Comments on: Frank Miller’s The Spirit Trailer #2

By: Judge Giusep

Judge Giusep — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:50:08 +0000

So many of you are dismissing this movie based on a trailer, and claim its a copy of sin city. Did you like sin city? From my understanding many people did, therefore i think we can conclude this movie might be good. Can you name a movie so far frank miller participated in that was crap? Lets not judge the book by its cover for now I say.

By: Rich

Rich — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 02:54:56 +0000

I agree with Swarez. It’s unfair to judge a film by a trailer, so I’ll refrain from saying the film looks like shit. However, it looks virtually nothing like Will Eisner’s Spirit. I have a lot of what Eisner created, and talked to Eisner quite a bit during the last 10 years or so of his life (just to qualify my exposure to him). My uneducated view (having only seen the trailer) is that EIsner would have really disliked this.

By: catho

catho — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:31:23 +0000

looks DREADFUL. the original trailer made me want to see it – that makes me want to avoid it.

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By: krew

krew — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:39:54 +0000

Ugh. Looks awful.

By: Ryan M.

Ryan M. — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:58:03 +0000

The teaser was good but this is a mixed bag. Just like Sin City; I hate how CG backgrounds can make the frame look so horribly flat. I also didn’t like the shot of Samuel L with the comic booky action burst behind him in the slightest and Gabriel Macht looks kind of ridiculous. I hope it all comes together but from this it is so hard to judge.

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:03:37 +0000

…..”I think this trailer should be called â€œThe life and times of Greg Gaspariâ€, judging from the amount of women in it.”

Oddly enough…I wear a mask everyday.

Great post.

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:37:38 +0000

That looks pretty cool. But I’m kind of sick of the overstylized pseudo-animation. I hate to harp on but there is something to be said for good production design, practical special effects, and mise-en-scene and lighting that is working with “real” objects and subjects.

By: Henrik

Henrik — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:00:44 +0000

I think this trailer should be called “The life and times of Greg Gaspari”, judging from the amount of women in it.

By: Swarez

Swarez — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:56:01 +0000

Worst thing is that this film should be titled Frank Miller’s Will Eisner’s The Spirit. There is nothing in this trailer that remotely conveys The Spirit as Eisner did it.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:41:47 +0000

I’m a little nervous about this now…it looks a little too ambitious for Miller. I was excited now…I’m not really sure.

By: Primal

Primal — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:29:52 +0000

This whole trailer reminds me of a Calvin Klein perfume commercial. Looks like shit. Hopefully we’ll see a better trailer before the movie comes out.