To people saying its a bad movie - The Spirit (2008) Discussion

[–] Jeb081387 15 years ago

im not a comic book fan...i've never seen sin city and this movie still blew donkey dick...and yea there are always worse ways to spend 90 minutes...i could have been watching any of the movie movies...still doesn't change the fact that movie sucked ass...

Dear IMDB members stop complaining about grammar....this is the net...not elementary school

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[–] Jeb081387 15 years ago

once again saying there are much worse movies doesn't mean this movie still isn't terrible....sure the hottie and the nottie was worse....sure cool as ice was worse.....still doesn't make this movie any less terrible

Dear IMDB members stop complaining about grammar....this is the net...not elementary school

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[–] Jeb081387 15 years ago

lol....did you actually bother responding to my post just b/c of my sig......adding literally nothing to the topic....wow...thats a combination of pathetic and hilarious that you just don't find too often on the internet these days....lol....

Dear IMDB members stop complaining about grammar....this is the net...not elementary school

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[–] fluffchop 14 years ago

"lol....did you actually bother responding to my post just b/c of my sig......adding literally nothing to the topic....wow...thats a combination of pathetic and hilarious that you just don't find too often on the internet these days....lol....

Dear IMDB members stop complaining about grammar....this is the net...not elementary school"

Perhaps when you complete Elementary School you will be able to form an original thought and put it in a sentence for us. Anything you have to say in any post is dismissed as rubbish, because your signature shows you to be a complete moron. So you're the one not actually contributing anything...to society!

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[–] tiger86-2 15 years ago

Many of the imdb users are not native English speakers. Myself included. I am a Bulgarian and I have learned English mostly from the American movies. You can't expect someone like me to know English perfectly.

As for the movie... I don't know. It was some kind of funny. I remember I enjoyed it quite a lot. BUT... Stunning visuals? Where? If we hadn't seen the same thing done about a thousand times better in 'Sin City' the visuals would pass as stunning, I guess, but since we have... Great acting? Well, sorry, you have probably seen another movie. Humor? As funny as tickling with a brick most of the time. And so on... I just like idiotic movies like this one and that's why I enjoyed it.

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[–] vertygo2000 15 years ago

All I can say is wow!!! You wrote a short essay on grammar and spelling and still managed to have a few errors yourself. It looks like I get to ignore what you said because you don't know how to speak or write. It looks like there is one less holier-than-thou person to which I need pay attention.

-"others users"
-starting a sentence with "and"
-I'm not sure about this one but if you put a person's name shouldn't they start with capital letters? ie. E.E. Cummings.

For the love of God you're retarded.

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[–] Symarip 14 years ago

Starting a sentence with ''and'' is perfectly fine, actually.

"Worship me or I'll torture you forever"
-Your loving God.

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[–] colin_uk 13 years ago

"-I'm not sure about this one but if you put a person's name shouldn't they start with capital letters? ie. E.E. Cummings. "

Your ignorance is plain astonishing. e e cummings (yes no caps) deliberately wrote his name like that and that is how it is always written.

For someone with a level of education which evidently doesn't break grade school, you are hardly in a position to call others retarded.

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[–] kb6kgx 14 years ago

I agree with your comments pertaining to grammar, spelling and punctuation. And it doesn't matter that "this is the net", as someone had stated. There is NO excuse for an educated adult to use anything but proper English. Sure, it's "fun" and "cool" to knowingly spell badly, but I don't care. And please don't take it wrong, but... the word you're thinking of is "ellipsis", not "elliptical".

If those with the English skills you are referring to are under the age of 50, which, I suspect, they are, they represent the future of our country. God help us all.

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[–] thirdeye55 13 years ago

I, like, to, use, commas, too!

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[–] frankmilne 15 years ago

I'm watching it now and keep falling asleep on it. I used to like comics but more than i liked comics i like good things. So far it's pretty crappy. But I'll watch it to the end and give it a chance. Keep rewinding.

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[–] Soodinum 11 years ago

*I'm

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[–] iori57 15 years ago

I usually tend to persuade myself to like a movie more than to hate it. That means instead of finding all the plot holes and comment on the bad scripts, I tend to look for the 'good' in any movie I watch.

But this movie is the worst movie I've ever seen in my whole life. I can't find anything good at all in this.

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[–] BearsFanBob 15 years ago

I have to say I tried sooooo hard to like this movie. I loved the SPirit comics, loved most everything Frank Miller has ever written as The Dark Knight (Number 1 only- two was average) Sin City (Again the first one as the others are good not Great)and most everything else he writes.

