My boyfriend and I went to see "The Spirit" because we are stupid ...

[quietprofanity]

... Okay, so ... we all know this movie isn't good, right? I didn't want to go see it, because I felt bad about rewarding Frank Miller in any way for this, but my boyfriend is like, "But I'm interested! But it should be campy fun! We should go in expecting campy fun."

Well, he was wrong. This movie is not campy fun. This movie is DULL. This movie is TEDIOUS. This movie is BORING. I kept starting to fall asleep around the time Jackson and ScarJo were standing around dressed in Nazi uniforms. Even the stuff that was genuinely funny (like the cloned guys and some of the women's lines) wasn't enough to keep me awake through the boring, boring, boring.

Actually, by the way, the movie's attitude toward women is pretty horrible. And I don't say that because I have a problem with the women being super-hot and in love with The Spirit. I have a problem with the movie starting off with such an obnoxious, asinine phrase like, "My city's not some young, trumped-up whore, she's an old city" (or whatever) and then going downhill from there. But I didn't hate the women in the film as much as I expected to -- in fact, I thought ScarJo was kind of funny in the Nazi scene, even though I couldn't stay awake for it. Same with Eva and that chick who played the Jewish police officer.

But yeah, most of the time: dull. I mean, the movie isn't actually about anything. It's basically, "This is one guy. He fights the other guy. Care about this ... somehow." Blech.

Yeah, anyway: no fun. Don't see it.

Also, Miller, it's one thing to be mean to Eisner but WHAT DID STEVE DITKO EVER DO TO YOU that you needed to reference him in this turd?

Also, you couldn't have used Eisner's art over the end credits? You had to use your own? Blech.

Comments

[i-am-your-spy.livejournal.com]

I streamed it last week, thinking it'd at least be fun and pretty and campy. I got 15 minutes in before it bored me to tears and I had to turn it off. This should be guilty-pleasure-crack for me and it wasn't even that.

[quietprofanity.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I mean, the movie was plenty ridiculous, but it was the kind of ridiculous that just produces a confused "um ..." rather than laughter. And, yeah ... boring. I think only RiffTrax can salvage that one.

[sandoz-iscariot.livejournal.com]

Miller seriously worked the word "whore" into the first line of the film? Well, he doesn't waste any time, does he?

[quietprofanity.livejournal.com]

Well, not the FIRST line, but the opening monologue, yep.

[pervyficgirl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was pretty much the consensus among the group that went to see it with me: what boring nonsense.

We didn't actually stay the whole time, to be fair. We only stayed about twenty minutes, because we were hungry and bored. Blondies at Applebees beat Frank Miller's pretentiousness anyday.

[quietprofanity.livejournal.com]

Ah, yeah, we ate before and I hate Applebees so that wouldn't have worked out.

[ook.livejournal.com]

From reading various commentaries on comics forums, I've determined that this ridiculous film was an utter waste of time, talent and resources. I have no interest in ever seeing this movie and I'm hoping that Will Eisner's ghost will haunt Miller until his dying day. Blech!

[quietprofanity.livejournal.com]

I'm almost done with The Best of the Spirit trade. Eisner really deserved much better.

[mpvorkosigan.livejournal.com]

I figured it was gonna be bad before the release, when I found out that Sam was gonna be playing a character whose face had never been seen before in ten years of the strip's publication.

When Ebert saw it and gave it one star, I knew it was hopeless. Especially since he gave Adam Sandler's kidflick two and a half. When he said that the characters were cardboard and that calling them that was an insult to cardboard... A lot of people have said that they'll see it and form their own opinions, but I honestly think that in two months it'll be in the two dollar dvd bargain bins at WalMart.

Miles

[quietprofanity.livejournal.com]

I had no doubt it would be bad, really. I just got excited and thought it might have been "Plan 9" bad instead of ... "Zzzzzzz ..." bad.