10 Crazy Facts You Just Have To Accept To Enjoy Sin City

9. The Deal With The Tar Pits

The Projects is supposed to be a distinct part of Basin City that is all but indistinguishable from the rest of it. The Santa Yolanda Tar Pits, meanwhile, totally stick out like a sore thumb and yet we're expected to just accept them. Frank Miller is a weird dude. The location has made brief appearances in the yarns Wrong Turn and The Big Fat Kill, and Miller himself has admitted that the main reason for their creation was because he wanted to draw some dinosaurs. To be fair, this is probably the least ridiculous way of getting a T-Rex into the story, but it still doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Especially when you consider the in-universe explanation for why the Tar Pits are in Sin City in the first place. Obviously an analogue of the real-life La Brea Tar Pits in LA, which actually concealed mammoth and other prehistoric skeletons beneath its sticky black surface, the Santa Yolanda Tar Pits were constructed - concrete dinos and all - to capitalise on the success of a "big-budget dinosaur movie". Then an old lady fell in and died, so they closed it down, and now it's mainly used as a place to dump dead bodies. Lots of dead bodies in Sin City. What's probably the craziest things about the tar pits is that, presumably, the "big-budget dinosaur movie" that hit during the early nineties is a thinly-veiled reference to Jurassic Park, which means Jurassic Park exists in the Sin City universe. As does Steven Spielberg. And Jeff Goldblum. And that music. And...