But this movie was so bad that it actually came close to crossing the circle and became good again. It was so silly that it was actaully entertaining.

This is not say it was good, because it wasn't. The visuals were cool (sure we've seen them before)and the hotties were well HOT- SJH and EVE MENDES (WOW GREAT NUDE SCENE!!!) and Sam Jackson yelling and acting crazy...again great stuff.

So IMHO, The movie blows, but is still very entertaining (but so are car wrecks), everyone is cool (except for the grammar police dude, he/she blows), and I'm out...

These are my thoughts, they are free, but at least they are my own.

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[–] mandlmosk 14 years ago

Actually this is what the movie was aiming to be. It was purposefuly trying to be as over the top as possible.

That is not dead which can eternal lie and with strange aeons even death may die

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[–] Grenadieris 14 years ago

If it was trying to be over the top, then it needs to learn from "Tropic thunder".
This movie was absolute *beep* Action, visuals and some tits don't make it ok for a movie to be so bad, not for me. Someone who doesn't care much about substance probably can extract some pleasure, there's always that one guy.

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[–] primoooze1138 15 years ago

If THIS is the worst movie you've seen in your whole life, then I'm sorry, but you really need to see more movies.

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[–] AnotherSchmoe 15 years ago

"If THIS is the worst movie you've seen in your whole life, then I'm sorry, but you really need to see more movies. "

Yeah, The Spirit was not very good (just saw it for the first time, never read the comics). However, it was far from the worse movie I've seen. Haha, try watching Laserblast (1978), it's on Mystery Science Theater 3000, you'd have to be very, very brave to watch it without their entertaining commentary.

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[–] JMYodaTHX 15 years ago

This movie sucked. However some good CGI and Sam Jackson elivate it to an OK Saturday afternoon time-waster. Sam Jackson has elevated many bad movies that way.

Like "Snakes on a Plane" or "Deep Blue Sea"

"A shark ATE ME! A *beep* SHARK ATE ME!" - Dave Chappelle as Sam Jackson.
-Yoda

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[–] ipacac22 15 years ago

this movie sucked ass. the only saving grace was eva's ass and scarlett's cleavage. i'm glad i only paid a dollar to rent it.

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[–] gjl2003 15 years ago

I'm glad someone finally mentioned Eva's ass; I was beginning to think no one else noticed it.
On the film however was it really that bad? After all it is based on a comic strip so what are people expecting, William Shakespeare? Just enjoy it for what it is eh?

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[–] RIP_Matthew_Abaddon 15 years ago

There's worse ways to spend 90 minutes? Yeah, okay having my nuts cut off and shoved down my throat would PROBABLY be worse than watching this again.

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[–] funkyfry 15 years ago

They did "try to make it bad" in the sense that they tried to make it campy. And there is absolutely nothing in the universe of cinema worse -- as this film attests -- than bad camp.

Did I not love him, Cooch? MY OWN FLESH I DIDN'T LOVE BETTER!!! But he had to say 'Nooooooooo'

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[–] Swashbucklist 15 years ago

You're right, Tunaman09. I enjoyed the movie; it was comical and hilarious, and the visuals were indeed stunning. Taking in every movie ever made in a ratio of good to bad, The Spirit would probably come in at about a 6 or 6.5. That's what I think, anyway.

Precursors of Chief and Cortana: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmBdRjtpZAg

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[–] chilaili 15 years ago

I really like movies of this genre . . . but I HATED this one. My gods it was SO boring! Endless meaningless dialogue that just didn't go anywhere and a bunch of characters I didn't give a toss about. I kept switching back and forth between channels in the hope that it was getting better as the movie went on, but oh no, it got worse! Good thing I was watching this on TV and hadn't wasted my valuble $6.50 at the cinema. Mind you, if I had, I would've demanded my money back.

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[–] rubenwubbels 14 years ago

Wow...this movie is getting a lote of HATE, mostly for being silly. But be honest, isnt the big brother (Sin City) that everybody is raving about not just as silly?

My gf actually prefers this one because it aint as gross as Sin City (especially the yellow dude freaks her out), not as long as Sin City but still something similar.

I personally enjoyed The Spirit for what it is, a silly comic book adaptation with great visuals, flawed storyline and (at best) ok acting. Loved Jackson as the baddy, so over the top it was freakin hilarious :D

Ps. Grammar police -> I ghave no greencard since im not in the US, dont kill me! ;)

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[–] dggonzal 14 years ago

This was a bad movie. The scene in which he Spirit is strapped to a dentist chair seemed to last for eternity. It did have a lot of good eye candy though!

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