Has anyone seen The Spirit? We were actually looking that one up yesterday when we were waylaid by the badness of Seven Pounds. The Rotten Tomatoes pull-quotes are no doubt a thousand times more entertaining than the actual movie.

It’s not just that it’s obvious from the train wreck onscreen that Miller hasn’t ever truly directed a movie before; it’s hard to tell if he’s ever even seen a movie before.

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The Spirit is a loony, embarrassing mess that takes the late Will Eisner’s classic comics creation and beats it senseless with a giant toilet bowl (literally, at one point).

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Lurid, rambling nonsense.

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A disaster in nearly every way. Samuel L. Jackson seems to be channeling Grace Jones by way of Uncle Remus from Song of the South.

This movie appears to be so ungodly awful that even the trailer is a confusing and befuddled mess:

OK, possible spoiler warning for Seven Pounds, click at your own risk:

What I want to know is, does The Spirit have a character with a pet jellyfish?