Comments on: New SPIRIT poster

By: michael

michael — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:08:16 +0000

I love how people don’t understand the purpose of the bodysuit. Yes, it’s tight and covers the whole body…and yet, with the ladies, it’s always open enough to show off the cleavage. Kinda defeats the whole purpose. *sigh*

By: Sphinx Magoo

Sphinx Magoo — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:46:32 +0000

I still have hopes for a Brad Bird Spirit movie later on in his career after the memory of this one has died down a bit. Just ’cause it’s not out now doesn’t mean it won’t be out later!

By: Lea Hernandez

Lea Hernandez — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:13:27 +0000

“Nightmare Before Christmas” shows up in a lot of trailers.

Besides hating that poster, and wondering about the awkward angle that makes Eve Mendes’ arm into a flipper (which any life drawing 101 teacher will tell you is crap angle and should be avoided), I can see someone who’s worked with Miller on this and Sin City, still hasn’t figured out how to LETTER PROPERLY. I expect this from font monkeys outside of comics who are stumbling after a comicbooky look, but it’s something else again to display a lack of proper form across a whole campaign for a comic book based movie.
I’m here to help with my crash course on good comics lettering:
http://divalea.livejournal.com/519681.html

(Lettering not as bad as Sin City, but still problematic.)
Swear ta god, I cannot take seriously someone who can’t manage their serif I’s.

I’d have loved a Brad Bird Will Eisner’s The Spirit. Closest he’s gotten so far is having Mr. Incredible wear his mask with his suit when he sits down to dinner with Mirage.

By: Joe Lawler

Joe Lawler — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:58:00 +0000

The Requiem for a Dream music gets used in a lot of trailers, too.

By: rich

rich — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:45:45 +0000

“I think James Horner’s clanging score for “Aliens” is the most commonly re-used music in trailers.”

For a long time, I heard music from TOTAL RECALL or THE ROCKETEER in many movie promos.

By: rich

rich — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:45:05 +0000

“I think James Horner’s clanging score for “Aliens” is the most commonly re-used music in trailers.”

For a long time, I heard music from TOTAL RECALL or THE ROCKETEER in many movie promos.

By: Steve Taylor

Steve Taylor — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:55:57 +0000

An ad for the 13 inch DC Direct Spirit figure is in this month’s PREVIEWS. It tells you everything you’d need to know about the movie adaptation. I think it would have been nice,…no,…KEEN,…if Miller had paid the same kind of respect to Eisner’s vision as the two directors that brought Miller’s stuff to the big screen. It’s going to be “The God-Damned Spirit” and you KNOW that!

I know it’s not fair to prejudge a thing and I apologize. But,…I’ve got a bad feeling about this.

By: Matt D

Matt D — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:23:46 +0000

Huh. I did not know this.

Thanks Cameron.

By: Cameron Stewart

Cameron Stewart — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:02:29 +0000

@Matt D: It’s fairly common practice in movie trailers to re-use music of a similar tone from other movies. Often the score for the film is far from complete, if even started at all, when the first trailers are cut, so they’ll drop in a score from another movie as a sort of placeholder. It happens all the time, not just in this Spirit trailer. I think James Horner’s clanging score for “Aliens” is the most commonly re-used music in trailers.

By: Matt D

Matt D — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:04:05 +0000

Hey the trailer seems to be up…

http://www.mycityscreams.com/

Can someone please tell me WTF is up with using the theme to DePalma’s Untouchables?

By: phil

phil — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:56:59 +0000

They should add a ‘Not In…’ to the begining of that title. gaw ha ah-ha

By: Jeff P.

Jeff P. — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:20:45 +0000

Gee, looks a lot like Eisner’s work, doesn’t it? NOT.

I read somewhere that Brad Bird wanted to do a Spirit movie a while back. Talk about lost opportunities. Now we’ve got Fanboy Frank mucking it up.

By: Jackie Estrada

Jackie Estrada — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:57:42 +0000

I’ve seen it referred to as “Will Eisner’s The Spirit” in a number of places, including:
http://www.willeisner.com/spirit/spirit_movie.html

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:41:40 +0000

I find it amazing how Mr. Miller honours the creator of THE SPIRIT in the same way that Zack Snyder honoured Miller with 300, or Rodriguez with SIN CITY… by calling it WILL EISNER’S THE SPIRIT. Oh wait. He didn’t do that. Very telling…

By: M. Robert Turnage

M. Robert Turnage — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:14:21 +0000

This was already pointed out on the Photoshop Disasters blog, but she only has one leg.