The Spirit
Before I went to see this film there were several things that I'd heard about it.
"It's kinda like Sin City", which is a very good thing.
"Frank Miller wrote/adapted/directed it", which sounded good too.

How wrong I was...
This film was a dirty, black and white pile of shit, complete with steaming red nuggets.
"It's based on a comic", seemed to pretty much be the tag-line.
I'd never read the comic, but however good it is, this cinematic colostomy-bag has tainted it forever.

Ok... So, now I've established that this film should never be watched by anyone, ever, I'll get on with some explanation.

Bad points:

- The Main Character. Fucking hell... I'm amazed that they were able to capture the essence of Jude "all the women love me, I'm such a handsome, charming rogue" Law, and combine it with a smug-factor of 200. Oh, and they made him invincible. So a smarmy, smug bastard, who can't be killed. Fucking great.

-The Plot. Two boxes, two villains. They each get the wrong box. Fighting ensues. The end.
Hmmm... I think the comic they based this on was about three pages long, and one of them was a full page picture of The Spirit looking smug while a woman swoons at him.

-The Dialogue. I think that George Lucas must've got involved somehow. It was that bad.

Good points:

+ Samuel L. Jackson wasn't that bad. Actually, he might have been, but he seemed like he was having fun, and he was a hell of a lot better than everyone else.

+ Some of the "Black-and-white-with-bits-of-red" shots looked pretty nice. But they just felt like a cheap version of Sin City. So I'd rather just watch that.

So... My rating for this film is 2/10.
I wouldn't recommend watching it ever, under any circumstances.
Unless it's a choice between this or Pearl Harbour.
( Cawl, Fri 9 Jan 2009, 12:44, 9 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Quick, Kaol!
To the knife-copter!

We must teach this Frank Miller a harsh lesson, immediately.

*hums batman theme*
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Fri 9 Jan 2009, 12:47, Reply)

well
I hated Sin City so this will probably get a wide berth, Ta curly
(Halfy By light alone, Fri 9 Jan 2009, 12:59, Reply)

Nah,
He's done a lot of good stuff, we can let him off this once.
But if there's ever another "Spirit" film... I'll let you do things to him that words can't describe.
( Cawl, Fri 9 Jan 2009, 12:59, Reply)

I'm with you all the way
apart from 'I'd never read the comic, but however good it is, this cinematic colostomy-bag has tainted it forever.'

Heathen.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Fri 9 Jan 2009, 13:09, Reply)

Completely agree
Worst film i've ever seen I think, walked out of the pictures before the end for the first time ever.

Even SLJ was poor, just seemed to be a cliche of his former roles. "Say everything slower, and LOUDER!"

Terrible, terrible film.
(gin'll fix it, Fri 9 Jan 2009, 13:13, Reply)

imdb already told me this was shit
I hope they haven't fucked up the other Sin City films.
( mike woz ere 7442200 & 7696970 getter, Fri 9 Jan 2009, 13:47, Reply)

I mean

( mike woz ere 7442200 & 7696970 getter, Fri 9 Jan 2009, 13:48, Reply)

What about the ladies?
Were there no saucy minxes that could be "admired"?
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 9 Jan 2009, 15:17, Reply)

I suspected that this
might be a shit copy of Sin City, regardless of what the comic is like.

My general attitude to comics made into movies: "If I've heard of the comic it might be worth making it into a movie."

For the record, I fucking love Sin City.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 9 Jan 2009, 18:06, Reply)