That's his name! Thanks for telling me.

All I knew him from before was random Anime and Liquid Television. I've always loved his voice, but never had the wherewithal to look him up.

Thanks, Magnalon!

To me "The Spirit" looked like "Exit: The Movie"
Never saw it though, maybe it is more MadWorld-y

The only MadWorld movie that would really fit MadWorld would be a horrible one directed by Micheal Bay and starring Kiefer Sutherland.

So, y'know. It'd be The Spirit.

@Holmes
No problem! He's been my 2nd favorite voice actor since I was in middle school (next to JYB). Honestly he's been every major dub Anime character in most of the "AAA" animes out there. I'm glad he's getting radio/tv commercial voice-over work, and like I mentioned, I hope he plans on branching out to feature films someday. Randomly, he's even in Brave Fencer Musashi (which everyone should play), The Bouncer, and Dead Rising!

His latest work is nearly every character in G.I. Joe: Resolute.

No, because MadWorld is actually enjoyable.

@ Namakubi- I know that, but if you've read the Spirit comic (and I'm sure you have), you'd know that it shares pretty much nothing in common with the film. People who loves the comics were the first to say the movie sucked.

Besides that, The Spirit most definitely was a new IP to the general movie going public, unlike Spider Man, Iron Man, The Hulk, Super Man, Bat Man, etc.

I netflixed he Spirit and really enjoyed it. I didn't see the movie because the few ads I saw for it made it seem like a action flick with a really bad script. After I started watching it though, I realized that it was more tongue in cheek and actually quite funny and enjoyable. They just marketed it wrong in my eyes.
They should have embraced that it was a campy super hero flick to have fun with. That or take that stupid "Get me a tie, and it better be red" line out of the ad altogether. That line is what left a bad taste, because it was so horrible but the rest of the ad had this movie painted as a serious bad-ass flick in the vein of Sin City, so the line seemed way out of place. Which, after watching the movie, I see it fits perfectly.

The movie wasn't misunderstood. It was just plain terrible. I saw it in the theaters and it was a bit of a chore to get through. The characters just wouldn't stop rambling on and on. It was like Frank Miller was finally freed from the limitation of how many words he could fit onto a comic book page. Every exchange of dialogue was each character spouting two paragraphs, then waiting for their next chance to talk again. And it all could have been said in a line or two.

80% of the jokes fell flat, to the point where I wondered what was wrong with me when I found my self chuckling at one that did work.

I love Miller, so it was a big disappointment.

But then it happened. After about a week, I found myself wanting to see it again. It took a while, but it hit the "So Terrible, It's Amazing" level. I could still only recommend it to a select few, but throw a few beers in you and some friends and you will have a great night.

@Ckarasu:
Put him aside Laura-Bailey and whatever results will be the best film in recorded history.

The-Excel speaks the truth.

Madworld wins by a slight margin, that movie was just atrocious, even for a fan of frank miller, comic adaptations, black and white cinema, mindless-junk-eye candy-while intoxicated and everything... it was bad Holmes, real bad and trust me i understood it, understand it and continue to do so.

So in terms of silly script, redness and most importantly revenue yes they were both a flop i guess, but in terms of quality, the two should not even be correlated...and there is where the similarity ends for me.

@ Fydor- Man, what are you talking about? The Spirit wasn't in black and white. Did you even see the movie?

Anyway, that's not the point I was trying to make, but I wont even bother trying to re-explaing it.

Moving on.

@ Haxan- After reading the Sin City: Hell and Back and the Dark Knight Strikes Back, I knew that Miller was probably done with "serious" stories for good. The guy is a comedy writer now; a really, really weird comedy writer that keeps the surprises coming with stuff that simply makes no sense. I accept that, and that acceptance really helped me in my expectations around The Spirit.

I plan to watch it again in a few weeks, but as of right now, I can say that I think it has potential to join Evil Dead 2 and Mars Attacks in my "So bad, it's good" movie top ten.

Yeah, Hell and Back was very disappointing. The Dark Knight Strikes Back maybe went way overboard in terms of its satire, but it did manage to hit a couple of decent chords.

But Evil Dead 2, a bad movie? What? Good horror elements, great slapstick, amazing one-liners. It's camp to be sure. But it pulls off everything that it attempts to perfection. I'm curious as to your reasoning there.

I have to say that I disagree with you there. "Workshed" and "Groovy" were written to be funny lines (and we that love the movie, yourself included I'm sure, don't make fun of those lines. We think they're genius). When i first heard them I laughed myself silly. I think that Evil Dead 2 may well have been one of the three or four movies that i laughed most at. And every time I see it in a theater, it never fails to crack the audience up. It's a horror/comedy, and it works as comedy. That's not "So bad, it's good", that's just plain good.

The Spirit tries to be funny, and very seldom is it. Watching it, you see jokes fall falt right and left. I saw it in the theater on opening day, and I was the only one in there even laughing to a couple of the jokes. It failed in that respect. It is actually a very boring movie. There's a bit of a goofiness to it, but nowhere near enough to carry it. It's just bad. But, in retrospect, it was "So bad, it's good".

The "So bad, it's good" title applies to movies that are just bad on almost every level. But when you take all of that terrible as a whole, you end up with awesome. A movie where you celebrate it's incompetence more than the few things it might do right. Movies like "You Got Served" and "Plan 9 From Outer Space". But Evil Dead 2 is an achievment. It is a legitimatly good film. It pulls off great horror moments, and then trips you up with tons of intentionally funny bits that always hit their marks.

The Spirit, on the other hand was meant to be a joyful, comedic ride. And in that it falls flat on its face. I wonder if you have a higher opinion of it because you weren't really watching it, you were peeking up at it every once in a while. Try to watch that sucker start to finish, and tell me that you don't start to find it next to Dullsville before you're halfway through it. Don't just focus on the bizarre moments that pop up every now and again. Take it in as a whole. Then tell me that you'd put it in the same category with Evil Dead 2 or Mars Attacks; films that are a treat to watch from beginning to end. Films that aren't serious darmatic pieces, true, but are non-stop fun and intentionally so.