mock anti-hero B-movie crime opera."
-- Sean Axmaker, ST@TIC MULTIMEDIA

"The glee with which Rodriguez films the sadism may be off-putting, but the joy with which he pays tribute to both the comic form and film noir is positively infectious."
-- Matt Brunson, CREATIVE LOAFING

"A treasure for both cineastes and those looking simply to be dazzled for two hours."
-- Josh Bell, LAS VEGAS WEEKLY

Retrograde, sexist, and gleefully sadistic... pitiable and fearful in the language we go to the movies to learn. The old cop line "There's nothing to see here" hardly applies."
-- Peter Canavese, GROUCHO REVIEWS

"Leather-fetish T&A, ultra-violence comic style, and a plethora of dirty deeds by dastardly dudes-n-dames await you..."
-- Emily Blunt, BLUNT REVIEW

"As au courant as a school shooting..."
-- John Beifuss, COMMERCIAL APPEAL (MEMPHIS, TN)

"Relentless, shocking, and admirably experimental."
-- Jeanne Aufmuth, AUFMUTH.COM

"It's all about sack-size and the lizard brain--and as a film, it's something like pure aggression and machismo, freebased on a filthy spoon and shunted into an open vein."
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL

toad · 04-08-2005, 10:56 AM

I'm ready to see this one!

Rascal · 04-08-2005, 11:01 AM

Well I went and saw it last night and sorry to say I was disappointed. All the hype and rave reviews it has received and I didn't think it was that good. I'd give a 6 out of 10. The characters, cinemotography, and music was good though. I guess I'm not much of a comic book type of person...I didn't see how the 3 plots, if you can call them that, were related and the purpose of each one to the main story line...and if you can tell me that I would appreciate it. I don't expect much of a plot in an action movie but something to give me a clue as to what the hell is going on would be nice. And much to Quentin Tarantino's dismay not every death has to be a dramatic one filled with blood and gore.

Carla or whatever her name is the only reason I didn't give this a 5 or below...nice rack.

Mile High Shack · 04-08-2005, 11:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rascal

Well I went and saw it last night and sorry to say I was disappointed. All the hype and rave reviews it has received and I didn't think it was that good. I'd give a 6 out of 10. The characters, cinemotography, and music was good though. I guess I'm not much of a comic book type of person...I didn't see how the 3 plots, if you can call them that, were related and the purpose of each one to the main story line...and if you can tell me that I would appreciate it. I don't expect much of a plot in an action movie but something to give me a clue as to what the hell is going on would be nice. And much to Quentin Tarantino's dismay not every death has to be a dramatic one filled with blood and gore.

Carla or whatever her name is the only reason I didn't give this a 5 or below...nice rack.

well it's based on the sin city comic books...the stories weren't related except they all lived in the same city.

if you don't like comic books, I can see why you don't like this movie.

In comic books, most deaths are dramatic

Rascal · 04-08-2005, 11:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mile High Shack

well it's based on the sin city comic books...the stories weren't related except they all lived in the same city.

if you don't like comic books, I can see why you don't like this movie.

In comic books, most deaths are dramatic

Well I'm not much of a comic book person...although I did like Spiderman and Xmen movies. But from what i've heard they aren't related to the comic book except in name.

So I guess if you like comic books you will love the movie...if you don't like comic books the movie may be a bust for you.

Mile High Shack · 04-08-2005, 11:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rascal

Well I'm not much of a comic book person...although I did like Spiderman and Xmen movies. But from what i've heard they aren't related to the comic book except in name.

So I guess if you like comic books you will love the movie...if you don't like comic books the movie may be a bust for you.

sounds like it

plus some people just love anything related to Quenton Terrintino too.......

people who dig violence also...lol

yeah you are right...spiderman and xmen while being pretty good movies weren't really much related to the real comic books.

