NEW full TRAILER!!!

[HappyCat]

Look, I read Eisner's comic's as a kid, I'm 30, but I'm really digging the way this trailer looks. I knew from the start that this was going to be FRANK MILLER'S THE SPIRIT, NOT Will Eisner's. I knew to expect tough talking dames and crazy ass villains, IT'S FRANK MILLER!

Untill Sin City 2 & 3 comes out, this is the next best thing, Hopefully it's going to be R-rated.

 

[Bubastis]

Uh, wow.
For better or worse, that's all I can really muster up as a description.

What did I just watch?

 

[samsnee]

Really does look like crap. Like some of you, I was expecting a more noir, 1940s feel. Not more green screen crap.

Beyond the fanboys, I don't think this will do very well if this trailer is any indication. The only hype it will get is from Scarlett Johannsen being in it.

 

[CristiMAN]

crap... Not spirit. At all... Why do Spirit the Sin CIty way? The should make Sin City 2 and leave The Spirit to someone that understands the character and Will Weisner... Crap, crap, crap...

 

[J. J. Jameson]

i think every comic book author would love to be interpreted by frank miller...
he has a very strange view to things.


i like what i see so far.

If by that you mean he's gone completely, utterly, and irreversibly nuts, I agree with that statement.

I just keep remembering...this is the man who writes All-Star Batman and Robin.

I mean, what the flip...how do you go from The Dark Knight Returns to A-S B & R??!!!

 

[The Shadow]

It looks good, but I don't really like the focus on the women. Granted, I LOVE the women of this film, but it's called THE SPIRIT for a reason. The general public has no idea who the **** he is, so they need to get a sense of what he and the universe he inhabits is all about.

Then watching this trailer wouldn't help any. If you want the "general public" to get a sense of who the spirit is, expose them to the spirit. Not Sin City 2. The truth is, this is not the Spirit...The Shadow Knows!

 

[Johann Krauss]

I'm sure they're just waiting a little closer to the release date until they show more about Spirit. This is only the second trailer and the movies still about 5 months away. Don't be like the guys on the TIH boards and base the movie on a couple of trailers(you know when they basically said the movie as gonna suck because the cgi looked weird). Wait till you see the movie until you make your statement.

 

[Felix]

Can I express a totally premature statement, just based on a couple of trailers and some images?

I feel seriously embarassed for Mr. Miller.

 

[Buttman]

They've pulled it forward from 2009 to late 2008?

Is that good or bad?

 

[rogue trooper]

Saw it. Loved it!! It's all looking good. Frank Miller used a very appropriate technique to shoot this film. Good job.

 

[The Shadow]

Can I express a totally premature statement, just based on a couple of trailers and some images?

I feel seriously embarassed for Mr. Miller.

I second that opinion strongly. I LOVE the Spirit, but not Miller's Spirit.

 

[honest george]

Yikes! The retro vibe of the first trailer is totally blown away by this acid flashback of a green screen nightmare. After seeing this, and knowing Eisner's Spirit, I have to say it's disappointing. This is only a reaction to the trailer, but that crap will be in the movie; looks like they're trying really hard to be avant-garde.

 

[rogue trooper]

Yikes! The retro vibe of the first trailer is totally blown away by this acid flashback of a green screen nightmare. After seeing this, and knowing Eisner's Spirit, I have to say it's disappointing. This is only a reaction to the trailer, but that crap will be in the movie; looks like they're trying really hard to be avant-garde.

...couldn't dissagree more.

 

[Project862006]

didn't realize all you guys saw the movie already should tell me how it is cause how can you guys says its crap it doesn't follow eiser's spirit you haven't seen the acting scenes the story telling in the film the trailer looked bad ass

 

[Agentsands77]

Well, it ain't Eisner's creation anymore.

Will it be any good? Impossible to say. I'm more intrigued now than I was before, though, even though I'm not counting on quality.

 

[xwolverine2]

samuel l jackson ruined the trailer for me

 

[Sandman138]

It looks like ****. As an animation style it's not entirely without merit, but it has nothing to do with Eisner. A lot of it looked like the same approach that Sin City took without Rodreguiz's team to polish it. Flat backgrounds juxtaposed awkwardly with subtly lit people. The women are hot, but they all give off the impression of the same stereotypical ****e. Ellen Dollan being introduced with "Keep the mask on" and then giving her the line "You make me want to do all kinds of bad things" makes me wish a woman would take a strap-on to Miller's ass and give him a black eye for good measure. What the **** is up with Samuel L. Jackson? That music? The whole badass posturing? None of this is remotely close to The Spirit and all of it is so formulaically Miller that the only thing that comes close to saving it from being offensive is just how banal it has all become.

 

[rogue trooper]

....well, you must be on crack! It has so much of Eisner. The atmosphere, the camp, the sexiness, the danger. It's all there.

...and here we go again with the hyper-sensitive people of "Miller using women as ****es". Geez. Some people need to get out more.

 

[The Shadow]

....well, you must be on crack! It has so much of Eisner.

What Will Eisner are you readin' man?! The only thing this film has in common with Eisner's Spirit is the name, judging by what I've seen so far.

 

[The Shadow]

Look, I read Eisner's comic's as a kid, I'm 30, but I'm really digging the way this trailer looks. I knew from the start that this was going to be FRANK MILLER'S THE SPIRIT, NOT Will Eisner's. I knew to expect tough talking dames and crazy ass villains, IT'S FRANK MILLER!

Untill Sin City 2 & 3 comes out, this is the next best thing, Hopefully it's going to be R-rated.

BUT IT ISN'T SUPPOSED TO BE RELATED IN ANY WAY TO FRANK MILLER'S SIN CITY. THIS IS NOT A SPIN-OFF OF SIN CITY! THIS IS SUPPOSE TO BE WILL EISNER'S THE SPIRIT! AND I HOPE DEARLY THAT IT ISN'T RATED R. THIS IS NOT THE SPIRIT...

 

[DarthSkywalker]

It isn't even that it isn't The Spirit. It is the fact that it looks like a terrible piece of film.

 

[Lobster Charlie]

Looks like a music video. Intriguing, though. While I'm not really into the green-screen movies, I think I'll have to see this one.

 

[The Shadow]

Well, Miller can make a terrible piece of film about his own creations, don't butcher the Spirit.

 

[Sandman138]

Actually, the flat color backdrops are reminiscent of Eisner's work with The Spirit. They really did not execute it well though.

 

[rogue trooper]

What Will Eisner are you readin' man?! The only thing this film has in common with Eisner's Spirit is the name, judging by what I've seen so far.

Miller is making the film faithful to the essence of the books without it being nostalgic at the same time. Eisner encouraged Miller to make it contemporary. Read the Will Eisner/ Frank Miller book. Eisner saw the films Dick Tracy, The Shadow, The Phantom, and not to mention The Spirit tv movie of the 80's, and seeing how those films didn't really connect with audiences, he wasn't convinced that the same retro/period style would work with The Spirit.

You probably liked the Sam Jones movie, huh?