|
Muttpop Bob's musings and rants for all things Muttpop, toys, videogames, hip-hop, and whatever else he's thinking of. |
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Newest Spirit Trailer; Starting To Look Good
The latest Spirit Posters and Trailer's have been revealled... and things are starting to shape up really nicely. The whole marketing campaign I've been following has been all kinds of crazy. At first it looked like Sin City 2. Then it was some live action Tom & Jerry cartoon. Now it's looking like a Sin City James Bond hybrid with some wacky slapstick. That I can go for.
The use of color is pretty nice. It looks to build off of what Sky Captain did... hopefully it will succeed in ways that Sky Captain failed.
As a longtime fan, I'm still rooting for Frank Miller!
Comments
Turdybits
Monday, October 06, 2008
I think the Miller treatment is what I don't like. After so much talk from Miller about how important it was for the look & feel of his "Sin City" to be preserved, its kind of disheartening that he'd abandon so much of the Will Eisner look in favor of his own.
BUT - I did see this trailer on the big screen tonight & felt better about it than I did about the YouTube version, so...we'll see.
ZEES
Monday, October 06, 2008
I doesn't look like sin city 2...more like Sky captain mixed with dick tracy...Warren Beaty Dick Tracy.
Muttpop Bob
Thursday, October 02, 2008
Turdybits:
I think it's coming together alright. You're right, it's more Miller than Eisner... but I feel that's a good thing. I love Eisner's Spirit, but I don't think it really holds up stylistically for your average moviegoer. Miller was a wise choice because he's the kind of guy that can bring something current to the Eisner concept. What I see is an all-age Sin City/Superhero hybrid. Conceptually Eisner's Spirit is the perfect super-hero for film. It's just a guy in an eyemask... but the style of the film is what's going to make it inherently a superhero piece. If you stay conventional, it'll feel like a crime film with a mask. For a little over 5 years now, Miller has been exploring the goofy nature of comics. He did it with DK2 and All Star Batman. Obviously he's doing the same here with the Spirit.
I don't particularly like what Miller did in his more recent Batman stuff... but I'm pretty curious to see how it translates to the Spirit film.
Jen S:
I definitely see your point. In many ways I can see how the Spirit is Miller's Daredevil film. San Saref = Elektra. Spirit= Daredevil. It's appropriate since Miller openly acknowledges that his Daredevil stuff was his attempt at doing the Marvel version of the spirit.
-MPB
Jen S
Thursday, October 02, 2008
I gotta say that I agree with Turdybits. It's too much Miller and not enough Eisner.
Turdybits
Thursday, October 02, 2008
Still looks like a muddled mess to me. Lot more Frank Miller in there than Will Eisner, which really is a shame.