webs shooting out of his real hands...ugh

03-21-2005, 10:40 AM	#1
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Old Dude Host Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: As if I'd tell you crazies! Posts: 14,146	"Violent, filthy, sexist and nasty, mesmerizing, inventive and awe-inspiring." -- Angela Baldassarre, SYMPATICO.CA "I don't believe in censorship and I but do think that a film like this, especially one made by a major director under the flag of artistic integrity, adds something ugly to the air for which critics must hold it accountable." -- William Arnold, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER "Gorgeous and gory, a graphic film noir taken to the nth level, Sin City is not just for devotees of Frank Miller." -- Rebecca Murray, ABOUT.COM "a meticulously-crafted weapon of a movie that will please, disgust, and inspire loyalty among comic fans and strong-stomached general audiences alike" -- Eric Meyerson, FILMCRITIC.COM "filled with stylistic violence, over-the-top acting and action and is completely deserving of its "R" rating. In other words, I loved every minute of it. " -- Jeffrey Lyles, GAZETTE (MD) "What happens in `Sin City' feels like what might have been going on in those 1940s and '50s crime pictures when no one was looking." -- Josh Larsen, SUN PUBLICATIONS (CHICAGO, IL) "Sauvage, sexy, violent, cool, unique, sadique, extrême, politiquement incorrect, et j’en passe." -- Nicolas Lacroix, ENPRIMEUR.CA "At long last, here is a film that fully justifies why we still love going to the movie theater." -- David Keyes, CINEMAPHILE.ORG "Sin City is jazzed by excess, by the thrill of crafting a sharp-edged, high-contrast shadow world where it's hard to tell the difference between cartoons and reality." -- Chris Hewitt (St. Paul), ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS "The most deadly thing in Sin City is the crushing boredom that sets in after the novelty of the visual style has worn off." -- Jurgen Fauth, ABOUT.COM I can't endorse the content, but I can't dismiss the presentation. Sin City is superlative filmmaking in service of a poisonous view of humanity. It's a dangerous work of art." -- Colin Covert, MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE "It'll be interesting to see how time treats City's novelty value once live action/computer screen hybrids become more common. Right now it looks like one of the movies that will define its year even more than the Kill Bill duo did." -- Mike Clark, USA TODAY "There's something to appreciate around every corner -- the gritty characters, the uncompromising story, and, most of all, visuals to astound and amaze." -- James Berardinelli, REELVIEWS "A grand experiment... It exists merely to see if it can -- just to find out if a distinct looking comic book can be duplicated on screen with live actors." -- Jeffrey Chen, REELTALK MOVIE REVIEWS "Probably the cheapest, most juvenile and awesomest movie ever, it's a young, dumb and full-of-come fantasy/noir, fanboy nirvana extravaganza. " -- Sean Burns, PHILADELPHIA WEEKLY "Innovative and dazzling in its absolute loyalty to the visual style of its inspiration...brings comic book pages alive to a degree that is unprecedented in movie history." -- Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDWIRE "... a pastiche of the most naively macho extremes of brutal pulp fiction, lovingly rendered as mock anti-hero B-movie crime opera." -- Sean Axmaker, ST@TIC MULTIMEDIA "The glee with which Rodriguez films the sadism may be off-putting, but the joy with which he pays tribute to both the comic form and film noir is positively infectious." -- Matt Brunson, CREATIVE LOAFING "A treasure for both cineastes and those looking simply to be dazzled for two hours." -- Josh Bell, LAS VEGAS WEEKLY Retrograde, sexist, and gleefully sadistic... pitiable and fearful in the language we go to the movies to learn. The old cop line "There's nothing to see here" hardly applies." -- Peter Canavese, GROUCHO REVIEWS "Leather-fetish T&A, ultra-violence comic style, and a plethora of dirty deeds by dastardly dudes-n-dames await you..." -- Emily Blunt, BLUNT REVIEW "As au courant as a school shooting..." -- John Beifuss, COMMERCIAL APPEAL (MEMPHIS, TN) "Relentless, shocking, and admirably experimental." -- Jeanne Aufmuth, AUFMUTH.COM "It's all about sack-size and the lizard brain--and as a film, it's something like pure aggression and machismo, freebased on a filthy spoon and shunted into an open vein." -- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL Last edited by Old Dude; 04-01-2005 at 12:17 PM..

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03-21-2005, 11:37 AM	#2
Taco John 24/7 Broncos In Elway I Trust Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 49,697 Adopt-a-Bronco: Peyton Manning	Boy that movie looks cool...

03-21-2005, 11:38 AM	#3
Rascal RIP Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 16,581 Adopt-a-Bronco: Turf	I've already told the wife to mark it down on her calender the day it comes out.

03-21-2005, 01:40 PM	#4
Old Dude Host Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: As if I'd tell you crazies! Posts: 14,146	I think the movie is based on three or four of Frank Miller's graphic novels (by the same name). The stories should weave together, much like Pulp Fiction. "Marv" is just awesome in the books - played by Mickey R. in the movie. You do not want to mess with Marv.

03-21-2005, 01:42 PM	#5
Mile High Shack Ring of Famer Cock-a-doodle-do Join Date: May 2001 Location: Somewhere Posts: 17,010	What’s the deal with having Mickey Rourke has a bad ass………he is a total loser, I guess it’s the surprise of having him as a star in a big movie?

03-21-2005, 01:59 PM	#6
Old Dude Host Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: As if I'd tell you crazies! Posts: 14,146	He plays a huge "loser" in the movie. They could not have picked a better guy to play the role of "Marv" IMHO. The background on "Marv" He's a two-time loser, on parole, or just barely off it. Ugly as sin. Fairly strong, a deadly shot, and almost superhumanly tough. One night he gets "lucky" with a gorgeous blonde. For the first time in his life, he's accepted, and in love. He wakes up next to her in the morning, and she's dead. And the cops are on their way to his room, because he's been framed. That's the kick-off.

03-21-2005, 02:02 PM	#7
Mile High Shack Ring of Famer Cock-a-doodle-do Join Date: May 2001 Location: Somewhere Posts: 17,010	Aaaaaaaa, ok, well that makes more sense for him……still I would’ve thought they would’ve picked a bigger star for this big movie I plan on seeing it as long as it’s b4 the birth of my kid

03-21-2005, 02:48 PM	#8
Northman The Enigma Prognosis Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Maryland Posts: 17,925 Adopt-a-Bronco: Bryci	This movie doesnt just look good, it looks tight as ****! woot!

