"The Spirit"

Aug 08, 2009 21:44

I have to be honest: this movie may not exactly be "Citizen Kane" or "The Godfather", but it's not as bad as some of the critics have made it out to be. It's fun to watch (and is it me, or would Gabriel Macht make an interesting Harry Dresden? He's not exactly tall enough, but he has the look and he looks good in a long billowing coat), the cinematography is cool (even if it looks a little too much like "Sin City" at times), the script is a bit uneven, but the actors manage to make it engaging (Hey, it's got Samuel L. Jackson as the big bad of the piece: he took "Snakes on a Plane" and turned it into something incredible). It managed to capture Will Eisner's at times quirkily bizarre humor. The behind-the-scenes documentary was very interesting: turns out Will Eisner was Frank Miller's mentor, even though they disagreed very widely on a lot of things. I can definitely see that happening: Will Eisner has this innate sense of the good hiding in every human being, even the most crooked and depraved, and Miller has a sense of the dark shadows even the best of us try to hide. I've read comics by both and I have to say, they're almost the yin to each other's yang, flip sides of the same coin.

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