The Spirit Trailer Arises
After a brief appearance as a bootleg, the official trailer for The Spirit has hit the interweb. Sadly, you can only find it at Yahoo Movies, but take what you can get.
Now, granted I've never been a huge fan of the property but I respected Will Eisner's talent all the same. I thought Frank Miller did too, but he seems to have just made a less "death and prostitutes" version of Sin City. I don't see Eisner's essence in this trailer at all.
Am I the only one who isn't a big fan of Frank Miller as a film writer/director?
Goblin
Posted to Comics, Videos on 16 July 2008
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OK, Goblin. All I have to say is...
I KNOW, RIGHT?! As soon as I saw the trailer I was like "Wait... so Frank Miller is ripping off... himself? Does that make it OK?" It looks exactly like Sin City, except... I guess more "floaty." It looked quite fake when the Spirit was running on that power line... almost "see the wires" fake. I dunno... maybe it's because I'd rather it be a trailer for Sin City 2 than The Spirit.
I can't stand Frank Miller; so overrrated. And now, apparently, even more of an egotist. :P
i can see eisner, at least in places... the little bit with the ladies heads, and the mouth spitting out the spirit, &c. some of the imagery.
but let's face facts. frank miller is, well, frank miller. his writing has gone way way downhill over the years (i still like year one and the daredevil stuff), and his art, which was never particularly very good to begin with (dkr is pretty much all klaus janson as far as i'm concerned - miller's idea of art seems to be drawing giant rectangles and then the comic community all collectively agrees, for some reason, to engage in the hallucination that these giant rectangles resemble people), has also gotten worse.
thankfully, he found a genre that rewards turgid writing and nonsensical overblown hyperbolic art - noir. sin city is basically everything he could have wanted, and really the only place his talents can be thought of as talents. so who can blame him for not wanting to do anything else?