The Spirit's LA Premiere

[Raiden]

LA Premiere of "The Spirit"

Scarlette looks very pretty on the red carpet.

 

[theMan-Bat]

Gorgeous.

 

[mego joe]

Gorgeous.

The highlight of Miller's Spirit film. Scarlett Johanssen is gorgeous. After that it's pretty much all downhill.

 

[theMan-Bat]

The highlight of Miller's Spirit film. Scarlett Johanssen is gorgeous. After that it's pretty much all downhill.

Oh? You've seen the film already?

 

[mego joe]

Oh? You've seen the film already?

I don't really think I need to do you?

Is seeing it going to make you change your mind- no matter how bad the film is?

 

[theMan-Bat]

I don't really think I need to do you?

Yes, I do.

Is seeing it going to make you change your mind- no matter how bad the film is?

Yes, I'd be very disappointed if I think it's bad.

 

[mego joe]

Yes, I do.



Yes, I'd be very disappointed if I think it's bad.

All I can say is that if you think it looks bad now, you're never going to think it looks bad, no matte what happens in the movie.

 

[theMan-Bat]

All I can say is that if you think it looks bad now, you're never going to think it looks bad, no matte what happens in the movie.

I think you mean if I don't think it looks bad now I'm never going to think it looks bad, no matter what happens in the movie, but that isn't true.

 

[mego joe]

I think you mean if I don't think it looks bad now I'm never going to think it looks bad, no matter what happens in the movie, but that isn't true.

You're right I did type that wrong. But let's put it this way, if you think the trailers and such look like a good Spirit film, you're going to like Miller's movie. If that's what you think represents a good Spirit film then you're set. But the rest of us are questioning your taste and ability to judge good movie from bad movie.

So what would have to happen in your opinion for Miller to screw it up for you? So far it doesn't look or sound like the Spirit, the dialogue is awful, the acting seems awkward. What's left?

 

[theMan-Bat]

You're right I did type that wrong. But let's put it this way, if you think the trailers and such look like a good Spirit film, you're going to like Miller's movie. If that's what you think represents a good Spirit film then you're set. But the rest of us are questioning your taste and ability to judge good movie from bad movie.

Well, peoples tastes and judgment of good or bad movie are different. To give you a better idea of my taste and what I judge as good movies, my favorite films are: Blade Runner (the International Cut with the voice-over), Taxi Driver, Sin City, Detour (1945), The Maltese Falcon, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Insignificance, Batman Returns, Twelve Monkeys, Bride of Frankenstein, Nosferatu, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Hunger, The Shawshank Redemption, the Dirty Harry movie series, Escape from Alcatraz, Unforgiven, Wild at Heart, Pulp Fiction, the Shinning, 2001: A Space Odyssey, About Schmidt and Venus. What are yours?

So what would have to happen in your opinion for Miller to screw it up for you? So far it doesn't look or sound like the Spirit, the dialogue is awful, the acting seems awkward. What's left?

Well, first off, I don't agree that the dialogue is awful, or the acting seems awkward. What would have to happen for it to be screwed up for me? If the Spirit has a kid, if the Spirit gets married, if the Spirit is shown drunk. Any of those things would screw it up for me.

 

[mego joe]

Well, peoples tastes and judgment of good or bad movie are different. To give you a better idea of my taste and what I judge as good movies, my favorite films are: Blade Runner (the International Cut with the voice-over), Taxi Driver, Sin City, Detour (1945), The Maltese Falcon, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Insignificance, Batman Returns, Twelve Monkeys, Bride of Frankenstein, Nosferatu, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Hunger, The Shawshank Redemption, the Dirty Harry movie series, Escape from Alcatraz, Unforgiven, Wild at Heart, Pulp Fiction, the Shinning, 2001: A Space Odyssey, About Schmidt and Venus. What are yours?

Some of my favorites:

2001, Casablanca, Malteese Falcon, Rear Window and most Hitchcock, The Longest Day, Pale Rider, Planet of the Apes (original), The Ten Commandments, Singing In The Rain, Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Well, first off, I don't agree that the dialogue is awful, or the acting seems awkward. What would have to happen for it to be screwed up for me? If the Spirit has a kid, if the Spirit gets married, if the Spirit is shown drunk. Any of those things would screw it up for me.

It's too bad you can't see the crappiness in Miller's film. Maybe you're blinded by your love for Miller that you are unable to see how his style doesn't fit the character, which is the biggest problem with the film- just like Singer wasn't the right director/writer for Superman.

 

[theMan-Bat]

Some of my favorites:

2001, Casablanca, Malteese Falcon, Rear Window and most Hitchcock, The Longest Day, Pale Rider, Planet of the Apes (original), The Ten Commandments, Singing In The Rain, Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Rear Window I liked. I like Beneath the Planet of the Apes better than the first one.

It's too bad you can't see the crappiness in Miller's film. Maybe you're blinded by your love for Miller that you are unable to see how his style doesn't fit the character, which is the biggest problem with the film- just like Singer wasn't the right director/writer for Superman.

I disagree, and maybe you are blinded by your hatred for Miller that you are unable to see any good in the film.

 

[IDrawDeadPeople]

Good lists, fellas. But, Manbat, I don't know if any review or trailer or whatever will be able to line this film up with those...

From every source aside of your and Rogue Trooper's hype, I'd be hoping Plan 9 From Outer Space was my top film of all time if I was expecting to like this, though.

 

[theMan-Bat]

Good lists, fellas. But, Manbat, I don't know if any review or trailer or whatever will be able to line this film up with those...

I can't wait for this film. I don't care what the "critics" think. Hell, I remember when Siskel and Ebert gave Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven negative reviews saying it's great looking but calling it's story "shapeless and lifeless and having too many characters" and complaining that Clint Eastwood was "too silent." Ridley Scott's Blade Runner was a box-office financial failure in 1982, and it received negative reviews from film critics who said it was stunning and interesting visually but a failure as a story, calling it muddled, mechanical and baffling, having an art directors vision visually but lacking in an emotional impact, and called the voice-over narration annoying, weird, clunky, thudding and dunderheaded. It later found it's audience on video and television and people fell in love with it. Today it's a cult-classic. Batman Returns received negative reviews from film critics who said it was very stylized visually but said it was hard to care about it, called the storyline confusing and said the characters are only sketchily developed, cartoony, and don't go anywhere and said it's impossible to get involved in the fantastical story. And they're saying the same things about The Spirit today. That's why I don't listens to these negative reviews and complaints.