RT on DVD: Frank Miller Talks The Spirit, Michel Gondry Releases New Music Video DVD

ankit jhunjhunwala

The Spirit looks good but is absolute and total ****. The movie is a new type of awful, honestly even if you buy the DVD, you can barely watch the entire film in 1 go from start to finish, you can watch certain sections but the entire film will cause you to have an epileptic seizure.

And Samuel Jackson gives 1 of the worst over-the-top performances in the history of cinema. How he failed to be nominated for the Razzie surprises me. The movie should have been considered too.

Apr 13 - 05:00 PM

Chris Bellew

wow not much this week. i'll prolly rent the spirit. not much else though.

Apr 13 - 05:01 PM

daddio peevee

the reader is pretty good i would recommend it i am glad that kate winslet finally got an oscar for her acting performance she has proven her acting skills for a long time. The movie and her performance are incrediably good. I would have to say to avoid the spirit because its just bad really bad the story is well theirs no story the acting is awful scarlett johanson is miscast jackson is bad the spirit guy whoever he is is wack the only good thing about the movie would have to be eva mendes cuz she looked hot

Apr 13 - 05:57 PM

Jared King

I'm a fan of "The Spirit" comics, so I'm not seeing the film. Despite having SMOKING HOT women. "The Reader" dosen't exactly look like entertainment to me. But, I'll rent "Splinter".

Apr 13 - 06:24 PM

Jen Yamato

If I may reiterate, the new Gondry compilation is pretty cool. Anyone interested?

Apr 13 - 06:28 PM

Arthur Grego

After watching The Spirit, I can safely say that it will probably end up as one of those movies your pothead friend has lying around, so that when you come over to hang, he'll be all like "Dude, you absolutely HAVE to watch this! It will blow your mind!" None of it makes any sense. They throw in a bunch of objects from Greek mythology to try and make it make sense. Samuel L. Jackson changes costumes about fourteen times, from samurai to Nazi to Mexican hat dancer. And Big ***** from The Sopranos appears as a bunch of dumb clones. Your better off just skipping it altogether.

Apr 13 - 06:33 PM

John Nouel

Gondry is one of the best artist out there. Total inspiration for the indie "from video-clip" breed.

Apr 13 - 07:06 PM

jack giroux

The Spirit is so bad, I cant wait to re-watch it listening to the audio commentary to see what Frank Miller was thinking.

Apr 13 - 07:19 PM

Greg Guro

I'm getting "Splinter" on Tuesday from Netflix. Hurray.

Also, I liked the 13th floor, but, I am sans Blu-Ray.

Apr 13 - 07:55 PM

Jeremy Herring

The Spirit is probably the worst movie I've ever had the displeasure of watching in my life (and believe me, I've watched crap that would make your head spin). Hopefully Frank Miller is never near a director's chair again.

Apr 13 - 08:25 PM

Angel Vazquez

Splinter was pretty awesome,definitely recommend it ;)

Apr 13 - 09:40 PM

lance berry

Was Miller high when he did the interview? Black and white films didn't flood you with color because they COULDN'T! They were IN black and white because color film hadn't been INVENTED yet! And why does he look like Freddy Krueger? Was The Spirit his own personal Nightmare on Elm Street he was bestowing to filmgoers everywhere?

Frank Miller can give up directing any time now, and I'll be just fine with that.

Also, Jen: Great piece, but the Spirit is not a "caped" crime fighter, as he doesn't wear a cape. That would be Batman, gorgeous. ;-)

Apr 13 - 11:57 PM

Jen Yamato

thereign, you are too right. I think his tie distracted me and i had an unfortunate brain fart. Apologies. You're my hero (caped or not).

Apr 14 - 12:08 AM

Jen Yamato

Argh. Just left a comment that disappeared, but in short, it said thanks to thereign, for catching my brain fart! You're my hero.

Apr 14 - 12:10 AM

'schak Attack

I liked "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and "Be Kind Rewind", so Gondry is a-okay with me.

I saw "Splinter" on Mark Cuban's cable channel's free preview (as well as "Special"). They was a-okay too.

I plan to rent "The Reader" but methinks it will be annoying if they paint a Nazi in a sympathetic light. I'll still watch it for the award winning performance, but I may flip the bird during the end credits (sorry Kate).

Apr 14 - 05:51 AM

Phillip Martin

I originally had no desire to see The Reader, and now that I read the synopsis on it, I REALLY have no desire to see The Reader. I'll probably end up renting The Spirit against my better judgement sometime down the road. I really like stylized movies and ones that try something different. I liked 300, Sin City and even Sky Captain, I guess I'll just have to watch the pretty pictures with the volume off.

Apr 14 - 06:49 AM

c o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F0iOuRNJfU&feature=channel

Apr 14 - 09:16 AM

Jason Wilkerson

I think I actually added like everything from this week to my Netflix queue except for Dark Matter, which I have no interest in, and Michel Gondry's disk because it's not on Netlfix. Wait, I didn't add pillow talk which I'll probably end up buying for my mom for Mother's Day. I even added the movies from The Lost Collection to my queue because I'm always up for an awesomely bad 80's movie! Who knows, maybe I'll actually like a few of them. I won't know for a while since I keep adding to my queue like a madman and I'm currently up to like 180 movies. It's a good thing I watch like 6 movies a week!

Apr 14 - 10:06 AM

Tyler Yaeger

I saw The Spirit in the theaters, and I really didn't think it was that bad. I don't know the original material, but I think its fairly safe to say that Miller took a lot of artistic license. But not knowing the comic is probably what made it work for me. It became an otherwise original and unique film, with weird sort of... slow/manic pace about it. It was "funnier" than I think a lot of people were expecting, too, and that might be what turned people off. It was worth seeing, anyway, I feel.

Apr 14 - 12:32 PM

Mighty Celestial

Y'know,
to suggest giving the Spirit, a film that is just SO universally panned a chance,
you're actually suggesting to people to their spend money on something that's more and likely to be ****.

Apr 14 - 01:23 PM