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30 Minutes of Frank Miller's The Spirit Reviewed
An anonymous reader writes "Thirty minutes of footage from Frank Miller's forthcoming The Spirit were shown to journalists in London yesterday. The description paints a picture of a highly stylized movie, somewhere between Sin City and Crimewave ..."
With the economy this bad I guess movies that show crime are going to be more profitable then usual.
Wouldn't people just sneak in to see it rather than pay?
I've seen the trailers, and if Miller does everything right, The Spirit could be an awesome work of film noir. Or it might suck harder than the new Guns 'n Roses album.
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I've seen the trailer for The Spirit a few times and it looks like a knock off of The Shadow. I did a bit of looking around and couldn't find much in the way of comparisons but I was just curious, from someone who knows, is that an accurate thought? The costuming and 'tone' of the trailer makes me think of The Shadow, but not knowing much about The Spirit, I could be way off.
This will be bad. I mean really horribly bad. I mean crawl under the covers and watch the Star Wars Christmas Special bad. You may have thought the Matrix sequels were bad but that's peanuts to this.
I just pray it's even half as good as the film adaptation of The Phantom.
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I think I liked it because it was stylized and was really like a comic book brought to life. Not sure if I will like this movie as well, but I will definitely watch it to find out.
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Am I the only one who finds Miller really overrated?
I can't wait for the other 2.5 installments of this review...
I mean, I know the economy is hard on everyone right now, but you'd think he'd have waited until he could see the entire movie.
Quick, let's raise a collection so he can review the entire thing!
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Is a great writer and artist.
He totally sucks when it comes to making movies, IMHO.
I think he's too in-love with CGI to be effective in his movies- what he does well on the page of a comic book doesn't translate to the big silver screen.
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Hmm, film is released in less than a month and journos are shown a sneak peak of 30 minutes worth of clips?
That sounds like the studio has seen it, it's not good, and they are shitting themselves. Best thing to do is get the hype machine rolling with some choice clips to the press.
Hell I could pick 30 minutes of clips from 300 to make it look like a promising film but when you watch the whole film it's pretty boring. My guess is this is going to be the same deal.
Shame, because I loved Sin City :(
After raping the Spartans, now he's going after the story of ol' Oedipus?
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They say that cat Oedipus is one bad mother--
Shut your mouth!
But I'm just talkin' 'bout Oedipus!
Then we can dig it!
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There is a difference between a review and a recap of the action. This "review" contains no actual critical discussion. All that the guy has done is recap what he saw. I'm sure it's interesting if you're looking for spoilers, but it's pretty much as unhelpful as you can get in determining the quality of the pic and whether or not it's worth seeing.
From what I have read and seen, it looks like Frank Miller is turning the work of Will Eisner into Sin City. Couldn't he just have done a straight adaptation?
I mean, there's a reason the award they give for excellence in comics is called the "Eisner Awards."
...from Miller, explaining why he spent years refusing deals for filming Sin City, claming he was afraid that the director wouldn't be faithful to the comic book's spirit (pun not intended), and now is perfectly confortable in imposing his own view of The Spirit over Eisner's.
I'm not questioning here if the movie will be good or not. I'm just wondering if he ever tried to explain why he's not being completely hypocritical.
Frank Miller adapting Will Eisner makes about as much sense as Sam Peckinpah adapting Jeeves and Wooster.
When Quentin Tarantino made Jackie Brown from Elmore Leonard's Rum Punch, people were all "dazzled" by how brilliant it was, this fusing of two great dialogue masters. Personally, I found that Tarantino's choices, starting with moving the story out of Miami and working right on through the list, did nothing more than systematically eliminate everything that made the book charming and great. In the end, what you had was something that was Tarantino's flesh and fetishes hung over the barest mention of Leonard's skeleton.
I fully expect that's what we're going to have with this Spirit movie. Frank Miller is possibly the least qualified person to adapt Eisner (personally, I think Kevin Smith would do a better job), and I'm glad Will's not around to see this.
The thing with Frank Miller is that in recent years he's lost his friggin mind when it comes to writing. I present All Star Batman and Robin as exhibit A.
That is all.
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Bleh I hope it's not like Sin City, that movie sucked big time. But from the trailers unfortunately it pretty much looks like a Sin City knockoff.
Sin City was a fucking piece of shit. Tasteless violence for violence sake.
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Though he is one the best comic book writers alive today, ( I disown All Star Batman and Robin)I'm not entirely sure of Frank Miller's competence as a director. Sin City was good but I'm pretty sure Robert Rodriguez helped a lot.