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Unread 01-23-2012, 11:46 PM   #1
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Seil God help me I didn't enjoy Frank Miller's The Spirit
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:



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?
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Unread 01-24-2012, 12:11 AM   #2
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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).
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Unread 01-24-2012, 12:11 AM   #3
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Unread 01-24-2012, 12:14 AM   #4
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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?!
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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.
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