Keeping 'The Spirit' up

So, how bad is Frank Miller's The Spirit?

John over at the Movie Blog said someone made the comparison to Battlefield Earth.

That's not good, but if they said “A mixture between Battlefield Earth and The Phantom,” then we'd be in even more trouble.

The good news is that Frank Miller, smartly so, removed the down right racist character of Ebony White from the movie. It should be noted that Will Eisner would later change the character from it's Minstrel Show type.

I'm still going to hold hope this will be an okay movie though.