"MY BED SCREAMS"

June 11, 2009 6:32 PM

"There were a lot of possibilities with Krazy Kat and bricks and 'I’m gonna kill you all kinds of dead,' but I ran out of time."Conjectural movie posters for what might result if Frank Miller applied his certain je ne sais quois to classic comics "Little Nemo in Slumberland," "Pogo," and "Little Orphan Annie."
posted by ocherdraco (33 comments total)

I didn't hate The Spirit. There, I said it out loud in a public forum. I feel better.

That said, these are made of weapons-grade awesome.
posted by HostBryan at 6:36 PM on June 11

Nicely done, I'm really bummed to find Krazy Kat parody. Even though you said there wouldn't be any in the link, is was still hoping...
posted by Slack-a-gogo at 6:45 PM on June 11

Yeah, I saw The Spirit finally, and really, I didn't think it wasn't a bad movie at all. But I also liked Speed Racer -- crap, I just gave myself away.
posted by jabberjaw at 6:49 PM on June 11

ilikedspeedracertoojabberjaw

betterthanspirittruthbetold
posted by HostBryan at 6:56 PM on June 11

I loved Speed Racer. Or at least that's what I believed after the seizures finally stopped.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 6:58 PM on June 11 [4 favorites has favorites]

Somehow, "grim and gritty" doesn't really work for Pogo.
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 7:08 PM on June 11

This is what passes for awesome now? Really?
posted by Thorzdad at 7:13 PM on June 11 [1 favorite has favorites]

Metafilter: Passes for awesome now, really.
posted by BrotherCaine at 7:19 PM on June 11 [1 favorite has favorites]

I saw the spirit recently, and, though I hate to disagree, I thought the movie was awful. It couldn't keep my interest for five minutes, and most of the characters seemed flat in very strange ways. It was beautiful, at least.

I will say this, though: if I could just get Samuel L. Jackson's scenes and put them on an endless loop, over and over again, I would probably watch that for days. I have no clue what they were trying to do with his character, I have no clue if he actually succeeded in doing what the director and screenwriter wanted him to do that his character, but, man, the end result is so insane and wacky and awesome. The scene with the foot, especially.
posted by Ms. Saint at 7:22 PM on June 11

Yeah, I saw The Spirit finally, and really, I didn't think it wasn't a bad movie at all.

The scene where Samuel L. parades around in a Nazi uniform and gets his act on was the funniest thing I'd seen in years, I'll give you that.
posted by The Card Cheat at 7:23 PM on June 11

Ah, here we are. The Nazi awesomeness starts at 6:30. More here!
posted by The Card Cheat at 7:30 PM on June 11 [1 favorite has favorites]

Holy Gods, but that clip was awful. How can any of you sit through an entire movie of this crap? Seriously. Am I supposed to ingest something prior to viewing? Or finalize my will?
What?

Frank Miller needs to be put down, demoted to Arby's commercials, anything for the love of God. What an abomination.
posted by Lipstick Thespian at 7:54 PM on June 11 [5 favorites has favorites]

This belongs here.
posted by jabberjaw at 8:26 PM on June 11 [2 favorites has favorites]

Let me get this straight.

You mentioned Krazy Kat in an FPP.

And failed to deliver.

You are dead to me.
posted by A dead Quaker at 8:30 PM on June 11 [5 favorites has favorites]

2nding Quaker. Don't tease with the Krazy.
posted by ChuqD at 8:37 PM on June 11 [1 favorite has favorites]

The thing about The Spirit that gets me is that the rock was right there, in the middle of the tracks, in plain sight. But the train just chugged along, heedless of the warnings and the flashing lights and the frantic calls from the station, and so, it hit.

What is it with me and railroad metaphors today?
posted by JHarris at 8:59 PM on June 11

I call bullshit. They're aping Frank Miller aping Will Eisner.

(Yes, The Spirit wasn't the best treatment of Eisner possible. It was still lightyears better than the critics said it was.)
posted by Slap*Happy at 9:18 PM on June 11

I have to second Lipstick Thespian.

I couldn't bear to watch more than thirty seconds of that clip - sitting in a theater watching it for however long it runs surely counts as cruel and unusual punishment.
posted by winna at 9:43 PM on June 11 [1 favorite has favorites]

The scene where Samuel L. parades around in a Nazi uniform and gets his act on was the funniest thing I'd seen in years, I'll give you that.

The Card Cheat, Don't forget Scarlett Johansen was there too, parading around in an SS uniform. That scene had me in stictches. All in all, I loved The Spirit. It was like watching Frank Miller go senile.
posted by Lokisbane at 9:50 PM on June 11

something something the Phantom starring Alec Baldwin
posted by Potomac Avenue at 11:07 PM on June 11

The Phantom starred Billy Zane. Alec Baldwin was the Shadow.
posted by Karlos the Jackal at 2:39 AM on June 12

Frank Miller: If it smells like dog shit, looks like dog shit, and squishes under your shoe like dog shit, it is, in all likelihood, dog shit.
posted by Scoo at 3:54 AM on June 12

Yes, you owe us one Krazy Kat post.

I wish I still had that giant collection that I had when I was a kid.
posted by asusu at 7:07 AM on June 12

Krazy Kat, where are thou?
posted by blucevalo at 8:17 AM on June 12

"art thou," not "are thou."
posted by blucevalo at 8:17 AM on June 12

Oh hey speakin' of Krazy Kat - I loves me some a dat also. But still Little Nemo reigns supreme for sheer "wow - I've just experienced the ultimate dose of another human being's imagination" ever put to paper.

George Herriman is a god, no question.
posted by Lipstick Thespian at 8:36 AM on June 12 [1 favorite has favorites]

Okay, okay! Krazy Kat FPP is in the works. Watch for it!
posted by ocherdraco at 9:18 AM on June 12 [2 favorites has favorites]

I loved Speed Racer. Or at least that's what I believed after the seizures finally stopped.

Yeah, Speed Racer was the largest budget acid-tinged screensaver ever made, and I mean that in the best possible way.
posted by brundlefly at 9:18 AM on June 12

Frank Miller's Dan Dare in That Green Bastard - as imagined by Chris Weston.
posted by Artw at 9:28 AM on June 12

All right. Krazy Kat post composed. Just waiting until my 24 hours are up.
posted by ocherdraco at 10:56 AM on June 12 [1 favorite has favorites]

Looking forward to it. To tide us over, here are "krazykat" tagged posts on Metafilter: (link)

And here is a particularly classic Krazy Kat post from 2003: (link), but not all links work anymore.
posted by jabberjaw at 12:11 PM on June 12

Et voila.
posted by ocherdraco at 11:10 PM on June 12

I'd like to see a WWII film with SLJ as Hitler.

*phone rings*
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"Herr Himmler, mah nigga."
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"Uh-huh, uh-huh."
|| | || || | ||| || || |||||!
"No shit. Who'd they get?"
||| |||||
"Tom Cruise?"
||| | | |||| | ||?
"Nah. It ain't no thang but a thang. I got this. I'm on this. I'm gonna send Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS."
||| ||||| ||| | ||||| | | | |
"Ha ha! Right? That little nigga is gonna shit himself."
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"Aight. Peace throughout the Reich, y'all."
FIN.
posted by Eideteker at 6:10 AM on June 13 [1 favorite has favorites]