OK this has been bugging me since the beggining of the New Year, and I feel this day is the last day I can call it a new year seeing as tomorrow is February, things that claim that they are the best ... of the year. The first thing which I saw this on was the advertising campaign for The Spirit, the best film of the year: out January 1st, and at this point I laughed. The reason this started to annoy me was I went to see it shortly after it came out. I would have to say at that point it was the best film of the year but my god it was awful I could describe the film in one sentance; Sin City for idiots. I loved Sin City and therefore was intrigued by the lovely black and whiteish stylised shots , but everything I saw in the film just made me think, 'yeah I've seen that better in Sin City'. This was all copable because I still like the style but what made this movie really bad was how unwatchably awful it was. The script was so cheesy it was probably written by a cheese, it was so comic booky they might as well have just slowly filmed a comic book and projected that for the audience to read. That would have avoided me awful acting and 12A womanising!!! How can we get good womanising heroes in a 12A, apart from Bond of course.

Many people would say that it is great that it is so faithful to the comic book style, but that's not what I want in a film, imagine The Dark Knight filmed like a comic book which would just end up with Christian Bale offering up Robin to the Joker saying, 'If you kill this man I will let you ruin my city!' If i wanted a comic book I would read a comic book, some people can pull this off, see Adam West (GENIUS!), but this is 2009, if only slightly. Rubber sharks are a thing of the past we want dark damaged people as our super heroes. And The Spirit tried this but I found it hard to care, he can't die because he's already dead; please let me at him, after every injury I was thinking please die this time, please die this time.

Ok the film was hilarious but only because it was really awful and cheesier than a French mans kitchen! Samuel L Jackson was a shining light of the film but the random Nazi scene was a what the hell moment, and a definite no from me! So because of the awfulness of this film I wish to create a law that applies ot everything, you cannot claim your the best thing of the year until the year is either over or might as well be, (or atleast August). Please people of the world, odnt let me be sucked into rubbishness like the Spirit again, help the world become a better place and stop this stupid and always incorrect advertising!