"Is every Goddamn woman in this Goddamn hell hole out of her Goddamn mind" I'm amazed they didn't comment on Miller still doing the Goddamn Batman meme despite it not being Batman.

As terrible as this movie is, I'll admit Samuel L. Jackson gave a pretty entertaining performance, especially when you consider the material he was given.

The city needs a adult. A responsible adult...

"My city. She's always there for me." She always catches me. She's always there for me. I fly.

I worked in a cinema when this film came out. I've never seen so many people walk out of a film, showing after showing. People even stayed till the end of the Keith Lemon film! They didn't laugh, but they at least stayed.

15:36 - 15:53: Nick Fury and Black Widow telepathically experience a shared dream about a jumping foot with a face. And that's a plain DAMN WEIRD DREAM for a SHIELD agent.

I have HAD it with these muthafuckin' eggs on my muthafuckin' face!!

Point of Order: Mr. Freezes puns were better; at least the cold puns MADE SENSE! The egg jokes only work if you REALLY stretch your imagination to the point where Tarzan make puns about SNAKES (Get it?! Because some species of snakes give birth to life young!)!

The name on the delivery truck is Ditko. As in Steve Ditko. Ted Kord's creator. Cute Frankie boy.

I'm not entirely sure what's Frank Miller's deal with color red in a film noir. I get that red can be used to emphasize danger of a temptress or the Nazi, but the Spirit also spots bright red tie when he's jumping from building to building. The same thing happens with Natalie Stack's red boots in Holy Terror. What's up with those red accessories?

12:10-12:25 No, Samuel L. Jackson is not dressed up as Fu Manchu. Fu Manchu was Chinese. He's dressed up as a samurai. Samurai are Japanese. Note the rising sun, the reference to seppuku, the katana and the topknot. Japanese, not Chinese.

This movie is making batman and robin more dignified

3:15 - Oh, God, they got narration from ASBAR! Duck and cover! (Side note: the "Ditko's Speedy Delivery" van is a pretty clever reference... or at least it would be if Ditko had anything to do with the Spirit.)

11:56 Ladies and gentlemen, the only time channel awesome will apologize for their wrong doing.

3:46 "Notice also Miller sexualizing a frickin' city." -Lewis "Linkara" Lovhaug, 2010.

You know, this movie is awful, but Samuel L. Jackson is having SO much fun, every scene that he has is really fun. But to be fair, Arnie is my favorite part of Batman and Robin. He's just...so...goofy it's great!

I hope the cat was at least well paid.

That kitty scene broke my heart. YOU SCOLD THEM LINKSANO!

“What’s in the vase, Thor’s hammer?” No Frank, Marvel Studios Is NOT HELPING YOU OUT OF THIS ONE! 🤦🏼‍♂️

Frank: ok Sam, Scarlett. If you do the film, I'll 100% guarantee you'll get successful careers in marvel movies Sam: but you have me as a nazi. Why would we ever agree to this? Frank: because you get to talk about your hatred of eggs Sam: that's stupid Frank: did I mention I have some drugs to make this feel like five minutes Years later... Sam: WORTH IT!

The trouble with this film is that it's as thorough a crash course in all of Frank Miller's lousy, overdone tropes that you could wish for, but it's *so* awful as a result that you can't use it as an example because no-one in their right mind would watch it!

I am a 45 yo father, probably one of the oldest people watching this movie. I am a single father to my Son, who is 14 now. My son got this movie for Christmas in 2021 from his uncle, so we put it in the VCR and started watching. By the end of the week he watched it 24 times. This was horrible for me, as it was already hard for me to find ways to spend time with my son, as he is always out with his friends or just sitting there blankly staring. So i decided to make a netflix account and get this movie to see if I could maybe watch alongside him. I loaded in the movie and it started playing. This movie has ever since brought me and my son closer again and now we actually spend time together outside the house together as well. This movie reminded me that there's fun to be had in everything, and it has brought both me and my Son many happy memories.

