Comments on: The Spirit Review http://blog.spout.com/2008/12/24/the-spirit-review/ Daily coverage of what is truly interesting in the film world Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:46:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: die miller die http://blog.spout.com/2008/12/24/the-spirit-review/#comment-136725 die miller die Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:31:38 +0000 http://blog.spout.com/?p=8642#comment-136725 oh my god what a load of crap this movie was!!!! SHAME on u frank miller!!! I WANT THE HOUR AND1/2 OF MY LIFE BACK AND SOOO MUCH MORE IN COMPENSATION FOR WATCHING THIS PIECE OF SHIT!!!!! UNCOMPREHENSIBLE PLOT and what's up with the whole nazi scene, they don't even ever reference it and what black man would want to dress up as a nazi anyway doesn'tt he know he's just an ape to them!!!!! oh my god what a load of crap this movie was!!!! SHAME on u frank miller!!!
I WANT THE HOUR AND1/2 OF MY LIFE BACK AND SOOO MUCH MORE IN COMPENSATION FOR WATCHING THIS PIECE OF SHIT!!!!! UNCOMPREHENSIBLE PLOT and what’s up with the whole nazi scene, they don’t even ever reference it and what black man would want to dress up as a nazi anyway doesn’tt he know he’s just an ape to them!!!!!

]]> By: XANATOS http://blog.spout.com/2008/12/24/the-spirit-review/#comment-119819 XANATOS Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:16:43 +0000 http://blog.spout.com/?p=8642#comment-119819 Oh and Scooter. Everyone is entitled to their opinion just like you are. So telling everyone that they make you sad because they didnt like the movie is quite unfair. It is good that you liked the movie. Go see it again. But people compare it to Sin City for the obvious reasons and in my opinion it is a fair comparison. Seems as Frank Miller was trying to duplicate what Rodriguez hit on the mark with a stylistic original presentation that was Sin City. Miller's genius is obvious on the page. But it seems that he is doing his hard core fans a disservice to be alone in that director's chair...just not ready yet. Oh and Scooter.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion just like you are. So telling everyone that they make you sad because they didnt like the movie is quite unfair. It is good that you liked the movie. Go see it again. But people compare it to Sin City for the obvious reasons and in my opinion it is a fair comparison. Seems as Frank Miller was trying to duplicate what Rodriguez hit on the mark with a stylistic original presentation that was Sin City. Miller’s genius is obvious on the page. But it seems that he is doing his hard core fans a disservice to be alone in that director’s chair…just not ready yet.

]]> By: XANATOS http://blog.spout.com/2008/12/24/the-spirit-review/#comment-119818 XANATOS Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:08:53 +0000 http://blog.spout.com/?p=8642#comment-119818 OH Barry. You must be a big Spirit fan. It is good that you liked the movie that seems everyone else hated. But good that you found good in that movie. Seems that we are gonna be over saturated with comic movies and I am sure this movie wont be the last critically panned "comic" movie. Oh by the way. The Happening was not a terrible movie. The concept was good and the death scenes were quite disturbing. The bodies just falling off the roof was a disturbing eerie scene. Marc Wahlberg did his whiny voice that took from his sub par performance. Betty Buckley as the crazy old woman was a great character and she did well. Just that lame ass explanation and ending was what has people up in stirs over it. OH Barry. You must be a big Spirit fan. It is good that you liked the movie that seems everyone else hated. But good that you found good in that movie. Seems that we are gonna be over saturated with comic movies and I am sure this movie wont be the last critically panned “comic” movie.

Oh by the way. The Happening was not a terrible movie. The concept was good and the death scenes were quite disturbing. The bodies just falling off the roof was a disturbing eerie scene. Marc Wahlberg did his whiny voice that took from his sub par performance. Betty Buckley as the crazy old woman was a great character and she did well.

Just that lame ass explanation and ending was what has people up in stirs over it.

]]> By: ScooterB http://blog.spout.com/2008/12/24/the-spirit-review/#comment-119357 ScooterB Sun, 11 Jan 2009 08:18:58 +0000 http://blog.spout.com/?p=8642#comment-119357 @Barry Exactly. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie, because I realized that at some points it is supposed to be campy, at others, funny, and at still others just plain weird. The fight scene and the "Toilets are funny comment" was an absurd , over the top kind of funny that they were TRYING for. @Kevin I don't understand why everyone gives this movie such bad reviews. I'm sure that the humor isn't for everyone, but why is it that no-one understands that it is supposed to be funny AND serious at different parts? I gotta say, though, this review was the best I've read for this movie, as it recognized that the movie had it's moments, even if it thought there were less of these moments than I did, and I thank you for that. @Everyone Else You people make me sad. You're complaining that The Spirit wasn't as gritty as Sin City, and that the effects were ridiculous. IT ISN'T SUPPOSED TO BE SIN CITY. JUST BECAUSE IT HAS A SIMILAR ARTISTIC SYLE DOES NOT MEAN THE MOVIE HAS TO BE THE SAME MOVIE. Honestly, I think the problem with this movie was that it's ads sort of portrayed it as a more Sin Cityish, serious movie than it was supposed to be, and drew a crowd of people expecting that. If they had just made it seem like a lighter, funnier movie, I think it would have been received in a much more appreciative way. @Barry
Exactly. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie, because I realized that at some points it is supposed to be campy, at others, funny, and at still others just plain weird. The fight scene and the “Toilets are funny comment” was an absurd , over the top kind of funny that they were TRYING for.