04-01-2005, 04:35 AM	#9
Old Dude Host Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: As if I'd tell you crazies! Posts: 14,146	SINFULLY SATISFYING: The violent, exhilarating 'Sin City,' based on a series of graphic novels, packs an unforgettably potent punch - - Detroit Free Press Sin City: The coolest movie since Pulp Fiction (4 stars) - - Sun Sentinel Aesthetically exciting and sick as hell, "Sin City" is so disreputable that it practically turns itself inside-out into a spectacle of virginal innocence: Blunt, devoid of metaphor and unapologetically depraved, it radiates a perverse kind of purity. - - salon.com 'Sin City' a graphic triumph LJWorld.com

04-01-2005, 05:04 AM	#10
Old Dude Host Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: As if I'd tell you crazies! Posts: 14,146	"A movie of such high style, done in such a spirit of electrifying fun and creativity, that it kisses the blood right off its own violent hands." -- Michael Wilmington, CHICAGO TRIBUNE "Rodriguez and company have so faithfully captured Miller's essence, there's something beautiful about the whole thing. It's an act of inspired reverence." -- Desson Thomson, WASHINGTON POST "Sometimes it all seems as schematic as a theme park attraction. Mostly, though, the movie comes across like the fever dream of a smart, put-upon adolescent who'd been up all night watching every black-and-white crime movie made since the sound era." -- Gene Seymour, NEWSDAY "So seduced by the visual possibilities of sin that style becomes its own vice." -- Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY "Every now and then, a movie does more than gamely defend the status quo but actually advances the art form. So it is with Sin City, a stunning, brutal vision of a city gone mad." -- Bill Muller, ARIZONA REPUBLIC

04-01-2005, 07:01 AM	#11
Old Dude Host Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: As if I'd tell you crazies! Posts: 14,146	"Sin City has more severed heads, dismemberments and acts of cannibalism than The Silence of the Lambs and Freddy Vs. Jason put together. I loved it!" -- Staci Layne Wilson, HORROR.COM "A gloriously grim and terrifically nasty piece of escapist entertainment; a comic-book-noir masterpiece full of delicious dread, terrible temptation, and shady chivalry." -- Scott Weinberg, EFILMCRITIC.COM "Mickey Rourke blows me away with his acting and Elijah Wood creeps the hell out of me? I swear to God, I don't understand the universe anymore." -- Widgett Walls, NEEDCOFFEE.COM "Silence, fiend! The consensus here: One arm cannon up!" -- Phil Villarreal, ARIZONA DAILY STAR "Technically the film is a masterpiece." -- Tony Toscano, TALKING PICTURES (U.S.) "I found the movie every bit as sickening as its creators intended it to be, minus the kicks they so palpably got out of making it." -- Ella Taylor, L.A. WEEKLY "The film retains not just the look of its source material but its tone, too -- its dark mood swings, its hard-boiled love affairs, its grimly funny violence." -- Eric D. Snider, ERICDSNIDER.COM "An exhilarating tapestry of valor, selfishness, deceitfulness, and martyrdom." -- Nicholas Schager, SLANT MAGAZINE "‘Classic’ isn't word enough to describe this unflinching look into the dark side of the comic book world." -- Alex Sandell, JUICY CEREBELLUM "Breathtaking to look at, but its core is without a pulse." -- Dustin Putman, THEMOVIEBOY.COM "Pure entertainment with insanely cool visuals, Sin City is the most faithful comic adaptation of all time." -- Jeff Otto, IGN FILMFORCE "A pointless wallow in sadism... Willis, Rourke, and Boothe have all done way cooler tough-guy movies for Walter Hill." -- Chuck O'Leary, FANTASTICA DAILY "You know you’re gone beyond run-of-the-mill movie violence you need to use the plural for 'castrations.'" -- Jeffrey Westhoff, NORTHWEST HERALD (CRYSTAL LAKE, IL) "Film noir on steroids; a movie so cool you’re not supposed to be concerned about its total lack of moral grounding. Nor its profound sexism. Nor its misanthropic nihilism." -- Brian Webster, APOLLO GUIDE "It's a visualization of the pulp noir imagination, uncompromising and extreme. Yes, and brilliant." -- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES

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04-08-2005, 10:56 AM	#15
toad Pro Bowler Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 657 Adopt-a-Bronco: Brian Clark	I'm ready to see this one!

04-08-2005, 11:01 AM	#16
Rascal RIP Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 16,581 Adopt-a-Bronco: Turf	Well I went and saw it last night and sorry to say I was disappointed. All the hype and rave reviews it has received and I didn't think it was that good. I'd give a 6 out of 10. The characters, cinemotography, and music was good though. I guess I'm not much of a comic book type of person...I didn't see how the 3 plots, if you can call them that, were related and the purpose of each one to the main story line...and if you can tell me that I would appreciate it. I don't expect much of a plot in an action movie but something to give me a clue as to what the hell is going on would be nice. And much to Quentin Tarantino's dismay not every death has to be a dramatic one filled with blood and gore. Carla or whatever her name is the only reason I didn't give this a 5 or below...nice rack.