We need the spirit to be a Netflix series and be like the original comic

" You know what would be a great idea? Putting a Black man and a Jewish woman in Nazi uniforms"- Frank Miller, apparently.

If you have read The Spirit, you know that there are: no protracted fights with the Octopus, no clones, no 'blood of Heracles' no constant proclamations of beauty, no monologues about 'the city', no Nazi or Samurai costumes, and NO F@"*ING EGGS! I think that Miller was JEALOUS of Eisner. After all, there is no Miller award, but there is an Eisner Award. I think that Miller set out to ruin Eisner's creation (just as Kennedy set out to ruin Lucas'). I wish that someone would make a Spirit movie based on Eisner's work. F@"* Frank Miller!

Wow you were both so much thinner. And Matthew wasn't going bald. I kid. This is probably one of my favorite colabs.

considering the comic never showed the villains face you could have easily had him wear something like a suit with a wide brimmed hat of some sort that constantly cast a shadow over his face so all you can see is he eyes and occasionally his smile, it would probably fit in with the style and add to his intimidation factor, not to mention jacksons voice would probably be horrifying coming from a shadowy figure considering the tone he puts on for the villain role

"Makes me wonder if Will Eisner and Frank Miller were really friends." LMAO XD

"You're talkin' CRAZY-talk!" "I'll be learnin' ya... real soon..." Tristan Taylor: "JUST F*** ALREADY!!"

This is not only one of the worst superhero movies ever made, but one of the worst movies ever made, period. Movies generally don't make me feel physically uncomfortable, but this one does.

First off, Floss was the super scientist, not Serif. Second, gotta love how Miller makes all of his main characters wear Chuck Taylor All Stars, when Spirit sinks into the mudflaps you can see the sneaker bottoms.

"Why is Death a woman?" I mean... why not? It's the personification of an abstract concept, there's no reason it couldn't or shouldn't be depicted as male, female or anything else. Plus I _know_ Linkara knows about Death of the Endless and Marvel Comics' Death so that line seems especially weird coming from him.

Only seeing the gloves wouldn't have worked in a film, yes. But, adaptationally, you solve that by casting multiple actors, one for every scene. Not even with a unified ethnicity. One scene he's Daniel Dae Kim. Next he's Samuel L. Jackson. Following scene he's John Cusack. Then he's Gary Farmer. You see more than gloves, but the impression of "no one knows what he actually looks like" is maintained.

The Spirit is my favorite super hero, Eisner was my favorite comic book/graphic novel creator... No words to how bad this movie hurts me, and how I how it probably ruined the small chance of Spirit ever getting another movie...

Wouldn't the blood of Heracles not heal someone? I get the idea of a demigod's blood empowering people, but due to the circumstances of Heracles' death, I would think his blood would be poison rather than heal. He died when his wife put the blood of a centaur Heracles killed using Hydra tipped arrows (making the centaur's blood full of Hydra poison) on a cloak, which began burning his skin. Hell, that's even assuming there would be blood from that, since he had his friends burn him on a pyre, which burned away his mortal half and made him ascend to Mt. Olympus.

I hope one day that someone can re make this film and be more accurate to will Eisners legendary work of art

20:23 He did not just say Thor's hammer in front of Nick Fury and Black Widow.

14:32 Holy shit. Not only is Miller making a mockery of this material, but he's stealing lines from HIS OWN UNRELATED WORK to do it. "It was a great job; you shouldn't have signed it" is the big ending line of issue #1 of Daredevil: Born Again. Also, WHY is this movie in the Sin City aesthetic? There's no reason for it to be. And seeing The Spirit in inky black instead of his trademark blue hurts.

Ironically, this movie is the reason why Gabriel Macht (Denny Crane)'s character in Suits is called 'Harvey SPECTER'. XD 14:26 A wild Kate Beckett appears!

