There was a Youtube, bootleg version of the first full trailer for The Spirit out a couple of days ago, but I refuse to put those crappy versions up here on Screen Rant. Once those pop up you just have to wait a day or two and usually a decent version pops up, so here you go.
Now by “decent” I mean video quality and not the content of the trailer itself because my first gut-check reaction is that this isn’t looking too good at the moment…
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I’ll admit I have ZERO familiarity with the comic series this movie is based on. Although Frank Miller (writer-artist of 300 and Sin City) is directing it, he is not the author of the source material - Will Eisner created the masked crime-fighting character in 1940. This is also Frank Miller’s first solo try at directing a film (he co-directed Sin City with Robert Rodriguez).
Now for all I know, this may actually be very faithful to the source material, and I understand that very unique visual styles have worked for movies based on Frank Miller stories - but to me this trailer looks like some weird, avant-garde soft core porn film.
Am I off base here? Do you think this actually looks good?
The Spirit opens on December 25, 2008.
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Looks interesting so far… I want to be entertained, pushed, lost in a good story wanting to turn the next ‘page’ and to see things that I haven’t seen before. The Spirit looks like a good start! “To Peace.” - Stark
shoot ill watch this i think it looks cool and ill partake in anything frank miller is involved in other than those books where he drew the pictures and didnt write the story
yeeeesh
the first trailer interested me but this…..
I think this is exactly the kryptonite that Miller needs actually. To reign him back in.
I am a huge fan of the guys work. Years back, he experienced the true shittiness of hollywood that made him say that he would never work there again (the Robocop years etc)
We get SIN CITY which is Rodriquez’s love letter to Miller and a great comic series that brings Miller back with little to NONE of the BS he had to deal with before - what happens - Sin City does GREAT business and in true hollywood fashion, after 300 (which I loved - more than Sin City actually) does great, hollywood does the ‘blank check’ thing cause his material has made much $$$, gives him total slack and let the guy do whatever the F he wants.
And how many times have we seen THAT go right?
And regarding the comment about Miller being an ‘overrated director’….. ummm his name was on Sin City because Rodriguez wanted him actively involved - as much as he lent a hand on set, I don’t believe what he did was truly ‘directing’.
He had nothing to do with 300 regarding directing….. so its hard for him to be overrated if this is his first directing gig.
Saw the trailer and it looked stupid.
The entire thing looked like a bad comedy.
The first trailer actually had me excited; very film noir, very Dark Deco. An edgier version of Eisner’s character.
This trailer just makes me think it’s going to be another Dick Tracy or The Shadow (oh, God, The Shadow, ick)…without the semi-redeeming soundtrack and awesome Dustin Hoffman cameo.
Still, I’m not willing to give up all hope. Miller and Eisner were friends; I’d like to think that Frank has enough sense not to totally ruin everything that one of comics most influential artists ever accomplished. If he does, I’m pretty sure the fanboy riot that follows will insure he’ll never sell another book with his name on it.
@Techie
Funny you should say that. My buddy Pete over at /Film said it looked like it could be “the ‘Dick Tracy’ of this generation.”
Vic
i think this movie looks amazing. its not all about his obbsession with women thats just a big part of it. i cant wait for it to come out in december:]
@Nikki
Well they showed more footage at Comic-Con and to say that it didn’t impress the crowd would be an understatement.
Vic
Someone actually thinks this looks amazing? Wow. I think it looks like a more violent and sexually driven Dick Tracy with Sin City look to it. Looks to be possibly the next worst comic film ever. I’m wondering can this be worse than B&R
Just saw the “trailer”
Yaaaahhh… no… sorry… Looks like $8 I’m going to save…
I really liked 300. Other than the whole weird animals and monsters thing, they got the jist of the real event. But they did kind of over glorify Leonidas’ force, because they didn’t do it alone. Xerxes was not an idiot and was well aware of their tactic of bottlenecking them on the narrow pass in order to minimize their front, so he had his Navy on standby and when he gave the word they were to sneak around Leonidas’ force and surround their army of 300. In the film, they quickly disregarded this aspect with storms that just magically ate up all of the ships, but in real life they had a Naval battle that kept Xerxes’ Navy from accomplishing this goal, but I guess they wanted to give 100% of the glory to Leonidas and his 300. It is the title of the movie after all I guess, lol.
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