It's Miller Time

[Mister Andersen]

Will Eisner's Frank Miller's The Spirit

[Agent 333]

That looks... really bad. Ooh boy.

[Mister Andersen]

I've already seen people referring to it as Sin City 2 and doing much shouting about how they left out WHORES! in the voice over.

[Wolverine]

Personally, I don't think it looks all that bad. Yes, it's remarkably simiar to Sin City, but then after a while all of John Williams movie scores begin to sound the same. Plus, for you could make The Spirit in a traditional manner, but look at how similar movies (The Shadow and Dick Tracey) ended up.

As long as Miller captures the essence of the character, I don't care too much how he portrays him.

[Gatac]

Hey, I liked The Shadow.

Sometimes it seems I'm the only one who does, though...

Gatac

[Agent 333]

I liked the Shadow too...

[Toccata]

Interesting that trailer was using The Untouchables for the music. It sounded very familiar, it just took me about half an hour for me to place it.

[Psion]

Hey, I liked The Shadow.

Sometimes it seems I'm the only one who does, though...

I liked the Shadow except for the villain, who was very non-scary to me.

[Wolverine]

Sometimes it seems I'm the only one who does, though...

You're not the only one. I own both the movies I mentioned on DVD. They're fun movies, but when you compare their atmosphere to more modern movies there is a mark difference. I think a Shadow re-make would be better with a darker atmosphere.

[ThunderMonkey]

I like "The Shadow" too. Of course I like all things pulp, good and bad. I still treasure my teaser posters for "Dick Tracy" and "The Rocketeer".

[Desertpuma]

I enjoyed The Shadow, The Rocketeer, and even The Phantom.

[ThunderMonkey]

I enjoyed The Shadow, The Rocketeer, and even The Phantom.

I forgot about "The Phantom"... Forever I will have Catherine Zeta-Jones wearing aviator pants forever burned into my memory.

[Crafty_Pat]

God I love The Rocketeer, oh how I love that movie. It remains one of my fondest theatre experiences. And Dick Tracy has its charms. Somewhere I still have a commercial on videotape where I'm raving about it (having been in an advance screening audience at one of the vintage L.A. theatres when I was a teen).

The Spirit... I dunno. I didn't see 300 because Sin City left me cold. It was beautifully faithful and faithfully beautiful, but it wasn't a movie, not really. It was a fantastic moving graphic novel, but it never quite figured out that the needs of the two mediums are different. Dialog on the page doesn't work as well on the screen without adjustment. Story structures need to be tweaked. Framing is a whole other ballgame. Sin City was just... too faithful IMO, and failed for me as a result.

Now, I hear that 300 was better. They expanded the character of the wife (good call) and while they shot a lot of the scenes directly out of the comic they also shot a lot of stuff around them that organically led up to and off of them - material that was sorely lacking in Frank Miller's first outing. Of course, Zac Snyder (the Watchmen director) handled the heavy lifting there, and he's a genius.

The real question with The Spirit is whether any of that movie-making genius rubbed off on Frank, and whether it'll merge well with his comic-making genius. I remain apprehensive on that score.

[Crafty_Alex]

I think a Shadow re-make would be better with a darker atmosphere.

Yeah...they could cast Adrian Brody as the Shadow...he has the schnoz for it

[Gentry]

God I love The Rocketeer, oh how I love that movie. It remains one of my fondest theatre experiences.

More Jennifer Connelly in pulp adventure movies, please.  And a little more.  With a little more on the side.  Thank you.