'Bring On The Night'
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It's good to see that Frank Miller is sticking close to the source material, and not letting his own personal issues get in the way. @@
Right with you there, Tom. We saw the preview and Aims asked why I was rolling my eyes and growling.
My only answer was "Because they gave Will Eisner's brilliant character to Frank Fuck-it-up Miller."
Ha! That was pretty much my response, too!
It's a damn shame that Eisner isn't alive to have his name pulled from the credits.
It's a damn shame that Eisner isn't alive to have his name pulled from the credits.
Or just pummel the shit out of Frank Miller.
The mental image that I always get of Frank Miller is -- remember the Simpsons episode where Stan Lee went to the comic shop and kept doing completely unhinged stuff, like shoving a figure of the Hulk into the Batmobile, etc? Like, his whackaloon actions were a caricature of himself?
Yeah. That's pretty much how I view Frank Miller now -- just a caricature of himself -- which pretty much started with All-Star Batman and Robin and the immortal line, "I'm the GODDAMN Batman."
(Although I kind of wanted Christian Bale to say that line in TDK.)
Or just pummel the shit out of Frank Miller.
I have the sneaky suspicion that Miller would enjoy that.
Miller is like the Chris Carter of comics. He started believing his press, and he won't go away and stop retroactively tainting the stuff he's done that's good-to-great.
Okay, I saw the trailer for The Spirit and I turned to Beau and I said, "not even for a $100 would I see that movie."
For those of you who have read the source material, what's wrong with the trailer because I actively HATED it.
there was a new trailer for The Spirit.
Ew. I have zero familiarity with the source material (didn't even know there was a superhero named Spirit) and that trailer still left a gross taste in my mouth. Also, ripping off from himself much? Unless this is going to be Sin City redux or something.
For those of you who have read the source material, what's wrong with the trailer because I actively HATED it.
It's a really complicated subject, the original Spirit comics had strong graphics, plot and characterization. There's a reason that the comic book awards are called Eisners.
But suffice it to say, the comics were nothing if not fun, and most certainly did not take themselves seriously.