Comments on: The Desperation Of “The Spirit” Marketing Is Now Just Pathetic https://www.themovieblog.com/2008/12/the-desperation-of-the-spirit-marketing-is-now-just-pathetic/ The Correct Opinion Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:29:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Wayne https://www.themovieblog.com/2008/12/the-desperation-of-the-spirit-marketing-is-now-just-pathetic/#comment-179564 Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:29:37 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/2008/12/the-desperation-of-the-spirit-marketing-is-now-just-pathetic#comment-179564 I should have visited this site earlier..i was so depressed after watching The Spirit…it’s totally garbage…I could’nt believe that they could actually release such crap to earn some bucks…shame on everyone who’s involved in this film…I need a break…Octopus (played by Samuel L.Jackson) aka Moron is still haunting me…

]]> By: John https://www.themovieblog.com/2008/12/the-desperation-of-the-spirit-marketing-is-now-just-pathetic/#comment-178956 Tue, 30 Dec 2008 04:48:40 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/2008/12/the-desperation-of-the-spirit-marketing-is-now-just-pathetic#comment-178956 Hey Alex,

You’re an idiot.

I’ve clearly said from the beginning that this film looks horrible because of the trailers. Now this deceptive commercial stuff.

I never called for a boycott.

And you’re an idiot because you say I have a “personal” problem with the film. What do you exactly back that up with moron?

Sounds to me like you’re another studio plant. Not very mature of you.

]]> By: Alex https://www.themovieblog.com/2008/12/the-desperation-of-the-spirit-marketing-is-now-just-pathetic/#comment-178953 Tue, 30 Dec 2008 04:37:29 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/2008/12/the-desperation-of-the-spirit-marketing-is-now-just-pathetic#comment-178953 It sounds like to me John has a more deep rooted problem with this movie than he let’s on. You have been bashing this movie from square one, and because some marketing suits have decided to throw up some less than reputable quotes you decide to call in a full blown boycott of this film?………. Hmm sounds to me like you have some personal problems with it, not very mature.

]]> By: movieguy https://www.themovieblog.com/2008/12/the-desperation-of-the-spirit-marketing-is-now-just-pathetic/#comment-178785 Sun, 28 Dec 2008 23:04:33 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/2008/12/the-desperation-of-the-spirit-marketing-is-now-just-pathetic#comment-178785 Why are you bashing this flick, but embracing garbage looking flicks like Bitch Slap?

Bitch Slap looks like Spy Kids 3D, just substitute it with nasty looking girls with fake tits.

]]> By: aaron https://www.themovieblog.com/2008/12/the-desperation-of-the-spirit-marketing-is-now-just-pathetic/#comment-178745 Sun, 28 Dec 2008 14:20:40 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/2008/12/the-desperation-of-the-spirit-marketing-is-now-just-pathetic#comment-178745 i will not see this film at all-i’ll just see Benjamin Button or something

]]> By: Marc https://www.themovieblog.com/2008/12/the-desperation-of-the-spirit-marketing-is-now-just-pathetic/#comment-178735 Sun, 28 Dec 2008 09:34:06 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/2008/12/the-desperation-of-the-spirit-marketing-is-now-just-pathetic#comment-178735 I wanted to kill myself during the movie how can hollywood go to make puke movie like this.
Hoo wait you will find some no life telling you that this art. Well yeah some people sell shit on on a paint and it work.
And that movie is crap the story as no sense at all the caracter are like all out of a mental hospital.
It look like a cheap made in china cartoon just made to patch a hole on a tv schedule.

the only tumb up is for the marketing to have successfully manage to lure me in that below B movie type film.
Yeah the marketing guy just won the 4 place after banquer,lawyer and politician as worst human on earth

]]> By: Marcus https://www.themovieblog.com/2008/12/the-desperation-of-the-spirit-marketing-is-now-just-pathetic/#comment-178724 Sun, 28 Dec 2008 05:33:23 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/2008/12/the-desperation-of-the-spirit-marketing-is-now-just-pathetic#comment-178724 No, John was absolutely right, the movie looked like it would be terrible and last night I made the mistake of giving it the benefit of the doubt and went to see it… WORST MOVIE DECISION OF MY ENTIRE LIFE

Me and my friends watched 20 minutes of it and just left… That was the first time in my life a movie caused me to walk out on it… It was so incredibly absurd and over the top that I just couldn’t believe someone could even try to take it seriously… People were laughing at everything that happened, which means that either I just didn’t get it the way I was supposed to, or that the absurdity was causing everyone to laugh at parts that probably weren’t intended to be funny

This movie has to be given late consideration for worst movies of 2008, if it hasn’t already been

]]> By: aaron https://www.themovieblog.com/2008/12/the-desperation-of-the-spirit-marketing-is-now-just-pathetic/#comment-178620 Fri, 26 Dec 2008 23:14:06 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/2008/12/the-desperation-of-the-spirit-marketing-is-now-just-pathetic#comment-178620 judging by the 6 online clips i have seen, the script is TERRIBLE

