God help me I didn't enjoy Frank Miller's The Spirit

[Seil]

First off, whores.

Second off, I bought a new TV. I found a flat screen (Toshiba Regza) at a pawn shop for a bit so I bought it and I've been watching this huge back log of movies that built up last semester that I didn't have time for. Among them was The Spirit.

Now, I liked Sin City. Sin City was rad! You get a bunch of decent actors and make a good comic book movie with them. You mix in comic book elements, stylized sequences and good characterization, and there you have it.

'The Spirit' has a head on a foot:

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And he monologues the bejesus out of everything. The Spirit does, I mean. In Sin City, Mickey Rourke was all like "BADASS VOICE OVER" and "BADASS MICKEY ROURKE." Spirit's speaking an internal monologue in front of the bad guys.

And on that note, there's one dude! Nazi Samuel L. Jackson! You've got, like, what, nine seperate beautiful women in this movie? Scarlet Johannsson, Jaime King, Paz Vega, Eva Mendes, three or four more? Let's run this through: beautiful women, stylized action comic movie, Samuel Motherfucking Jackson... (It's what the 'L' stands for.)

What went wrong?

[Magus]

Frank Miller not actually having anything to do with the original comics, which were lighthearted fare along the lines of the original Batman as far as I can tell. He basically ignored the shit out of them.

I mean, fuck, the whole point of the Octopus in the comics is you don't see his real face, whereas Samuel L. Jackson's mug was clearly visible in every scene he was in. I'm sick of this motherfucking Samuel L. Jackson in my motherfucking movies!

Basically the entire point of this movie was like Frank Miller going "what if I coopted The Spirit like I coopted Batman, but didn't even try to make a fucking statement about society or anything."

But you know, this movie is probably slightly better than Holy Terror. Whatever that is worth (less than nothing).

[BitVyper]

The Spirit is the greatest triumph of modern cinema. Frank Miller is a visionary genius.

[Magus]

The Spirit is the greatest triumph of modern cinema. Frank Miller is a visionary genius.

I like to pretend that BitVyper's being "sent to the cornfield" is not due to his fake banning in that other topic but because of this statement, some mod going "DON'T EVEN FUCKING KID ABOUT THAT. JESUS CHRIST. TAKE A FEW DAYS OFF."

[BitVyper]

True art is always underappreciated in its own time.

[Magus]

True art is always underappreciated in its own time.

I'm sure Miller will be hailed as the greatest of artistic geniuses in the post-apocalyptic wasteland of the future ruled over by biker warlords.

[BitVyper]

I'm sure Miller will be hailed as the greatest of artistic geniuses in the post-apocalyptic wasteland of the future ruled over by biker warlords.

Detroit?

[Magus]

Detroit?

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I like how Miller changed Robocop from "Corporations are evil" to "Japanese corporations are evil."

IS THERE NOTHING YOU WON'T RUIN BEFORE YOU'RE DONE, MILLER?!

[The Sevenshot Kid]

I love THe Spirit. It's such a piece of shit but it's filled with beautiful women and, holy shit, is it a dumb movie. Every thing about this movie is a glory to behold. I can honestly say that Frank Miller has actually made one improvement to the source material. He didn't include Ebony White.

[Azisien]

It was a shit movie.

[TDK]

Samuel L. Jackson's mug was clearly visible in every scene he was in. I'm sick of this motherfucking Samuel L. Jackson in my motherfucking movies!

This is the point of Samuel L. Jackson. He is not playing a character. In every movie he is in, he is playing Samuel L. Jackson. As it should be.

As it should be.

[PCD]

I want to kick this movie in the face, god damn it's so bad. It wouldn't be so frustrating if my friend hadn't made me see it in theaters.

why are there so many egg puns

[The Sevenshot Kid]

I want to kick this movie in the face, god damn it's so bad. It wouldn't be so frustrating if my friend hadn't made me see it in theaters.

why are there so many egg puns

Octopi lay eggs.

[Seil]

I want to kick this movie in the face, god damn it's so bad. It wouldn't be so frustrating if my friend hadn't made me see it in theaters.

why are there so many egg puns

Egg references, I think you mean. "Pun" implies a joke.

[The SSB Intern]

I love THe Spirit. It's such a piece of shit but it's filled with beautiful women and, holy shit, is it a dumb movie. Every thing about this movie is a glory to behold. I can honestly say that Frank Miller has actually made one improvement to the source material. He didn't include Ebony White.

I never understood why everyone remembers Will Eisner's incredibly racist Ebony but not Darwyn Cooke's incredibly awesome Ebony.

[PCD]

Octopi lay eggs.

thats not a reason. thats never a reason.

[Aerozord]

This is the point of Samuel L. Jackson. He is not playing a character. In every movie he is in, he is playing Samuel L. Jackson. As it should be.

As it should be.

except when he is in a Marvel movie, then its Samuel L. Jackson playing Nick Fury as a homage to Samuel L. Jackson in a kind of meta casting call

[Marc v4.0]

Sam Jackson as Nick Fury calling back to Shaft as Sam Jackson playing Nick Fury


edit: I like the fact that Sam's Fury is just much cooler than the old Fury, and has become the expected in-comic Fury.

[TDK]

except when he is in a Marvel movie, then its Samuel L. Jackson playing Nick Fury as a homage to Samuel L. Jackson in a kind of meta casting call

I hold that the new Nick Fury, having been designed after and for Samuel L. Jackson, is just Jackson in the marvel universe. Like its a separate universe with parallels to ours, yeah? And Samuel L. Jackson was born in that universe too, but his name is Nick Fury instead. He is the same man.

[Magus]

Frank Miller's HOLY TERROR

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In which Batman shoots him a bunch of terrorists.

I mean Miller calls him the Fixer but it's obviously Batman. It also has Catwoman, James Gordon, and Jewman.

Don't remember Jewman? Well here he is:

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I think this is like Miller making commentary on his own Swastika-tit chick from The Dark Knight Returns but I really can't tell anymore.