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Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 20, 2008 20:57:35 GMT
Frank Miller's cinematic take on the Will Eisner comic.
I can't help but hear too much of Miller in the narration and not enough of Eisner. That being said it looks pretty cool.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 21, 2008 8:36:55 GMT
Oh dear.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 21, 2008 8:42:12 GMT
Pretty much the Internets is united in thinking that there is too much FRANK MILLER in will eisner's THE SPIRIT.
Andy
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Post by andrewbcalculating on Apr 21, 2008 8:48:59 GMT
Please forgive my ignorance as I am not very clued up when it comes Frank Miller comics but is The Spirit connected to Sin City because from my perspective the film styles look similar.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 21, 2008 8:51:23 GMT
Nope. The only connection being Frank Miller and the style it's being filmed in. The Spirit was a comic published in newspapers in 1940 by Will Eisner. Legendary in comic circles as being something of a blueprint to how to tell stories.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 21, 2008 9:33:33 GMT
I just don't see the point of doing it Sin City style, which was so stylised and with none of the backgrounds obviously there, why do any of it live action? Why not all in animation? That sort of hybrid style just looks a bit...crap...in my eyes. The Spirit trailer looks so close to animation, what is the point of having an actor in it? When his tie looks animated and that draws my attention more than anything else...eh?
I just don't get it.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Apr 21, 2008 11:42:52 GMT
I'm not sure that this is doing much for me to be honest. The voice-over has far too much of a Frank Miller flavour to me, which doesn't really say "The Spirit" to me.
I do agree that it feels like it wants to be an animated movie, looking at it.
(The reason it isn't an animated film is simple mind you. It would be box-office suicide. There is still a great deal of audience snobishness in the western world, a view that animation is only for children. So going down the animated route would doom the film out of the gate. For some reason this mindset only applies to animation that doesn't look like live-action mind you. So if you make your animated sequences look as much like life as possible you can get away with it.) .
Karl
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 14, 2018 22:57:52 GMT
Still a great film.
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 15, 2018 8:55:22 GMT
TEN YEARS???!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 15, 2018 16:29:14 GMT
An ANNIVERSARY VIEWING IS CALLED FOR CHUM!!!!
ANDY
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 15, 2018 17:52:47 GMT
No need!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 15, 2018 22:56:26 GMT
Every need.
A STARDUB SPECIAL!!!!
Andy
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 15, 2018 12:12:44 GMT
Still time to squeeze in a rewatch Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 15, 2018 13:01:47 GMT
10...YEARS???
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 15, 2018 13:10:25 GMT
I know.
Where have the years gone?
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 16, 2018 21:34:35 GMT
I'm not coping well with this fact.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 17, 2018 23:51:40 GMT
I know, ten years and no news on a sequel.
Disgraceful.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 24, 2019 22:26:34 GMT
Guess who rewatched this classic tonight?
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 24, 2019 22:30:38 GMT
I helped!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 24, 2019 22:33:07 GMT
You also rewatched it!
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 24, 2019 22:34:46 GMT
What's this? Turn and Burn in the same building?
I DEMAND A PODCAST.
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 24, 2019 22:37:48 GMT
What's this? Turn and Burn in the same building? No. -Ralph |
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 24, 2019 22:46:48 GMT
NOOOOOO.
Andy needs to teach you Skype. There must be more Stardub.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 25, 2019 12:05:47 GMT
I love how Ralph still doesn't know what to make of the film.
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 25, 2019 12:59:14 GMT
I just don't know.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 30, 2019 22:11:02 GMT
I genuinely enjoy the film.
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