"I cant wait tell Sin City 2!"

[WeaponZed3]

[FONT=&quot]I'm getting sick of explaining to my friends and family that this isn't "Sin City 2" and who Will Eisner and Frank Miller are and how Miller created "Sin City", but hes only doing "The Spirit" movie, and that the Character was created by Will Eisner and so on and so on!

Anyone else having similar problems? or just me?[/FONT]

 

[IDrawDeadPeople]

Yeah... I've had to 'explain' this film to several people who thought that this was a sequel of sorts to Sin City.

Their biggest hang up was with the earliest advertising when the focus was mistakenly focused on the line "My CITY screams", and everything released was in black & white and sepia tones, etc. with only a dash of red on the tie.

Miller is doing a film 'interpretation' of the Spirit, and it does have a decent amount of Eisner influence... not enough to use the tag line "Will Eisner's" above the Spirit, so I'm glad they dropped that recently... but, it is about the comic character The Spirit. Sort of.

However, it is too similiar to Sin City to not draw comparison from people who don't know the material, especially when the advertising EMPHASIZES loose women and the CITY, and reserves the title character to almost cameo appearances in the advertising... Denny was about as big and visible as the "This film is not yet rated" block on the My City Screams poster.

The clips from comicon really showed a lot more of what the character is about... it's just a shame that the general audience has no idea those clips exist.

The closer we get to release, hopefully, we'll get more Eisner/Spirit influenced advertising, such as the neighborhood watch poster that just sprung up.

 

[The Shadow]

Unfortunately yeah it does closely resemble Sin City. The Spirit isn't anything like Sin City. I hope miller doesn't ruin anyone else's characters. R.I.P The Spirit cause Miller killed him.

 

[Bubastis]

Well, the PG-13 rating, the Ellen Dolan-Denny Colt scene at comicon, and the coice of composer have given me a little hope.

But the trailers and the fact that he has super-powers (one of them being that he falls in love with anybody who doesnt have a penis) worry me.

 

[Vile]

The only reason your average movie goer will see this film is because they'll think it's Sin City 2.

 

[rogue trooper]

....I'd say they'll see it because, like Sin City and 300, it looks visually stunning.

 

[The Shadow]

Well, the PG-13 rating, the Ellen Dolan-Denny Colt scene at comicon, and the coice of composer have given me a little hope.

But the trailers and the fact that he has super-powers (one of them being that he falls in love with anybody who doesnt have a penis) worry me.

Please watch the language and is it confirmed to be pg-13?

 

[IDrawDeadPeople]

....I'd say they'll see it because, like Sin City and 300, it looks visually stunning.

I'm glad we're past the point where we're trying to convince anyone that a reason to see this film is because it has something to do with Will Einser's character The Spirit.



Now, if only they would completely stop the false advertising, and just call the film, "Like Sin City and 300, It Looks Visually Stunning".

That's a far more honest approach to titling this film.

I'd probably be very excited to see it, at that point.

 

[rogue trooper]

I'm glad we're past the point where we're trying to convince anyone that a reason to see this film is because it has something to do with Will Einser's character The Spirit.

...mind you, I was speaking about the genaral movie going audience who know nothing about Eisner or Spirit. Still, until we see the actual film, all we can do is speculate.

 

[Arv_M]

Unfortunately yeah it does closely resemble Sin City. The Spirit isn't anything like Sin City. I hope miller doesn't ruin anyone else's characters. R.I.P The Spirit cause Miller killed him.

Look, I don't see why you guys are nitpicking The Spirit. You know how much they changed Spiderman and Batman before they made the movies? And you haven't even seen the movie yet, wait until you watch the whole thing before you start criticizing people like that.


I don't see why people are calling this Sin City 2; it says in the trailer that the title is "The Spirit". And the art style looks nothing like Sin City. Sin City's in Black and White and The Spirit is in high-contrast, if people can't see that, they should get their eyes checked.

 

[IDrawDeadPeople]

So says the (conveniently brand new) guy whose name (conveniently) is an inverted version of one of Frank Miller's most famous characters. Sin City indeed... hmmm...

It's funny how all three of you who love Miller so much, that if the trailer was footage of Miller himself reading the yellow pages while having violent bowel movements... you'd still be lyin... I mean saying "It's so faithful! It's exactly what Eisner would have wanted!", always attempt the same trick...

... You come in here and attempt to convince (yourselves???) people that the prominent view -that this film looked like Sin City during the earliest phases of advertisement - is somehow only happening here with a few, select people.

It's a view held by the MAJORITY of people everywhere on the internet, and in some publications, already.

We must all have the same eye problem.


Where do we get the rose colored glasses required to see Miller's work like you see it?

You know... where we have the ability to bypass that old saying, "You can't polish a turd"... so we can enjoy his work, completely unobjectively, too.

I hate believing he's capable of more... I want to be convinced he has nothing more to give, so I can settle for everything, too!

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

It's a fact that the movie looks like SinCity 2. I bet the producers don't mind though because SinCity was a hit.

 

[rogue trooper]

Look, I don't see why you guys are nitpicking The Spirit. You know how much they changed Spiderman and Batman before they made the movies? And you haven't even seen the movie yet, wait until you watch the whole thing before you start criticizing people like that.


I don't see why people are calling this Sin City 2; it says in the trailer that the title is "The Spirit". And the art style looks nothing like Sin City. Sin City's in Black and White and The Spirit is in high-contrast, if people can't see that, they should get their eyes checked.

 

[IDrawDeadPeople]

It's a fact that the movie looks like SinCity 2. I bet the producers don't mind though because SinCity was a hit.

Exactly.

Not only is it denial to think anything else... but, being in denial that something you like is similiar to something else you like is just wierd.

If you like Frank Miller, you should be happy that Frank Miller is doing work that looks like Frank Miller.

The studio (who is the one promoting the film... and is hoping to capitalize from it) are undoubtedly going to try to tap into the fanbase of Sin City...

It's not completely Miller's fault that the early promotion all featured black and white, stark imagery with a dash of color, and the posters were sexually evocative... The posters of the girls are VERY similiar to the Sin City posters of Nancy, etc.

And, again, if you like Miller's style, why be upset that his new work looks like his old work?


If this film turns out to not have excessive nudity and cursing (so that it's in the vein of Eisner's work) and somehow doesn't really divulge the whole 'superpowers' thing (but rather just assumes he has superpowers), this could turn into one of my favorite movies of all time.

I WANT to love it, and I'm hoping I do... but denying that it looks like Miller's other work just is foolish.

If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck... and the guy who produced it always makes ducks... it might just be a duck.

And, there's nothing wrong with that.
If you happen to like ducks.

 

[Obi-Ron]

What bothers me is this quote from Wizard's interview with Gabriel Macht:

Wizard: Did Miller advise you to go and read some Eisner, or were you already a fan?

Macht: I actually didn't know about the Spirit until the audition. I bought the "best of" Spirit collections. When I got to set, Fank said , "Listen, I don't want you to look at those. I'm not crazy about the coloring." He wasn't a fan. He liked the black and white. So he gave me his best picks, and I read through all of those Spirit comics and put them up in my trailer. You couldn't see any wall. It was all comics.

 

[rogue trooper]

...I'm guessing he meant that he is more fond of the black & white Warren publications of The Spirit.

 

[theMan-Bat]

...I'm guessing he meant that he is more fond of the black & white Warren publications of The Spirit.

Yeah, so am I. I prefer The Spirit comics printed in black and white. I'm glad that the film is a creative blend of black and white with color, so it captures some of the look of the Spirit comics in black and white, rather than a standard full color movie.

 

[The Guard]

Some of you have really stupid friends.