The movie The Spirit - let me say this:

[Mudcat]

It has nothing to do with Sin City.

I saw it on the weekend kind of by accident. I was supposed to be going to The Curious Case of Benjamin Button but I somehow managed to go to the wrong theater. Not the first time I have done that.

Anyway we had to choose from what was available. I had seen the advertising for The Spirit but had not seen any reviews or discussion. It looked kind of like Sin City - which I really liked. It had some of the same people behind it. So I said, "Well okay, let's give it a shot."


So here's the key point: it is not like Sin City.

Don't go to the Spirit thinking you are in for a Sin City-like experience.

The Spirit is for a different audience. I could cut it up pretty bad but, hey, there are probably people here who would like it. I found it very, very silly and the dialogue was painful in parts and the acting was bizarrely uneven (like, you know, any particular reason you didn't cast someone who could act in the title role?) But maybe to the comic book crowd it is an important film. I don't know.

My point is, other than a few similar visual effects, it is nothing like Sin City. So don't go to it thinking that.

[fiveteamer]

Mudcat is that you in your avatar during an open mic night?

[winning2007]

[Mudcat]

Mudcat is that you in your avatar during an open mic night?

That is me playing my trusty 12-string Rosie, at Hugh's Room in Toronto. It was during an addictions training workshop that tomcast was doing. I was asked to play a few tunes while people were settling in and during breaks.

Lemme see if I know how to do this . . .

[HAPPY BOY]

benjamin button is an amazing movie. Go check it out Mud you wont regret it.

[fiveteamer]

[Mudcat]

benjamin button is an amazing movie. Go check it out Mud you wont regret it.

What? Are you trying to rub it in? That's what I was trying to do but I screwed up, okay????

No, seriously, I don't know how I screw up like that. For a guy who makes his living with numbers in a field where accuracy is everything, I make a bizarrely high number of errors programming my VCR too.


Anyway, I definitely owe my date another movie after dragging her out to that. Silly as the The Spirit was to me, it is even less a chick movie.

[Mudcat]

[AMBlai01]

benjamin button is an amazing movie. Go check it out Mud you wont regret it.

I hear the opposite...haven't seen it but I was told it was painfully long and boring and not worth my time or money. Who knows though....

[Mudcat]

It's probably one of those snobby, critic type movies. I believe one of the Bens from At The Movies (Ben Lyons???) called it the best movie of the year.

I often like those kinds of movies where mood and sub-text play a big role. But not everyone does.



The other Ben (Mankiewicz ??) named The Wrestler as his best movie of the year so far. I'd also like to see that.

[biggamer3]

Does Scarlett show any boobage in the movie?

This was a press photo for the movie from a few weeks ago

[pico]

[pico]

i have not watched any movie this year. it seems the older i get, the less i am interested in the shit hollywood chrum out. i remember i had a good one sentence description of hollywood. let me find it.

[HAPPY BOY]

it is long but the time flys by. Listen I dont know your taste in movies but I found the plot intersting. it reminded me a little of Forrest Gump. by that I mean the different events in the passage of time. i also left the theatre thankful that we age the way we do and not backwards. both me and Mrs happy liked it.

[pico]

you guys are paying $10 plus overpriced concession to see a over-exaggeration of storied cooked up by bunch of unemployed liberal arts graduates from second string college while high on meth and financed by bunch of a-moral self-righteous cocained addicted jew moguls who peddle smut to bunch of media brain-washed yahoos.

http://forum.sbrforum.com/players-talk/112991-biggest-recession-indicator-weekend-movie-ticket-sales.html#post1157862

[Mudcat]

Does Scarlett show any boobage in the movie?

No boobage of any kind. There is a quick shot of Eva Mendez' butt however it looks "stylized" (basically air-brushed). She (Mendez) actually looks pretty chunky in her clothes in some scenes.

Scarlett Johansson is awful IMO. So bad it is embarrassing. I have never been impressed with her acting. I don't actually find her that crazy hot either however if she wants to get nekkid, I will take a look.

Doesn't happen in this film though.

[Bread]

Went and saw Slumdog Millionaire last night. Excellent film.