]]> By: Akira https://www.themovieblog.com/2008/12/the-desperation-of-the-spirit-marketing-is-now-just-pathetic/#comment-178617 Fri, 26 Dec 2008 23:04:11 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/2008/12/the-desperation-of-the-spirit-marketing-is-now-just-pathetic#comment-178617 @person who called me a hypocryte,
I go to a movie based on my personal interest in that movie, such as plot or basis of the story being told in a movie, i’m just not going to boycott a movie for commercialism, or give an [Uninformed] opinion based on the previews and commerical tactics of a movie, which seems apparent in this blog to me atleast. I, in fact, went to the movie last night, and I thought it was good, but i’m no movie critic. i admire the outragousness of the scenes where octopus and his main henchman are dressed in rediculous outfits.

I wasn’t reading properly at the time and didn’t make an accurate judgement of the blog so i apologize for my buligerentness.

NOW, on the the other hand, i’m dumbfounded by Liongate’s valentine horror film valentines day massacre 3D. Particularly, In the preview, in which the killer Throws his pickaxe, and [The GIRL in the CAR Moves DIRECTLY IN THE WAY of it, I mean, Who the hell does that?! If I saw a axe being thrown at me, I sure as hell wouldn’t align it’s path with my head!

]]> By: aaron https://www.themovieblog.com/2008/12/the-desperation-of-the-spirit-marketing-is-now-just-pathetic/#comment-178600 Fri, 26 Dec 2008 21:18:03 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/2008/12/the-desperation-of-the-spirit-marketing-is-now-just-pathetic#comment-178600 the box office mojo Thursday estimate for this film was $3,825,000 and it was number 7

]]> By: spiderfreak182 https://www.themovieblog.com/2008/12/the-desperation-of-the-spirit-marketing-is-now-just-pathetic/#comment-178585 Fri, 26 Dec 2008 19:34:20 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/2008/12/the-desperation-of-the-spirit-marketing-is-now-just-pathetic#comment-178585 sorry john, i watched it. And yea, the movie was bad… theater started off packed… as the movie went on, more and more people left the movie (screaming things like “this movie’s wack!”) till at the end of the movie, there was less than half the theater… never seen that b4 in my life…

]]> By: Rob https://www.themovieblog.com/2008/12/the-desperation-of-the-spirit-marketing-is-now-just-pathetic/#comment-178547 Fri, 26 Dec 2008 13:44:28 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/2008/12/the-desperation-of-the-spirit-marketing-is-now-just-pathetic#comment-178547 I saw “The Spirit” last night, Dec 25th. I am a long time fan of the Spirit as created by Will Eisner and I can say beyond a shadow of a doubt this movie is SO bad! The dialogue was horrible, the acting due to the dialogue was bad. What was supposed to be funny is extremely lame. For some reason Miller thinks that cloned henchmen were funny? It was annoying, they wore shirts with stupid names, the actor who played that character should be banned from movies. The story was lame, the characters were lame. Lots of jewish references? have no idea what that was all about (just like the “Bee Movie” with Seinfeld) The whole Laurelei sequence was weird, the german sequence was dumb! The fighting, the over punching of the Octopus in the opening fight scene was similar in the fight scene from “They Live” (remember roddy piper trying to get the other actor to put the glassed on?) I can’t say enough of how BAD this movie was. I went in hoping it would have some redeeming qualities, but it didn’t. I knew from the opening 2-3 minutes, that I was in for a dull, boring and a waste of time. This movie is not even worth renting, that’s how bad this was. Miller should stick to comics, were he is ideally suited. As a director he stinks. One more thing, if you’ve seen Sin City, this was more or less the same only worthless characterizations, lame storyline and acting. I liked Sin City, but then again, I NEVER read the source material and it was only “co-directed” by Miller. The Spirit, as done by Will Eisner needed to be a straight up period piece, similar to Indiana Jones but with heavy mood lighting like the old film noir movies of the 40’s. Add the serial cliff hanger like action sequences and you have damn near captured the Eisner flare for fun, mystery, romance and adventure. One more thing, Miller added some strange power the Spirit has over women, obviously this was needed because he painted the spirit in a hole of sorts that he couldn’t write him out of… the German scene to be exact.
For what it’s worth, I wrote an anonymous letter to the folks considering the Captain America movie and it needing to be a period piece, and a damn good WWII movie setting up the origin and fight between Germany and the Axis with a showdown ending with Zemo and the Cap getting dumped in the icy waters…. with the closing of the movie flash forwarding to the present with an aerial shot of some eskimos gathered around a block of ice, worshipping the man in the ice and a U.S. led team arriving at that moment (with Tony Stark and Nick Fury both turning their heads with a look of HOLY SHIT!)

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