@Kevin
I don’t understand why everyone gives this movie such bad reviews. I’m sure that the humor isn’t for everyone, but why is it that no-one understands that it is supposed to be funny AND serious at different parts? I gotta say, though, this review was the best I’ve read for this movie, as it recognized that the movie had it’s moments, even if it thought there were less of these moments than I did, and I thank you for that.

@Everyone Else
You people make me sad. You’re complaining that The Spirit wasn’t as gritty as Sin City, and that the effects were ridiculous. IT ISN’T SUPPOSED TO BE SIN CITY. JUST BECAUSE IT HAS A SIMILAR ARTISTIC SYLE DOES NOT MEAN THE MOVIE HAS TO BE THE SAME MOVIE. Honestly, I think the problem with this movie was that it’s ads sort of portrayed it as a more Sin Cityish, serious movie than it was supposed to be, and drew a crowd of people expecting that. If they had just made it seem like a lighter, funnier movie, I think it would have been received in a much more appreciative way.

]]> By: Atar http://blog.spout.com/2008/12/24/the-spirit-review/#comment-119110 Atar Sat, 03 Jan 2009 23:21:14 +0000 http://blog.spout.com/?p=8642#comment-119110 This is an excellent review. Spot on! This is an excellent review. Spot on!

]]> By: Barry http://blog.spout.com/2008/12/24/the-spirit-review/#comment-119088 Barry Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:27:59 +0000 http://blog.spout.com/?p=8642#comment-119088 You know what? I liked this movie. I mean maybe it's partly because I had such low expectations. I was a big fan of Will Eisner's art when I was a kid and I'm not the biggest fan of Frank Miller. (Or "Sin City" for that matter.) And I had a hard time seeing how they were going to translate the comic into a live action movie. Plus, pretty much every review I read said it was a train wreck so I wasn't expecting a lot when I went in. But I was pleasantly surprised. People were laughing out loud the night I saw it and I thought it was a lot of fun. Samuel Jackson was fully invested in his character, the movie moves along quickly enough and (Seriously.) every lead female character is hot. (Not that that should be a big consideration, I'm just saying.) Yeah, maybe it has some problems and, yeah, maybe (Maybe, mind you. I said maybe.) Scarlett Johansson is a little stiff. But this really isn't a bad movie. I sat down last night and watched "The Happening" for the first time and "that" is a bad movie. That is a movie that is across-the-board awful. "The Spirit" is nothing like that. It's a fine "Buy a 6 pack, pop some popcorn and sit down and lose yourself for a couple hours" movie. It's not "Milk", it's not even "Sin City", but it certainly doesn't deserve to be lambasted the way it's been. So I'm wondering if we've all been "Dark Knighted". If any comic book movie that isn't dark and gritty and "real" (Remember, we're talking about comic books here right?) is just going to be shot down out of hand. You know what? I liked this movie. I mean maybe it’s partly because I had such low expectations. I was a big fan of Will Eisner’s art when I was a kid and I’m not the biggest fan of Frank Miller. (Or “Sin City” for that matter.) And I had a hard time seeing how they were going to translate the comic into a live action movie. Plus, pretty much every review I read said it was a train wreck so I wasn’t expecting a lot when I went in. But I was pleasantly surprised. People were laughing out loud the night I saw it and I thought it was a lot of fun. Samuel Jackson was fully invested in his character, the movie moves along quickly enough and (Seriously.) every lead female character is hot. (Not that that should be a big consideration, I’m just saying.) Yeah, maybe it has some problems and, yeah, maybe (Maybe, mind you. I said maybe.) Scarlett Johansson is a little stiff. But this really isn’t a bad movie. I sat down last night and watched “The Happening” for the first time and “that” is a bad movie. That is a movie that is across-the-board awful. “The Spirit” is nothing like that. It’s a fine “Buy a 6 pack, pop some popcorn and sit down and lose yourself for a couple hours” movie. It’s not “Milk”, it’s not even “Sin City”, but it certainly doesn’t deserve to be lambasted the way it’s been. So I’m wondering if we’ve all been “Dark Knighted”. If any comic book movie that isn’t dark and gritty and “real” (Remember, we’re talking about comic books here right?) is just going to be shot down out of hand.

