The Spirit Loves the Ladies, Straying From His Roots, Not Making Sense
There’s a new trailer for Frank Miller’s The Spirit movie, and they’ve replaced his room full of cats with half a dozen attractive ladies who talk only in breathy sexual euphemisms. I’m trying to wrap my head around this, but I can’t: between the black suit and the obvious green screen and the obsession with sex and the terrible dialog, it’s like some elaborate parody?”What if Frank Miller made a movie about The Spirit? Hee hee!”
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.