No matter how bad a film looks, I never hope for financial failure for it (except maybe on he principle that if bad movies make huge money, studios will continue to pump out bad movies… but that’s another discussion). But “The Spirit” was another issue.
As some of you remember, a few days ago Itook real exception as a film fan for the way the Studio was deceptively marketing the movie and treating us fans like idiots. It bothered me so much I decided that I was not going to bother seeing the movie. Well… looks like a lot of other people decided to not bother seeing The Spirit either.
The Spirit just finished it’s opening weekend and made a miserable $6 million dollars and came in 7th place.
I have no idea if The Spirit is a good or bad movie since I haven’t seen it. All I know is that it looked like total shit from day one and that right now it has a glorious 15% on Rotten Tomatoes. But like I said… I’m only happy it failed because of they way they treated us like morons with their deceptive marketing.
