Matt Yglesias

26 Responses to “The Spirit”

1. Tyro Says:
   December 26th, 2008 at 9:43 am

   At the end of the day, technique is nice but the point of great technique is to bring a story to live[sic].

   Matt, Matt, Matt. Don’t you know that for those of us who truly appreciate feeelm, concerning ourselves with something so pedestrian as a “story” is beneath us?

2. daveNYC Says:
   December 26th, 2008 at 10:06 am

   WTF sly winks are they talking about? This was just a poorly adapted Eisner comic done all Sin City style. Not exactly a chocolate and peanut butter combination.

   And just what the hell is so great about the technical achievement? This black, white, and red greenscreen stuff has been done before.

3. MBunge Says:
   December 26th, 2008 at 10:11 am

   We can only hope this will kill the Frank Miller-directed Buck Rogers project. I shudder to think what Miller’s “I was a cutting edge comic book creator 15 years ago! What? It’s not 15 years ago and these aren’t comics?” appoach to filmmaking would produce. Gil Gerard and Erin Grey at least deserve a decent movie to make cameos in.

   Mike

4. rea Says:
   December 26th, 2008 at 10:13 am

   on’t you know that for those of us who truly appreciate feeelm, concerning ourselves with something so pedestrian as a “story” is beneath us?

   Not a popint of view likely to garner much sympathy from the son of a prominent scriptwriter.

5. El Cid Says:
   December 26th, 2008 at 10:24 am

   I just wish that the few remaining Frank Miller obsessives either take the aforementioned advice and journey forth from 15 years ago, or somehow convince Hollywood that the weird success of the awful “300″ movie is no excuse to put Miller at the helm of anything. Really, is anyone nostalgic for ‘Robocop 2′? And do we really need the inspirer of Victor Davis Hansen’s sexual releases heading up major films?

6. soullite Says:
   December 26th, 2008 at 11:02 am

   I’m just hoping to god that they left Ebony White out of this adaptation…

7. Kid bitzer Says:
   December 26th, 2008 at 11:26 am

   “true only if you have an exceedingly low opinion of fanboys”

   in other words, it’s true.

8. kid destroyer Says:
   December 26th, 2008 at 12:23 pm

   Yes, I keep hearing it was pretty terrible. Here’s what could have been:
   http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2008/12/the-spirit-that.html

9. Trevor Says:
   December 26th, 2008 at 12:51 pm

   Read somewhere that Marvel is adapting Philip K. Dick novels/short stories in comic book form. Really a great idea.

10. Roger Ailes Says:
    December 26th, 2008 at 1:04 pm

    And do we really need the inspirer of Victor Davis Hansen’s sexual releases heading up major films?

    Imagine if the inspiration of V.D. Hansen’s sexual releases teamed up with the inspirations of K.J. Lopez’s and Jonah Goldberg’s sexual releases. We’d get 300 Passions of the Grandma’s Boy.

11. sleepyirv Says:
    December 26th, 2008 at 1:10 pm

    Who wouldn’t have a low opinion of fanboys after their glowing reception of The Dark Knight?

12. Roddy McCorley Says:
    December 26th, 2008 at 1:17 pm

    No Spirit for me. I still haven’t forgiven Frank Miller for Robocop 2…

13. Persia Says:
    December 26th, 2008 at 2:42 pm

    For anyone not familiar with the original Spirit comics, I want to point out that this movie seems to have very little in common with Will Eisner’s utterly awesome comics, aside from a few character names and girls with great legs.

14. Richard Steven Hack Says:
    December 26th, 2008 at 6:47 pm

    Well, I liked RoboCop 2 – 3, not so much.

    And “The Spirit” has at least four hot babes in it, including the J-lo quality butt Eva Mendes and Noni Ryder-level boobs Scarlett Johansson.

    AND it has Samuel L. Jackson as over the top as he ever gets! The Octopus? “I’ve got eight of everything!”

    What’s not to like?

    Meanwhile, the real problem is that a judge now says Fox owns “The Watchmen” movie rights, not Warner. Which means until there’s a settlement, we may never see that movie.

15. Anthony Damiani Says:
    December 27th, 2008 at 6:32 am

    MBunge–

    Miller wasn’t a cutting edge comic writer 15 years ago, he was a cutting edge comic writer 25 years ago. By 20 years ago, the medium had thoroughly absorbed everything he had to say and exaggerated it to the point of parody, and by 15 years ago the counter-reaction was in full force.

16. MBunge Says:
    December 28th, 2008 at 12:20 pm

    “iller wasn’t a cutting edge comic writer 15 years ago, he was a cutting edge comic writer 25 years ago. By 20 years ago, the medium had thoroughly absorbed everything he had to say and exaggerated it to the point of parody, and by 15 years ago the counter-reaction was in full force.”

    1990 – GIVE ME LIBERTY
    1991-1992 – SIN CITY

    “Cutting edge” may have been a bit much, but Miller remained a strong and vital creative force in comics into the early 90s.

    Mike

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