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  2. The Spirit

    in Comic Book Adaptations

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    Tell me as much as you can without spoiling it. How was the plot, the characters, the graphics, etc.

    alright

    Pro's/con's

    + Gabriel Macht was a perfect choice for Denny Colt/The Spirit, and I thought he totally nailed the lovable oaf/urban crimefighter dynamic of the character. The fact that his facial expressions would sometimes look like Eisner's drawings was always a plus too.

    + Sarah Paulson + Dan Lauria had a really good father/daughter dynamic going on and had great chemistry with Macht. I really wish we could of seen more of them. I also liked that Miller upgraded Ellen to a surgeon.

    + Scarlett Johansson as Silken Floss was a lot of fun. She had a nice back and forth going with Sam Jackson, and she looked as sexy as hell the whole time.

    + The Sand Seref Origin story i felt was pretty well done. Seychelle Gabriel as the young Sand Seref was really good, and i think she is someone to look out for in the coming years.

    + I liked a lot of Miller's additions to the Spirit's world like how he was basically an alley cat. Like an alley cat he probably had a real home, and a real identity once but now it's long forgotten and like a stray he runs from alley to alley, rooftop to rooftop looking for trouble because the city is his home now and he needs to protect it. The opening scene where we see him awaken surrounded by all the cats was really breathtaking. I liked that he wore sneakers with a suit too, said a lot about his character.

    +/- The visuals were both really cool and kind of annoying at the same time. Some shots worked, and some just fell flat. I am not particulary a fan of this type of visual style, and i hated the Sin City and 300 movies but i felt that when the visuals worked here, they worked better than in either of those films.

    +/- Sam Jackson's Octuopus was also both cool at times and an annoyance at others. He really shined in the Nazi scene, i'll leave it at that.

    - The Louis Lombardi characters were an intresting idea but got to very annoying, very fast.

    - The story structure and tone were all over the place.

    - Too many characters. Lorelei Rox, and Plaster Of Paris seemed to come out of nowhere, and felt tacked on. More focus could of helped the film a lot.

    - The way they tried to connect the Spirit/Octopus was a little Batman 89 for my tastes. Although it didn't bother me as much as what they did in Batman 89. I also think the revelation dosen't really hold much weight with an average audience today who are mostly unfamiliar with the characters, it's not like Batman and Joker who are cultural icons no matter what the medium.

    I also think how much you enjoy the movie might also have to do with how much you enjoy current work from Frank Miller, if you dig the absurdness of ASB&R, and DKSA (like myself) or you have read the book Eisner/Miller, you might find a lot to like about this movie but otherwise i am not so sure about that.

  6. The Crow (remake)

    in Comic Book Adaptations

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    "Whereas Proyas' original was gloriously gothic and stylized, the new movie will be realistic, hard-edged and mysterious, almost documentary-style," Norrington said.

    Ha ha ha ha ha

    "documentary style" WTF is that even supposed to mean? Does that mean more shaky cameras than usual?

    I could see a bunch of exec's sitting in a room thinking this up too.

    Seriously, I love the Nolan Batman movies as much as the next person but to me the worst aspect of them is the "realistic angle", I think it seriously robs them creatively of doing some really cool things with the visuals, and characters that they can't if everything has to be real world all the time. I wish they would understand that "realism" should come from the characters and not if a gadget could really exist in real life. Unfourtanetly it looks like the studios and the filmmakers are learning all the wrong lessons from those films just like comic creators learned all the wrong lessons from DKR and Watchmen.

  9. The DCBS thread

    in General Discussion

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    in Shameless Self-promotion

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  12. More Blade films from writer David Goyer

    in Comic Book Adaptations

    Posted

    That might well be why Snipes actually sued Goyer for, amongst other things, giving too much screen time over to Jessica Biel and Ryan Reynolds.

    To be fair to Goyer, Snipe's was extremley hard to work with on set. Most of the time he stayed in his trailer smoking weed while his stunt double did all the screen work, and when he was on set he was unpleasant to say the least. I remember a quote from snipe's stunt double at the time saying something to the effect of "I finally get some actual screentime in a movie and they have to CG my face out in every scene". While that certainly isn't an excuse for why the film was bad, I tend to give Goyer a bit more of a pass on that one.

  25. The Music Thread

    in Banter

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    I knew there was a reason I liked you! Great album. Have you listened to Strait Up, the tribute album? It's worth a buy alone for the one actual Snot song, Absent. It fucking rules and makes me even sadder about Lynn's death every time I listen to it.

    yup, i bought "Strait Up" on the first day it came out which was something like 8 years ago which is pretty crazy now that i'm thinking about it. "Absent" is probably my favorite Snot song too (although i prefer the version on the Strangeland soundtrack). I am actually pretty good friends with Snot's drummer Jamie Miller and he now plays in one of my favorite bands theSTART, and i got to know Tumor pretty well too since i was doing promotion for the band Lo-Pro that he was playing in for a short period of time. While i don't really listen to Snot much anymore, they will always hold a special place in my heart.

    P.S: not too sure how i feel about this "reunion" they are doing this year though