B. Weed - 2015-04-15
Ah, what could have been.
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infinite zest - 2015-04-15
Aw shit. I saw a trailer for the new Mission Impossible movie and I thought Brad Bird was still attached to the franchise. Ghost Protocol was about 2 billion times better than it ought to have been. Instead, he's doing Tomorrowland. Yeah, like the ride at Disneyland.
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infinite zest - 2015-04-15 Oh well, looks like it's the guy who did Jack Reacher. I kind of loved that movie. Maybe you shouldn't trust me about Mission Impossible 4 either.
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SteamPoweredKleenex - 2015-04-15
I love Brad Bird's work, but why do people like "The Spirit" so much? Is it because of its historical context and the artist who did it? I ask because the actual Spirit comics I've read just seem awfully dull. A cop "dies" via suspended animation and decides to start fighting crime from the cemetery.
I just can't get into it. The concept and execution make Dick Tracy read like "The Wire."
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infinite zest - 2015-04-16 Yeah it's more about The Spirit's place in comic book history and its influence that makes it so treasured. I was reading Michael Chabon's "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" at the time a touring art museum exhibit on comics was in my town. So it was folks like Spigelman, Crumb, and of course, Eisner: people who in one way or another influenced how comics are enjoyed today (sorry, no Stan Lee) kind of like Harold Blume's "Anxiety of Influence" but for comics. Personally I haven't read a single page of The Spirit outside of what I saw at the museum, but it's pretty much responsible for things like Sin City, and politically-charged fake characters like Kavalier and Clay's Escapist among many others.
I'm trying to think of a good analogy for other mediums, but the only one I can come up with is The French Connection or Riefenstal's Olympia: it's actually a pretty dumb plot and Nazi propaganda respectively, but we wouldn't have car chase scenes or watch sports the same way without them.
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Harveyjames - 2015-04-16 They're executed with wit and panache!
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Gmork - 2015-04-16
5 stars for HOW FUCKING STUPID "The Spirit" is as both an original concept and executed film.
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