My Thoughts On "The Spirit"

Ok, so on Christmas day the movie adaptation of the popular/unpopular comic book series "The Spirit" is coming out and so far I've heard nothing but mixed ideals of the movie. First of all, the reason I call it a popular/unpopular comic book series is because in the comic book community, The Spirit is very well known, hell they even named an award after the creator of the series, but to most who usually only see the comic book movies or have only read more mainstream books, they probably don't know who the Spirit is. Well basically in a brief summary, the Spirit is a detective created by Will Eisner way back when who was shot over and over again but continued to live on and in fact gets every woman in the comic. Now I understand you might be thinking "that's pretty lame and uninteresting" and yeah at first I really thought the same thing, but what you really need to realize about the Spirit is that it is really not meant to be taken seriously. Ok let me put it this way, when you pick up a Sherlock Holmes book, obviously you are going to take it seriously, when you read/see The Watchmen, you're going to take the detective character Rorschach seriously, same thing with Batman, but the Spirit on the other hand should not be taken seriously by any means! You remember those old 1920 style mysteries? Kind of like Dick Tracie and what not, well just imagine that only with less name calling and bright yellow jackets. This seems to be the problem with people who have never read a Spirit comic and are seeing previews for the film. I read or heard somewhere that a critic said that the line in the trailer where the Spirit says "I'm gonna kill you all kinds of dead" was the worst line he had ever heard in any movie. Now ok I understand that it's the man's job to do movie reviews and to not always like what he sees and hears, but I can't understand why he would take that line so seriously. I get that the Spirit won't be some kind of academy award winning gold nugget, but it is what it is! So far all I've seen that movie promise is to tell a story of a gumshoe, yes a gumshoe who solves crimes and has the uncanny ability to not die. What people like this critic need to get is that this film is trying to bring back the old style of detective stories, the whole "of all the places in all the world she had to walk into mine" kind of feel you know? It's like watching a western and getting upset every time someone in the film says "hombre". Now I'm not exactly the biggest Frank Miller fan, frankly his run on All Star Batman & Robin was in my opinion a disaster, but I do admire some of his works such as Sin City and Ronin. Although I'm sure many hardcore Spirit fans might have been appalled by the fact that Frank Miller was writing and directing the Spirit movie, in my opinion he really is the best man for the job. I mean look at Sin City, he had perfect dynamics in that film that I believe will carry over and work incredibly well for a story such as the Spirit. The filming style I think looks amazing in every way! It's like looking at a comic book but not so much that it would be like the Eric Bana Hulk movie. *shudders* Well this movie is coming out on Christmas and I really can't wait to see it and I hope all of you will go out and see it even if you are a little hesitant. Just remember that this is a movie that is not meant to be taken seriously, it's just meant to entertain and tell a great story.