Now Lionsgate just seems to be struggling with selling Frank Miller’s film The Spirit. On one hand, this does get away from the very Sin City-like marketing we’ve seen so far but on the other, this is about as bland and non-committal an image as I could imagine attaching to a film. (Reminds me very vaguely of the stylized one-sheet for The Shadow, but that one was more appropriate.) Good thing the poster mentions that Gabriel Macht is the Spirit, because otherwise the name isn’t going to mean anything to anyone outside the die-hard The Others fanbase. (I mean the TV show there, not the Nicole Kidman movie.)
I know there’s a core audience that is at least very curious about this film, but I don’t see this bringing in anyone that doesn’t know the property.
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All you geeks that complained about Joel Schumacher buttfucking the 'Batman' franchise have a new punching bag with this film. I'd really like to see what else could be 'Frank Miller-irized'. How about 'Frank Miller's Peanuts'? In it, Charlie Brown is an angst-ridden schoolboy, spouting off shameless gumshoe dialogue, while slapping women around because he's the epitomy of masculinity. They love it because he is 'a real man'. Don't forget to put shots of Snoopy jumping rooftops in slow-mo. With rain in the background.
First of all, I'd love to see Peanuts represented that way. Second, cut Frank Miller some slack. Did he piss in your pool? He got a major break a few years ago and he's still riding the wave, and more power to him. Jeez.
It is a nice tie, though.
It may not resemble Eisner's vision, but this looks to be a very stupid but fun outing (complete with cheesy dialogue).
Sell it through the ladies, ye fools! The cream of hollywood sexiness is in this film, what's hard about selling that? And i dig the cartoonyness about it too. And Jackson looks great in his varius costumes. I bet Eisner would have enjoyed this crazy version of his creation.
Well, honestly, they'd have a better chance of selling it if they would actually EXPLAIN what the movie is about to people. As far most people know from seeing the trailer, it's some superhero-like Sin City shizz.
I do like the tie.
other than that, the main word that comes to mind is bland. its like sin city, but without the interesting characters, dialogue, and plot
You know, I own most of the 80s Kitchen Sink reprints of The Spirit, trade paperbacks of the greatest Spirit stories, and I faithfully buy the current DC series every month. I'm right smack dab in the bullseye of the target audience for this film. But right now you couldn't PAY me to watch this thing. That's how seriously Frank Miller's dropped the ball here.
"Second, cut Frank Miller some slack. Did he piss in your pool? He got a major break a few years ago and he's still riding the wave, and more power to him." – HA HA HA HA. Miller's been "riding the wave" since the late 80s, which was the last time he produced anything with any wit or intelligence. Ever since he talked DC into giving him a seven figure paycheck for a shitty three issue Dark Knight sequel that ran hilariously over schedule he's been rehashing the same old shit. Your vision of Miller as some underdog creator who finally got a shot at the big time is stupidly off-base. He's a bitter has-been milking his legacy for whatever he can get.
Who the fuck is a Gabriel Macht?
"The Spirit" and "Judge Dredd" were my favorite comics, back when I was still into comics. I never would have imagined that a Spirit film would be coming out and I wouldn't even be excited about it. If it weren't for the occassional story about it popping up here, I would forget it was even coming out at all. I am prepared to be disappointed.
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