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So it might not be exactly like the comic, so what? Few movies follow directly from the source material. The Bourne Trilogy has nothing in common with the books, Dexter strays far away from the novels, X-men, Spiderman, Batman Begins/TDK all took liberaties with the source material. And all of the above mentioned movies were successes.
Nothing Frank Miller has done in the past has given anyone any indication that we won't produce a good movie. If people want an exact copy of Will Eisner's The Spirit then just go read the comic again.
In your own words you say you don't know what to expect from this movie, and yet youre willing to judge it already. Instead of trying to decide if a movie is good or bad from three brief clips, how about actually watching the movie and then giving us a review.
1) I love Samuel L Jackson but he needs to stop appearing in douchey movies like this! The man is almost becoming a parody, typecast by being the "bad-ass" cool guy...you can tell what role Sam Jackson is gonna play in almost all the films he's been in.
2) This film is soooo far removed from the comics! you wanna successfully adapt a movie you stick with some part of it. I cannot recognise one iota on the comics in this movie. Maybe that will change.
3) The focus is NOT on The Spirit. What the hell is the matter with the marketing of this movie! The limelight has been taken pretty far from the main lead and instead placed on the more famous A listers i.e Sam Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Eva Mendes etc .... which brings me to my next point
4) Casting. Clearly this movie wants to attract a certain audience demography. Teenage or young horny guys who wanna see some hot hollywood leading ladies. it worked with sin city (pole dancing Jessica Alba)..that explains the posters that have been released and indeed the fact that the four ladies show up more in the trailer n speak more than the spirit himself. maybe they wanna keep the spirit mysterious, but i aint sold.
5) Frank Miller. like this article said. Feeling sorry for him. You are better than this, man!
I'm not saying that it sucks -- you are right, I certainly haven't seen it. What I am saying is that I don't like what I am seeing and I am afraid of what that means.
people an idea of whether or not it's something they'd like to see. I'm not going to watch
a preview for something like Final Destination 8 and think "wow, that looks terribly
shallow and derivative, but I'm still going to spend my hard earned money on it because I
have to see every second of footage before I can judge it." People SHOULD want a
generous touch of Eisner from a film based on his comic. We're fans of The Spirit for
what Will Eisner made it, not for how Frank Miller thinks Will Eisner *should have* made
it. Lately Miller seems to be going off on a real self-parody kick, and I think this movie is
just more of him doing that.
The flip side is that I am seeing that I am much more cynical than I should be towards
films nowadays, and this summer has held a few surprises for me. For example, as much
as I despised what I was seeing from the movie version of Wanted, the final product
turned out to be a good way to spend a couple of hours, provided you realized early on
that the movie had absolutely zilch to do with the comic.
I'll use the Bourne movies again as an example. The only thing similar to the books was there's a covert ops guy named Bourne who loses his memory, and he meets a girl named Marie. and yet i loved the books and the movies. appreciate them for what they.
Nevernude: your entire post is what is wrong with judging too early. You are making vast predictions about the entire movie based on one teaser trailer, 4 posters, and one full trailer.
Don't get me wrong. I'm actually really excited about The Spirit. I loved the comics, and I think Frank Miller is going to make a great film. I also didn't get to see the clips that Neil did, but I have seen the trailer and everything else. I think they look cool, but that's because I'm smart and have good taste.
Remember Watchman? we've only seen one trailer for it and already most people cant wait for this movie. Even Iron Man, one trailer and im sure most people were sold like i was..i believe you can more than tell a lot about a film just by its trailer. Afterall shudnt a trailer serve as a taster of whats to come? its like serving me a teaspoonful of really bad food and telling me not to judge it until the i finish eating it!
Look at the trailers...compare it to the magnificent comic...If Frank Miller cant be bothered to at least stick to the visual look of the comic, i aint watching. personal opinion folks
i guess that's what i was trying to say, its miller's first time as director, we should give him a chance, that frank miller's past work should give him the benefit of the doubt.
They've had black people and white people forever, since life began, no problem. That's
why they vote Republican, and they don't vote Eurocrat (Democrat). They're not anyones
servants. hahaha 8D