Another Round of Commercials for 'The Spirit'

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13Dec2008

Another Round of Commercials for 'The Spirit'

Saturday, December 13, 2008 at 10:50AM

I don't what this says about The Spirit, but the commercials for the new comic book adaptation kill, and anything longer than 30 seconds doesn't do the movie any favors. It's Frank Miller's vision of Will Eisner's world, and I'm happy that both The Spirit is getting a movie and that Frank Miller is directing it. At least in theory.

We'll see how he can pull it off, because Miller can certainly create memorable characters and stories, and the colors in The Spirit, while clearly reminiscent of Sin City (to put it mildly), are damned evocative. We'll just have to try to separate those two films when we watch it.

Gabriel Macht plays The Spirit, a cop who is killed but returns from the dead as something...different. He's out to stop the evil Octopus (Samuel L. Jackson), and there are plenty of hot chicks to look, if you're into that sort of thing, with Scarlett Johansson, Paz Vega, Jaime King, Sarah Paulson, and Eva Mendes, who appears to be the key vamp in all this.

Cinematical found three new commercials, and as we said, when they keep it to 30 seconds, The Spirit looks like a hell of a good time:

I wonder if Christmas is the best time for this movie, or if it would have been better served, say, last weekend, when nothing new of significant interest came out.

Colin Boyd |

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