This was a fun crossover

Ha! An "of course!" meme? Ah, that takes me back.

Now when I think about it, Frank Miller as a director reminds me of Tommy Wiseau and Derek Savage. Someone who thinks they are great but is not. But at least Wiesau had the sense to start marketing The Room as a comedy.

The whole blood of heracles part could've made so much more sense if they'd just said something like "the formula doesn't prevent aging and i'll eventually die of that" but nope frank miller's too......whatever he is to ever think of that. but yeah i think i'll take 4chan's /co/lton as an adaptation of the spirit over this tripe any day.

I remember watching this movie when it came out. I'd forgotten why it made me angry. Thanks for the reminder.

Repetitive dialogue, inconsistent plot, over-sexualization, cultural ignorance. Frank Miller in a nutshell.

This is one of your best crossovers. This film is a disgrace though. When Frank Miller's character getting killed and Eva Mendes' ass are more interesting than the story, the film has failed.

I think it's funny the actress playing young Sans was a way better actress than Eva.

That guy playing the Spirit had potential. Maybe he'd work well playing as a lawyer.

Actually in the original comic strips (not the comic books) it is explained that the gas from The Cobra, that Denny was exposed to that put him in suspended animation changed him to the point where he essentially had a healing ability.

That cat scene, god. I never like seeing anything to do with cats being mistreated in any way at all. That is something I can never watch.

This is one of my favorite reviews ever! Even though The Spirit is a terrible, terrible movie, I see it as so bad it's hilarious. I just can't help but smile every time I think about it because of how stupid it is.

What I want to know is if Frank Miller was friends with Brad Bird? I kinda doubt it but if he did, or if he had any decency left, he would've pick him to do an animated film instead because he did a 'Spirit' pencil test in the early 80's.

"Why I'd death a woman" because the DC endless Death is one.

A practicaly immortal protagonist, crazy stuff happening that make little sense and a lot of sexy women? Did he tried to write a Deadpool movie??

If SLJ is casted as the joker in the foreseeable future. I wouldn’t be surprised.

FILM BRAIN WAS WORKING FOR DR LINKSANO!?!? HOW COULD THIS BE!?

The constant grays are a chore on the eyes, but the cell shading (or whatever it is) on the spirit when he’s silhouetted is cool looking

Few things to say: 1.) Is Sand trying to be like Audrey Hepburn's character from "Breakfast at Tiffany's"? (The beehive hairstyle with a tiara, fascination with black gloves with diamond bracelets, it's all in plain sight) 2.) About Silken Floss' (God what a stupid name) fake eyelashes, Disgust from "Inside Out" called, she wants them back! 3.) Poor Muffin!!!!😭😭😭😭😭😭 4.) I think the reason why Spirit's sidekick, Ebony White is not in the movie, because I think the movie's original plot had the idea of Octopus (in this film) IS Ebony turned evil.

Oh. Now I get why the Nostalgia Critic said this narration sounds like it should be coming from the Tick.

Holy crap, this honestly reminds me of the anime version of Rosario+Vampire, where instead of fully adapting the source amterial...they turn it into a "subtle parody" of itself by making the characters either wackier or trying so hard to follow the status quo played for "laughs".

It's actually quite sad to see how Frank Miller went from a talented comic book artist and writer to some complete nutcase who just plain weird and creepy at the same time. Hell, he was a co-director of the first film adaptation of Sin City and that was actually a good comic book to film adaptation.

That "Miller Time" gag at the beginning was hilarious with the whole music playing in the background

6:23 - 6:34 Of course, Linkara! Don't you know anything about science?

I'm pretty sure everyone knows that Sam Jackson is the best thing about the movie

Ever notice that the titular Spirit never does anything in the movie? Apart from getting laid, he mostly gets his ass kicked, pratfalls into obstacles, gets captured through contrivance, and dies near the end. The only time he actually does something significant was near the end of the climax, where the cops did all the work.

