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The Spirit
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"The Spirit is an awful mess of a movie. It has an all star cast, but they are all bad in this movie for some reason (director?). The story or the lack of it of makes absolutely no sense and quite frankly the whole script is just ridiculous. So Frank, don´t quite your day job... "
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"The Spirit is a great comic book story, and people like my grandfather used to read it. But this movie just completely ruined it! "
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"I joined this websight to profess how awful this movie was. I'm making it my mission for others to not lose ten dollars and two wonderful life hours. The only similar failure I've seen of this demension is the latest Indiana Jone's movie. I was most insulted that it was compared to Sin City and professed as a great super hero movie with award winning status. I should have broken the reel and taken the jail time. I can't even say anymore without becoming completely profain. Please don't support this garbage. Stay home, or come with me to protest outside of the movie theatre. My sign would say, "how dare you charge me money to listen to your retarded 3rd grade project.." "
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"Why do critics hate this movie? Presently, it has a rating of only 14% on Rottentomatoes, a job dropping figure for one of the year’s best films. What gives? Well, the consensus rating says it all: “Though its visuals are unique, The Spirit's plot is almost incomprehensible, the dialogue is ludicrously mannered, and the characters are unmemorable.” I suppose that is true if you were expecting a straightforward action adventure movie, a la Iron Man. The movie is probably mostly a failure when it comes to the standard stuff of these types of pictures: the action sequences aren’t very exciting and there is little suspense in the tradition sense. But so what? The Dark Knight was not a success due to its action sequences, but due to the drama- we got involved in the characters and cared what happened to them. Indeed, the fact that The Spirit is based on a famous comic strip (by Will Eisner) might work against it in terms of audience expectations. It’s more ... "
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"Frank Miller’s film adaptation of Will Eisner’s The Spirit is an elaborately stylized train wreck. It would be easy to see only the glaring dissonances, such as childish one-liners sharing the screen with a scene in which a man is bludgeoned with a severed head, and write off the film entirely. But this wouldn’t do it the justice it deserves. The Spirit is a kind of “what if?” that populates the daydreams of only the most committed comic book nerds, which by some miracle has actually been made into a film. It’s a film that exists to answer an outlandish hypothetical question: what if two of the greatest comic artists of all time, Will Eisner and Frank Miller, teamed up to make a movie?!? Fortunately for Mr. Eisner, he didn’t live to see the result The plot of the film is really unremarkable, and serves only to deliver the more considered stylistic elements. One of the big questions the film needs to answer, but doesn’t, is whether or not it’s a comedy. And what does “comic” mean he ... "
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Attend THE SPIRIT Movie Premiere
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"ATTEND THE SPIRIT MOVIE PREMIERE / We're a non-profit charity that hosts an online auction. We have just added THE SPIRIT movie premiere and after-party. Attend the red carpet event, star gaze, see the movie before it's released.For more info, go to: www.HollywoodCharityAuction.co m---------------- "
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The Spirit: My City Screams (An ...
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"We talked about Frank Miller’s highly anticipated film adaptation of Will Eisner’s long running comic book The Spirit back at Comic-Con when the scenes failed to impress us. In fact, they felt like they were straight out of Sin City Redux. It’s been a few months since we were underwhelmed; have the filmmakers changed anything? Not based on the clip we were sent this week. Despite being a self-proclaimed fan of Will Eisner, Frank Miller is managing to stomp the life out of every facet that made The Spirit a compelling comic. Check out the video after the break, and find out why we’re not happy.
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"Finally the infamous toilet scene from The Spirit, shown last month at Comic-Con, has been leaked online. And it’s just as bad as I imagined. Actually, it’s worse. Our own Kevin Kelly, who liveblogged the clip, described the setting as “extremely muddy and watery,” but I’d go so far as to say that stuff looks like shit. Considering the fact that a toilet is involved, I’m sure it is indeed shit, literally. I don’t think there’s been so much excrement in a movie since Trainspotting. Now that I’ve seen the clip, I have to believe the makers of The Spirit actually mean for it to be humorous, but I wonder if those on stage (writer-director Frank Miller, producer Deborah Del Prete and actors
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"One of several sponsored by Entertainment Weekly, this panel brings together four filmmakers who will be flogging their upcoming wares on other panels here this weekend: Judd Apatow (producer of Pineapple Express), Kevin Smith (Zach and Miri Make a Porno), Zach Snyder (The Watchmen) and Frank Miller (The Spirit). According to the guide, it’ll be an evening devoted to “a free-wheeling conversation on the movie business, their upcoming projects, and what it means—to them—to be a geek.” But mostly, people are probably just anxious to get a seat for Kevin Smith’s annual stand-up comedy session, which begins in the same room immediately after, although if Frank Miller is yet aware of the drubbing The Spirit panel is getting online, things might get interesting… Questions from the floor 5:57 - “Is the pirate story in Watchmen being animated and coming to the DV "
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