]]> By: Stelios http://blog.spout.com/2008/12/24/the-spirit-review/#comment-119004 Stelios Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:02:37 +0000 http://blog.spout.com/?p=8642#comment-119004 You are being far too kind. The actors give kindergarden like performances, there are no good fight scenes (and the fight scenes that do exist are bad AND silly), the scene running on the telephone lines was ridiculous, there is no screenplay to speak of, Samuel Jackson woudnt' shutup... I could go on and on. I prayed for that piece of crap to end. After 300, and Sin City, Miller destroyes the Spirit franchise by trying to be the director. Guess what? HE IS NOT! The Spirit TV Movie (u can watch it on Youtube) is low badget, and It's far superior! You are being far too kind. The actors give kindergarden like performances, there are no good fight scenes (and the fight scenes that do exist are bad AND silly), the scene running on the telephone lines was ridiculous, there is no screenplay to speak of, Samuel Jackson woudnt’ shutup… I could go on and on. I prayed for that piece of crap to end. After 300, and Sin City, Miller destroyes the Spirit franchise by trying to be the director. Guess what? HE IS NOT! The Spirit TV Movie (u can watch it on Youtube) is low badget, and It’s far superior!

]]> By: Mark http://blog.spout.com/2008/12/24/the-spirit-review/#comment-118962 Mark Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:04:54 +0000 http://blog.spout.com/?p=8642#comment-118962 Wait for The Spirit to come out on video. Then, don't rent it. This film sucked from the moment the phone rang. The Spirit gets a call in the middle of the night and what does he do? He gets up and casually walks across a huge flat to get to the phone. Hmmm, has he never received an emergency call in the middle of the night? Why would a crime fighter keep the phone that far away from the bed? Oh, yeah. That's right. His slow saunter gives us a chance to see him in his underwear. But worry not. He makes up the time by running along telephone lines in what has to be the most ridiculous effect I've ever seen. People were laughing when they weren't supposed to. Or were they? That's the trouble with this pic. Then in the middle of a preposterous fight with the Spirit, the Octopus pulls an old toilet out of the muck and hits him in the head and declares: "Toilets are funny!" "No, they are not," I declared alound. And I was actually cheered as I left the theater and got my money back. Wait for The Spirit to come out on video. Then, don’t rent it.

This film sucked from the moment the phone rang. The Spirit gets a call in the middle of the night and what does he do? He gets up and casually walks across a huge flat to get to the phone. Hmmm, has he never received an emergency call in the middle of the night? Why would a crime fighter keep the phone that far away from the bed? Oh, yeah. That’s right. His slow saunter gives us a chance to see him in his underwear.

But worry not. He makes up the time by running along telephone lines in what has to be the most ridiculous effect I’ve ever seen. People were laughing when they weren’t supposed to. Or were they? That’s the trouble with this pic.

Then in the middle of a preposterous fight with the Spirit, the Octopus pulls an old toilet out of the muck and hits him in the head and declares:
“Toilets are funny!”

“No, they are not,” I declared alound. And I was actually cheered as I left the theater and got my money back.

]]> By: D. Holliday http://blog.spout.com/2008/12/24/the-spirit-review/#comment-118928 D. Holliday Mon, 29 Dec 2008 06:21:42 +0000 http://blog.spout.com/?p=8642#comment-118928 You are way to kind to this piece of junk picture. It has none of the seedy crime feel of Sin City. Samual Jackson who can be very scary I.e. Pulp Fiction is just boring and stupid in this pidture. He feels about as itimidating as a poodle in a junk yard. With the exception of the last ten minutes all you hoped for from this picture is long lost and you just wish it would end. Thispicture will be out the multiplex by New Years. Rating a 1 on a scale of 10 rather than zero becasue of the last ten minutes. You are way to kind to this piece of junk picture. It has none of the seedy crime feel of Sin City. Samual Jackson who can be very scary I.e. Pulp Fiction is just boring and stupid in this pidture. He feels about as itimidating as a poodle in a junk yard. With the exception of the last ten minutes all you hoped for from this picture is long lost and you just wish it would end. Thispicture will be out the multiplex by New Years. Rating a 1 on a scale of 10 rather than zero becasue of the last ten minutes.

]]> By: tuxguys http://blog.spout.com/2008/12/24/the-spirit-review/#comment-118899 tuxguys Sun, 28 Dec 2008 03:12:44 +0000 http://blog.spout.com/?p=8642#comment-118899 You nailed it. Yours is the last of about ten reviews that I've read online that nailed it just as well, but you nailed it better: You did it more concisely. My compliments. You nailed it. Yours is the last of about ten reviews that I’ve read online that nailed it just as well, but you nailed it better: You did it more concisely. My compliments.

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