23:32 Poor, poor, Stana Katic...Don't worry, "Castle" is still on the horizon.

I love bad movies but The Spirit was just lazy and pretentious. Frightfully amateurish CGI was the icing on the cake.

Ten years of the spirit review

3:28 She’s always there for me. She always catches me. She’s always there for me. She’s always there for me. She always catches me. I fly!

Love the Doctor Who opening parody

Ah... the great City of “I don’t know when I am.”

No! Not the cat!😭

I've never seen so many people walk out of the theater

Its almost like Miller thought he was making another Sin City movie, right down to the narration...

Little did Linkara know, this was all a fucking prelude to what he’d see in All Star Batman and Robin

There are three movies that I had to turn off in my life, first one was thin red line, second one was sucker punch, and finally this one. I managed to watch through battle field earth.

I occasionally wondered if I would ever see/hear the news the Frank Miller has been defiling public buildings and national monuments.....

Glad I found this again after subbing to your KZfaq (via the last Hagan crossover)! The link on atopthefourthwall.com is broken (presumably because the episode needed to be reuploaded at some point, thus the URL changed).

Silk and Floss? Plaster in Paris? What the hell kind of names are those?

23:43 ARGH!!! What the goddamn hell is Frank Miller's goddamn obsession with the goddamn thing from All Star Batman and Robin?! First that, then Holy Terror, and now this?!

I have to point this out... Linkara asking why Death is a woman, when both Deadpool AND Thanos are in love with Death (who is, indeed, female)

13:16 - Okay, I know that Frank Miller was trying to be tongue-in-cheek when he wrote this mess, but lifting jokes from Father Ted? Seriously?

"Frank, why is death a Woman?" ...Linkara, you've read *how many Marvel comics?*

Death as a woman? I doubt Miller ever read George MacDonald's 1968 AT THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND, but he might be familiar with Neil Gaiman's "The Sandman".

They called on the day of his memorial? They’re not even trying to fake some respect.

I hope that by watching this I'm not paying Mike Michaud.

I'd take Mr. Freeze puns over Octopus Puns. At least people could understand Mr. Freeze puns

Can someone tell me who does the song at the end? I think it's "falling in love again" but I'd like to know who sings it here

I love how this review's opening incorporated the 11th Doctor's opening title sequence.

I read reprints of "The Spirit" when I was young. I also read MIller's Daredevil at the time. What I've learned about him since he did "Sin City" (thank you, "Atop the Fourth Wall"), makes me cringe.

I wonder what's wrong with me. I'm literally the only person I know that likes this movie. You guys are right on every single account. It's terrible and yet I will still pull it out from time to time and watch it. I've been told by numerous fans of The Spirit that this is NOTHING like the book. In that instance, sure, shame on Miller. But as just a dumb movie that's fun to watch not despite it's flaws but because of it's flaws, I still like it. For me this movie hit's that so bad it's good mark. May be I just like stupid stuff. Or maybe just weird stuff. And this movie is weird...Just plain dam weird. I guess it's time I eggset this post.

I honestly love this movie, do not misunderstand, it is a hot pile of trash. But light up a joint or get a couple of beers and watch it with a few good friends and I guarantee a hell of a good time

No mention of the "dry swimming" scenes? That was my biggest WTF moments in a film that I bought for a pound and quickly dumped it off in a charity shop.

So this is what nick fury and black widow does when they're not avenging shit.

I think even Eggman would tell Octopus to lay off the references to eggs.

6:57 I hate to admit it but I kind of snickered here

“Oh come on! Toilets are always funny!” And Da Fuq Boom took that to heart and made the damn Skibbidi Toilets.

I want to know why the one character is named Sans Serif. It doesn't even make sense with the other goofy names.

15:31 He passed creepy a long time ago, reused in a clip compilation from Atop the Fourth Wall's 300th episode: Holy Terror.

Would it be appropriate to call Frank Miller the George Lucas of comics?